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'The Soul' blazes another path for Chinese sci-fi

By Zhang Rui: 0 Comment(s)Print E-mail China.org.cn, January 10, 2021

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Writer Jiang Bo and cast of "The Soul" pose for a photo with the audience at the premiere of the film in Beijing, Jan. 7, 2021. [Photo courtesy of Future Affairs Administration]

Actress Ning Chang praised Jiang for writing the story that inspired people to think. "From the start to end of the filming, I always thought about how much we do for love, and with technology developing to this extent, whether we can really do something that goes against human ethics."

"The Soul," which will hit Chinese theaters on Jan. 15, is the latest attempt based on China's original sci-fi stories by local writers since "The Wandering Earth" (2019). But it's different, because it is a small production, without lavishing grand visual spectacles and budgets on like outer space travel, robot fighting, or alien wars.

Ji Shaoting, founder of the Future Affairs Administration, a company promoting sci-fi culture in China and incubating new sci-fi writers, said "The Soul" is a complete work that greatly expands the development space of Chinese science fiction.

"This is a story about love and death. This is the power of sci-fi to test and study human nature in desperate situations," Ji said. "The film also provides a Chinese perspective and exquisitely shows Oriental emotion, which is very much what Chinese science fiction needs."

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