"Have you heard of Jia Hongsheng?" "Jia Hongsheng?" "Never heard of him." "Do you remember Jia Hongsheng?" "He was a TV actor." "Wasn't he a stage actor?" "I saw him in some movie about The 1930'S." "What do you think of his acting?" " He's OK." " I don't really like him..." "He's cool, there's something about him." "He was one of the better young actors." "He seems so distant." "He's too phony." "I don't like him." "He's cool." "He used to be an idol." "My friend used to like him." "He was hot in the early 1990's." "Didn't he form a band?" "I heard he was on drugs." "I heard he was sent to a Mental Institution." "I heard he died from an overdose." "People want to know what happened to you." "I want to direct a stage play about you." "I'd like to invite you and your parents play yourselves." "What do you think?" "No problem." "It will be a good chance for me to think about my life." "How about your parents?" "Them?" "I don't know." "When did you make up your mind to come to Beijing?" "Honestly, I didn't want to come to Beijing." "I had only two years before my retirement." "As a parent, when your child faces something like this... you have to help them." "We didn't know what he was going through." "I had to see for myself..." "I forced his father to retire." "We packed everything we had and left for Beijing." "This elevator works between 6:00AM to 12:00AM." "It's OK." "We won't go out at night." "You came in such a rush that there wasn't any time for me to clean up." "Our things should be here soon." "Put your things here." "You and Dad can live in the room next to older brother." "Where is your older brother?" "Older brother, older brother..." "What are you doing here?" "Your Dad and I retired." "We came to see you and re-unite the family." "Where is this soap from?" "We brought it from home." "We don't use lard soap here!" "This soap is fine, it's cheap..." "Lard soap is not allowed in this house." "Why?" "It's for peasants." "What if we just use it to do laundry?" "We can use laundry detergent!" "Listen, don't let me see any lard soap." "I'll throw it out!" "Who said you could come in?" "This room is too dirty." "You can't keep the windows closed." "You need some fresh air." "Get out." "Don't ever come in without my permission." "Get out!" "That was the situation when we arrived." "He didn't talk to us at all." "He was always attacking us." "He said my feet smelled, if it wasn't my feet, it was my socks." "It was like he was my father." "How will you support yourself if you don't work?" "You can't always depend on your sister." "What's this attitude?" "Don't drink so much!" "Leave me alone!" ""What's to do" about this?" "Hey, don't say "what's to do"." "Say, "what do we do"." "That's the way we talk back home." "You're here and you need to change." "Say it, "what do we do"." "Say it!" ""What do we do."" "See, you said it." "I can say it, I'm just not used to it." "You have to get used to it." "Hongsheng, Hongsheng." "Come out for dinner." "Can you knock before coming in?" "Even your parents need to knock?" "Even my parents." "OK, OK." "Come in." "It's time for dinner." "We've been calling you, why didn't you answer us?" "I'm not hungry." "Hongsheng..." "I'm your father." "We used to talk about everything." "Can we talk now?" "Go ahead." "Do you think your life is normal?" "You can't sit around every day." "You're different than before." "Are you angry with me and your mother?" "No." "Why do you treat us like this?" "We have nothing to talk about." "Are you still on drugs?" "You are still smoking drugs!" "Don't be afraid." "I'm your son, I won't hit you." "If you want to go on with our talk, go ahead." "If you don't, just get out." "We didn't know how to help him." "We decided to ask for help from a doctor." "The doctor told us the effects of his addiction would last a long time." "We should be patient and try to keep him happy." "He asked for a bike to go out." "We bought a second-hand bike for him." "Take this off, and this." "Get rid of these." "They're all new." "I just had the bike fixed up." "I know, but it's too ugly." "Remove that cover, chain box and that bell too." "After he got the bike he was always out." "We followed him because we were afraid that he might meet drug dealers... or friends using drugs." "He always went to Ritan Park." "He was always alone." "It didn't seem like he was meeting anybody there." "I knew they were following me." "I had got off drugs before they came." "I didn't want to tell them anything." "Well, let's forget your parents for a moment." "Let's talk about you." "Can you tell me why you started taking drugs?" "Your question is too vague." "I don't