In 2012, Li Yifan also worked as a teacher at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts .
By chance, she learned about the group of "Shamatt". Her strange hair aroused her strong interest. At first, she thought that such a group of people were at the forefront of fashion and fighting against mainstream aesthetic trendsetters.
Li Yifan, who has been influenced by Western art for many years, really thought that there was such a group of authentic punk in China.
But when she actually walked into their lives, she found that she was outrageously wrong.
Thanks to Li Yifan, people in have truly seen the bitterness behind the three words "Shamat" in .
In the same year, Li Yifan applied for a funding through the school's project funding.
The fund she decided to shoot a documentary for such a group of "Shamat" young men. She had already thought about the name before the filming started, and it was called " I Love You, Shamat ".
Everything is ready, how to contact them has become a big problem.
finally took several months, and with the help of friends, Li Yifan found Luo Fuxing , the originator of "Shamat".
Luo Fuxing has a great background and can be said to be the founder of the "Shamat" culture.
In 2007, Luo Fuxing was surfing the Internet in the Internet cafe as usual, his ears were filled with the sound of playing QQ dance tapping on the keyboard, and the space bar was knocked so loudly.
Luo Fuxing was hiding in the web page and took a break from his fingers that had already knocked stiff.
accidentally saw the list of "Handling 1995-2005 Top Ten Ghost Musicians in the World" issued by , the American "People" magazine.
clearly stated that Jay Chou ranked tenth, Marilyn Manson ranked first.
Luo Fuxing opened the fresh orange and took a sip of it, and had a question in his heart: "Why is Jay Chou the tenth, and who is this Manson ? I haven't heard it before."
Since he is so awesome, I will learn from him and I want the world to know my name.
Follow Marilyn Manson on Baidu, he knew about "punk" and " Gothic wind". He doesn't understand this punk, he just thinks it's handsome.
Change the appearance is the first step. Wear a Gothic style jacket, make a nose ring, lip ring, and then draw the eyeliner.
Hey, am I a Manson of China?
As we learn more and more, Japanese visual rock also came into Luo Fuxing's sight. There is a Japanese visual rock singer named Takama Ishihara, who has a tattoo of "I" on his left arm.
Luo Fuxing also thought it was very handsome, but he only tattooed "I" and did not show his domineering attitude, so he tattooed "I Luo Fuxing".
Then, I went to the hair salon on the street and permed a fox-like tail hair, a gradient hair color from red to yellow, paired with a small vest, one word: spirit.
Then, he asked his friend to take a photo and posted it online.
instantly ignited the Internet, and a group of QQ dance enthusiasts became his first fans.
He has established a QQ group to facilitate fans to share their fashion experiences, and he will occasionally pass on a few latest handsome photos. What is the name of this QQ group
?
A few friends got together, and in order to have a high-end, elegant and high-end , they decided to choose an English name. The problem of
is here. The combined educational level of these friends can't make up 26 letters, but it makes them difficult. At this moment, they accidentally saw a word "smart" on the street.
"Smart", no, not domineering enough, Luo Fuxing made a quick decision and called "Sharmat"!
With the birth of this domineering name, the "Sharmat" family has risen rapidly on the Internet. At the most popular time, there were hundreds of groups, each with thousands of people. Luo Fuxing's viral hairstyle became the object of their scramble to imitate.
Luo Fuxing's appeal reached its peak, and everyone calls him the "Godfather of Shamatt".
Luo Fuxing is still a little brainy, and he can clearly play with traffic monetization.
Soon, he got a samatt ranking online. The ranking is very simple. If you pay more money, you will rank above, and if you pay less money, you will stand behind.
Relying on this, Luo Fuxing started to sit in the booth when he surfs the Internet, and eggs must be added to instant noodles.
But he gave up before long. The people in the "Shamat" family are too strong in personality, and he finds it very troublesome.
