saw the news that the movie was taken off the shelves of the full video website yesterday, and now it is generally accepted on the Internet that the explosion of such a movie has moved the cake of the capital of the film and television industry. However, there are also unwilling netizens who choose words and think that "removing" is not simply the same as being offline, but is being removed from major video websites, usually for policy reasons.
When I saw the news, the first thought that crossed my mind was: What a pity! I haven't had time to write an afterthought with respect, cheer up, and earnestly.
This movie is definitely the first best domestic movie in my mind in the past ten years, it is such a high status. As a young man who would keep the movie discs he bought in his bag when he was in college, domestic movies seemed to me to have fallen into death since 2011. The so-called special effects, big scenes, large traffic... Everything is piled up mechanically, like a large number of zombies stumbling and twisting, walking under the control of low-energy physical forces.
occasionally has some unpopular literary films, such as Bi Gan 's " Roadside Picnic ", Lou Ye 's series of works, Shao Yihui 's " Love Myth ", also has its own color, But they are all small pieces of works, and it is difficult to leave an echoing aftertaste in my heart until the appearance of " Hidden in the Dust and Smoke ". It not only points directly to the pain of reality, but also maintains the poetry and beauty that the film language itself should possess.
This film, which has only been released for 62 days, is based on the plight of rural groups. Except for the well-known actress Haiqing who starred in zero pay, the other actors are all native farmers, and finally received 110 million at the box office and won the Excellent reputation out of the circle. This is indeed an anti-algorithm and anti-big data wonder. I made a special check and found that in a series of literary films directed by Xu Anhua in recent years, the highest box office " when will there be in the bright moon" is 63.4 million. Lou Ye's 2019 film " Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", the final box office score was 64.889 million. It can almost be said that 65 million yuan is an upper limit of the box office of Chinese literary and artistic films.
In my opinion, I was surprised by the magic in the film that moved me. I didn't expect to be felt by the audience who are used to the popcorn movie , and finally formed such an influence, in fact, I sincerely serve the director. Happy with the creators.
Now I'll go into detail about what the movie made me feel.
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The male and female protagonists in the film are both people in a barren village in the northwest, who are spurned and hated by two families, and can be called more marginal people among the marginalized groups. One is Li Youtie, who is called the "Fourth Oldest" by the villagers. After his parents' eldest brother passed away, he was an honest man who was wiped clean by his brother. . One is Guiying, who has been despised and bullied by her family since she was a child. She was beaten to the point that her lower body was paralyzed. She was unable to bear children and had urinary incontinence.
At the beginning of the film, a matchmaker named Ma Hongmei in the village was talking to the two brothers. Of course, the two of them agreed with the marriage, as if they had bundled the slow-moving products and dealt with them at a low price discount. The two didn't speak at the dinner table. The fourth child just heard his brother scolding his donkey and quickly got up and went out to take care of the donkey. Guiying was forced by her sister-in-law to urinate in a thatched hut. When she came out, she happened to see the donkey eating food. She stroked the donkey with pity, and looked straight at the fourth child who was sitting back in her room to eat buns. The fine snow fell from the sky, and this was the first moment of mutual sympathy between the two when their hearts first met.
The two took a wedding photo, and their gestures were full of strangeness and resistance. If you get a marriage certificate , you are officially married. On the first night in the same bed, Gui Ying didn't even dare to sleep, so she knelt on the bed, soaking wet. The fourth child understands herBe alert, you can only add some coal to the iron furnace, so that she will not catch cold in the cold house.
The fourth child took Gui Ying to his parents' grave and solemnly announced that he had married a wife. The two sat on a vast desert, as if looking at the future. The old fourth thoughtfully gave Guiying an apple and a twist. The newlywed life just started silently.
Zhang Yongfu, a land contractor in the village, fell ill. His son, who was wearing a dzi bead and a leather jacket and driving a BMW, contacted the village committee to launch a call for voluntary blood transfusions. Zhang Yongfu owes the villagers the rent and wages, as well as the water bills in the village, but he is such a person who is hated by others. Coincidentally, he is a RH negative blood , and only the fourth child in the whole village has this rare blood type. Zhang Yongfu's son took a group of people to the fourth child's house and half forced the fourth child to donate blood. The seats of the car and the dining table where the fourth child and Guiying were sitting were covered with plastic sheets. Before blood collection, the fourth child had to be tested for any infectious diseases. Every time they donate blood, arrange a meal, and call them to eat in an extremely rude tone, but no one shows up.
