This movie is still a true farmer who is not an actor. He plays the male lead Lao Ma (played by Ma Xingchun) with his weathered wrinkles covered with his face. Without deliberately applying makeup, he is a farmer who is lonely in his twilight years of life. He was worried about what was happening behind him: when a person dies, I became a wisp of blue smoke, floating around and homeless, and I could still stay in the soil and wait for Baihe to take him to heaven. For the humble farmers who have worked all their lives, this is a protection of their last desire and dignity for life, which is understandable.
Director Li Ruijun adopts the method of simplicity, allowing such a farmer who has the skills to go from unemployment to loneliness to anxiety to finding and waiting. He told his closest grandson and granddaughter that what the child could say was to listen to his grandfather's words. Finally, the 7 or 8-year-old Zhiwa struggled to dig a hole with a shovel and let his grandfather sit in it. He thought in a daze that this was helping his grandfather fulfill his wish. When his grandfather sat there, he could wait until the crane took him to where he wanted to go. Such almost bizarre and absurd stories like
show the film artist's worship, compassion and feelings for farmers and the land closely related to farmers, making us feel sad and we burst into tears after thinking about it carefully. The vast countryside, the vast land, the scene of the busy farming of farmers who were bustling in the past, is now gone. In the past, the empty countryside came, with only three elderly people, and five people chatting under the trees and playing cards. Where did the young and middle-aged people go and go to the city to work.
There is a Peking University sociologist Wang Sibin Professor has been paying attention to the problem of rural withering for many years, pointing out that "the countryside with a thousand-year history may disappear." There is information that the country has used 200 million mu of arable land for economic construction and returning farmland to forests. It seems that it has enough confidence in the output. Since the remaining 1.8 billion arable land is enough for our country to use, there is no need to worry about food security issues for the time being. It should be noted that farmers who are disappearing faster and faster have less labor force matching 1.8 billion arable land every year, especially in the future urbanization construction forecast, the large loss of farmers will aggravate the labor shortage. In the past, there is also the problem of left-behind children in rural areas.
You see, in the lonely countryside in the movie, only children roll and roll in the pile of soil, they play the game of burying people in the sand, counting 1, 2, and 3. Whoever can hold his breath and stay in the sand for a long time will win. It's very rural. Yes, their ancestors have been farmers for generations. They deal with the land all their lives. The land produces grain, vegetables and vegetables for them, raises a few chickens, ducks, geese and pigs, and have a fish pond, and they can survive and live a life.
As an elderly man, he would ask a carpenter to make a coffin, and Lao Ma followed Lao Cao to do this business. He could draw a long crane with his bare hands on the wall of the coffin, with different shapes, and then draw a few immortals, which were lifelike, presenting the auspiciousness of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and "Cranes Longevity forever", which is also a wish for the deceased. However, I heard that day that Cao passed away. Whether he entered the coffin he was good at making and finally left safely. It is unknown whether suona was playing and playing lively. Anyway, Lao Ma must be unemployed. First, the village has already implemented cremation and no one needs a coffin. Second, Lao Cao is no longer there, and he and his son and daughter cannot talk about this topic.
He imagined that in the reed marsh, there were cranes hiding in the place where the water was abundant. When the sun set, they would fly in groups to play in the water, hovering back to the ground, or take an elegant walk on the wetland, making babbling calls to friends. However, a group of people cut off all the aquatic plants, leaving only the desolate water stalls in the pond, and even the ducks and mandarin ducks playing in the water disappeared. He could not stop the army of mowing water plants. He sat in a daze by the field with melancholy, imagining whether the crane would fly up the treetops and in the depths of the dense forest.
He woke up early in the morning and saw blue smoke emitting from the chimney on the roof of other people's houses. He couldn't see the thick smoke. He heard that the crematorium factory was in the Xiguan area in the city, and the dead took the cremation to the cremation. A stream of blue smoke appeared and disappeared in a blink of an eye. How terrible it was. He called his grandson Zhiwa, moved a ladder to block the chimney, and felt more at ease. Blocking is actually to relieve one's inner fear of cremation.
In a blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here, and my daughter comes to my brother's house to see my father and says pick you up to my house for the holiday. He wondered if cremation was also carried out in his daughter's house in the neighboring village. He had to go and inquire. Maybe there could be burial there, so he stayed at his daughter's house. He heard his daughter call his brother and say that I would send my dad back tomorrow. He is old and has a cold. If he is not going to be with me, I can't afford it. It seems to be an old idea. If you fall back to your roots, you have to die in your own home.
