Director: Rao Zihao

Synopsis

This is a film without dialogue about the late stage of intimate relationships. A man and a woman in an intimate relationship are locked in a room. In the room there is a gun. Because they love each other, each hopes the other can end the pain quickly rather than prolong it, and they use Russian roulette to decide who dies first, like an inescapable cycle of tragedy in human relationships. Through wave after wave of life-and-death tension, they come closer and closer to death, and a side of human nature they were unaware of is released. This is a film about the late stage of an intimate relationship, a feeling of "I love you, but I also want to kill you", which seems to be an inescapable cycle of tragedy in human relationships. In this film I also tried to simplify, doing the script, cinematography, editing, music and even the props myself. The whole film was shot on an iPhone. Circles, circles, round circles.