One Day Returned - short film directed by Xinyue Chen скачать в хорошем качестве

One Day Returned - short film directed by Xinyue Chen

Following her mother's funeral, the middle-aged Shen Qing returns to her childhood home to stay with her newly widowed father, Shen Jianguo. She attempts to comfort him, but their interactions quickly fall back into a familiar, strained pattern: the father expresses his concern through controlling behavior and passive-aggressive sarcasm, while the daughter responds with silence and subtle resistance. Their tight relationship, a delicate balance of deep-seated conflict, plays out through mundane routines—grocery shopping, cooking, and brief trips to the supermarket. Though moments of temporary truce occasionally surface, their time together is mostly dominated by friction and lingering emotional pain. However, subtle, dissonant details begin to emerge like cracks in reality. Exhausted and overwhelmed, Shen Qing initially dismisses these unsettling hints. The truth is unavoidable, though, when she and the man she believes to be her father simultaneously notice a portrait of the deceased father placed in the corner of the bedroom. The illusion shatters, forcing Shen Qing to confront the devastating reality: her father, too, is already gone. In the end, she drinks the bowl of fish soup she had prepared for him alone, locks the door to the empty house, and returns to the demanding reality that perpetually consumes her.