know how to answer you." "Then tell me how you started with drugs." "The first time..." "It was in 1992." "I had been in a lot of films." "I was so exhausted that my brain was blank." "I wanted to be in a stage play." "Zhang Yang was rehearsing "Kiss of the Spider Woman"." "He asked me to be the lead..." "Jia Hongsheng's performance in "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was great." "I hadn't liked the acting he had done before." "He seemed phony." "1992" "The first time he tried drugs was at rehearsal." "An Bin was also there." "I knew it was his first time smoking." "He kept demanding more." "He was always a fast-learner." "Heavy metal was popular at that time." "He had a leather jacket, wore earrings and a scarf." "That's his way." "He overdoes everything." "His reaction to drugs was different than other people." "I know they laughed at me." "I didn't like what I'd been doing either." "I knew what my goals were." "I always told myself:" ""You must be better than them." "You must be the best." "A great actor that everyone looks up to."" "Ass... hole!" "Harder drugs were just a question of time." "He always had to be the most fashionable..." "Part of it was just vanity." "Yes, he is vain." "He always said that we dressed like peasants and had no class." "Are you going out wearing that?" "So what?" "1995" "Look at your pants!" "What's wrong with my pants?" "Change into a pair of jeans." "I don't have jeans." "Hold on, try these." "Your waist is 27 inches, mine is 31 inches." "How can I wear these?" "Try them." "See!" "They don't fit." "Take a breath, hold in your stomach." "Take another breath." "Hold in your stomach." "Again!" "Look, you're wearing them." "When he got tired of his bike, he started taking walks." "His mother made me go with him." "I didn't like being alone with him." "Honestly, I was afraid of him." "I want a beer." "Two bottles of beer, please." "Have a bottle." "These are for you." "Don't be afraid of my mother." "She doesn't let you to drink at home, drink here." "It's not that..." "Have some." "I don't..." "Drink it." "OK, I'll have one." "When I find myself in times of trouble." "She stands next to me." "Telling me which way to go..." "Take it naturally." "What?" "What did you say?" "I wasn't talking to you." "And in the darkness..." "She stands in front of me." "Telling me which way to go..." "Take it naturally." "There will be an answer for all those in pain..." "Take it naturally." "After the struggle they will all see the answer..." "Take it naturally." "When the night is cloudy..." "I saw a light, showing me a new day..." "Take it naturally." "What do you think?" "Are you talking to me?" "Yes, what do you think?" "Very nice." "Do you understand?" "Not really." "You said very nice, but you don't understand!" "I meant you recited it very nicely." "You should listen to more music." "Yes, I should listen to more music." "I really feel like some music." "Could you buy me some tapes?" "No problem, what do you want?" "The Beatles." "What?" "Is there something wrong with your hearing?" "Please tell me again." "The Beatles." "It's the name of band." "Go to Wangfujing Foreign Bookstore." "They should have their music." "Excuse me, miss." "I'd like a tape of Da Bidus." "Excuse me?" "Da Bidus." "We have all the tapes right here." "Look for yourself." "Come in." "Did you buy it?" "I didn't go yet." "What have you been doing?" "I forgot the name." "The Beatles." "Da Bidus, Da Bidus." "Do you have their photo?" "Can I see a photo?" "Look, he's the lead vocal." "There should be four guys on the tape." "Just buy the one with this guy on it." "OK, I'll remember." "Help me get him out of the room." "Hongsheng, they'll fix the gas pipe soon." "Take a shower before they come." "OK." "Hongsheng, the water is OK." "Excuse me, do you have a tape with him on the cover?" "These are all we have." "Look for yourself." "This one." "Are you sure?" "Yes, I'll take this one." "He calmed down after he got his music." "We went out for a walk every day." "When he wanted beer, I got it for him." "I iced two beers every morning and brought them with us." "I put a raincoat on the grass for him to sit on." "I used branches to drive the bugs away." "He was getting better every day." "He was starting to open up to us." "This tape is OK." "It doesn't have the song I want, though." "How about this one?" "Hey, you've been holding back!" "I was afraid you would get tired of it so I bought one more." "You really are my father." "How can it rain when the sun is out?" "Hongsheng, let's get out of the rain." "Why?" "It's been so long since it rained." "I'm dry all over..." "You'll catch a