Apple’s 2018 annual New Year’s Day short film “Three Minutes” tells the story of a train conductor who is a mother and is on duty on the train during the New Year’s Day and cannot spend the New Year’s Day with her son, so she can only hastily meet her son on the platform where the train stops for a short period of time, which lasts for only three minutes.
Unexpectedly, the son saw his mother’s actually memorized multiplication facts, the reason is that the mother said to the son before, if you do not know how to recite the list of facts, you will not be able to go to the elementary school in the town, and you will not be able to see your mother.
This particularly stirring Chinese New Year short story, directed by Chen Kexin, was shot on iPhone X.
2018 / China / Drama Short Film / Chen Kexin / Kong Lingmei Guo Tangwei
Plot Synopsis:
Three Minutes is a Chinese New Year’s Eve short film directed by Hong Kong director Hershey Chen and starring Kong Lingmei, shot entirely on iPhone X. The film is about a train conductor’s mother who is having a Chinese New Year’s Eve celebration.
The movie tells the story of a train conductor’s mother who is on duty on the train during the Chinese New Year and is unable to reunite with her child, and is only able to get together with her son by the three minutes that the train stops at the station.
