This morning I quietly got up at six o'clock. While "pretending" to do stretching exercises on the blue yoga mat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the exercise room, I quietly watched the two-hour movie " Into the Dust ".
In the past few days, I have been seeing some spoilers and announcements about the film, and I saw the touching text written by netizens: "There is no word about bitterness in the whole play, but it is extremely painful. There is no word about love in the whole play, but love is deep in the bones." As a professional artist, I was naturally a little interested - what kind of film deserves such praise? Then what I saw was a different historical narrative about the love and marriage of the lowest peasants in China. It was subtle and restrained, heavy and rich. As a movie lover, I was already itching in my heart.
But I was still under home observation for seven days, so I had to search for relevant introductions online, and unexpectedly I found free video sources - I don’t know if this was authorized by the producer - I am very sorry to the director and actors, this You should go to the cinema to watch such a good work, and support should be given to the actual box office patronage.
After all, only by protecting intellectual copyright and respecting the efforts of screenwriters, directors, and actors can the industry develop healthily—only when there is food to eat will people be willing to continue creating, especially for new directors and actors who have just started in this industry. We cannot shout that there are no good movies to watch, but at the same time we only want to watch them for free, "I just want the donkey to work without letting the donkey eat grass."
Of course, I am suspected of scolding my mother. For free websites, they must hate this kind of "double-dealing". After all, they will "behave" after seeing the free video source.
"hidden in the dust and smoke" 》is directed by Li Ruijun. Professional actor Haiqing who has performed countless female images plays the heroine Cao Guiying. Director Li Ruijun's rural uncle Wu Renlin plays the older bachelor male protagonist Lao Si Ma Youtie - it is said that Wu Renlin had never acted before. "His acting skills were so explosive that he outshone half of the male actors in the Chinese entertainment industry."
"The film tells the story of two lonely individuals who were abandoned by their families in the northwest countryside, and how they help each other in their hard work day after day. Wu Renlin and Hai Qing show a low-level peasant couple going from strangers to familiarity, from knowing each other to becoming acquainted. Shou’s mental journey.”
I stayed in a quiet room and watched the whole movie quietly.
The film has multiple narrative objectives, situations and artistic conceptions, using literary polyphonic artistic expression techniques. is full of metaphors. Deserts, loess, wheat, haystacks, corns, ditches, earthen houses, chickens, donkeys, swallows, etc. form a physical mirror of the passage of spring, summer, autumn and winter in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi.
These mirror images are not limited to their physical meaning. They are not simple objects, but living beings that are respected and loved by the male and female protagonists. not only shows the multi-layered and complex nature of the world, but also shows the rich emotional waves in the characters' hearts - I have to say that the most important thing about the whole film is that the director is a person who understands the weight of the word "distressed".
Good literature film and television art must know how to feel distressed.
If the word "distressed" is not seen in the content of a movie from beginning to end, then the movie can be directly judged as a bad movie. Because it lacks the warmth of humanity, it also loses the depth of thought and aesthetic value. The same is true for literary works. If the word "distressed" cannot be seen in novels, biographies, memoirs, etc., then the author is definitely not a good author, let alone a great one.
In the movie "Into the Dust", the director vividly displayed his distress in the scenes.
He loves his woman, and she loves him too. He spent his only money in the market to buy clothes for the woman, and the woman used her body to warm hot water for him over and over again at the entrance of the village.
He himself lived a hard life, but in the end he felt sorry for his life. Amidst the ridicule of the villagers, he transfused panda blood to a wealthy businessman who drove a BMW to treat his illness. He also interceded for the wealthy businessman boss on behalf of the villagers who ridiculed him and asked for forgiveness, regardless of past suspicions. Arrears of wages and payments. During this period, the woman felt sorry for the man who kept drawing blood, and begged the doctor again and again to stop drawing blood.
His old house was about to be demolished. He felt sorry for the swallows under the eaves and built a new nest for them in their new home. He also rushed to the bulldozers to demolish the house and drove away all the swallows in the nests under the eaves of the old house for fear that they would be destroyed. The fallen wall tiles crushed him to death.
During his lifetime, he never sat on his beloved donkey cart - and he was only willing to let the woman in his heart sit on it. But the sick and dizzy woman slipped and drowned on the way to bring him food. The person he loved most was gone, and his heart was ripped out. He was going to follow the woman, but before leaving, he let go of the skinny donkey that had been with him for many years, feeling sorry for its fate of being used by others all its life.
The donkey did not run away immediately, but stopped and lingered beside him in a humane manner. It felt sorry for him. After the man left, only the donkey and the people who had been saved stood in front of the new house that was to be demolished. It was his last mark on the world.
Such distressing details can be seen everywhere.
It is a high degree of awareness of suffering and destiny, respect for life, and care for one's self.
treats the things living around us as sentient beings. This is a kind of great love and realm that ordinary people cannot embody.
I saw that the director and actors integrated the existence of these images in nature and life with the life courses of the male and female protagonists, forming the background of the couple's life in suffering and happiness, nourishing their emotions in the morning breeze and dusk sun. soul.
Looking back at the entire film, the male and female protagonists, Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying, are not ordinary people. They are people who think they want to be singles for the rest of their lives. They are the kind of people who would be disgusted even if they don’t love dogs. He is a person who is not popular at relatives’ banquets. He is a person who is ridiculed by the villagers as "what kind of national treasure", but the two of them unexpectedly form a family, and finally realize what it means to cherish in this lonely world. , what is warmth, what is true love, "asking what love is in the world can directly teach you that life and death follow each other."
There is a kind of bitterness called life is bitter, and there is a kind of sweetness called heart sweetness. The sweetness of these two people together outweighs all the bitterness that life has given them. Although the days are short, they achieve eternity and immortality.
The person who gave you sweet and true love is gone, and living is no longer necessary.
Because there is another kind of suffering, called spiritual suffering. He couldn't resist yearning for her day and night, nor could he resist the increasing desolation deep in his heart. When you raise your head, you don't recognize the spring breeze; when you bend down, you don't smell the fragrance of wheat.
The male protagonist in the film has a kind of cultivation, which is to pay back what he owes, and never take advantage of small things.
He paid back everything he deserved, then burned himself a basin of paper money, ate a boiled egg, looked lovingly at the woman on the wall who he had loved so much in his life, lay down alone and left quietly. After
left, the new house was demolished in exchange for 15,000 yuan in demolition money.
The couple left no trace behind, disappearing into the dust and smoke.
Nothing is said at the end of the movie, and it seems that nothing is said.
The meaning of this film is diverse.In my opinion, it embodies the cultural character of Chinese farmers formed under thousands of years of traditional farming life, which is reserved, unpretentious, and the embarrassing life situation of traditional farmers in the face of urbanization and modernization - like the protagonist and his wife. Such a simple and warm picture gradually disappeared, leaving behind an unanswerable philosophical question: In the current era of abundant material, is the human heart full? Have you ever been truly loved and warmed by your partner in your life? A low-cost literary and artistic film like
is much more high-quality than many commercial films that easily earn over a billion in box office.
At least I was moved by this After struggling on the road of literature and art for many years, I just understood what the word distress in art means. "When you reach a certain age, you are no longer willing to say good things to people when watching movies": I don’t want to lose literature and art. value and dignity.
