Author: Wen Dao's Book Shadow Time
answered an answer more than a month ago, and now I still receive interactions one after another every day. I have read every comment of
, and many comments can be singled out as a story. Unfortunately, it is a fact. This is also a response to friends who questioned the plot - the story may really happen to some compatriots, and it's worse.
I updated to say something off topic.
First of all, why would I drive by myself for half an hour to see a movie that no one watched?
is that I have a special complex for Gansu. In the second year of undergraduate, when I was doing fieldwork, I started from Xi'an, went to Lanzhou, walked along the Hexi Corridor, and went all the way beyond Yangguan.
Gansu gives me a sense of separation between raising my head and lowering my head. When I look up, the wilderness is low and the mountains and rivers are splendid. When I look down, I will find that the bare Gobi is connected to the barren land. Withered vegetation, wind and sand blowing.
This sense of separation shocked me. After I left Gansu, I always wanted to go back and watch it again. Six or seven years have passed, and there has been no chance. So the movie was released, and I watched it with optimistic expectations. After all, the introduction of the movie Here, the focus is on the mutual support of the two people.
But I didn't expect that such a mutual bond would match the land six or seven years ago in my memory.
What do I mean by this - some scenes, you have witnessed or even experienced, will know that it exists, and friends who are far away from such scenes will not believe it when they see it on the screen, it is too far.
So there is no need for everyone to argue in the comment area, just watch an ordinary movie, substitute your own experience to evaluate, there is no right or wrong, and don't rise to a height of sensitivity.
In addition, I reflected on it. This kind of mutual support may be the only solution to the suffering of the people living at the bottom. For the people in the game, it is not poetic, but the contrast between the way of dissolution and suffering. In the eyes of us spectators, it has become a kind of poetry.
This is probably a bigger tragedy than the movie.
the following original text.
Douban 8.3, the highest rated domestic film so far this year, if nothing else, this will be the record for this year's domestic film.
was nominated for the 72nd Berlin Golden Bear, and internationally, it was also recognized.
At the same time, the box office after the release is only a pitiful 3 million, and the seats are bleak. I drove half an hour in Hangzhou to find a theater that only had one movie a day, but it was booked by one person. Most of the people who watched it praised it, but most people didn't watch it, and the typical applause was not popular.
it is -
"Hidden in the Dust"
Writer Milosz said:
I have been to many cities, many countries, but I have not developed the habit of cosmopolitanism , on the contrary, I maintain the cautiousness of a small local person
Gansu director Li Ruijun also maintains such a cautiousness. " Passing the Future " filmed the hesitation between his hometown and his hometown. In this "Hidden in the Dust", the camera is directly aimed at the barren homeland, trying to get from Digging poetry out of barrenness.
's poetry can be romantic and tender, or pathetic and bitter, and "Hidden in the Dust" has both.
The film starts with an arranged marriage: the man has a horse, he is middle-aged, full of vicissitudes, and he spends more time with the donkey than with people, an honest and honest farmer; the woman, Cao Guiying, lives with his brother and sister-in-law, Lameness, urinary incontinence, premature aging.
There are many similarities between these two people. They are both marginalized people who are ignored and despised. They are both people who can endure all misery. 's match.
Although the two of them said goodbye to their life under the fence after their marriage, they did not have their own house and could only live in an abandoned old house in the village that had been idle for a long time. That house, when they moved around, they also started to build their own house.
and mud pouring bricks, collecting firewood and tiles, two people and four hands, on the occasion of the autumn harvest, finally completed their own home, pigsty chicken coop donkey troughEverything, a warm farmer's home. Everything seems to be going in a good direction, but Gui Ying's fall into the water brings a sad ending to this thriving story...
"Hidden in the Dust" uses a lens language similar to narrative prose to describe a pair of The daily life of marginal couples and their stories are mainly highlighted by three scenes, and we will start from these three scenes to read this work.
blood donation
Ma Youtie The upstart in the village is sick and needs blood transfusion, very rare panda blood, and Ma Youtie happens to be panda blood.
So the village chief held a meeting to mobilize Ma Youtie to donate blood, because the nouveau riche owed the villagers' rent and water bills, and could not die!
When the village chief called out Ma Youtie's name, the villagers were surprised:
Who is Ma Youtie?
