Together full film synopsis

In the face of an HIV-infected person, would you like to sit with him, eat and chat like friends? Do you accept him into your life circle? How much do you really know about AIDS?

Society's discrimination against infected people makes people with high-risk behaviors unwilling to accept AIDS tests, and infected people are unwilling to reveal their infection status. This not only increases the risk of AIDS transmission, but also increases the difficulty of prevention and treatment. Difficulty of work.

In 2009, the famous director Gu Changwei published a missing person notice on the Internet, recruiting infected people to star in or participate in behind-the-scenes work in the movie "The Favorite", and recorded the life and work process from the recruitment and search to the infected people joining the crew. , to promote anti-AIDS discrimination in a more intuitive way.

The documentary truly records the entire process from the crew's nationwide search and recruitment of candidates through online chats to the selection of infected people to join the crew to participate in the filming. In order to protect the privacy of the infected people, the interview process was conducted using online chat combined with camera occlusion. The infected people who are willing to participate in the filming were asked to tell their personal experience of infection and the troubles caused by the disease; after being selected by the film crew and the infected people themselves, With their consent, three infected people eventually participated in the filming of the film. During the filming process, they voluntarily decided to remove the blockage and become volunteers for anti-discrimination propaganda.

The three volunteers are from Shanxi and Shanghai. Taotao is a 12-year-old child who became infected due to mother-to-child transmission. He is currently studying at Shanxi Red Ribbon Primary School and lives with his father, grandmother and stepmother. But when his stepmother knew that he was infected, she kept arguing with Taotao's father. Taotao couldn't even use tableware at home. Taotao plays an important role in the movie "The Favorite". Lao Xia is from Shanghai. He was discriminated against because he was infected with AIDS. He now lives in a temple. His job on the crew is to help the actors in lighting before filming. The main body of the documentary revolves around the lives of three volunteers in the crew. At the same time, through the narration of experts and volunteers, it popularizes knowledge about AIDS prevention and treatment, and completes anti-discrimination propaganda in the small society of the crew.

In four months of getting along day and night, director Gu Changwei and actors Zhang Ziyi, Aaron Kwok, Jiang Wenli, Pu Cunxi, Cai Guoqing, Li Danyang, as well as staff from various departments such as costume, makeup, and props in the crew, from makeup to hairdressing From daily work contact to leisure time games, the crew went from fear and unfamiliarity to infected people to understanding and familiarity. The barriers between them and the volunteers gradually disappeared and they became close friends. The documentary truly recorded this process. When Taotao cried in grievance, the brothers and sisters around him wiped away his tears with their own hands; when Lao Xia suddenly had a rash and had to leave, the whole crew cried... Lao Xia, who left the crew, finally sent a message to the crew that he Be willing to face the camera and unblock it. When Taotao finished filming and returned home, he was finally able to share a plate with his family...

At the end of the documentary, we saw an infected person in Jiangxi beating himself on the street slogan, hoping that passers-by would give him a hug. Some people watched, some asked, and some kept silently paying attention, and hugged him at the last moment. It was a warm picture...