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Purple Butterfly Director's Statement

This is a story that takes place in the early 1930s. In the last century. More than 70 years have passed.  But when you try to return to those days - to make a movie or tell a story - you quickly discover that nothing much has changed. The people of that period faced more or less the problems we face today. Our lives are still chaotic, still hard to grasp or control. Just like a movie, a story or a character. Sometimes we may feel uneasy, troubled, even desperate when we lose control, but sometimes it doesn't feel bad at all.  Because it allows us to think about the past, the present and the future in peace; to think about what has happened and what will happen; about those who have lived and those who will live. You feel that maybe that's the way things are. Everything is possible.  The story can take place at any time and end at any time.  All we can do is try to prepare ourselves for it.

-Lou Ye

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