cold." "You go ahead, I'll stay here." "OK, I'll go under the bridge." "Come over soon!" "Hongsheng!" "Hongsheng..." "It was fantastic walking in the rain that day." "My legs were out of control, I just kept moving forward." "I didn't know where to go." "I walked the whole night." "I didn't even feel tired." "Jia Hongsheng." "Don't give up!" "Have a bowl..." "Give me 10 RMB." "Where were you last night?" "Nowhere." "Why didn't you come home?" "Give me 10 RMB." "No." "Tell me where you were." "I've nothing to tell you." "Give me 10 RMB right now." "Were you getting drugs?" "Leave that alone." "Why?" "Do you feel guilty?" "Shut up!" "Give me 10 RMB." "I need it right now." "What for?" "Are you going to buy drugs?" "I'm going to buy something to eat." "Is that all right?" "You can have breakfast at home." "I don't want to eat at home." "I don't have any money." "Why don't you ever have any money?" "We have only 30 RMB a day for living expenses." "You ask for 20 or 50 whenever you feel like it." "Where do we get the extra money?" "Your Dad is sick." "I need the money to buy him some medicine." "He's sick?" "He's pretending!" "He got a fever from looking for you in the rain." "Is that pretending?" "Will you give me the money or not?" "You're so selfish!" "Give it to me." "No!" "What are you doing?" "I'll smash the TV if you don't give me the money." "Smash it!" "Go ahead!" "Come on." "Take it!" "How are you feeling?" "I'm fine." "Just a headache." "The sun will help." "Assholes!" "What are you doing?" "Don't insult people like that." "They're all assholes!" "Sometimes when I saw him suffering..." "I knew the drugs were still in him." "It was unbearable." "I couldn't do anything to help him." "I had that feeling again, I couldn't stop trembling." "It was like that day in 1993." "My body was spread on the ground like a shirt." "Suddenly there was no sound and my mind was blank." "1993" "The music came from my headphones." "I saw the bluest sky in the world." "It was totally pure and crucial." "I felt like I was Lennon's son." "I'd seen my destiny... while everyone else was running for nothing." "I felt like everyone was an idiot." "Hey, what's up?" "What's the matter with you?" "I can't believe you're cooking!" "What's wrong with cooking?" "Get out!" "Are you all right?" "Get the hell out!" "You're crazy!" "Get out!" "Tell me about Shun Xing." "He seemed to have a big influence on you." "Shun Xing." "He was a painter and musician." "I got to know him at a friend's house at the end of 1992." "We had a lot in common." "He introduced me to a lot of great music." "He had no place to live and moved into my apartment with his guitar." "When I find myself in times of trouble." "She stands next to me." "Telling me which way to go..." "Take it naturally." "And in the darkness..." "She stands in front of me." "Telling me which way to go..." "Take it naturally." "There will be an answer for all those in pain..." "Take it naturally." "After the struggle they will all see the answer..." "Take it naturally." "When the night is cloudy..." "I saw a light, showing me a new day..." "Take it naturally." "I drew this." "It's for you." "Thanks." "Happy birthday!" "How about a birthday song?" "Wish you longevity... as long as a pine tree on the Southern Mountain!" "May you have good fortune... as much as the endless water in the Eastern Ocean... (Repeat)" "Hey, what do you think you are doing?" "This is an apartment, not a bar!" "My child has an exam tomorrow." "How can he study with all that noise!" "OK." "May you have good fortune... as much as the endless water in the Eastern Ocean..." ""1993." "Happy 26th Birthday Jia Hongsheng"" "Those were good times." "We shared a rare and true friendship." "We watched movies and listened to music every day." "We taught each other." "We had a lot in common." "We also argued sometimes." "He has a weak side." "He's introverted and serious." "We are different people and it's natural... that we couldn't live with each other for very long." "Stop playing with him." "How would you feel if someone did that to you?" "As time went on, we ran out of things to talk about." "Sometimes days passed without a word." "One day we just started staring at each other." "It was like we were fighting with our eyes." "I started to have a bad feeling." "I felt we had come to the end of our friendship." "After I met my girlfriend, we talked even less." "He left us alone and stayed out listening to music." "Hey, what's up?" "What's the matter with you?" "I can't believe you're cooking!" "What's wrong with cooking?" "Get out!" "Are you all right?" "Get the hell out!" "You're crazy!" "Get out!" "Shun Xing