A Zebra-Riding Boy

1.The Theme
Can ordinary people have dreams? Do the dreams of ordinary people deserve to be affirmed?At the end of " A Zebra-Riding Boy", we let Zuo Lin fly on a paper horse for burial. We want to tell millions of ordinary people like Zuo Lin that a broken dream is more painful than no dream at all. No matter what kind of pain a broken dream brings, it is still necessary to have a dream.
Character building
In the film A Zebra-Riding Boy,we portrays Zuo Lin, a bowlegged teenager who lives in his dream world with a good heart,through the sad wooden horse cavalry, happy zebra cavalry, bleak and sad iron cavalry, thousand splendid suns paper cavalry.Zuo Lin is the Don Quixote of China's southern water town and the Don Quixote of the contemporary city.
3.Exploration of Impressionism
（1）Representing the confusion and blossoming of individual lives by the method of impressionism.
"The most painful thing in life is misunderstanding and dislocation. the strewn dance steps, no one can step on the same point, just like Zuo Lin and I, and Qing Qing". Zuo Lin, A Zheng and Qing Qing may not have really read each other, and may never be able to do so. We are not sure if Qing Qing is really in love with Zuo Lin or not, and we are not sure if Zuo Lin knows that A Zheng is making fun of him. We hope that different viewers will have different opinions.
（2）Color creates an impression, and color is involved in the narrative.
We wanted to use an impressionistic color palette to show the characters' lives, dreams, and difficulties. Color is Zuo Li's perception of the world, it changes with his psychological state, and it allows for multiple interpretations, which is a distinguishing feature of the image "A Zebra-Riding Boy".
4.Spirit of the Southern China
In the spring of 2017, we talked with Mr. Ren Zhonglun, who was then the chairman of Shanghai Film Group, about the idea of impressionism-southern writers’ films. Mr. Ren Zhonglun mentioned that Mr. Ang Lee, an internationally renowned director, once suggested that there is a distinction between North and South in American films, and that Southern China has very interesting characteristics as well as a wide geographical and market area, so we can consider developing Southern films.
"South" refers to China's geographical south, but it also refers to the culture and ways of thinking in southern China. The film is also based on Su Tong's novel. Director Zhang Yimou transformed "Wives and Concubines" into "Raise The Red Lantern" which is full of the rugged and tough flavor of the north; we transformed "Cavalryman" and "Paper" into " A Zebra-Riding Boy," which is full of the ebullience, tolerance, mildness, and contract spirit of the south