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Chapter 1199 The real suffering has never left, but we have lost the goodness and beauty we once had
"Into the Dust" and "Warm Spring" ended one after another, and the film critics and media people in the theater felt Li Yi's strong malice.

How do you write this movie review?
"Hiding Into the Dust" or "Warm Spring" alone, the film reviews are easy to write, but putting the two together is a headache.

If you haven't seen it or only watched one of them, it's a good movie review for any film critic.

But when the two movies are put together, they are completely different.

You can say that you don't believe that in this era there is still such a place of indifference to human feelings in "Into the Dust and Smoke", so what about "Warm Spring"?

Do you believe this movie?

Any movie taken alone, "Into the Dust and Smoke" will make people feel that it is too depressing and bitter. What era is it? How can there be such bitterness?
"Warm Spring" will make people feel that the people in the countryside are photographed too well?

Everyone is so warm and loving?

As Li Yi's official film critic, Du Xianghai has no such worries at all.

Although he also felt that Li Yi's two movies were screened together this time, which was really badass.

It is also very uncomfortable for people who want to be black.

Du Xianghai immediately concocted a film review.

"As for love movies, I have always hated watching them, no matter domestic or foreign, whether art films or commercial films. There are too many things worth paying attention to in this world, such as the love-hate relationship of those idiots and women who are vain and moaning without disease. Hate, I don't care and don't want to waste time paying attention.

In fact, I agreed with rural-themed movies without having too much expectation at the beginning. After all, director Li Yi's background has never had much to do with rural areas.

What kind of good rural films can a director who has never experienced rural life make?

But "Into the Dust" was different, it hit me very deeply.

It's a love movie, but it's not just a love movie.I saw a rural love story, saw two dirty people, two people full of misery, two people who don't know what love is, because of each other's company, they got a new life, because they saw love, He was warmed by love, and eventually died because of love.

To be honest, this touched me a lot. What is love?
The love in the current film and television works is either handsome for men or beautiful for women. It seems that if they are not like this, they are not worthy of love.

But "Into the Dust" is different, really different, this is an extremely simple movie, and at the same time, it is also an extremely complicated movie after watching it.

The love in "Hidden in the Dust" is "I will give you a steamed bun, eat it", it is "Get in the car, I made a nest for you", it is not hypocritical at all, but full of thick, simple and heavy emotion.After watching the movie, I will be willing to believe that there are really two such people in this world who have loved each other so simply in a certain corner.

It even triggered some thoughts I never had before: Is human love a good thing?
From this point of view, this is indeed a very simple story. To put it to the extreme, this story is about a man, his donkey, his pig, his chicken, his house, and his woman.

But what it shows is extremely complicated.

The simple thing is the love that does not know whether it can be called love, but the complicated thing is the background of this story and this story.

Its simplicity lies in the fact that the film does not deliberately complicate the story. From the beginning to the end, it tells the sorrows and joys of two marginal characters in the countryside.

Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying, the plot has always been with them, the main line seems to be their simple but extravagant "love", let's call it love.

Although poor, but there is no lack of romance!

But this movie is complicated. Where is the complexity?
First of all, this movie reveals the dark corner of the countryside for us. Its description of the countryside is very real, which is a feature that is very scarce in our film and television industry.A few years ago, I watched a lot of new TV series with my wife and daughter. Since then, I have completely lost interest in domestic TV series with related themes. There are many TV series that describe the countryside, but with all due respect, these films have a Common problem - the story does not take place in a rural area in China, but more like a rural area in Switzerland or northern Europe with a per capita GDP of more than 5 US dollars.The peasants in those film and television dramas live in one-story houses with several floors, and every household has to drive. The food they eat and use every day is very delicate, which makes me feel ashamed.

During the viewing process, some colleagues complained, is the countryside shown by director Li Yi a bit too fake?

Is the countryside in this era so poor?Are farmers in this era so miserable?

Others say that this is a rural movie for urbanites.

But what I want to say is, is this really the case?
We must know that even this year, the per capita disposable income of our domestic farmers is only 18931 yuan, which is simply not enough to live the lives described in some film and television works.Every year when I go back to my hometown for the New Year, I have a very obvious feeling-that is, time in the countryside seems to have stopped, and the outside world has nothing to do with this place.In this film, the life of the hero and heroine is very simple - eating, working, sleeping, even watching TV has become a very precious pastime, these too real descriptions may make some people unhappy, but you have to admit , This is the most authentic rural China.

