Why is Dr. China so aroused by the audience?

The film Chinese Doctors, based on the real events against COVID-19 in 2020, was released on July 9th. This is the second theme film directed by Liu Weiqiang after Captain. Once released, the audience called it "tears", and 230,000 people scored 9.5 points on the scoring platform. It can be said that Dr. China reproduced the whole process of anti-epidemic in a panoramic way by means of semi-narrative and semi-recording, and aroused the audience's emotional background with truth.

As a semi-documentary medical film, Chinese Doctors focuses the location of the story on the "Eye of the Storm" Jinyintan Hospital in COVID-19, tells a touching medical story according to the real events, and completes a medical group drama under the grand narrative background by inserting recorded images and news reports into a series of timelines.

Different from the conventional movies, which focus on expressing patriotic enthusiasm and suffering, Chinese Doctors reverts the grand narrative to concrete and vivid characters. When normal life and epidemic situation are intertwined, it especially shows the greatness of first-line anti-epidemic people. Zhang Zhiyuan, who suffered from the gradual freezing, is a hot-tempered Hubei native. He limped to the hospital to treat the patient, watching his wife, whose condition deteriorated, crying uncontrollably. Dr. Wen Ting is professional, calm and rational, and controls the overall situation in the chaotic scene. She suppressed her thoughts of her daughter and still stuck to the front line of New Year's Eve. She couldn't eat, because she didn't help the grocer in time, and she trembled and wept silently. We learned more or less about the heroic deeds of these doctors in news reports, and the film also reduced them to flesh and blood. The more they show their "grounded" side as ordinary people, the more they can show the greatness of ordinary people.

If the medical staff in Chinese Doctors are the absolute protagonists, then the subplots show the confrontation between ordinary people and the epidemic. Through the communication between doctors and patients, the film skillfully focuses on the civilian heroes outside Jinyintan Hospital. The courier brother Jin yelled at the doctor because his pregnant wife didn't have a bed. This is a true portrayal of ordinary people when medical resources are scarce. After his wife was hospitalized, he told him to pay attention to protection and not to give orders, but he risked infection to come forward and send hope rations to his family. Chinese Doctors showed the mental journey of ordinary people and aroused the audience's affection for civilian heroes.

In addition to portraying typical characters, Dr. China used a lot of documentary images and news materials in the second half, pushing the perspective to every corner of the whole society: the whole city was disinfected and the staff searched day and night; A large number of medical teams and materials were transported to Wuhan; The Huoshenshan Hospital was built very quickly ... The news broadcast of the epidemic situation was used as the time axis to promote the narrative of the film, which not only ensured the authenticity, but also awakened people's memories and emotions about the epidemic situation.

Admittedly, Dr. China's films are not perfect, and there are some problems such as loose structure and too much music. However, at the moment when the world epidemic is not over, it uses images to restore the past days and nights in Wuhan, so that the professionalism and morality of China medical care are fixed on the screen, and the spirit of China people to fight the epidemic is fixed on the screen, successfully arousing people's emotions with truth.