left." "I shut myself in the apartment for a long time... and didn't see anyone." "I totally quit acting." "I was fighting with myself." "I didn't know what I was fighting about." "All I did was listen to music." "You may not believe this but I only listened to one album for a whole year." "A Beatles album." "Hey, Beatles." "Don't smoke anymore!" "I thought he was just in a bad mood." "I didn't know how bad off he was." "We were smoking a lot of Heroin." "He always went too far." "If he was drunk after three bottles of beer, he wanted five." "I started to be afraid of him." "We got to know each other in 1993." "The director of" Weekend Lover" asked my band to play two live scenes." "The first time we met, we shared drugs." "Jia Hongsheng, time to shoot." "Coming!" "There is one more inside." "OK, thanks." "I was smoking heavily and felt like I needed to smoke before every scene." "After that I did a TV series called "Love of a Butterfly"." "That was my first time in a period drama." "I didn't know how to act." "Whatever I tried didn't work." "Once the director said "action"..." "I felt like a phony." "I couldn't do what the director needed." "I had to get high." "That experience was horrible." "I acted so badly that I just gave up." "What do you think about starting a band?" "OK." "Music is so much more real than acting." "Stretch your fingers." "Get comfortable." "It was hard to get along with Hongsheng." "You couldn't talk with him because whatever you said was always wrong." "I got tired of being with him." "He practiced very hard." "He could go all day without saying a word." "I started to be frightened by him." "I felt he would make me crazy if I stayed." "Two weeks later, I got out of there." "Hongsheng, I'm leaving." "Lijie left." "Totally lost faith in people." "Nobody could tolerate me." "What could I do?" "I had no answers anymore." "I looked out the window every day, longing for an answer." "One day I saw one black cloud flying toward me from the south... in the shape of a dragon." "Its eyes stared at me." "It was horrible, they were my eyes." "I paid the electricity, water and gas bills." "Remember to drink milk." "Mom called and asked about you." "I told her you're OK." "I have 300 RMB left over, please take it." "I lived in my office and went home once in a while." "I lived in my office and went home once in a while." "I knew he was hurting." "I couldn't do anything to help him except give him some money." "I couldn't do anything to help him except give him some money." "Why are you home so late?" "I was busy." "Mom, I got paid today." "I'll leave it here." "1996" "Hello?" "Hold on." "Hongsheng, it's for you." "Who is it?" "There's a TV series offering work." "Tell him I'm not here." "What's wrong with you?" "Talk with him." "Hello?" "Why are you calling?" "What right do you have to call me?" "Shut up, you're lying!" "All your stuff is shit." "Listen, I quit acting, don't call me anymore." "It's OK if you don't want to be in the show." "Why did you treat him like that?" "They deserve it." "How can you say that?" "Everybody in this business knows you smoke drugs." "You're destroying your future." "I don't care, I'm not acting anymore." "Why don't you want to act?" "It's all bullshit." "All the roles you played before were bullshit?" "Yes." "We've acted all our lives, is that bullshit?" "What do you think?" "You bastard." "You can make any excuse for your drugs." "You've been lying to yourselves all your lives." "Your father and I have worked hard all our lives." "Who have we lied to?" "Bullshit!" "I worked hard all my life and it's bullshit?" "I'm a liar?" "Old Jia!" "You're drunk." "Don't go too far." "I need to be drunk today." "Tell me clearly, who did I lie to?" "You lied to yourself." "Really?" "I quit my fucking job as head of the local theatre." "I retired two years ahead of schedule to come here to serve you." "I lied to myself!" "You came here on your own." "I didn't ask you to come." "He's right, I came on my own." "I deserve it!" "I deserve it!" "Do you think I look like Lennon?" "A little bit." "Where is our family from?" "What do you mean?" "Are any of our ancestors from Europe?" "No, your mother and I are from North-East China." "How about previous generations of our family?" "Previous generations?" "Previous generations?" "My father is your grandpa... your grandpa's father is my grandpa..." "There's no one from Europe." "Then why did Lennon tell me I'm from England?" "That's impossible." "We are from Jilin Jiutai." "Our ancestors' tombs are still there now." "Mom..." "Mom!" "What?" "He's calling you." "Who's calling me?" "The dragon." "What dragon?" "Look at the