The first movie I saw this year was " Into the Dust ", and I watched it twice.
It is not easy for such a niche movie to be accepted by so many audiences. The scenes of the movie are very ordinary, as long as people who know a little about the countryside will not be unfamiliar, but it is because of ordinary reality.
Ma Laosi, an older man who is disliked in the village, lives with his brother and sister-in-law, and is always disliked. He is also disliked Gui Ying. The two become husband and wife, support each other, and never give up, despite being pressed again and again by life They rubbed on the ground, but they didn't blame others, they didn't lose their kindness, but they always loved life.
The two of them used their hands to cultivate the land, changing their living environment little by little. From wandering around and living with people, to having their own home, the fourth child also planned to buy a big TV for Guiying. It can be said that ordinary has arrived. Extreme, suffered to the extreme, also suffered to the extreme.
Romain Rolland said:
There is only one heroism in the world, that is to see the truth of life and still love life.
I think the moving part of the movie is inseparable from this ordinary to extreme love.
I reviewed this movie twice, and finally found the truth of these five lives. It is not beautiful and has no positive energy, but all living beings are normal and can be seen everywhere.
01 Alive, more desperate than death
In that remote small village, Ma Laosi lived with his brother and sister-in-law.
What about Guiying? She suffered from the root cause of the disease since childhood, was physically disabled, and could not bear children. Her brother and sister-in-law treated her harshly, "living as a donkey".
That's it, the two most disliked people in the village got their licenses and came together.
After getting the marriage certificate, Ma Laosi moved out of his brother's house, but he had no house and could only live in an unoccupied house in the village. Even so, they still loved that "temporary" home, and put the word "hi" in marriage. Seriously stick it on the head of the bed.
Unfortunately, the village is engaged in the construction of a new countryside, and the house that has not been lived in for many years needs to be demolished. One house will be given to the owner of the house for 15,000 yuan, which is called the response policy.
Ma Laosi and Gui Ying moved around, and then found a place to build their own house. After the house was built, they really had their own home.
They borrowed eggs, and the hatched chicks also grew up and laid eggs. The days in front of them were getting better day by day. Ma Laosi also planned to buy a big TV for Guiying after collecting crops and selling food. He accidentally fell into the water and died. Ma Laosi was alone. He sold the food he harvested at a low price, paid off all the things he owed to others, and released the donkey that depended on each other.
He may have wanted to follow Gui Ying, but he is not dead, he is alive, but the house he built brick by brick was demolished, and he left his beloved land.
He's alive, but alive is more desperate than dead.
Death is only a momentary thing, but to live with the suffering of this world, with the indifference of this world, with the sad memory of the lover, with the scars of life.
dead, is the easiest option.
Being alive is the hardest thing to endure.
02 The more backward the place is, the more prejudiced it is , and also said that Guiying was the "God of Plague". What does
mean? It's not that Guiying is physically disabled and all kinds of "incompetent", they think it is the upper body of the plague god, they are afraid that if she touches the child, it will infect the child!
What a stupid act, what an ignorant prejudice.
z6The fourth child and Gui Ying went to the neighbor's house to watch TV. Due to physical reasons, Gui Ying urinated on her pants and on the bench. A normal sympathetic person would sympathize with this person's experience, but the neighbor not only had no sympathy, Instead, ridicule and blame.
"You god of plague, why did you put the pee on the stool?"
The fourth took out the paper from his pocket and wiped it, another burst of mockery.
"Can you put some paper and wipe it clean?"
When I saw this, I thought, "Forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."
They don't have compassion, but they feel their actions It's normal, they have prejudices, but they feel normal about their prejudices.
The more ignorant, the more prejudiced he is, the more he thinks he is right.
The more ignorant, the less you know how to sympathize with others, that is, sympathize with yourself.
It is undeniable that the more backward the place is, the more prejudiced and ignorant it is. Because the education of civilization is not enough for them to see more things, they guard their inner prejudice and live their own life. life.
03 The reality of most people is that interests are more important than sympathy
Lu Xun wrote Mrs. Xianglin, Mrs. Xianglin has always been alive, and the group of people who regard the tragic experience of Mrs. Xianglin as a talking point and a laughingstock are still alive.
Mrs. Xianglin lost her beloved son, but the group of people around her did not sympathize with this. Instead, they numbly used these things as a way to make fun of Mrs. Xianglin.
no empathy, numbness.
In the end, Mrs. Xianglin became slower and slower, and the host drove her out, and Mrs. Xianglin became a beggar until she died.
