about the movie " Hidden in the Dust " was removed from the shelves. It didn't make the film a month ago, and then the box office exceeded 100 million. The criticism of the
movie is only increasing. Some netizens commented on
: ""Hidden Into the Dust" is deliberately sold miserably, how can there be such a poor place in China!" Another netizen on
said: ""Hidden Into the Dust" is to win awards and take the misery of farmers Make a gimmick!"
A netizen's comment was highly praised: "That's because you are too far from reality!"
has a saying: "The daytime does not understand the darkness of the night!" Behind the scenes, but the truth behind it is that many people have tried their best just to make a living.
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What is the real poor rural area like?
Compared with the rural environment in "Hidden in the Dust", in fact, the real poverty-stricken countryside is far worse than the environment in the movie.
In the impression of many people, Guangdong is the province and city with the highest GDP in the country, but in fact it is two extreme faces.
The Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong is extremely rich, and eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong, and northern Guangdong are ridiculously poor.
Back then, " Nanfang Daily " conducted a survey on "Poor Guangdong" and sent reporters to eastern, western and northern Guangdong to conduct field interviews.
There is a particularly impoverished Dongtang village in Leizhou, in western Guangdong. The local land is barren, water often accumulates in summer, and it does not rain all year round in the dry season. The maximum grain yield is only 500 catties.
The only primary school in the village doesn't even have a thatched pit. Students who want to go to the toilet can only go to the nearby woods to solve the problem. After a long time, the whole woods stinks and mosquitoes shroud them. The teachers of
school are students who stay to teach directly after graduating from primary school.
When they entered middle school, many villagers could not even pay the 200 yuan boarding fee for one semester. More than 80% of people in Dongtang Village chose to drop out of school because their families were too poor.
This group of young people went to work in other places and could not adapt to the changes outside. After a period of time, they returned to the countryside.
They took over their parents' hoes and repeated the poor and hopeless lives of their elders.
When we watch a lot of movies and TV dramas, any intern can live on the flat floor and visit the Internet celebrity shop. It seems that the real rural environment has already lost its imagination.
But the reality is that many real farmers, working at sunrise and resting at sunset are a luxury. Not enough food or school is their insurmountable starting point.
I watched a video before. There are brothers and sisters in poor mountainous areas in Guizhou. Their parents died young, leaving a 9-year-old brother and a 4-year-old sister to depend on each other.
lives in a yellow mud house. As long as it rains heavily, the whole house becomes a muddy pond. After my parents died, there was no food left at home, and my sister cried when she was hungry. Brother
worried that his sister would get lost at home alone, so he had to take his 4-year-old sister to the mountains to find wild vegetables.
I don't even have a kitchen at home, so I can only put a small pot at the entrance of the yard and put it directly on the stone. When the wild vegetables are not full, I add a full pot of water every time I finish eating the wild vegetables and heat it up to satisfy my hunger. .
Many people sighed after watching the video, how old is it, and they still have to live by eating wild vegetables.
Someone praised this brother for being so sensible in the comment area, but I saw a more poignant scene.
If it wasn't forced by reality, if it weren't for the lack of family care, who would be so sensible! Who doesn't want to have a happy childhood. Although the era of
has been moving forward, the world always seldom puts the spotlight on those who are left behind.
Just like the director Jia Zhangke said: " When a society is in a hurry, you can't ignore the person you knocked down just because you want to move forward." Don't cherish life? There is a classic line in
"Hidden into the Dust and Smoke": " hemp ropes are carefully cut, and bad luck is for the poor."
This reminds me of a story told by "Dr Meng".
When he was still an intern at the hospital, one night, a migrant worker walked into the emergency room and soaked his broken finger in a wine bottle.
His tutor said to the migrant workers: "It's too late for treatment now, and the fingers will not be affected in the future!"
The migrant workers asked how much money, and his tutor replied: "3000!" Drop it?" The mentor of
replied: "300!" The migrant workers of
answered decisively: "Then cut it off!" Money doesn't even care about the most precious body.
It turns out that poverty can really deprive a person of his right to a normal life.
What many people don't know is that this migrant worker is the only breadwinner in the family, with a sick wife and children waiting to go to school.
More than 2000 yuan is of course nothing to some people, but for him, it will cost him his life!
Writer Sanmao said: "Your various annotations and readings of me do not constitute one ten thousandth of me, but you are all at a glance" .
Yes, many times we think that we can easily cross the hurdle with one foot, but in the eyes of others, it is an insurmountable gap.