cloud over there." "That's not a cloud, it's a dragon." "I was just talking to him." "He asked me to call you." "Stop lying." "You must be dreaming!" "It's true." "Get out!" "Get out!" "Shut up!" "Get out!" "Hongsheng, who are you talking to?" "Are you talking to us?" "Hongsheng, what's the matter?" "Don't move or I'll really come after you!" "Hearing voices and seeing things... are common symptoms of schizophrenia." "These are also common side effects of heavy drug use." "It's hard to say if he's schizophrenic." "You need to monitor his symptoms." "His condition could make him violent and dangerous." "Watch him, he may have started using drugs again." "Why are you still awake?" "I'm waiting for him." "Who knows when he will be back!" "I'll wait until he comes back." "Why are you drinking?" "You promised not to drink any more." "I don't drink every day." "Don't drink." "You can't control yourself." "With him like this and your drinking." "What are we going to do?" "Give it to me." "Stop drinking." "Leave me alone!" "Hold on!" "Where were you?" "I went to Lijie's." "What were you doing?" "Just hanging around." "Doing what?" "You were doing drugs." "What's the matter with you?" "Are you smoking again?" "Why did you go in my room?" "Why did you touch my things?" "You quit for six months!" "Don't waste all that effort!" "It's not your business." "Don't move!" "What do you want?" "Where are you going?" "Wherever I like." "You will die if you continue smoking!" "It has nothing to do with you." "Of course it does." "I'm your father, I have to take care of you!" "Don't forget you've been a drunk all your life." "You're not qualified to take care of me, understand!" "?" "Hongsheng, Hongsheng, Hongsheng!" "Come back!" "Let him go!" "Mom, come back inside." "I'm leaving tomorrow." "Where are you going?" "Back home." "What about him?" "Forget him." "We can't help him." "He'll die if we don't help him." "I've thought this through." "Let him smoke to death." "We still have a daughter." "We weren't meant to have two children." "Stop!" "You're just angry." "If we don't leave, he'll destroy us." "How can we leave him now?" "If you don't want to go, I'll leave by myself." "Old Jia, you are too selfish." "I don't want to die here." "That's enough." "Stop quarrelling." "Leave right now if you want!" "If you walk out that door, you and I are finished!" "Whatever you say." "It's not the first time you've said that." "I mean it." "If you leave, don't come back." "Mom!" "Mom!" "Come out and have a drink with me." "We're sleeping." "It's my birthday today." "I've promised your mother I wouldn't drink." "Have a drink for me." "Go ahead, don't drink too much." "Bottom's up." "There's too much..." "Do it for me." "It's really too much." "Are you a man?" "Drink up!" "Hongsheng, you've drunk too much." "Stop drinking, OK?" "I'm happy today." "I don't want to get drunk and start trouble." "I'm here, I'll take care of you." "I'm 29 this year." "I've done nothing but smoke drugs for 4 years." "Do you know what I've been thinking all these 4 years?" "I've been wondering why you are my father." "Are you my father?" "I am your father." "You are not my father." "I'm Lennon's son." "That's your imagination." "It's not my imagination." "You are a peasant." "Why can't a peasant be your father?" "Tell me why you are a peasant." "My father was a peasant." "Look at me." "Your generation has never understood life." "Why are you alive?" "Is your life interesting?" "Are you happy?" "Hongsheng..." "I don't understand what you're talking about." "I'm going to make you understand life!" "What is happiness!" "Hongsheng!" "You are my father." "I have hit you." "I will kowtow to you." "Hongsheng, what are you doing?" "Old Jia!" "How dare you hit my father!" "You bastard, I'll kill you!" "Let go of me!" "I'll kill him, let me kill him!" "After 6 months of interviews, we finally began rehearsals for the play." "What we'd worried about so long had finally happened." "If it happened once, it would happen again." "The situation had gotten violent and dangerous." "The day he told me I wasn't his mother... something inside me just shattered." "The strength that had held me up for such a long time just disappeared." "We were tired of living in fear." "We can't take this any longer." "We have to send him into the hospital." "I felt everybody wanted to hurt me." "I felt death coming closer and closer." "A sound in my head told me..." ""This is not the end."" "I had no choice but to fight... fight with everyone." "Who is it?" "Hongsheng, someone's looking for you." "Are you Jia Hongsheng?" "Yes." "Come with us." "Why should I go with you?" "I haven't