Qiu Jinwei, a tourist from Wuhan, Hubei province, drove to Xiangyang, a city about 300 kilometers away, after watching the bittersweet time-travel comedy Hi, Mom on Feb 12. He and his family took photos at the chemical products factory where the movie was shot-where all the buildings and decorations were preserved in the style of 1980s China.
“I grew up in a factory like this, and all the scenes looked so familiar,” Qin wrote on WeChat.
Those scenes included red brick houses hung with…