Apple’s 2019 annual New Year’s short film “A Bucket”, about a young man after the New Year ready to leave his rural home to work in the city, the mother for the return of her son to prepare a plastic white bucket full of things, and sealed tightly with yellow tape, the son with the bucket after a long journey, finally to the city, on the way to the bucket a few times almost lost the bucket, after arriving at home the son to open his mother’s sealed bucket, and found that inside After arriving home, the son opens his mother’s sealed bucket and finds that it is full of sand, and buried inside the sand are eggs from his hometown that his mother has prepared.
The movie is directed by Jia Zhangke and shot on iPhone XS.
2019 / China / Short Film / Jia Zhangke / Li Xuan Jiangzhen
Plot Synopsis:
A Bucket is a Chinese New Year short film released by Apple and shot on iPhone XS by director Jia Zhangke.The short film tells the story of leaving his hometown after Chinese New Year.A young man sets out to leave his hometown with a plastic white bucket full of stuff given to him by his mother.
When he waits to open the large and heavy bucket, he realizes that it is filled with individual eggs wrapped in fine sand.
January 25, 2019 – One Bucket Positive Release.
