The nearly 50-year-old has iron and lives like a donkey.
Ma Youtie , a farmer in the backcountry of Zhangye, Gansu, has never seen the world in his life. His parents died early.
Ma has four iron brothers, gold, silver, copper and iron, but he hit the word "iron", yes, it is the least valuable of the four metals.
Now that the third son of Ma Youtong is getting married, he couldn't wait to drive Ma Youtie out of the house, so he found a matchmaker and told him a daughter-in-law he had never met.
, this young daughter-in-law, is called Cao Guiying . If you say that Ma Youtie lives like a donkey, then Cao Guiying's life is not as good as that of 's ass .
Cao Guiying lives with her brother and sister-in-law. Because of her scoliosis and disability, she became the "god of plague" and "dirty thing" in the mouths of the villagers.
is at home, Cao Guiying doesn't even have the right to live in the house.
She lived in a shack every day. She suffered from beatings and gas since she was a child, and fell ill for many years. Not only did she lame her legs and lose her fertility, she also had a digestive system infection and was prone to urinary incontinence. When
had a blind date, Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying sat together, and they didn't say a word.
During the banquet, Cao Guiying was kicked out of the room to urinate - her sister-in-law was afraid that she would urinate on the stool, which would ruin the marriage.
In the courtyard, Ma Youtie heard the matchmaker's words, and marrying him a daughter-in-law was the only way to get him to leave the third family justifiably, and it was also a necessary condition for his nephew to get married.
The two honest people just met once and got the certificate at the urging of their relatives. When
took the photo of the marriage certificate, there was no smile, only life, anxiety and fear.
On the wedding night, Ma Youtie went to bed first.
In the middle of the night, he found that his wife hadn't laid down for a long time. When he got up, he saw that she had wet the bed.
Ma Youtie did not speak, got up and walked outside the house. Cao Guiying was at a loss on the kang. She was used to bullying and ridicule, thinking that her husband was looking for something to beat her.
After a long time, Ma Youtie returned to the house. He ignited the charcoal fire, filled the stove with coal, and fell asleep by himself. The first time
didn't get beaten, Cao Guiying was not used to it. Only then did she know that this man went out because he was afraid that he would be embarrassed, and that he was afraid that he would freeze if he burned the charcoal fire.
Cao Guiying got off the kang, pouted her ass and toasted her wet pants, and slept in this position all night.
It was an unusual wedding night, but for Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying, it was fine.
The first thing Ma Youtie did when he had a daughter-in-law was to burn paper for his parents. After burning the paper, afraid of wasting the tribute, he sat on the desert with his wife, eating apples and twists.
Ma Youtie said that if future generations do not eat it, the ancestors must not, so Cao Guiying put the twist in his mouth.
Married to Ma Youtie's family, Cao Guiying hardly said a word, but the first sentence she said was to maintain Ma Youtie. In
, the richest man in , , is ill and needs to lose precious panda blood. In the whole village, Ma Youtie is the only one with this blood type, .
Everyone hopes that Ma Youtie will go to the hospital to save the richest man, otherwise their land rent and wages will be gone.
Only Cao Guiying said, "If you want to give it, you will give it, but we won't give it."
The couple sits for the first timeIn the 1z BMW car, Cao Guiying not only vomited from motion sickness, but also urinated on the back seat of the car.
The rich man's son scolded: "Why did you pee in the car?"
Arrived at the rich man's compound, the nurse took a tube of blood for testing, and whispered, "There is no infectious disease in the blood, it can be collected."
This is the rich man, use their blood and think they are dirty.
does not own a house, the couple lived in the old house of the villagers who went out to work. Two people and a donkey, and the day started like this.
Ma has iron and no savings. If you go to the canteen to buy some seeds and fertilizers, you will have to pay for it on credit. The people in the store laughed at his daughter-in-law for peeing her trousers. Ma Youtie didn't speak. He turned around and put his coat on Cao Guiying.
