Chapter 1199 The real suffering never leaves, but we throw it away
Chapter 1199 The real suffering never leaves, it’s just that we lose the kindness and beauty we once had
"Into the Dust" and "Warm Spring" ended one after another, and all the film critics and media people in the theater felt Li Yi's strong malice.
How do you write this movie review?
"Into the Dust" or "Warm Spring" would be easy to write a film review on their own, but putting the two together is a headache.
If you haven't watched it or only watched one of them, then for any film critic, the movie review is easy to write.
But when the two movies are put together, they are completely different.
You can say that you don’t believe that in this era there is such indifference as in “Into the Dust”, then what about “Warm Spring”?
Do you believe this movie?
If any movie is taken alone, "Into the Dust" will make people feel that it is too depressing and too painful. What age is it? How can there be such a painful place?
"Warm Spring" will make people think, did it capture the people in the countryside too well?
Everyone is so warm and loving?
Du Xianghai, as Li Yi's official film critic, has no such worries at all.
Although he also felt that Li Yi's screening of two movies together this time was indeed a bit of a rip-off.
Youtie and Guiying's homes have gone through "three moves" and "three demolitions". And the reasons behind them are nothing more than "changing their faces because of money". Yes, "rich people have distant relatives in the mountains, but poor people have no close neighbors in the busy city",
The so-called "hard-to-recite sutras" in most of our families are nothing more than profit. Youtie is too poor, honest and humble, and it is almost impossible to make any profit, so he is reduced to "walking around a tree three times,
No one cares about the dilemma of "Where is the branch to rely on", and we can only live with Guiying and build a mud house from the ground. The director reveals human nature through spatial variation - there is no real reliance, only our own hands. Whether we admit it or not, the most important thing is
At this time, the only one you can rely on is yourself!
If it is just a film depicting rural scenes, that is not Li Yi's ambition. He has buried a metaphor in the characters of the film that can only be understood with a little thought.
Du Xianghai immediately prepared a film review.
To be honest, this touched me a lot. What is love?
When it comes to romance in movies and TV shows these days, either the man is handsome or the woman is pretty. It seems that if you don't, you're not worthy of love.
Youtie, judging from his name, hints at his status in the family. The eldest brother is called Youjin, the second brother is silver, and the third brother is copper. When it comes to him, he is just a piece of "iron". It is logical that he is the one in the family.
Status means being taken advantage of by others and being used as free labor. This is people and family.
Let’s look at this story again. An old farmer who worked for his brothers all his life and had only one old donkey was a very gentle man; an old girl who was seriously ill and was rejected by her brother and sister-in-law and had to live in a shack was a very stubborn and talented man.
Cute woman with vitality who loves watching tv.
After these three times, Youtie, who lived an honest life and farmed the land carefully, realized that he seemed to be meaningless, so he had nothing to miss, so he left cleanly.
It’s also very uncomfortable for people who want to be black.
Of course they will not have children, they meet too late, and cherish each other after meeting, but this is fate, the wheat will grow well, the corn will grow well, the chicks will hatch successfully and lay eggs, and the house will be built.
I finally have my own "home", but the greatest loss has also come. I can't understand the director's intention of arranging such an ending, but I accept the heavy blow that such artistic expression brings to me, and I am willing to be sad.
From the winter snow when Youtie and Guiying first met, to the early spring when they were sowing seeds together, to the midsummer when they slept on the roof at night, to the golden autumn when the rice ears were harvested, and finally to the early winter when the tall buildings collapsed, a season was formed.
cycle.
Because "Into the Dust" shows suffering, while "Warm Spring" is just the opposite.
It's just that life is really difficult.
Although poor, there is still romance!
But this movie is complicated. What makes it complicated?
First of all, this movie reveals a dark corner of the countryside for us. Its description of the countryside is very realistic, which is a feature that is very scarce in our film and television industry. In the past few years, I have watched many new movies with my wife and daughter.
