Reviews of Back to Lhasa

The personality of "preferring lack over abundance" has led to the production of only two movies, "Growing Up" and "A Very Summer Day", while his only music TV song, "Back to Lhasa", can be called a classic piece of MTV in the Mainland. Zheng Jun's music TV, Mr. Lu really put in a lot of effort.

When Zheng Jun signed "Red Star", he wanted to find a guitarist who didn't use drugs, because some of the best guitarists had good qualifications but had bad habits, and finally Zheng Jun chose Zhu Hongmao. "So we became good friends. Zheng Jun was also very fond of movies, so when he was making MTV he appointed me to do it. Personally, I love concrete things, not that abstract MTV is bad, it's just that I'm not too keen on it. After hearing Zheng Jun sing "Back to Lhasa" live on guitar for me, I felt that Zheng Jun had invested a lot of personal emotion into Lhasa, and after considering it for a long time, I decided to divide the MTV into two parts: half of it is the outside of Lhasa, which expresses Zheng Jun's longing for Tibet and his admiration for Lhasa; and half of it is the inside of the modern stage in the BeiJing Film Studio, which is made in order to restore the music in a real live environment, with Cheng Jin, Weining, Hong Mao and Zheng Jun form a band that communicates directly with the audience."

While Mr. Lu put a lot of effort into the "Back to Lhasa" MTV, he claimed that he hadn't watched the "finished product" of the "Back to Lhasa" MTV once, explaining, "I've been working on it for a long time. He explained: "My directing ideas were mutilated and changed when it was shown on TV. Some of the exchanges on and off the stage may have been cut because they were too real, and the order of some of the clips was changed, so I didn't want to watch it in pain."

Senior Lu exported the music video for "Back to Lhasa," and the shots his hands pressed were perfectly worthy of Zheng Jun's soulful song. It begins with Zheng Jun carrying a guitar out on stage, full of the roughness and romance of the West. How did poetry come about? Poetry is human beings in front of far greater than their ability to perceive, in front of the great beauty of human beings can not be expressed, in front of the dumbfounded submissive loss of speech, because of the loss of speech and have to make the chanting. Yes, Lhasa's mysterious and large presence is to let the small human beings produce poetic home. The song "Back to Lhasa" should be produced in Lhasa, a unique place. In addition to Lhasa, there should not be a second address for Zheng Jun to make such a perfect chant.

The movie was beautifully shot by Mr. Lu. He has captured the soul of rock and roll. Mr. Lu captured the inner qualities of Lhasa from all angles and at all times; he showed the gesture, the look and the character of the snowy Lhasa. The Lhasa he photographed not only has shape and color, but also has sound, rhyme, spirit and nature. The landscape he shot matches Zheng Jun's rocking voice and spiritual posture so well. Facing the mysterious Tibet, the great Lhasa, we submit. But submission is not enough, we must also be romantic. This romance is poetic, in which the light song and dance of our souls returning home is set aside. This romance is spiritual, and this spirituality carries us, lost in the city, endlessly singing and then endlessly dancing.

Poetess Kim Suzuki said that poetry is looking for its own soulmate, for a reader whose soul matches its strength. In fact, so does music. Music is looking for its own soulmate. I feel that the spectrum of my soul corresponds perfectly to the secret code of the spectrum emitted by Back to Lhasa.