What we are going to talk about today may be a little heavy for people - the movie " Into the Dust ". This film, facing the life at the bottom of the countryside, meticulously depicts the suffering and kindness of the poor.
Jianghu rules, spoiler warning.
Actually, the lack of spoilers has little effect on this movie. The plot is just a footnote to the grand scheme of things. The heated discussion about the movie focuses on the heavy background of the story. The actor of
, Ma Youtie, the actor of the movie, Wu Renlin, is the uncle of director Li Ruijun , an amateur with no acting experience, who plays a low-level peasant in the desolate land of the northwest. He lives in an idle dilapidated house in the village, his only asset is a donkey . The actress of
movie heroine Cao Guiying, Haiqing , is the only serious actor in the whole film, playing a rural woman who is incontinent, disabled in legs and feet, and unable to bear children. He lives in the cowshed of his brother-in-law's family and has no ability to live and work. The families of the two
regarded them as a burden, and wished they could get rid of them sooner.
So, the two "burdens" were thrown together. The
film revolves around the love between two expelled marginalized people, full of warmth and poetry.
But that's not what we want to talk about today. But as mentioned earlier, the heavy background of the story.
in one word - poor.
Social media has always had an unrealistic beautification of the countryside. Li Ziqi's -style creator abstracts rural life into misty mountains, smoke-filled villages, pollution-free melons and fruits, and a slow-paced life of sunrise and sunset. The exposure of the
lens should be low, the saturation should be high, the makeup of the characters should be delicate, and the clothes should be neat. This is not the case with
, which cannot carry the romantic reverie of the idyllic life of the fast-paced people living in the metropolis. The film
breaks down this reverie severely, dissects the real life at the bottom of the countryside, and then spreads blood before people's eyes.
is different from the urban class who have equal opportunities for education and employment. For people living at the bottom of the countryside, poverty is not the result of laziness and stupidity, but a fate that comes from the joint strangulation in all aspects of life.
Ma Youtie's third brother, a capable man in the village, lived a good life at home, but he treated Ma Youtie as a silent donkey for half his life. Whether it's going to the city to pull furniture, or falsely claiming the state's poverty alleviation subsidy in the name of his poor household, everything is done just right. The richest man in the village of
deliberately failed to repay the rent owed to the whole village. He has repeatedly dragged Ma Youtie, who shares panda blood with him, into his own splendid second-floor small western-style building to draw blood. A steady stream of blood flows out of Ma Youtie's body, nourishing the vitality of the richest man. The director shot this scene repeatedly, repeating this cruel metaphor.
The villagers in the same village watched Ma Youtie's suffering and spoke sarcastically. Subsidies for demolition of houses in the village, young people who were working abroad rushed back from thousands of miles to evict him from the dilapidated vacant house. Guiying stumbled and fell into the water. People stood by the river and talked a lot, watching her being washed away by the water.
and the god of the iron head - on the night he worked hard to build a house, a downpour poured everything into mud. When he has a home of his own and is full of hope for life, a ridiculous accident takes Guiying's life.
All the above, like Yu Hua 's " is alive ", there must be exaggerated elements in order to amplify the dramatic contradictions. But looking at everything apart, it happened reasonably and naturally. Suffering, as the background throughout, is overwhelming like Mount Tai, making people think of the consensus reached by everyone in the phenomenon of "Second Uncle" -
Those who suffer can have fun while suffering, but if bystanders beautify the suffering, That is the accomplice.
To beautify suffering is to aestheticize the pain of others. The film director wrote a self-report on Douban, which contains a few short poems: "The wheat that has become a landscape / Harvesting tourists in the city / The eyes of tourists."
The word "landscape" is a little abrupt in this context, It should be extracted from sociologist Debord's theory of "spectacle society".
"Wheat", in the film, is a metaphor for the fate of horses and irons, and it is the embellishment of landscaping in shopping malls. In the
movie, Ma Youtie looked at the silent land and wheat fields, and said with a sincere smile:
"When the wind blows, what can the wheat say?
is pecked by the flying sparrows, what can the wheat say?
was bitten by his own donkey, what can wheat say?
was cut by summer sickle, what can wheat say?"
Aside from movies, it's not uncommon to "landscape" the fate of others— —
Facing the hawkers in the vegetable market, I can’t see the fact that they get up at three o’clock to buy goods, load and unload tons of fruits and vegetables every day, and their palms are rough and their faces are black. The camera focuses and freezes, clicks, and then opens the photo editing software, puts on a small and fresh filter, and sends it to the circle of friends with the text "Fireworks in the world, the most touching people's hearts".
This is still a sales link that can enter the city's vision, and it is the downstream of the industrial chain.
Push it up, what about those cultivators, fruit farmers, and vegetable farmers who have been planting rice seedlings, planting seeds, and harvesting in the morning and in the dark. Open the short video software, to what extent are their hardships shaped into an idyllic pastoral away from the chaos of the world?
Some of them occasionally appear at the subway station entrance or under the overpass to sell agricultural and sideline products. If you pass by, you can carefully observe their clothes, shoes, and palms. Then, everyone must have a deeper understanding of Bai Juyi 's feelings when he wrote " Viewing Micah ":
"What merits do I have today, I have never been a farmer."
lyrical here, it is almost over.
's sympathy cannot solve any practical problems, and the rights of the weak must go back to the law to seek protection.
can say that all the human suffering that Ma Youtie experienced in the film can be resolved through legal means.
fraudulently used the name of poor households to defraud the state for poverty alleviation housing subsidies? Suspected of fraud, there are not a few similar cases that have been convicted and dealt with in this way before.
The law stipulates that village cadres are regarded as state functionaries when they assist the government in the management of state affairs.
If the village cadres know that the third brother defrauded the state subsidy and provide assistance from the side, they are suspected of corruption and dereliction of duty;
As for opening the blood station to the door of the house, and pulling Ma Youtie to his own house to directly draw blood - the "Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in Criminal Cases such as Illegal Blood Collection and Supply" jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate has been promulgated 14 years.
On June 1, 2021, the "Rural Revitalization Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China " was promulgated and implemented, covering eight aspects including industrial development, talent support, cultural prosperity, ecological protection, organizational construction, urban-rural integration, support measures, and supervision and inspection. The measures to implement the "rural revitalization strategy" in my country are specified in detail. Article 1 of
clearly states:
"In order to fully implement the rural revitalization strategy, promote the comprehensive upgrading of agriculture, the comprehensive progress of the countryside, the all-round development of farmers, accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and comprehensively build a modern socialist country, this Law is enacted. "
at first glance is an official article that tastes the same, but it is viewed in conjunction with the fate of Ma Youtie. Every word is as heavy as a thousand pounds. A film review by
wrote: The land has too many stories worth telling that need to be told, and they should never be hidden in the dust. Actually, they are being told by the law.
