Bewilderment

Bewilderment

A middle-aged man rescued a boy who was running away late at night and brought the boy back to his home. The middle-aged man seems to know all the secrets and information about the boy and keeps grilling the boy trying to dig out the boy’s inner thoughts, the game is eventually interrupted by a rush of sirens. The boy mistook the man for the police and killed the man in a panic. Eventually, the man wakes up from his illusion and the boy turns out to be a character in his script. All of this is just this screenwriter trying to find answers after encountering a bottleneck in his writing by recreating the character in his mind.

Directed by Guo Ruiting (China)

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