TV series. Since then, I have completely lost interest in domestic TV series with related themes. There are many TV series that describe rural areas. But to be honest, these movies have a common problem - the story does not take place in the domestic countryside.
It took place in a rural area in Switzerland or Northern Europe, where the per capita GDP exceeds US$50,000. The farmers in those movies and TV series live in bungalows with several floors per capita, and every household drives a car, and the food they eat every day is very exquisite. I watched it.
Humbled.
It is not ruled out that there are truly prosperous rural areas, but you also cannot deny that rural areas like the ones in "Into the Dust" have always existed.
Of course, I think the film is more about wailing to us in this tragic way - please be gentle with the profit-seeking gangsters, leaving the confidence to survive for the ordinary people who create life steadily. After all, what you enjoy and squander
This world was created by them.
As an aside, director Li Yi actually played a trick this time. "Into the Dust" was screened at the same time as another local film "Warm Spring"!
The release of these two films at the same time made us film critics begin to contradict ourselves.
When the iron fell, the "soil-based" rural relations all over the world fell. The original simple truth of "sow melons, reap melons, sow beans, reap beans" has become "sow evil, reap melons, sow evil, reap melons".
Since then, all that is left of this extremely developed civilized society is the devastation of people who only seek to eat steamed buns dipped in human blood for profit.
But "Into the Dust" is different, really different. It is an extremely simple movie, and at the same time, it is also an extremely complex movie that makes people feel after watching it.
Suddenly there was a storm at night, and the mounds used to build the house turned into mud again. The two people's expectations for "home" disappeared from the concrete mounds, and they had to start from scratch again, but the two people couldn't help each other.
A person covered in mud and water, crying and laughing in the wind and rain, shows strength and the useless optimism inherent to many Chinese farmers. That scene made me want to cry.
Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying, the plot has always been with them. The main line seems to be their simple but luxurious "love", let's call it love.
For this reason, I say bluntly that "Into the Dust" is a rare and good film, especially in this era and at this juncture. It is like a lost pearl on the beach after a storm.
While watching the movie, some colleagues complained that the countryside shown by Director Li Yi was a little too fake.
I have to say that director Li Yi's ambition is indeed very great, because only "Into the Dust" can indeed make people feel horrified by the evil of human nature, but "Warm Spring" makes us willing to believe in the evil of human nature.
The goodness and beauty.
I am too familiar with all this. Maybe, I also have the courage to laugh in the wind and rain, maybe not. But, I understand them, just like the daughter who might be born if they meet early. I understand them.
Its story is too simple, but not simple at the same time. It is about the love between an old farmer named Youtie and Guiying, a woman who is much younger than him but suffers from urinary incontinence.
Each of us seems to be complaining that "everything is too fast" now, and then curl up in bed to read fragmented information. We haven't seen the real appearance of this world for too long, we have evolved so well, all
Clothing, food, housing and transportation can be completed with one click. We have forgotten that food takes time to grow and clothes require needles and threads to sew. We only want the results but ignore the process. The results that can be easily achieved are the least fun, so
Anxiety follows you everywhere.
There are hundreds of millions of farmers like Youtie who work hard to survive in the country, but their situation is generally not satisfactory.
But what I want to say is, is this really the case?
You must know that even this year, the per capita disposable income of our domestic farmers is only 18,931 yuan, and they cannot afford the life described in some film and television works. Every year when I return to my hometown for the New Year, I have a very obvious feeling-that is, in the
Time seems to have stopped in the countryside, and the outside world has nothing to do with it. In this film, the lives of the male and female protagonists are very simple - eating, working, sleeping, and even watching TV have become very precious pastimes.
An overly realistic description may make some people unhappy, but you have to admit that this is the most authentic Chinese countryside.
Simplicity is what you see in the whole film, which is about a farmer couple working hard to farm and improve their lives. It is not simple because of the way this farmer couple, the lowest and most short-sighted, behaves in farming and trivial matters in life.
True love and the astonishing philosophy of life will actually benefit and shame us city dwellers who think they are superior.
But what it shows is extremely complicated.