A man who lost his name, a man who was neglected. The short lines outline Ma Youtie's position in the collective.
The son of the nouveau riche took Ma Youtie and Gui Ying to donate blood. Gui Ying was car sick and incontinent in the car. When he stepped aside to rest, the son of the nouveau riche complained:
said earlier if he wanted to pee, why did he pee on the car
For the second blood donation, the car was covered with plastic paper , and the windows were wide open.
Some people suck your blood and despise you for being dirty!
Ma Youtie donated blood many times before and after, but he didn't get any benefit. Even the money to buy clothes for Gui Ying was borrowed from the nouveau riche.
When I watched this paragraph, I actually had a doubt - no matter how hard the nouveau riche was, he wouldn't be so unfeeling towards the benefactor, and it was impossible for him to have such a low EQ when he enclosed the land as a farm. Really don't give it?
thought about it later, this is not a search, and it is not a low emotional intelligence, just simply look down on it!
They look down on people like Ma Youtie Guiying. They even think that donating blood to themselves is a blessing for these people. If you don't donate blood, people in the village don't know who you are Ma Youtie.
thinks very highly of himself and is not benevolent to the rich, in contrast to the honest, weak and kind.
Harvest
"Hidden in the Dust" uses a very detailed lens to show the couple's process of sowing and harvesting, the philosophy of life, the emotion of people and the land, through these lenses, you can get a glimpse.
In the gap between work, Ma Youtie and Guiying talked about the past. He said that there was a lunatic in the village before, who often said to himself:
was blown by the wind, what can Maizi say? Pecked by flying sparrows, what can Maizi say? Being eaten by his own donkey, what can Maizi say? Cut off by the sickle of summer, what can the wheat say? These words of
are also Ma Youtie's own inner monologue -
in the noisy crowd, as an aphasia, like wheat growing on the ground, no matter how the wind blows, the sun is drenched in the rain, there is no chance to speak . The helplessness of
, Ma Youtie later said it more bluntly. When I was planting buds with Guiying, Guiying was in the front and Ma Youtie was behind. Ma Youtie said that it felt like I was planting Guiying’s footprints. Guiying said that she didn’t want to be planted, and that she couldn’t go anywhere. Now, Ma Youtie said:
We have feet, where can we go? Not the same on this land!
The relocation of the land seems to be the normal life of the Chinese people for thousands of years under the farming civilization. Born in the land, return to the land, and leave the land, the land will be desolate, and people will die.
So Ma Youtie is a microcosm of a traditional Chinese peasant. He grows silently on the land, suffers hardships and rejoices. He does not reject the land, and the land accepts him tolerantly.
He cherishes every grain produced on the land. When Guiying was unable to help him harvest and threw a sheaf of wheat, he was angry with Guiying for the first and only time:
How much white flour has been ruined!
An extremely unpretentious value.
build a house
is the same as harvesting seeds. Ma Youtie and Guiying built a house and made a very specific demonstration in the movie.
excavated soil, mixed mud, poured molds, built walls, brick by brick, and finally put together his own house.
When I was watching them build a house, I thought I was watching a popular science film about architecture. If I study it carefully, I might actually be able to build a hut with a civil structure following the film. The meticulous narrative of allows the audience to follow the camera to observe the process of change. When you watch them build a house from scratch in the wilderness, they will feel their joy from the bottom of their hearts. On the first day of
moving into the new house, Guiying lay on the kang and said to Ma Youtie:
I really did not expect that one day I would have my own house where I could lie on my own kang.
In the eyes of the audience, the small house with four walls is the harvest of their half-life hard work, a farewell to the hermit crab-style life, and a place where they can sleep in peace.
They carefully planned out pig sties, chicken coops, donkey troughs, and even moved the swallow nests together - they were worried that when the swallows returned in the coming year, they would not be able to find a home.
People and animals moved into their new homes with peace of mind.
three scenes, a floating life. Ordinary people's life may not have too many ups and downs. What we face more is the daily life of small pieces, such as Ma Youtie and Gui Ying's efforts to manage the plants, trees, bricks and tiles, which are trivial and full of warmth.