Lao Ma doesn't care when he will die. He only cares whether he can bury himself in the soil and be buried in the soil according to the way the older generation dies. He was afraid of being taken to the crematorium, and a fire burned, turning into a wisp of blue smoke and nothing was left, and he couldn't accept it. He came back from his daughter's house, and there was no burial there, and he was very disappointed. He went to the village to find the old guys who played chess and chatted under the big tree. These villagers were the fun of his later years. Only when he talked and had fun could his life have a bright future. Others told him that Lao Cao was dead, but he seemed to feel sad that the fox died. He was in his late years when the deadline was approaching. He hoped to lie in the coffin he chose when he left, waiting for the white crane to take him to heaven.
He drew a circle under the flower jujube tree and would wait for the white crane quietly here in the future. Then he raised his head and looked at the dense leaves of the jujube tree. Grandpa Zhiwa (played by Tang Long) asked grandpa what are you looking at. Grandpa said waiting for the white crane. Zhiwa said the tree is very high and I will climb up to help you see where there is it. Grandpa told him that they will come when the sun sets. The fairy birds are afraid of noise, so please keep silent.
Grandpa was sitting under the tree, and his grandson Zhiwa was very close to his grandfather and chatted with him. He understood that his grandfather wanted to sit here and wait for Baihe. But it doesn't work. The adults will definitely send him away when they see it. That day, a car of people came to dig a new grave that had just been secretly built. A peasant woman cried and slept on the mound of soil, and the director didn't let her stop digging. Zhiwa had to hide her grandfather when she figured it out. Once, they dig a hole and sit in it and then cover it with soil. They can't find their grandfather anymore.
So the most shocking, touching and ridiculous scene happened. Zhiwa dug a hole. He was only seven or eight years old and didn't have much strength. He only dug enough for his grandfather to sit in. His grandfather's eyes were wet. He moved his grandson to protect him like this. Zhiwa said, Grandpa, why are you afraid of crying? Then let’s go home for dinner. Grandpa hugged Zhiwa and said, "My good grandson, you understand grandpa, grandpa, grandpa then sat in, so the two of them called Miaomiao (played by Wang Siyi), and grandpa's granddaughter hid his grandpa in the pit and covered it with soil." Miaomiao placed the collected wild flowers on her grandfather's cave, which was very solemn and solemn.
Suddenly, a feather fell on the tree. It was the white crane that came, and the video ended here.
A kind of sorrow and sadness rose from the bottom of my heart. The old man finally realized his wish and told them that I went on a white crane and asked him the question. This old man who went against the times saved his life with fearless death and realized his magnificent wish. I wanted to cry.
The old man and the two children perform well in the movie, and they use their true colors to play their grandfather and their grandchildren, which is remarkable. The old man's daughter Zhiwa's aunt (played by Zhang Min ) is not a professional actor after all, and she seems a little awkward and dare not face the movie camera. The old man's son Zhiwa's father (played by Wu Renlin) only appears in the telescope of the melon collection.Such a movie without a professional actor has truly shown the inseparable affection between farmers and the land, the confusion and helplessness of the reform of the funeral industry, the lonely countryside and the lonely old man, such a picture of contemporary countryside is presented to the audience.
This is a masterpiece of realistic farmers and land, a rural funeral industry in progress. The quaint countryside, yellow land and green leaves, blue sky and sandy vegetation, the reflection of pristine rural wetlands and tall poplar trees in the water, form a series of beautiful rural ink paintings. The elderly and children under the photographer's lens are very real, clean, natural rural customs and scenery, and very simple and beautiful.
Director Li Ruijun said, "In fact, the director, like farmers, is dealing with the problem of time and telling the stories in life." Yes, the new style of cremation is impacting the ancient burial methods, and the farmers seem to be not ready yet, and there is still a contradiction in their concepts. Therefore, a large amount of space interprets Lao Ma's melancholy, melancholy and powerless resistance.
This film was shortlisted for the 69th Venice International Film Festival "Horizon Unit". In December 2013, he was selected as a Chinese film textbook for recommendation in the international Chinese courses of junior high and high schools in France by the General Administration of International Chinese Department of the Ministry of Culture of France.
is very famous, the title is beautiful, and it has not been released in China.
only has compassion, no separation, and recommend this movie, a good movie with texture.
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