Some people also say that this is a country movie made for city people.
"I have always hated watching romantic movies, whether they are domestic or foreign, whether they are art movies or commercial movies. There are too many things worth paying attention to in this world. Those crazy men and women who complain about love and hate love and hate without any reason.
Qiu, I don't care, and I don't want to waste time paying attention.
It even triggered some thoughts that I have never had before: Is human love a good thing?
From this point of view, this is indeed a very simple story. To put it to the extreme, this story is about a man, his donkey, his pig, his chicken, his house, and his woman.
It is a love movie, but it is not just a love movie. I saw a rural love story, two dirty people, two people full of suffering, two people who don’t know what love is.
People were reborn because of each other's company, saw love, were warmed by love, and finally died because of love.
Who are the people who have achieved success? They are the relatives who are ruthless at home and the powerful people who suck blood and deduct food in the village. They are the ones who sow seeds every grain of iron and build houses brick by brick. They are the only ones who create with their own hands.
Real goods and valuable people are the smallest foundation for a country to be strong. But beautiful fruits will always be easily taken away by those smart and ruthless people, forcing the real backbone to be completely shattered.
Are the rural areas of this era that poor? Are the farmers of this era that miserable?
What kind of good local films can a director who has never experienced rural life make?
I have never been willing to watch heterosexual love stories on the big screen because I would probably find them boring, but this couple, the most despised couple, makes me feel that watching love stories is not so gross, but very real. They are just like me.
My parents, my uncles and aunts, my uncles and aunts, my brothers and sisters-in-law all depend on the land and are trapped by it. They can only make a living from the land. Without the land, they don’t know where to go. They can only work with resignation and work side by side naturally.
The love and righteousness generated, the food and other crops grown in the land, and the pigs, ducks and chickens raised in captivity are all the hope and meaning of life.
The love in "Into the Dust" is "I'll give you a steamed bun and eat it", it's "get in the car, I'll make a nest for you", it's not pretentious at all, but full of thick, simple and heavy
After watching the movie, I would like to believe that there are really two such people in this world who fell in love so simply in a corner.
Youtie was in the village, and he kept silent when he was teased in public. Suddenly one day his house was packed, not because he was overjoyed to have a wife, but because his blood was useful to the rich. So he became
In the blood bank of the village bully, besides blood, iron is just a tool. This is the relationship between people and society.
The simple thing is the love that I don’t know if it can be called love. The complicated thing is the background of this story and this story.
Its simplicity lies in the fact that the film does not deliberately complicate the story. From beginning to end, it tells the joys and sorrows of two marginalized characters in the countryside.
You Tie let the donkey go in the desert, but it didn't move. You Tie scolded the donkey, "It's a cheap bone. It's been used all your life, and it won't leave even if you let it go." You Tie wasn't scolding the donkey, he was scolding the donkey.
People have been dealing with themselves for a lifetime, this is people and themselves.
In "Warm Spring", the sufferings are the same, and they are all the same poor, but the difference is that they show another kind of countryside from another angle.
In fact, I agreed that I didn’t have high expectations for rural-themed movies at first. After all, Director Li Yi’s background has never had much to do with rural areas.
But "Into the Dust" was different, it touched me very deeply.
When I was writing a review of "Into the Dust", images of another film inevitably came to mind.
In "Into the Dust", Ma Youtie, Cao Guiying, the people they meet and the people around them all seem to be filled with a kind of indifference, but in "Warm Spring", there is kindness everywhere.
"Warm Spring" takes place in a longer period of time. From this point of view, the countryside in "Warm Spring" is more miserable than the countryside in "Into the Dust".
But people's hearts are kinder. I don't know whether Director Li Yi wants to express the pros and cons of the world through these two completely opposite films, or whether he wants to express the changing times through two films from different eras.
Development, but spiritually it is falling.
Are the truth, goodness and beauty in "Warm Spring" and the falseness, evil and ugliness in "Into the Dust" something that we have thrown away with the development of the times and the abundance of material things?"