Change your business and write an autobiography called "Luo Fuxing's Shamatt Empire". Unfortunately, I couldn't continue writing less than 1,000 words. It took me a few times to check the dictionary for a sentence. It was too troublesome.
Luo Fuxing was also full of helplessness. He was a miserable child.
He was born in the rural area of Meizhou . Because he often faced his teachers, he stopped going to school at the age of 13.
family had to send him to the factory. Before became "Shamat", he was quite righteous. Every time his fellow villager asked him to borrow money, he would agree, but he never took it back.
Because he is young, he either is scolded by the foreman or bullied by the adults around him at work every day.
He has become disliked and likes to communicate with people. Since he became "Shamat", he seems to have found his own home and chat with everyone in the group every day. He is very happy because they are all people like him.
can also earn some living expenses.
"Shamat" can become a culture. Luo Fuxing certainly did not expect that. What he did not expect was that Luo Fuxing brought everyone to the world, but what awaited them was endless ridicule and abuse.
They seem to have become rats crossing the street and everyone shouts and beats them, and people think they are mentally incomplete.
and even after just a few years, when "Sharmat" completely disappeared, everyone was applauding, as if the cancer of society had been removed.
Does anyone ask why they became "Shamat"?
Li Yifan's documentary titled "I Love You, Shamatt" truly shows us the world of "Sharmatt" through the self-reports of 60 "Sharmatt".
They are all left-behind children. They dropped out of school and entered the factory to work when they were very young.
has low cultural level and limited cognitive level. They have not formed their world outlook and values in their teenage years, so they are extremely easy to be deceived.
They repeat boring labor day after day, their income is very low, they are not valued by their families, are excluded by their colleagues, are withdrawn and seem to see no hope in their lives.
colorful virus-like hair may be just their protective color.
When Luo Fuxing recruited interviewers for Li Yifan, his copywriting only had one sentence : "Don't have a deposit, earn a thousand yuan a day."
"Don't have a deposit." The four words are like curse, quickly attracting many children.
Because these children need to pay a deposit when entering the factory, and the deposit will always be deducted by the boss for no reason, and a part of the deposit will even be distributed to the relatives who introduced them to the factory.
This group of children, from the moment they entered the factory, they were sold.
If it is just a long working time, their work is often full of dangers.
If you are not careful at work, your fingers will be gone. They didn't sign a labor contract at all, and there was no way to talk about "protecting rights". They would not get a penny of compensation after being injured, and usually the boss would just let them get out.
So they dare not think about it at work. If they think too much, their hands will slow down. If their hands are slow, their fingers may be gone.
They dare not lose their jobs because they may have an elderly grandfather and younger brothers and sisters who are still in school at home.
They are afraid of being disabled or not, they must be afraid.
But they said : "It's normal to make money, it's normal to break your hands and feet. Just think about it."
Li Yifan was emotionally broken when he saw these videos, squatting on the ground and crying loudly. In her world, it's hard for her to imagine such a thing. Why can some children learn in bright classrooms and run freely on the playground, while some children work for more than ten hours a day in the dark assembly line when they were in their teens.
Luo Fuxing said: "They are like living in a cage, outside the world, they don't know anything."
They come from the countryside, and their depressed working state has greatly damaged their body and mind.
Some people live in factories and don’t even go out for several months. There is no need to say where there are delicious food and fun in this city. They don’t even know how to take public transportation.
Some people rented houses outside, but after get off work, they couldn't even find their home.
Although there are many people in the pipeline, each of them is very lonely.
What they think most every day is to die. The depressed environment for years makes them breathless.
At this time, "Shamat" seemed to be their last life-saving straw.
What the teenagers desire most is to gain attention and then gain inner satisfaction. "Shamat" can satisfy them.
The hairstyle that spreads rumors can make them gain more attention. In the eyes of outsiders, a "virus" hairstyle can make them look like the person who is not easily bullied.
They are scared of being bullied.