In August 2017, Typhoon 14 "Hato" blew towards Zhuhai, and the surrounding trees fell into pieces.
But Zhou Rong, 53, rushed over because his pickup was still outside, which he had just bought.
When the neighbors saw it, they persuaded him loudly: "You don't want to die!"
However, the wind was so strong that the pickup truck was teetering, and Zhou Rong tried his best to stabilize it.
In the end, the car fell to the ground with a bang, crushing Zhou Rong to death under the car on the spot.
and the second day was his 54th birthday, someone said that Zhou Rong was really stupid: "For a car costing tens of thousands of dollars, he took his own life!" "The saddest part of poverty is that you always feel that you can only take your life, and life is cheaper than paper."
Why does Zhou Rong prefer to risk his life to protect his pickup truck? Because his two sons are still studying.
And this car was bought by him with a loan not long ago. It is not only his only lifeline to earn money, but also the hope of their family's life.
is like a lot of people don't understand why some people risked the epidemic before and came out to sell candied fruit , fried rice noodles ? Aren't you afraid of getting infected? Don't you really want to die?
It's not that they don't know the danger, but because that little money is really more precious than life to them!
When your phone's battery is 90%, you certainly don't care about 1% or 2% of the battery.
But do you care when your phone is only 5% charged? You would turn it on to super power saving mode, never turn it on without special circumstances.
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Why it is difficult for us to understand the situation of others
In "Hidden in the Dust", a rich man in the village is ill, and an investigation finds that only panda blood can save lives.
In order to get back the wages owed by the rich, the villagers forced Ma Youtie to draw blood again and again.
has been pumped a lot, and it's hard to do farm work. They are all in the same village, and they are all farmers who make a living by doing farm work. Why can't they understand his situation?
This reminds me of a piece of news I saw on Weibo earlier.
On a subway, a mother slung a heavy takeaway box on her shoulders, ready to pick up her 2-year-old child with both hands.
Passengers cast doubt on her: "That's it! Is it really possible to take the subway to deliver food?"
"Now we all use electric vehicles to deliver food, so take the subway to deliver food, so it's no wonder you don't get scolded!"
and passengers, take a picture of this scene with a mobile phone and post it on social platforms.
But who knows, in order to save money for electric cars, this mother has many hidden secrets behind her?
" To Kill a Mockingbird " contains a classic quote: "You can never really know a person unless you walk around in his shoes and think about it from his point of view. When you walk in his way, you feel sad even passing by."
There is never a shortage of encounters in life, but we are used to turning a blind eye. I didn't understand this sentence until I saw the short story "cabbage soup" by Turgenev .
tells a story in the novel:
A peasant widow's only son died. Her son used to be the best worker in the village. The landlord's wife was very sorry and went to the widow's house to console her. When
came to the yard of the widow's house, he saw the widow standing in the middle of the house, drinking cabbage soup with a spoon.
The landlord's wife felt very puzzled. A few years ago, her 9-year-old daughter died. She was heartbroken all day and almost collapsed to death.
She thinks that widows are really hard-hearted, and she is still in the mood to eat!
The landlord's wife couldn't stand it any longer, so she asked the widow directly: "Don't you like your son? How can you still have such a good appetite? How can you still drink this cabbage soup?" I'm dead, my heart has been poached, and my life is over, but the soup shouldn't be wasted, there's salt in it!"
We can't understand why the mother who delivered the food took the child to take the subway to deliver it. , why not buy an electric car?
Just like in Turgenev's "cabbage soup", the landlord's wife does not understand why peasant widows drink soup, because "abundance" limits our imagination.
In those unseen corners, there are too many hardships we can't imagine.
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wrote at the end
People's Daily commented on "Hidden in the Dust": "It is indeed unexpected for a rural movie to stand out, but it is reasonable." Not "hidden into the dust". It's not that we're out of touch with reality, it's that we're too far from real life.
Now we are covered by all kinds of luxurious life in short videos every day, it seems that it is the norm to earn one million a year, and a well-off for the whole people is the truth.
But the reality is that there are still too many corners in China that we can't see.
Director Yang Dechang said: "After the invention of the movie, human life has been at least three times longer than before!"
Fortunately, there is a movie, and there is director Li Ruijun. He aimed the camera at the countryside and picked it up in "Hidden in the Dust" A forgotten corner. The meaning of
"Hidden in the Dust" is never to sell misery, nor is it necessary to sell misery, nor to praise suffering, but to bring us closer to reality and see those who are still struggling to survive in the midst of suffering.