Unfortunately, this kind of warmth didn't last long. It seems that the hard-working people are often more likely to be hit by Murphy's Law -
was delivering food to Ma Youtie when Gui Ying fell into the water and didn't live in the new house for a long time. Yin and Yang are separated!
was able to accept everything, but when faced with Gui Ying's departure, he showed a desperate expression for the first time. He sold all the food, released it to the old donkey, accepted the demolition and resettlement, and left the land where he lived... ...
It's a brutal ending that reveals the unexpected and impermanent in fate.
The acquaintance of people is mostly unknowable in most cases. What we call fate is an unpredictable accident. The combination of Ma Youtie and Guiying is even more unexpected, because who are they? I never thought that one day someone can accept him, one day he can have his own home, all the accidents make up all this, then the accident of the ending seems to be a necessity.
is just too cruel, but cruelty is also poetic.
What is regrettable is not only Gui Ying's death, but also the common line of subtitles at the end of the movie:
In the winter of 2011, with the help of the government and enthusiastic villagers, the old four horses Youtie moved to a new house and lived a new life
as a sojourner When crabs, where are the enthusiastic villagers? Where were the enthusiastic villagers when the house was being built? It's not that I speculate on people's hearts with malice, but the goodwill of the groups in "Hidden Into the Dust" is really lackluster. In the end, there are enthusiastic villagers, and there is really no silver here. After Guiying's death, how can Ma Youtie have a new life?
In fact, it can be seen from Ma Youtie's actions after Gui Ying's death that he sold no grain left, repaid his old debts, and let the donkey go back to the wild. In fact, he made a goodbye with the world, and what he will do next What, no guesswork, everything the title suggests.
But he is not allowed to hide in the dust, as the director said in the road show when answering fans' questions:
He can't die. Sometimes it's not that you can die if you want to.
to sum it up.
"Hidden in the Dust" is a work with a very high degree of completion in my opinion. Its story is simple but not simple, the shots are meticulous but there are no redundant elements, the rhythm of the whole story is gentle but not dull, and the water flows smoothly. Deep, slowly flowing, but has long left a winding vein. If I have to pick faults, I think some of the literature and art are too much, and some poetic philosophies should not be born immediately after working in the fields. It is more like a written expression that has been brewed and processed, which is out of tune with the vast wilderness.
But for many people who question it is to excavate the suffering of Chinese farmers to please the international film festival, I thinkVery unreasonable.
is very simple. It's not that "Hidden in the Dust" has not been released in the Mainland. Although not many people have watched it, the ratings of 20,000 to 30,000 are not a small sample, and the word of mouth is there. Besides, if you don’t dig, will suffering cease to exist?
also said the other way around, the film poeticizes suffering.
is poetic, but not poetic. "Hidden in the Dust" actually shows a kind of survival philosophy of Chinese farmers, a kind of survival philosophy that is good at enduring and stubborn enough.
Ma Youtie can accept anything. He goes to donate blood when people ask him to donate blood. He is swept out of the house many times without saying a word. When someone needs him, he never refuses to say hello, even if he can't get a word of thanks... ...It looks a little resigned, but in fact he is not resigned, he is just a kind and good man, he has things he protects and pursues.
He tied Gui Ying to his waistband, afraid she would fall while sleeping at night, this is what he guards; he carefully buryes the seeds in the soil, and takes care of the harvest with diligence, this is what he guards things; he wants to give Guiying a home, which is what he pursues; he wants to buy a color TV for Guiying, which is also what he pursues. For a person like
, you can't say that he is submissive. He is just like most of us, not good at rejection, kind and weak. This is his philosophy of survival, not poeticization.
Besides, is protecting building materials in a storm called poetry? Is ploughing and harvesting a dirty face called poeticization? Is Urinary Incontinence Poetic? Is the separation of yin and yang called poetry?
On the contrary, it presents more real suffering, but Ma Youtie and Gui Ying's attitude towards suffering makes it full of poetry.
As I said at the beginning: Poetry can be romantic and tender, or it can be pathetic and bitter, and "Hidden in the Dust" has both.
see this, if you are interested in "Hidden in the Dust", you might as well spend 30 to 50 yuan to support it while there are still platoons, and finally a domestic work that takes your mind will appear, just die like this Oh, what a pity!