The eldest nephew in the old four city moved, and his brother asked the old four to drive the donkey into the county town to save the labor cost of moving the furniture, and move the furniture little by little to the new house. The brothers also scold the fourth child for being slow.
The village issued a policy, saying that in order to improve the living environment, zf collected idle old earthen houses from everyone, demolished them and gave them 15,000 yuan, and if they could renovate them, they would pay another 15,000 yuan. Ma Youwen, the fourth brother who worked in Dongguan , came back specially to make this money and ordered the fourth brother to demolish the mud house he borrowed, and also drove the two away. The fourth and Guiying dragged their belongings with their donkeys, together with the dismantled door and window frames, and found a loess house with dried tofu that was uninhabited near the farmland and temporarily stayed there. The word "Happiness" is posted in the house, the electric chicken is placed in the box, and wheat seeds are planted in the land, and a new life begins again.
The fourth took Gui Ying to use a donkey to pull carts of soil, and jugs of water from the pond. They mixed the mud and water together to form mud bricks one by one. Wheat poles are woven into fences and roofs. Then I reused the beams and door and window frames from the old house, so I built a beautiful and decent new house with my own hands. The house is next to a flower tree, and the telegraph chicken is spread out and raised in the yard. Then he built a circle with mud and raised a pig. The only electric light illuminated the room warmly, reflecting the fiery happy words, and the flowers on the trees were blooming brilliantly. They also specially put back the swallow's nest picked up from the old mud house.
Ma Laosan used a plastic bag to put the leftover soup leftovers from his son's wedding banquet, and found the fourth new house here. It was said that the village policy said that the state applied for housing for the extremely poor households, and they also applied for a set for the fourth child, and paid 10,000 yuan for the fourth child. The fourth was very reluctant, but the third insisted, in fact, to give his son a place.
The fourth took Gui Ying to visit the new house he applied for, and looked down at the fields of wheat in the countryside from the window. A reporter from the TV station asked the fourth child: "I will move into a clean and tidy building soon, what are you thinking about now?" The fourth child said, "People live here, where do donkeys, pigs, and chickens live? ' The others laughed when they heard the answer. But no one cared about the anxiety and pain in the hearts of the fourth and Guiying.
At this moment, Gui Ying's physical condition took a turn for the worse. She laughed at herself that her life was bad, and moved into a new house, but her health became bad. In the end, when Guiying was waiting for the fourth child to return by the river at the head of the village, she was dizzy and fell into the river. The fourth child carried Guiying up from the river in person, which meant that the villagers were just watching, but did not go down to help and missed the rescue time.
The last good bond of the fourth child is also broken. Because he was too poor, he could only ask the photo studio to cut out Gui Ying in the photo on the marriage certificate and make it into a portrait. The red double happiness words on the wall were also replaced with black veils. The fourth one specially killed two chickens to worship Guiying. Usually they areCan't even eat an egg. The fourth child burned a paper TV for Guiying, took off the stumbling block on the donkey, and released it into the desert. Harvest the crops in the land and sell them at low prices. Then he drank the pesticide and committed suicide.
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A few days ago, I saw a saying on Chen Chong's Weibo, "the magic of movies". What impresses me about "Hidden in the Dust" is not only the depth of the story itself, but also the "magic power of movies" in the details. With the development of the timeline, the collected mud and good water are expanded into square earth blocks, built into houses, and supported by beams and columns. Seeds sprinkled into the soil grow into large crops. The electric chicken in the cardboard box came out of the shell, and the yard was full of chickens running around and screaming. These beautiful processes are recorded in a simple video language, making people feel that the land is pregnant with the beauty of all things. The plot setting in the
movie is very metaphorical. At the beginning of the film, the fourth family member shouted at him, and the first person to stick his head out of the room was the beautiful donkey. The donkey symbolizes the beautiful and simple quality of the fourth child, and more often it also symbolizes his soul. When the fourth child released the donkey, the donkey's look back in the desert was extremely stinging.
