" Hidden In The Dust " After Viewing: Real Power
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Recently, a literary film "Hidden Into the Dust" focusing on the northwest countryside has become popular in the sky, and the box office has soared, reaching 349,000 from the first day of its release. Yuan, jumped to more than 90 million yuan a few days ago, and the word-of-mouth score is quite high, which has caused extensive discussions on the entire Internet and frequently appeared on the Internet hot search list. The author followed the trend and watched "Hidden in the Dust". The picture and sound of the film are very natural. The trivial and mediocre lives of two ordinary people are not unfamiliar to those who grew up in rural areas. The storyline is also commonplace, but many viewers are Impressed by Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying's simple and unpretentious love, many female viewers watched the movie with tears, and the evaluation was just two words "true".
There are also netizens who believe that the "absolute poverty" shown in the film is unreal. They believe that the 21st century northwest countryside is full of well-off houses, and the poor households have security policies. It is impossible for the phenomenon described in the film to occur, and they accuse the director. It is with a feeling of "resentment to the hometown" and tinted glasses to photograph the hometown, and it is to deliberately "uglify" the northwest villages and farmers.
As a Northwestern and Gansu native who grew up in the countryside, the author believes that this story is relatively true. There are three reasons: First, the background of the story is not the present, but happened more than ten years ago, because there is a subtitle at the end of the film: "In the winter of 2011, with the help of the government and the enthusiastic villagers, the old four horses Youtie moved to a new house and lived a good life. A new life." There were indeed many such poor households in rural Gansu more than ten years ago. Second, the fourth husband and wife (Ma Youtie) are a special group among the rural poor households - the disabled, and they are also the most difficult group to "support". Their living conditions of this special group cannot be shared with other peasant families. Compare life situations.
Today, the targeted poverty alleviation policy is aimed at families like Ma Youtie. They have basic guarantees, minimum living allowances, and living allowances. The third is the indifference and cold-blooded portrayal of the villagers. Although it is a bit "artistic exaggeration", it is not fabricated out of thin air. Anyone who has grown up and lived in the countryside knows that the marginalized people in the countryside, such as "Mr. Shu", "Ma Youtie" and "Cao Guiying", are rarely cared about or respected by them, even their own relatives are no exception.
There are also netizens who criticized the film angrily, saying that if the film had been watched more than ten years ago, it should have been good, but now to use suffering to express the difficulty of life, there is a suspicion of "smearing" the hometown and denying the achievements of poverty alleviation. It is very likely that the director deliberately wrote and directed it in order to cater to the aesthetics and tastes of Westerners, and the purpose is to go abroad to participate in exhibitions and win awards.
There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers. It is normal to have different opinions and viewpoints on a work of art. However, those who criticize "Hidden in the Dust" for being unreal or "exposing the ugly" should understand one truth: art originates from life and is higher than life. It is not a news report or a documentary, but a movie. Movie is an artistic reproduction of life, not a restoration of life. The reason why this film won awards overseas may be related to the "special groups in the countryside" that the film selectively presents. It is not necessarily to cater to the tastes of Westerners, and there is no smearing and smearing, because the scenes shown in the film are in the Northwest China in the past. The countryside really existed. The reason why "Hidden in the Dust" has exploded in word of mouth, and the audience is like a tide, is not how wonderful its story is, how novel its expression is, but how real it is, using real power to impress and infect the audience.
The director of "Hidden in the Dust" Li Ruijun is from Gansu, and the filming location is Huaqiangzi Village, Luocheng Town, Gaotai County, Zhangye City, which is his hometown. Most people in Gansu have never heard of or seen his films before, and many people paid special attention to him because of this film. It was discovered that this young director born in the 1980s independently directed the first film "Summer Solstice" 15 years ago. The film also won the special award for the best film at the 9th Greek International Independent Filmmakers Film Festival and was shortlisted for the 37th Rotterdam. International Film Festival . He has also directed " old donkey head ", "tell them, I went by white crane", "'s house in a place with lush water and grass ", " passing by the future ", etc., basically all rural themes.
Do you still remember "Old Well", " Qiu Ju's lawsuit ", "Yellow Earth" and "Red Sorghum" many years ago? "Hidden in the Dust" is a routine and the same style as them. Although this film is not an innovative work or a masterpiece, but a film that can win awards abroad and gain high box office at home shows that the audience likes it and is willing to spend money to buy tickets to watch it, but the feeling after watching it is different. Over the years, under the impact of commercial capital, there are very few domestic producers, directors and actors who have feelings and are willing to spend money and time to shoot rural movies, but are willing to shoot rural special groups to survive There are even fewer people in living conditions.
As the "Farmers Daily" commented: "Hidden in the Dust" is valuable because it not only captures the pain and beauty of agricultural labor, but also captures the kindness and love of farmers and couples, and captures the complexities of rural society. The variety of world conditions, not only infects the audience, but also heals the audience, and inspires the audience. Some people say that "Hidden in the Dust" is very different from the rural areas we have lifted out of poverty in our impression. Attentive viewers will find that the film was shot in rural China in 2011 through the date on the marriage certificate of Ma Youtie and his wife . This part of the light and shadow is just a micro-text in the big history before China's overall victory in poverty alleviation. It reflects the living conditions of specific groups of people in specific areas in a specific period, and reveals some of the predicaments of agricultural civilization under the impact of modern civilization. Although it is a story from more than ten years ago, there is still a lot of inspiration for us to do our current agricultural and rural work well.