The coat is long enough to cover Cao Guiying's butt. This is the first time a man has put himself in her shoes.
share honor and disgrace with fate, two marginal people living at the bottom, truly interpret the mutual sympathy and mutual support.
Although Ma Youtie and his donkey were thrown out of the house, the nephew got married, and the third child still had the cheek to ask Ma Youtie to walk to the city to pull furniture.
has been bullied by Ma Youtie for a lifetime, and this time he agreed without saying anything. Before leaving, he cooked dishes for Cao Guiying and warmed up the buns.
It was too late to return from work, Cao Guiying went to the village with a torch in hand to wait for her husband to return.
met, Ma Youtie got angry with his daughter-in-law for the first time: Why are you running out so cold?
Cao Guiying didn't speak, she took out a bottle of hot water in her arms: I've been hot several times, and you still haven't come back.
This is the first time that Ma Youtie has been cared for, and it feels good.
Ma Youtie felt warm in his heart, his anger disappeared instantly, and he helped his daughter-in-law onto his donkey cart.
Planting in spring and harvesting in autumn, raising chickens and feeding pigs, Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying are getting better.
Cao Guiying began to speak, and the two communicated. The emotion between husband and wife was like a cardboard box full of holes that they used to hatch chicks.
shines on the wall, it is a little bit of light, very romantic.
But soon, life is in trouble again.
In order to improve the living environment, the village decided to demolish dilapidated houses, and each house will be subsidized by 15,000 yuan.
The owner of the shabby house they live in has no one to care about. He came all the way from , Dongguan , and told them to move out quickly.
Ma Youtie had to drive a donkey cart, bring a little belongings, and then move to another shabby house where no one lives. When
left, in addition to the door panels and windows, Ma Youtie also took away the bird's nest under the eaves.
"Alas, this year, the swallows can't find their nests when they come back."
At this time, Ma Youtie, who has the same disease as the swallows, is still worried about these little creatures who will come next year. In his eyes, the lives around the house, donkeys, chickens, pigs and swallows, are family members.
As long as you live in someone else's house, you risk getting kicked out.
Ma Youtie said to Cao Guiying: "I'll build you a house, my own house." Without a mixer, he stomps on the mud himself. Without a stripper, he placed the mud in a wooden trellis and let the sun dry into a solid adobe.
There are more adobes every day, and the wheat that has been planted has gradually sprouted. Over the years, Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying have never had such hope as today.
In summer, there were many thunderstorms, and it rained heavily in the middle of the night. Fearing that the adobe would be damaged by getting wet, Ma Youtie ran to the drying field with a plastic sheet, and Cao Guiying also followed.
Ma Youtie asked his daughter-in-law to go back. The daughter-in-law was afraid that their hopes would get wet. The two slipped to the ground and couldn't get up. They cried and laughed for a while, which became their best memory.
After the heavy rain, the two sat in the mud, and Cao Guiying made a little donkey out of grass. When
handed it to Ma Youtie, he smiled: This donkey's life is better than mine.
It was hot in summer, Ma Youtie threw the quilt on the roof. When
was about to sleep, he tied Cao Guiying and himself with a rope.
"I'm afraid you will fall".
Everyone in the village envies Cao Guiying because Ma Youtie is too good to her. The uncle used practical actions to explain that "tied to the waistband" is real.
Soon the house is fixed.
Cao Guiying, who slept in a shack all her life, cried with joy: "I never thought that I would still have my own home in this life."
Ma Youtie made a promise to Cao Guiying for the first time: "When Baogu is sold, I will buy you a big TV, take it to your city for medical treatment, and have a good time."
The couple crawled on the kang, smiling happily. This newly repaired home has never been so warm.
are close to each other, the two are running for a better life together, and their lives seem to be unreal.
The story is here, how Tomato Jun hopes it will end like this.
But life is often not like this...
The chickens raised by the two finally grew up. One day, Ma Youtie found that the chicken had laid an egg and ecstatically stuffed it into Cao Guiying's hands.
But when Cao Guiying stood up, it was obviously a little difficult.