What is sympathy, interests are important, if you can't create value, you can only be kicked out.
This is reality.
In the movie, what happened to Ma Laosi and Gui Ying is the same. Their own house has not been built yet, so they borrowed to live in a house that others don't live in, but I heard that the new countryside is being built in the village, and the house that no one lives in is demolished. After receiving a subsidy of 15,000, the person who was working outside quickly came back and asked Ma Laosi and Gui Ying to move out, because he only took a few days off.
In fact, you can guess when the house is, and the policy will not end so soon, but he chose to drive Ma Laosi out without thinking about what he will encounter after Ma Laosi goes out.
is the same as Guiying's brother and sister-in-law treats Guiying. Because of her poor health, her brother and sister-in-law raised Guiying and her interests were violated. She wanted to send Guiying out.
The worst thing is that Gui Ying gave another poor person some food, and they beat Gui Ying to be unable to walk for half a month.
sympathy? This thing is too fragile in the face of interests, I think, for most people, this is the case. When
does not involve interests, everyone can express sympathy, but once their own interests are involved, they immediately change their faces.
This is the most common reality.
is profit-seeking, which is the truest aspect of most people.
04 Suffering is not worthy of praise, but those who are not afraid of suffering are heroes.
I've always been convinced that no one wants to suffer if they have a choice.
Ma Laosi suffers because he has no choice.
Guiying suffers because she has no choice.
Ma Laosi is an honest and honest farmer. He has dealt with the land for half his life and buried his life in the soil. He has feelings for the land.
His life was very hard, but he was kind. He was given a piece of clothing, and he recorded how much the clothing cost.In his heart, he went to donate blood to the rich people in the village, but he didn't take any benefits, and the benefits were for the sake of the villagers.
I think this is the most praiseworthy human nature.
At the last moment of Ma Laosi, it can be said that all hope in life has been lost, but he still wants to pay off other people's things, and he will not let others suffer at all.
This is real kindness.
He didn't resent others because of his own suffering, he resented fate, and because of this he lost the most beautiful thing about him as a human being.
Kindness in good times is precious, but the most rare thing is that a person is still kind in adversity.
05 Many people always love what they don't have
Many people always yearn for what they don't have. This is a disease.
Why is this movie so touching? I think, at least part of it is people's obscenity about pastoral life.
For example, when Ma Laosi built a house, aside from the reality, it was beautiful to build a house for himself, but in fact, that kind of beauty is just a poetic obscenity of many people.
When I was a child, the family was going to build a house. My father led a horse and went to the nearby river valley to pick up marbles. The horses carried people on their backs, picking up a little bit each time. brick.
The bricks of a house come from that.
It took two or three years from the beginning of preparing the materials to the final construction of the house. It was very slow, very bitter, and very tiring.
But as far as I know, when people in the village started to build bungalows, almost every house was built like that. At that time, there was an elementary school teacher who went to school every day to teach, and he had to go through the valley. Every time he came back , he would pick up several hundred catties of marble and bring it back. Many of the stones in that house came like that.
Later, he stopped teaching. The teaching salary in the village was low. He went out to work. Now he has several big houses in the village.
Many times, the active choice is poetic, and the forced choice is just life.
The life of the audience, because of the distance from the life of the movie, because most people can't live like that in this life, they will feel yearning and beautiful.
It can be said that the kind of life in the movie is the life we once tried to abandon, the life we left behind, and gradually it has become the life that people who have never experienced this kind of life yearn for.
When Mu Xin gave a literature class to Chen Danqing and other people, he asked, have you ever watched "Homer's Epic"?
Lots of people shaking their heads.
Mu Xin said, you always worship what you don't know.
Indeed, because I don't know, it is mysterious, so I yearn for it. The same is true for this kind of life in the movie.
But a good life starts with appreciating what you have, and it starts with loving your life.
06 I hope we can all choose to live
In the movie, the lives of Ma Laosi and Guiying are full of helplessness. Many times, they are pushed forward by life instead of actively choosing life.
I found that this is also the plight of many left-behind people in rural areas, and of course, it is also the plight of many urban migrant workers.
has no more options and has to do it.
Instead of actively choosing, after a long time, you may complain in your heart, and it is difficult to see what life itself is like, because life alone is exhausting.
So,I hope we can all take the initiative to choose life and what to do, not because we have to do it, but because we like it.
built my own house because I liked it, and returned to the village to farm because I liked it.
I hope that everyone can be the master of life, instead of feeling that life is a last resort.
Of course, if you can't, please be kind.
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