The manic-depressed painter meets the lovelorn girl. The real-life blueprint "The Sea of ​​Fury" depicts the person beside the pillow who has gone through highs and lows

"If the voice of the heart is really curative, who is afraid of being exposed more, talk with me..." According to the data from Castle Peak Hospital, one in 100 suffers from bipolar disorder. The patient's mood is like a roller coaster, sometimes excited and active, sometimes And the mood is extremely low, and even after taking the medicine, there is a tendency to have repeated attacks. For the patient's pillow, the only thing that can be done is to accompany him silently.

The director Li Junshuo, who had written and directed the films "Tracy" and "Drifting on Turbid Water", took advantage of the illness experience of a friend around him to write a drama in Hong Kong and Taiwan, hoping to persuade fellow travelers from the perspective of the patient's close friend, "It's not about solving (a disease), There is no solution at all, how can I accompany this individual to coexist with this disease.”

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Bipolar disorder is a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs: 1 in 100 people suffer from it

"I usually don't talk about it, it's very normal, but when he was sick, he walked away and you might be surprised that he suddenly walked away... I got up early one day and found that he sent a total of 500 messages to my mobile phone from 2 to 5 in the morning. 99% of them have been deleted, and the remaining two or three messages can be returned.” 31-year-old Li Junshuo (Jun) Xu Xu recalled that a South Asian boyfriend in his 20s who he had known for many years was suffering from bipolar disorder. Experience, "He is a well-educated (well-educated) painter, and he deals with people of the white class. He has said that taking medicine will make him feel uncomfortable, and (maybe) he has stopped taking medicine, but I will not ask him about it. Yaowei, after sending the message for the first time, everyone gets along as if nothing happened."

In the manic phase, patients with bipolar disorder are extremely excited and energetic, and in the depressive phase, they become depressed and lack vitality. However, if they are not around people, it is difficult for ordinary people to detect their morbidity. Jun encounters such a person. Friend, when writing the script of the reality of the mental illness of the South Asian people living in Hong Kong, became the best person to borrow.

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In the play, the South Asian male protagonist falls in love with a local girl. After a "big date", he sits down and confesses and finally admits that in the scene where he is ill, it is Jun who wants to let the outside world see a different message, "Everyone thinks that This story is about a South Asian man suffering from mental illness. In fact, from the perspective of the heroine, I am telling the experience of people around the patient... There is no problem that can be solved. The same thing that can be solved by the mental illness department, if it is related to it, it will only go to the top of the horn... It can't be solved at all, so how can I accompany this individual to coexist with this disease."

The South Asian actor Zain, who plays the male protagonist Kashi in the play, was born and raised in Hong Kong to witness the changes of the times. He believes that Hong Kong's "psychopathy" is a phenomenon of social contradictions and labelling gradually appearing with the change of the social environment and climate.

"Maybe everyone's life was relatively flat in the past, the South Asian thing seems to be inconspicuous, the friction is relatively small, the surface is kind (kind) and peaceful (peace). There is another thing.” He used to be a flight attendant of Cathay Pacific Airways, and in recent years, he has turned to an office clerk and a YouTuber. He hopes to express more personal feelings and emotions towards society through local music, so that the outside world can understand that “South Asian boys are all Hong Kong people".

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The Hong Kong and Taiwan drama series "Shall We Talk Season 2", which arouses the public's attention to the mentally ill, incognito patients and even those in recovery, strives to eliminate discrimination, will be broadcast on Sunday (9th) by the movies "Tracy", The independent unit drama "Raging Sea" directed by Li Junshuo, director of "Dripping Water", mainly tells the story of a South Asian painter, Kashi, who happens to meet Serene, a local girl who is on the verge of breaking up. The two become lovers at first sight, but Serene slowly finds that her boyfriend is avoiding Emotional problems occurred until a misunderstanding and dispute between Kashi and passers-by. The relationship between the two changed. In the end, the two sides resolved the conflict through confession, lived together, consulted together, and painted together.

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