"I never got sick when I slept in the shack, but I got sick after eating and living," Cao Guiying, who was lying in the hospital bed, laughed at herself.
Ma Youtie still cares about his daughter-in-law as always. The first egg laid by the chicken they raised was made into a poached egg by Ma Youtie to replenish Cao Guiying's body.
The two were pushing and shoving for a long time, but Ma Youtie still didn't take a bite, he couldn't bear it.
Settle down his wife, Ma Youtie went to the cornfield to break corn, and when he pulled the car home, the villagers in Qiaotou panicked.
Worried about her husband, Cao Guiying dragged her sick body to Qiaotou to wait for her husband. Unexpectedly, she felt dizzy and fell into a ditch.
Ma Youtie jumped into the water regardless of his haste, and his wife was already stiff and breathless.
The day just got up, and Guiying was gone.
Ma Youtie has no time to grieve. He took the marriage certificate and made this photo of the marriage certificate with joy into a black-and-white photo, replacing the word "hi" on the bedside.
Except for Ma Youtie, no one cares about Guiying's death. After all, she is still the "god of plague" and "dirty thing" in the village.
experienced feelings of concern, Cao Guiying's death, hollowed out Ma Youtie. living in a loving environmentFor a while, he could no longer bear the days without love.
After hanging the portrait, Ma Youtie slowly picked up the wheat seed and pressed the last wheat flower in his life on the back of his wife's cold hand, looking at the corpse on the kang.
At this moment, we all know what Ma Youtie thought of.
He sold wheat and corn that he had worked so hard to harvest for a year, paid off the credit, let go of the donkey that had been with him for most of his life, and then went home and sat on the kang.
Ma Youtie sat all night, and he was finally willing to cook himself an egg to eat.
has always been reluctant to eat eggs. The first egg he ate after marriage was to swallow a poison that was difficult to swallow.
Ma Youtie lay peacefully on the bed, clutching the grass donkeys his wife had made for him.
He misses his Guiying in his heart, and chooses to follow in Guiying's footsteps...
In this year's domestic movies, " Hidden in the Dust " is not the most eye-catching one , even when it was released, it only had the title of "realistic theme".
went from less than 1% of the film to the top box office counterattack. The film has gone through a full 50 days. During these 50 days, all the audience followed "Hidden in the Dust" and experienced a real life in the poor rural areas of the Northwest.
The lens language of this film is very calm and restrained. It is completely a documentary technique. The cost is only 2 million, and 90% of the cast and crew are relatives of the director.
, especially the male lead Ma Youtie, the original actor could not come due to force majeure, so he was temporarily on top.
But this real rural uncle named Wu Renlin really put the art of film into the blood of the audience.
Tomato-kun doesn't want to analyze the excellence of this movie too much from a technical level. For this 8.5-point movie, which is also the only movie with an 8-point score this year, its excellence is beyond doubt.
And everyone who came out of the countryside, once saw this film, seemed to have seen the most real life.
From a realistic perspective, aside from the superb performances of Haiqing and Wu Renlin, the director used almost documentary footage to reproduce a farmer's spring planting and autumn harvest, raising chickens and feeding pigs, and reproducing every grain of wheat. The process of each corn from planting to harvest.
From an artistic point of view, don't look at "Hidden in the Dust" without intense contradictions, every detail and every golden sentence in the film, carefully pondered, has a full charm and poetry, there is one that only belongs to rural China. The most rustic romance.
But the real world is often cruel, all kinds of wretchedness in "Hidden in the Dust" have opened the ceiling for Chinese people to interpret "alive".
After watching " Hidden in the Dust ", you will find that most of the suffering in life we think is just a light-hearted Gu Ying's self-pity.
Those who are struggling to survive deserve more shots and more movies - this is living, real life.
"Hidden in the Dust" has only two decent ones, Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying; and the people and events they have experienced are full of complete irony of human nature and realistic records of evil.
there are a lot of bad guys often in the way of good guysAppear, and then do evil in the name of your own good.
