Mrs Lei
ZHUO Kailuo • 2017
Lei Suyun was born in 1934, and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2010.Lei Suyun has forgotten a lot of things. She can't recognize friends and family. She can't help but lose everything. At the same time, the fear of loss is accompanied by strong loneliness.Lei SuYun looked out of the window from the living room. She walked back and forth and cried in silence. She talked nonsense. However,she still remembered her own name. She was struggling against despair,and trying to seize the self.Time, and the time of forgotten, constitute the gaze and past of Lei Suyun.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
2017 Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival, United States2020 Hong Kong PUFF Film Festival, Hong Kong
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
ZHUO Kailuo
Director
“Mrs. Lei” was filmed in 2015. LeiSuyun is my grandma. Because of the other work, I accidentally pointed the camera at her.This is not a documentary about Alzheimer’s disease, and is even not a film about this old lady, LeiSuyun.I hope that, through the loss of her memory, the meaning of life can be shown. Why is people alive? And what is people alive for? This is a question that human beings have been eagerly awaiting an answer to. In her late years, Lei Suyun, who lost her memory, still has a certainty about her name. Does this mean that Lei Suyun responded to this question? Lei Suyun cried with sadness and anger, which proves that she can not accept her current condition from her deep and proud heart and also proves her dignity. Crying is her one and only struggle. When all this turned into a faint cloud of struggling depiction, dignity defeated forgetting. This strong old lady, is telling people what is truly precious. Perhaps we are the real patients in the world.