Even if people are pointed at when walking on the street, they are not afraid, at least they are seen.
They cannot control their life, time, and freedom, the only thing they can control is their hair.
facts are also moving in the direction they imagined.
They are sensitive and fragile, and suddenly become confident.
Those introverted men, after becoming "Sharmat", really dare to talk to girls, and girls will be liked by more people, and even go to the ice rink without paying for themselves.
tastes the sweetness brought by change, and they become more obsessed. The first thing they do when they get their salary is to make their hair. The hair color becomes more and more exaggerated and stands higher and higher.
Farmers department stores and ice rinks are their gathering places, and there are a group of like-minded people, and everyone talks, as if they have never been so close to their family.
helps each other, and if you have something to do, they find comfort in their hearts in this strange city.
There was even a girl who, when she went to the factory for an interview, the supervisor asked her to cut her hair, but she disagreed, so she was so hungry that she didn't eat for two or three days. Some people took two days and two nights on the train to keep their hairstyle home.
hairstyle has become their belief, even if you are hungry.
But not long after, their only happiness was gone.
The biggest fun of the "Shamat" group is to leave selfies online and flood the screen in major forums and post bars.
Slowly, the exaggerated look aroused the disgust of many people.
They have low educational level, their narrative ability and emotional expression are somewhat inappropriate. Living in their own world has become their label, and other groups on the Internet are increasingly disgusted with them.
"Shamat" is not rich or educated compared to them.
was defeated by other groups in "World of Warcraft" and "Li Yi Bar". In the end, Luo Fuxing had to resign.
Gradually, the attack on "Sharmat" gradually became a kind of "network correctness".
All spaces are occupied by outsiders, and countless slander and abuse have left them at a loss. In fact, they don’t know what they have done wrong.
Even in reality, they will be beaten for no reason if they just eat in a restaurant.
The family cohesion they seem to be proud of is so vulnerable to the real groups with the right to speak and attack power.
At that moment, they seemed to understand that no matter where they were, they were all vulnerable.
Li Yifan once said : "They have nothing but hair, and they are not even qualified to scold others."
After 2012, the "Sharmat" group gradually faded out of people's sight. Part of the reason is that the group of veterans have all reached the grade of marriage, and have reduced their hair and started small business. The second reason is the rise of mobile communications, and they have lost their own position of activity.
Luo Fuxing had already cut off his hair and opened a small hair salon.
They will also keep in touch, gathering in groups of offline parties, but they will not talk about dreams, and will never mention houses and cars. They are too far away from their world.
Li Yifan asked Luo Fuxing why he became "Sharmat".
He said that this is the only redemption he may have in his life.
Li Yifan was looking forward to whether there would be a particularly exciting story when interviewing these 60 "Sharmates".
But she was disappointed, all the lives of "Shamat" were extremely poor and boring, extremely similar.
Watch the entire documentary, they can be classified as migrant workers in the new era. They are unfortunate. They can only live like ants at their teenage years. They are lucky. At least in their teenage adolescence, there is a kind of spiritual comfort that gives them a glimmer of hope.
What's wrong with them wanting to be paid attention to, and they long to be cared for and cared for?
At the end of the documentary, Luo Fuxing's words triggered deep thoughts: "As long as this world still exists, there will definitely be people who are eliminated, injured, or disrespected. The countryside will not disappear unless the education is better, and everyone has gone to college..."
"2019 Migrant Workers Monitoring Survey Report" shows that among migrant workers who have gone to cities to work, 1% of them have not attended school, 15.3% of them have an elementary school education, 56% of them have a junior high school education, and 16.6% of them have a high school education.
The story of migrant workers is far from over, and another form of "Shamat" is likely to emerge in a certain city and moment.
I don’t know if they would be regarded as rats crossing the street or “clowns” at that time.
We should think that when we stand in our own cognition and overlook the world of "Shamat", we stand in their opposite. Oppositions like
will only be abuse and ridicule.
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