has such a TV series.
is a dark picture throughout, so you can't see any hope. After it went online, the audience mistakenly regarded it as a documentary because the pictures were too real. Because of the cruel story, it was asked to go offline to delete, rectify, and delete the most representative shots abruptly.
was launched in 2005, 14 years later, it still has a high score of 9.5 on Douban.
Its name is called "Migrant Workers for Survival"
. The story takes place in Songjiang City in the northeast.
To survive, a large number of migrant workers went to the cities to do hard work. Get up earlier than chickens and sleep later than dogs.
The monthly salary is less than the boss's meal, and it can be calculated clearly by breaking your fingers. But the ruthless boss had to deduct wages, saying that it was paid later, but in fact there was no idea of paying them.
Migrant workers all come from the countryside where they don’t know a lot of characters. They don’t know what a labor contract is, and they don’t know how to protect their rights.
The only thing they can do is to keep urging the boss, regardless of the image of the request, hoping that the boss can show mercy and let them take the money back to help the family. When
couldn't bear it, a brave migrant worker caught up with the boss' van, hoping to get a salary. But he was caught off guard, and was beaten from the car by the boss's men, and he fell to the ground... The
scene shocked other migrant workers.
They finally realized that what they are facing is not simply asking for a salary, but the resistance of the small people at the bottom of the society to the upper class. The cruel thing about
is that most of this type of resistance can't get the desired ending... The director of
"The Living Worker" is Guan Hu, one of the leading figures of the sixth generation of directors. Stubbornly and persistently, most of the works are closely related to difficult social realities. Representative works include "Old Cannon", "Get in the Car", "Living Good", etc., without exception, all of them are high-scoring works. When
was filming "The Living Worker", director Guan Hu still insisted on the principle of "real".
In order to let the actors know more about the living conditions of migrant workers, they ate and lived with them for several months. In order to present the most life-like images,
chose the "shoulder-resistant camera shooting" method, which is a particularly cruel viewing angle. The direct result of the careful shooting of
is that the plot is real, and there are small details that make people feel sad.
For example, the expressions of migrant workers are very reluctant every time they pay for it, and they are cautious for fear of taking out one more. The nails are covered with black mud cracks, making the audience feel sad.
For another example, migrant workers do the dirtiest and most tiring work, working more than 10 hours a day. The biggest wish after work is to have a good night's sleep after eating. What about the result of
? They lived in a one-hundred-man Datong shop with no warm bedding, only the smell of sweat. The food is too bad, with cabbage and radish every day. After a few hours, I was so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back, and I was not full.
The most heartbreaking thing for the audience is that they sell their blood to eat a full meal and reluctantly abandon their children.
has no ability to raise him to an adult, and hopes that his children will meet better parents and not become the bottom of the society like them. Every episode of
saw the audience heavy and depressed, and even dared not to watch it any more, and dared not guess what the final outcome of this group of famous agricultural workers would be. There are two most typical images in the
series. They are working hard to make money, but his wife is a migrant worker who is a rich man's third party for money, and a simple migrant worker who falls in love with a prostitute.
The former is crushed by life and is unable to bring happiness to his family. Even if his wife is a junior, she dare not criticize, cowardice comes from incompetence. The latter is purely persistent and believes in life even if he is hurt by a prostitute.
refers to them as peasant workers in a unified manner because they feel that their experience is the epitome of all peasant workers. Don't dare to resist life, or still believe in life. Director Guan Hu presents these two completely extreme aspects to the audience, and the emotion he wants to express is self-evident. In addition to the cruel incidents mentioned in the previous article,
also featured cruel plots such as jumping from a building to ask for a salary, collecting debts and being soaked in lime water.
But unfortunately, these plots have been deleted.
holds the idea of "delete it never happens, cover your ears and pretend not to hear", these are the most trueThe actual plot is deleted from the episode.
But deleting does not mean that it does not exist. All adults who have experienced and perceived this pain and helplessness can understand such desperate emotions.
After all, this is the humble story of the small and medium-sized people in the big age. The reality is cruel. Even if it is a beautiful scene, no one can guarantee that "these things will not continue to happen."
want to say a little bit: People must live for love to have beauty. Life is cruel and hopeless, but we must not be cruel and hopeless.
"Migrant Workers for Survival" is a warning to real life, and we must have the power to change real life.
