“I read a good script and I wanted to do it,” said Li. “I did not deliberately set out to change my image, or looking to gain something. That is not important to me at all.”
Li will star in Ocean Heaven, making it his first film in 30 years without any action sequences. ¬†Li said that everyone involved in the project “were not doing it for the money” but to raise awareness about autism.
What do I know about this film?  Not a goddamned thing.
I did manage to dig up a trailer and a synopsis (in the US, one in every 150 children is diagnosed with autism, much less in China it looks like):
One person out of every thousand is born with autism. It follows that China has over one million autism patients. David is one of them: he looks absent-minded, repeats other people’s words, swims with amazing ease, keeps everything at home in exact order… and maybe he is not totally aware of his mother’s death some years ago. Working in an aquarium, Sam Wong takes tender care of this twenty-two-year-old son and, with the generous help of the neighbours, the two live happily together. Yet, the father understands very well that in the end, he will have to depart from the world, leaving his son alone. Unfortunately, that day may come sooner than everyone is ready to believe.
An earlier trailer after the cut.
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