This is a true story, the protagonist of the story is called "Junior".
China, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Chifeng City, the hometown of junior.
Junior, formerly known as Ye Yun, 47 years old, height 1.1, because he was ranked third at home, everyone called him: Junior, also known as third brother and third uncle. The English name of
: Mr.big.
, his mother and two older brothers, both died one after another. Only he and his 84-year-old father depended on each other in the family.
In the cemetery in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, the junior said: "I came here more than ten years ago, just to see my grandma. Now, my two brothers and my mother are here."
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When a person's suffering can be listed in numbers, then this kind of suffering has already surpassed the extent that words can express.
The junior works in a copper factory, and his daily job is cleaning. This fixed-length lens has been repeated many times in the
lens: the junior holding a mop that is taller than him, and dragging the long stairs of the factory with the word "eight" one step at a time.
goes round and round.
from the beginning to the end, the lens is set up not far behind the junior, quietly recording the process of his skillful and silent completion of this work.
This is like the myth of Sisyphus who constantly pushes the stone to the top of the mountain.
It constitutes a metaphor for life: life is constantly advancing in this way, it seems boring and long, it seems there is no end, and there is no answer.
Chifeng’s winter is particularly long and cold, spring is particularly dry, and summer and autumn are particularly short.
The four seasons here are not clear.
gets off work at five o'clock every afternoon, the junior will go to the canteen to buy two packs of Hongtashan, and then go home to have dinner with his father, there will always be those TV sets, and the monthly salary is only 1,900.
Sometimes, he will also have doubts about fate: "I-what value I am, but a misunderstanding and burden in this world."
However, in those immutable lives, the junior did not remain silent, he just Like the heroes in "Water Margin," he is full of spirits.
He will bargain with people driving electric tricycles: "Can five dollars be cheaper, brother? It's not easy for me. I'm alive."
He also buys a lottery ticket every week.
"What do you think about the lottery, let's get a big one, get 5 million, and get rid of poverty and become rich at once, and solve everything, satisfying my vile thoughts of being a villain. "Z1z
He will buy a ticket on his own and go to Beijing, because he can feel the feeling of "being a normal person" only in Beijing's subways, streets and alleys.
is here, no one will deliberately stare at him, point him.
Beijing is an unusually tolerant city, especially in the morning and evening rush hours, everyone in the subway is in a hurry, their footsteps will not easily stop for strangers, and their eyes will always be fixed on themselves Cell phone.
In the hurried and difficult time, this kind of "indifferent" actually allowed the junior to get a moment of respite.
Father often said to juniors: "You are a disabled person, what else do you want?"
juniors want a lot: "I'm pretty greedy, didn't I find it? I always want to pursue what others can do. I can do it when I get there. Just like other people's economy, other people's communication, and other people's love, I also want to get these things."
Is this greedy? maybe.
He yearns for love, wants to win the lottery, and wants to go to Tibet.
Whether to marry or not depends on fate to get a daughter-in-law, whether you win a lottery depends on luck, but you can consider it when you go to Tibet.
junior is not just talking, he has been pondering it for a long time.
At a dinner table, the junior finally talked about it with two of his good friends, one is "Old Jianghu" Pi Ge, who has been in Tibet many times, and the other is the film's director Tong Shengjia.
"After the request to go to Tibet together was euphemistically made, but was again covered up by the euphemistically," he insisted on going.
has no reason, justIf you want to go, there are good mountains and rivers, who doesn't want to go. The reason for
is the same, but there are several difficulties.
is no money.
Go with your friends, you can't let people pay for it. With that dead salary, I haven't saved much money in a few years. No way, I had to bite the bullet and ask others to borrow it. The good guy called
to talk about the trip. The junior nervously thought, "You don't want to toss me with that money?"
In fact, his friend just asked him to pay attention to his body and do what he could. Sad and warm.
The second is the body.
This is the hardest.
Normal people have gone, and none of them can come back, not to mention the health of the juniors is not good.
Pi wants to go with the junior, but he also has concerns. If anything happens, his conscience will never get through his whole life.
The juniors asked people everywhere, often Baidu, and even went to the hospital for a physical examination, but nothing was found.
In fact, there is still another difficulty, that is the old father of the junior.
"He said he was going out to play, he didn't say where to go, I didn't ask. What great things can he do with a disabled person?" Father said in the interview. The old man
is very old and physically strong. He is responsible for the rear food for the juniors every day. He plays with his smart phone very well. He often changes the ringtone of his phone, the bird call last time, and makes his son laugh.
