Hong Kong drama fan William recommended me to watch TVB's ten-episode documentary "Looking for People", and it moved me very much as soon as it started.
Later I found out that it was because the dubbing and host of this film were Fang Dongsheng who has been by our side for so many years. Fang Dongsheng is the TVB news host. Since 2000, the "Wireless Reporter Fang Dongsheng's report" has been heard almost every day in the news of Jade Channel . When I heard this sound, I actually had a physiological reaction, as if the years from more than 20 years ago suddenly surged back, and there was a natural sense of nostalgia. In Hong Kong, almost everyone knows Fang Dongsheng, which also gives his show some magical power. Many respondents are willing to accept interviews because the host is Fang Dongsheng. This face and the sound is so familiar, it is such a wonderful thing.
The documentary is very simple, it is to find the protagonists of the news stories that TVB interviewed in the 1980s and 1990s. For example, the first episode is to find Qianyi, the eldest sister who was 11 years old and took care of her two brothers and sisters. The second episode is to find the fat child named Cheng Yuxi in 1993, and there are also handsome school grass guys who have passed the exam... The program uses various relationships to find the amateur protagonists who have shown their faces in the show in the past like looking for a needle in a haystack. Let us see what these people have become after twenty or thirty years. Although he is not a star, he is still touching. This proves one thing: the sense of destiny caused by time acting on people is the eternal source of the story and has eternal attraction.
I personally have three people who are most touching. First, when she was a child, she stood on a stool to cook, and Qianyi, who raised her two younger siblings, became a mother of two children. She was still so capable and confident, and a little fashionable. Second, the handsome school grass has become a fat middle-aged man. Although he has not had a diploma in recent years, he has still experienced ups and downs. He has been a young man and immigrated to Canada. Now he is back in Hong Kong to do some small business. He still has the confidence and complacent of a handsome guy. What makes him sad is the premature death of two friends who were interviewed at the same time. He understands life so much: "Life is short and impermanent. We must cherish the people and things around us." Also, the sister who gave up the green card and stayed alone to take care of her mentally retarded sister. The 73-year-old sister and the 58-year-old sister have protected each other for a lifetime... It is this ordinary person and ordinary relationship that makes us shed tears. Life may never be vigorous, but it is this kind of watchfulness and concern that allows us to survive, living ordinary and warmly with our hearts. This may be the greatest meaning of our survival.
Of course, in addition to the sense of destiny that time blesses ordinary people, I also have an interesting discovery - a woman who lives seriously becomes more and more beautiful as she lives. There is an episode about a teacher who just graduated thirty years ago. One of them, a teacher named Liang Runlian, has transformed from an ordinary female college student to a particularly confident and elegant primary principal after thirty years. I think it is the sense of accomplishment and happiness that educates children and the smooth workplace that nourishes her. Another woman named SABRINA has become much more round and beautiful than when she was young because of her career and family happiness. What is more interesting is that there is also a rich wife in this documentary. This rich wife is more fashionable than when she was young, with a hot body, and even looks like a sister to her daughter-in-law, but her temperament is always cringing and unnatural. The stiff apple muscle on her face may prove that these thirty years have not been too smooth.
When I was watching "The Scheme of Finding People", Guangzhou was in the time of "the whole city of nucleic acid", and "The Scheme of Finding People" made me feel much more at ease. No matter where we are, we Chinese are the hardest, hardest and hardest ethnic group that never gives up our lives. My friend Liu Keke wrote lightly in her new book "Middle Age in the Mirror" that the spicy and vast middle age can cope with, quiet and refreshing, going home for dinner, let us return to the simplest and most ordinary daily life, find our inner support and live our true self. This is the ordinary and tenacious life of ordinary people.
text/Huang Tongtong
source/News Morning News
edit/He Mengyu
