那部电影

Two people, five years, secondhand computers, and 342 yuan on opening day. Then the internet found it.

Who made it

牛来 (2026) was directed by Xin Yumeng and co-written by his mother, Sun Lifang. They hand-crafted the whole 86-minute feature over five years on used hardware they bought online, with roughly a few thousand yuan and one ink-wash poster for marketing. The production company had previously done interior decoration work.

The rally

Opening day took about 342 yuan, roughly ten tickets. Then social media mocked the crude 3D as "PowerPoint-level animation," and the mockery turned into curiosity buying. Screenings jumped overnight, one day peaked around 180,000 yuan, and in some theaters it outsold Christopher Nolan. This chart is served live from the site backend and drawn as candlesticks.

Why it stuck

The film's unofficial line is "being hated is fine, being ignored is the real tragedy." People kept watching partly to laugh and partly because two people made something by hand and refused to be invisible. That is the feeling this collection is built around.