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What kind of painful life experience does Li Yuxin
work that can be called "the saddest documentary in history" by many netizens? Recently, a documentary "Mongolian Grassland, Sunny Weather" directed by Japanese director Kazuya Yamada and released in 2006 suddenly became popular on the Internet, becoming a hot search, and even earned a high score of 9.7 on Douban. This documentary, which netizens commented as "the real version of " is alive " can't help but make people wonder what the story is? It can still make today's netizens " empathize with " more than 10 years after the broadcast?
"Mongolian Grassland, Sunny Weather" poster
If we count from the shooting, this documentary has been around for more than 20 years. It is reported that the film tells the story of Japanese explorer Yoshiharu Kano visiting the family of Mongolian girls three times in 1999, 2000 and 2004. In the camera, when Kanno Yoshiguri first met Pujie, the girl who seemed to be unfashioned and unfaithful was riding on a horse. At the age of 6, she not only refused the request for taking a photo, but also asked him to leave. As Kanno Yoshiharu visits continuously and spends time with Xiao Pujie and his family, Pujie's family openly accepts visitors from a foreign land, and in a state of language barrier, they open up their sincere friendship.
If the story can end in the 1999 winter of the Mongolian grassland, I am afraid that what will be left behind will be a warm past: Guanye Yoshiguri and Pujie have become friends through nationality, age and language barriers, and have developed feelings for Pujie, mother and grandmother. After returning to Japan, Kanno Yoshiharu also received a New Year's greeting card from Pujie's mother, hoping to meet him again. But less than half a year later, when Guanye Yoshiharu came to Pujie's house again, he was greeted by the portrait of Pujie's mother. When Kano Yoshiharu returned to the large grasslands in Mongolia in 2004, Pujie also left the world in a car accident. She died the day before she graduated from elementary school. This little girl who once dreamed of becoming a teacher failed to take the graduation exam.
has no sensational background music, no carefully designed dialogue, and no glamorous scenes. In this documentary that lasts more than 100 minutes, it is all the quiet and sparse daily bits. The relationship between Guan Ye Yoshiguchi and Pu Jie's family is also as plain and real as it is, and there is no eye-catching point in conflicts. Because of the truth, the happiness recorded in the film is so vivid: Pujie saw her mother who had not returned for many days and smiled. She was hiding behind her mother and showed that she was shy only when she was 6-year-old girl; when Pujie was finally able to enter school to attend classes, her uncle couldn't help but send candy excitedly to celebrate her...
Xiao Pujie
It is also because of the truth. The suffering in the film also seems so strong and long: in the camera, Guanye Yoshiguchi, who returned to Mongolia after half a year, was listening to Pu The shocking and difficult-to-understand eyes and tears gradually surging; Pujie's grandmother was celebrating her daughter, and her white hair fluttered in the wind; the news of Pujie's death came to an abrupt end, and the picture was frozen when she and Guanye Yoshiguri first met. She rode on a high horse and left with her mother with a smile, leaving only the blurred backs of the two...
Whether in terms of shooting techniques or technical means, "Mongolian Grassland, Sunny Weather" is an overly "simple" documentary work, and the narrative method is also simple and clear. But it is precisely because this return to nature is simple and does not require rendering, and the real suffering has been fully revealed. Often, what hits people's hearts the most directly is the real suffering. The sudden popularity of the documentary "Mongolian Grassland, Sunny Weather" shows that no matter what era, thinking and compassion for suffering is still an ever-present theme in the creation of film and television works. What really touches the audience is not the deliberately piled up tragedy, but the real and inescapable suffering.
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