When he was 80 years old, he carried a backpack and took the high-speed train back to his hometown of Sichuan from Inner Mongolia. During the whole process, he sent a message to his home: "I'm back to Sichuan."
He was not good at all-poison tongue. In the
movie, he repeated the words "what can the disabled do" several times, and his tone is quite bad.
But that's what I said, and the junior didn't reply with a message, the old man started to make serial calls, for fear of his son's accident.
Finally, the junior and two friends finally embarked on a trip to Tibet.
friend Pi was worried about his junior’s body and the blood pressure device would not leave his hand. He encouraged him with various comforts: "You are too good, you can live here." When
can’t climb up, he just squatted down. Put people on their backs. But there are not many such opportunities, because juniors are unwilling to let others take care of themselves.
In this way, the documentary became a road film in the second half.
1.1 meters, 8848 meters, 4419 kilometers.
From Chifeng to Mount Everest, the junior came to Tibet over the height of the body, and came to Mount Everest. He climbed the Potala Palace and Mount Everest Base Camp by himself, and fulfilled one of his three dreams.
At the last stop of Mount Everest Base Camp, the director used the camera to face the energetic junior in the middle of the night and completed a dialogue with him.
"People say to purify the soul, have you purified it?"
"I, is my soul not pure? I think about this question today, I am quite pure."
"Why do you say your soul is pure?"
"I don't harm people."
I don't harm people, just a few words, but very touching, this is also the code of conduct for juniors.
The junior will bargain with the proprietress when buying souvenirs for friends: "We will meet thousands of miles, twenty yuan?", but when he can really take advantage, he will stick to his principles.
For example, when sending postcards at Everest Base Camp, the postman looked at the junior who was about the same height as the window and said, "Forget it, I can't find it."
But the junior still grabbed the wallet, he just found out the money and stuffed it to the other party: "I express my heart, I can't let you pay."
There are not so many hearts that need to be purified, and there are not so many lives that need to be saved. After San'er returned to Inner Mongolia, he began to live that day after day. Is
monotonous? That is natural.
But just as Pu Shu was touched by his story, and the lyrics in the episode sang specifically for "Junior": I love this difficult and hard work every day.
In a boring life, the junior is still happily living his little life. He continues to buy lottery tickets and plans to travel to Taiwan.
"Junior" is a documentary released in 2018. The director Tong Shengjia is a good buddy from childhood to childhood.
According to him, the documentary "Junior" originated from a junior's question.
Five years ago, Tong Shengjia went home to see his junior, and the junior asked him: "How will you live if the industry you are in has disappeared?"
"At that moment, the corners of my mouth showed disdain, ridiculous, and thought he was naive His expression may only last for a second, but I firmly believe that he must have discovered it. In an instant, I realized that I was ignoring him like the world, ignoring the loyalty he knew from martial arts novels, and shaking his affection for humanity. Perseverance."
He decided to give his junior a gift, which is this documentary.
took 4 years to shoot 15 hours a day, accumulating up to 500 hours of material, extracting the voice of the characters in the film from about two to three million words of interview material.
In the words of director Tong Shengjia, this is "accompanying and exhausting shooting and interviews."
junior, this person is worth it.
However, in the documentary "Junior" itself, the problem is particularly prominent-the design is too heavy. In the
film, the director uses a lot of montages, voiceovers, and soundtracks. The documentary is not like a "documentary", but like a feature film. The plot and characters are pushed away by the director.
For example, at the critical turning point of "entering Tibet", we have never known that it was his stubbornness, the results of the physical examination, or the support of friends that ultimately led the junior to make a decision. Insufficient design of
motivation and insufficient presentation of daily life make the documentary a large part of the story due to the character itself, rather than the documentary. When
has enough "story" protagonists, perhaps the simplest is the most suitable. What is the point of being alive
? I believe that many people have asked themselves the phrase
"question from the soul", and the answers are actually the same. They can only comfort themselves by "all coming". In the era of mourning, it is easy to lose hope in life. The most scarce thing in this era is the optimistic spirit of juniors, Roman Roland's heroism of "I still love life after knowing the truth of life".
director Tong Shengjia said: "Junior is a person who stands at the end of fate and then looks at the world." Everyone at
has their own problems to face, but those who can stand proudly in a poor and difficult life. People who grin and laugh are truly strong.
1.1 meters, 4419 kilometers, 8848 meters. Crossing half of China and climbing Mount Everest-
junior is no ordinary person, he is a strong man in life.
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