broken any law." "The Resident's Association has called... because of your disturbing the neighbors." "This is not the first time." "Please put that down." "I won't go." "You don't have the right to arrest me." "Please calm down." "You'd better come with us now." "This is a domestic matter." "We hope you will co-operate with us." "Go with them." "We called the police." "Name?" "Did you hear me?" "What's your name?" "Lennon." "Which character for "Le"?" "The same "Le" as in Lenin." "Which character for "Non"?" ""Non" as in the character for peasant." "Your age..." "My birthday was a few days ago." "I didn't ask your birthday." "Tell me how old you are." "My birthday was a few days ago." "What's your address?" "Where do you live?" "London." "You live in London?" "Take him to the ward now..." "Put on this uniform." "We'll call you for dinner..." "Someone new!" "How about a hand-shake?" "You're my new friend, we can talk tomorrow." "Let's shake hands." "Shake hands, shake hands with him." "Is that building next to my house done yet?" "The Soviets called it hysteria and the Chinese call it dementia." "This is a good place for a rest." "Why don't you speak?" "Did someone hurt you?" "Get up!" "Time to get up!" "Older Brother, give me an autograph." "I saw you in the movies "Weekend Lover"... and "Silver Snake Murder"." "Give me your autograph and I'll give you a cigarette." "Give me your autograph and I'll give you a cigarette." "Nurse, come here and light his cigarette!" "Give me your autograph..." "What are you doing?" "The actor is giving me his autograph." "Are you an actor?" "He was in "Weekend Lover" and "Silver Snake Murder"." "I can act and sing." "I can act and sing, too." "What songs do you sing?" "I can sing "Little Grass."" "I'll do the first verse, you do the chorus." "OK." "I don't smell good like a flower." "I'm not as tall as a tree." "I'm a little grass and no one knows me." "But I never feel lonely, I never feel worried." "I have all my friends around me." "Eat a lot of apples." "We bought salted fish... it won't go bad." "We'll bring more next week." "Get up!" "Get dressed!" "What's going on?" "Go wash your faces." "Hurry up!" "Get me out of here." "This is no place to live." "I'll really go crazy if I stay here any longer." "They will examine you on Monday." "It's up to the doctors." "If you are not sick, we'll get you out of here right away." "If you are sick, you'll have to stay here for a while..." "Do I look sick?" "We hope you aren't..." "Why did you send me here?" "You needed a change in environment." ""Change in environment?" Shut up!" "You want to destroy me." "Why would we destroy our own son?" "You have nothing to do with me!" " Hongsheng, what's the matter with you?" " Don't come to see me again!" "Come on." "Take your medicine." "Why do I take medicine?" "If you are told to take it, just take it." "I'm not sick." "Why do you make me take this?" "It's not up to you." "The doctor decides." "I won't." "You have to!" "Take it away!" "I won't take this." "Get out!" "Can I have a cigarette?" "Do you think I'm sick?" "I don't think so." "You are seriously sick!" "Really sick!" "You are not sick." "You came to experience a new kind of life." "But when can I get out of here?" "Don't think about it." "You'd have to adapt to your surroundings, they won't adapt to you." "Don't be afraid of illness." "Thinking about it... will make you more sick." "I've been living here for 50 years." "Take it easy, I was like you when I came." "I can't spend my life here." "Nurse!" "Nurse!" "Nurse!" "Nurse!" "Nurse!" "What are you yelling about?" "Please untie me." "I'm uncomfortable." "Will you be nice?" "Yes." "Will you take your medicine?" "Yes, I will." "This can't happen again." "I know." "When the night is cloudy..." "I saw a light, showing me a new day..." "Take it naturally." "I dreamed about the dragon again." "He stayed on the ceiling." "Staring at me with his eyes." "He asked me, "Who are you?"" "I said, "I am Jia Hongsheng"." "He asked, "Who is Jia Hongsheng?"" "I answered, "Jia Hongsheng graduated from The Central Academy of Drama." "He's an actor." "He loves rock music." "He loves Lennon and Plant." "He once wanted to be a famous actor and start his own band."" "He said, " You are just a human being." "You like noodles, eggs... and nice clothes." "You like to sign autographs." "You cy and laugh." "You can even beg when you need help."" "I asked him, "Why am I here?"" "He said, "This is the punishment for your sins." "You will be clean after all these sins have been paid for."" "I asked him, "Am I clean now?"" "He didn't answer me." "With his eyes still staring at me... he flew