Because Ma Youtie is honest and hard-working, his body is covered with human blood-sucking worms.
's relative's brother, the third Ma Youtong , completely treats this younger brother as a long-term disposable worker.
asked someone to marry him, in order to find a reasonable reason to kick him out of his house.
The extremely poor households were divided. He "kindly" helped Ma Youtie to apply for a set and paid 10,000 yuan.
In fact, 's abacus is crackling, which is obviously a marriage room for his son. He knew that his younger brother could not give up donkeys, chickens and pigs, or even swallows under the eaves, so he used his younger brother's name as a "desperately poor household" to raise housing capital for his family.
At the end of the video, Ma Youtie is unknown.
His nephew not only took away his donkey, pig and chicken, but also pulled down Ma Youtie's newly repaired house on his own initiative.
applied for a building and they spent 10,000 yuan to demolish the newly built house. They got a subsidy of 15,000 yuan.
The cents and cents in this are all bought by Ma Youtie with his own life.
Horses have iron and horses have bronze. Although their names are only one word apart, they have gone to the extremes of good and evil.
is also a farmer and is also rooted in this land. He has to find the tadpoles in the water when he hits a bucket of water.
And the horse has copper, in order to "remove the poison" for himself, he did not hesitate to tie a toad to his wrist in an execution style with four feet apart and swagger through the market.
The two of them are completely two types of people, and this contrast and irony is the most intriguing topic of "Hidden in the Dust".
In addition to Ma Youtong, the son of the richest man in the village is basically a "blood-sucking worm" in the literal sense.
Dad needed panda blood for rescue. He didn't have any money or effort. He just dragged Ma Youtie downstairs to his house and greedily sucked the blood from him.
has a firm grip on the horse, and the rich family has no compensation.
just saw that Ma Youtie wanted to buy clothes for his wife and was so embarrassed, he spent 80 yuan to buy him a piece of street stall.
The audience naively thought that this rich son had some conscience.
But when Cao Guiying was tired of asking for her husband's blood again and again for free, her son asked, "Do the clothes still fit?"
see, the purpose of buying clothes is your blood. He not only wants to suck your blood, but also thinks that you are poor, dirty, and that you have never seen the world.
At the end of the video, when the house with Ma Youtie's heart was torn down, two people looked lonely.
One is the eldest nephew who is about to get married. It is a pity that Ma Youtie's residual value cannot be used.
also has the son of this rich man. He was thinking, why did he leave before the blood was drawn?
No one cares about Ma Youtie's life or death. When this scene appeared, the relationship between Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying was really sublimated.
Ma Youtie is too kind and gentle.
When he has nowhere to go, the first thing that comes to his mind is the swallow's nest gone, where will he live next year.
When he wanted to end his life, the first thing he had to do was to pay off the store's credit, pay off the eggs his wife had borrowed, pay off the two bags of potatoes he had promised the homeless, and then burn one for his wife. Great color TV that didn't deliver.
accept fateThis is his simplest view of life and death.
In the end, when he let go of the donkey that had been with him for most of his life, Ma Youtie scolded him: "It has been used for most of my life, but it is not enough?" What a scumbag.
This sentence is not a self-mockery at the end of his life.
Even so, Ma Youtie still maintains his original intention, the kindness of being honest at home, which is touching and distressing.
's fate has never been fair, just like every time Ma Youtie moved, he had to carefully remove the word "hi" when he married Cao Guiying.
That is the totem of their small family and their spiritual pillar.
No matter how many houses you change or how many things you experience, as long as you are happy and people are there, your home will still be there.
But Cao Guiying's sudden departure has left the family in pieces, and the light that was finally seen has dimmed. The most terrible thing about
people is not the hardship, but the lack of hope, so he arranged everything, let his wife bring the wheat flowers that he pressed, and he brought the little donkey that his wife made up.
The two of them made an agreement in the air, the flowers bloomed, the wind blew, life supported each other, and disappeared into the dust together.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Miaomiao)