Is This Really Your Last Production?

Is this really your final project?

On May 20? Are you sure?

Hmm.

Of course.

It's been

so damn long since I made any money.

I want to make money.

I've lost patience with this play.

How long will this drag on?

'Despairing joy,'

'resolve on the verge of collapse'—

What are these words?

How the hell do I act this?

He must have his own ideas.

Don't overthink it.

Hurry, you scared me to death!

The knocking is so damn fierce!

Director, is that your friend?

Isn't today a private rehearsal?

Are we filming on a deadline,

or hanging out with friends?

Why did you invite friends?

What friends?

Isn't this your friend?

Yes, isn't this your friend?

Xu Lili, can you be serious?

I am serious.

Whose friend is here now?

Act Four.

Act Four, Moon, okay?

Ah, okay.

Fine. Say action and we'll start.

Okay.

Has it started?

Yes.

One, two, three, action.

I want to get involved now

because I believe in you.

And you said this play is very important to you.

That's why I want to help.

Do you understand this point?

I understand completely.

Let's be more specific now.

For example, Liao Wei,

If you think you can help her

go further,

then let's work toward that together.

I have no problem at all.

If there's time on Saturday,

we can rehearse one-on-one.

Uh-huh.

Ah, okay.

Do you really understand?

I stayed out of it before,

because I thought it was none of my business.

But I could see the chaos.

Do you think it's chaotic?

It is indeed very chaotic.

I admit it.

For me,

within all this chaos,

My biggest responsibility is to record it.

I'm documenting it.

And if, while documenting,

If I intervene,

and become the one

responsible for keeping things safe,

I'd put all this chaos in order.

Once it became something tightly organized,

the whole thing

would

go somewhere else.

It would become

the kind of thing

successful people do.

But I am a

believer in humanity's surrender.

I don't want to do those things.

I am responsible for humanity.

So I must

Surrender.

I must fail completely.

I have to stay with the chaos to the end.

Of course,

once

this production is finished,

then

the end really will be the end.

Yes, this is my last breath.

Last breath,

I hope you use the correct words.

It's the last breath.

It's what you really want to say.

I will stick to this to the end.

Mm.

Failure, surrender.

Fail completely.

Chaos.

Yes, fail completely,

Then surrender, right?

It's something

completely opposed to what you've described.