away." "He said, " You are just a human being." "You are just a human being." "You are just a human being." "You are just a human being." "A human being." "A human being." "A human being..."" "Get up!" "Time to get up!" "What's your name?" "Jia Hongsheng." "When did you come to the hospital?" "June 19th." "For what reason?" "I hit my father." "How old are you?" "29." "What's your birth year?" "Sheep." "What's your birthday?" "March 19th, 1967." "What's your address?" "Rm.1003 Building 23..." "Anyuan Beili, Asian Games Village." "You are an actor, are you?" "Yes, I am." "Where were you trained?" "The Central Academy of Drama." "When did you graduate?" "1989." "What films have you been in?" ""Summer Expectation"..." ""Silver Snake Murder"..." ""Good Morning, Beijing"..." "What's your nationality?" "Chinese." "I heard you have British bloodlines?" "Not really." "Are you sure?" "Absolutely." "Where's your hometown?" "Jilin Siping." "Have you smoked drugs?" "Yes." "When did you smoke the last time?" "About a month ago." "Who is Lennon?" "He's the vocal of a British band." "What relationship does he have to you?" "None." "Didn't you say you are his son?" "That's my imagination." "I just love his music very much." "Are you used to life here?" "Yes, all the doctors and nurses are nice to me." "When did you take drugs for the first time?" "When we rehearsed..." ""Kiss of the Spider Woman" in the fall of 1992." "How long were you addicted?" "About 4 years." "What was the longest time you quit?" "Half a year." "Can you quit for good?" "I can." "Why?" "Because I know I want to." "All right, you can go." "Wait, one more question." "You told your parents you saw a dragon?" "Is that true?" "It's true." "What did it look alike?" "He looks exactly like me." "OK, you can go now." "Thanks." "First of all, we're sure he is not schizophrenic." "Unfortunately his nervous system... has been influenced by an excess of drugs and alcohol." "He needs treatment... to cure his hallucinations... and paranoia." "My suggestion is to keep him here for a while." "This will help to his recovery... and force him to stay away from drugs." "Hongsheng." "Hongsheng." "Hey, what are you doing here?" "I just got here." "A doctor there said an actor was in the hospital." "I sneaked over after I knew it was you." " What a coincidence!" " Sure is." "What are you here for?" "Quitting drugs." "How about you?" "Me too." "I also need to calm down." "Why aren't you over here in the drug section?" "A lot of people bring drugs into that section." "It's hard to quit." "It' s easier in my section." "How long have you been here?" "Three months." "How is it going?" "Not bad." "How are you doing?" "Not so great." "Would you like an apple?" "How long will you stay here?" "I'd like to stay for a while... to quit drugs and alcohol." "Me too." "I need to get clean." "Hongsheng, do you remember my girlfriend?" "Yeah." "She's dead." "We were shooting up..." "She jumped off a building." "1997" "Your Dad got a role a few weeks ago and made some money." "We've decorated the apartment." "The kitchen and bathroom are new." "We re-decorated your room." "I'm not sure if you like the style... if you don't, we'll change it." "We didn't touch your stuff." "It's all in boxes." "Your stereo didn't work." "Your father bought a new one for you." "What would you like for dinner?" "Anything is OK." "Take a rest." "I'll cook dinner." "Why did you begin using lard soap again?" "It's not for you." "I'll take it away." "Leave it here." "I'm just asking." "We had brought them from home." "We started to use them after you went into the hospital." "Here, this is for you." "Hongsheng." "Yeah." "Want to listen some music?" "OK." "What would you like?" "Pink Floyd or Beatles?" "Beatles." "OK." "Where is he?" "I don't know." "He was here a minute ago." "Please trust me today." "Let me be alone for one day." "25 26" "27 28" "29" "I'm 30 today." "I feel a little bit strange." "Don't be so nervous." "He wants our trust, so we trust him this time." "I'm still worried." "We forgot his birthday!" "Why didn't I remember?" "It's been exactly one year." "Oh, you're home." "Yeah." "Sorry, we forgot it's your birthday today." "I'll go buy some beer." "I don't drink." "Have a little." "I quit." "Hongsheng, your sister got you a cake." "What else would you like?" "I bought some noodles and minced pork." "How about some birthday noodles?" "Great." "I'll make them." "You scared me!" "I thought there was a baby in here." "Want me to replay it?" "OK." "Did you take your medicine?" "Yes." "Don't stay up late." "What time are you leaving in the morning?" "7:30." "I'll call you at 7:00..." "OK."