After the fourth eldest committed suicide, people from the village committee pulled all the livestock he raised with a trailer, and the house was flattened by a bulldozer. In order to use the idle homestead for 15,000 yuan. At this time, the back of the donkey appeared and looked at the people. This look at each other seems to be a question of conscience, and the silence of the two also seems to be a kind of shame.
Gui Ying accidentally pulled the wheat seeds out of the soil when sowing, when the fourth child said: "Shovel it out, let it be used as fertilizer for other wheat. The fate of the wheat is the same, it also has its fate. It is not yet summer, let the sickle cut it off." This wheat seed also symbolizes the fate of Guiying, a weak wheat seed with congenital deficiency. Guiying fell ill after the fourth child's application for housing from destitute households. It's like pulling the wheat seed out of the soil.
In addition, the film also fully creates a field with spiritual beauty in the details. For example, those swallows who like to lay their eggs under the eaves of farm houses, and those hens who are accustomed to laying eggs in the former owner's house, are strengthening the complex of longing to return to the root after the connection with the land is forcibly cut off.
The fourth and Gui Ying poke holes in the telegraph chicken's cardboard box, and the orange lights illuminate the room. This is the most romantic and beautiful scene in the whole film. It's like the souls of the two people complement each other, and they are warm and beautiful.
When the fourth eldest and Gui Ying borrowed eggs from a neighbor's house, the TV was playing piranhas rioting in the water. This detail is also meaningful. Guiying died in the river that led to the town from the entrance of the village. The river was used to guide the water from the city, and the river was fast. Guiying has always been afraid of water. In my opinion, this seems to mean that when the macro tide of national policy is pouring down, there are always many people like piranhas gathered in the low places. They are the village's land contractor Zhang Yongfu and his son, selfish brothers, and countless groups with slightly higher potential in the village-level power structure, blindly and greedily biting and exploiting those in their inferior positions.
The fourth brother's brother came to the fourth child and told him that he had applied for a house from a very poor household, but he tied a toad to his hand. He said that toads were used to "pull out poison". This detail is really interesting, as if the toad was also pulling the black and smelly poison bubble out of his soul.
The fourth child's blood type is RH negative blood, the same as Zhang Yongfu. The fourth oldest is diligent, kind, and upright, and Zhang Yongfu, a character who has never appeared from the beginning to the end, can be seen through his behavior as an old man in the village, forcing the fourth to transfuse blood, and exploiting the hard-earned money of farmers to exchange for himself a BMW car. , is a very despicable and greedy person. In this barren and barren countryside of the Great Northwest, both good and evil are as rare as pandas.
The villagers are always happyHuan said to the fourth child, "Don't you have xxx, let him give you xxx." This is a typical rural-style sneering tone. It means a kind of banal evil that permeates the public atmosphere. The soundtrack of the
movie is also restrained, almost like a documentary, with the same soundtrack, only music is added in some emotional places. The music is like light from a high, far sky, sacred, distant, sad.
Because of these careful designs, "Hidden in the Dust" is such a painful story, with a beautiful color of fable. This tragedy, which describes the people at the bottom, who have been exploited, exploited and vanished, looks like the suffering of a pair of wheat gods who came to the world.
"Hidden in the Dust" director and screenwriter Li Ruijun, born in 1983, a native farmer's child. He wrote a sincere creative note on Douban , titled "Extracting Movies in Everyday Life and Restoring Everyday Life in Movies". The style of the director's words is very consistent with the temperament presented by the film. This film with the theme of the plight of farmers not only has a strong sense of land, but also has a clear aesthetic and spiritual charm. What is even more rare is that this narrative method can resonate with a wider audience of moviegoers. I sincerely hope that this young and energetic director can do more in the future and has a bright future.
also sighed that Hai Qing, who spoke excitedly at the 2019 FIRST Youth Film Festival, about the plight of Chinese middle-aged female actors, finally proved himself with this film. The former proud student of Huang Lei finally broke free from the role of the shrewd daughter-in-law in the piles and created such a weak, kind, honest and moving character. While the movie
has attracted much attention, it has naturally caused a lot of controversy. But these are all irrelevant. Reflecting on the source of the predicament and making black-and-white judgments is the beginning of a person's independent thinking. It's not terrible to criticize, it's not terrible to be taken off the shelf, to have such a heart that feels life and understands life, and has skills that are constantly honed in practice, these are all weapons.