It is not ruled out that there are truly prosperous rural areas, but you also cannot deny that such rural areas in "Into the Dust" have always existed.

For this reason, I say bluntly, "Into the Dust and Smoke" is a rare and good film, especially in this era and at this juncture.Like a lost pearl on the sandy beach after a storm.

Its story is too simple, but not simple.An old farmer named You Tie falls in love with a much younger woman Gui Ying who suffers from urinary incontinence.

Simplicity is what you see in the whole film, it is about a peasant couple working hard to improve their lives by farming the land.It’s not easy, because the true love and amazing philosophy of life shown by the poorest peasant couple in farming and life’s trivial matters will actually benefit us urbanites who feel superior and feel ashamed .

From the winter snow when Youtie and Guiying first met, to the early spring when they planted together, to the midsummer when the roof slept at night, to the golden autumn when the rice ears were harvested, and finally to the early winter when the tall buildings collapsed, they constitute a season. cycle.

Each of us seems to be complaining that "everything is too fast" now, and then curled up on the bed and scrolled through fragmented information.We have not seen the real appearance of this world for too long. We have evolved so well that all basic necessities of life can be completed with one click. We have forgotten that food takes time to grow and clothes need needles and threads to sew. We As long as the result, but ignore the process.The result that can be easily achieved is the least fun, so anxiety follows like a shadow.

The homes of Youtie and Guiying have gone through "three relocations" and "three demolitions".The reason behind it is nothing more than "changing face because of money".Yes, "the rich have distant relatives in the mountains, and the poor have no close neighbors in the downtown area." The so-called "difficult scriptures" in most of our families are nothing more than interests.Youtie was too poor, honest and humble, almost making people profitless, so he was reduced to the predicament of "three turns around the tree, what branch to rely on", and no one cares about him. He can only live with Guiying and build an earthen house on the ground.The director exposed human nature through spatial variation - there is no real support, only our own hands, whether we admit it or not, at the most critical time, the only reliable one is ourselves!
If it's just a film depicting rural scenes, it's not Li Yi's ambition.He buried a metaphor in the characters of the film that can only be understood after a little thought.

You Tie, judging from the name, implies his status in the family.The eldest brother is called You Jin, the second brother has silver, and the third brother has copper. Now he is just a piece of "iron".It is logical that his position in the family is to be taken advantage of by others as a free labor force.This is people and family.

Youtie was in the village, and when people made fun of him in public, he just kept silent.Suddenly one day his family was crowded, not because of the great joy of marrying a wife, but because his blood was useful to the rich.So, he became the blood bank of the village tyrant. Apart from blood, iron is a tool. This is about people and society.

Youtie let go of the donkey in the desert, but the donkey didn’t move. Youtie scolded the donkey, “I’ve been tricked all my life, and I won’t let you go.” People use their own self for a lifetime, this is people and themselves.

Through these three steps, You Tie, who was an honest man and carefully farmed the land, realized that he seemed meaningless, so he had nothing to miss, so he left cleanly.

Let’s look at this story again. An old farmer who has worked for his brothers all his life and only has an old donkey is a very gentle man; Lovely woman who loves to watch TV.

I have always been reluctant to watch heterosexual love stories on the big screen, because most of them are boring, but this couple, the most despised couple, makes me feel that watching love stories is not so nasty, but very real, they are just like me My parents, my uncles and aunts, my uncles and aunts, my brothers and sisters-in-law, rely on the land and are trapped by the land. They can only beg for a living from the land. After leaving the land, they don’t know where to go. They can only work resignedly and side by side. The love and righteousness produced, and the grain and other crops grown in the land, and the pigs, ducks and chickens raised in captivity are all the hope and meaning of life.

It's just that life is really hard.

There was a sudden storm at night, and the mounds used to build the house turned into mud again. The two people's expectations for "home" disappeared from the concrete mounds again, and they had to start from scratch again. A person covered in muddy water crying and laughing in the wind and rain, is strong, and also the kind of useless optimism inherent in many farmers in Huaguo, that scene made me want to cry.

I am all too familiar with all this.Maybe, I also have the kind of bravery to laugh in the wind and rain, maybe not.It's just that I understand them, just like the daughters they might have had if they had met early.

Of course they will not have children, they met too late and cherished each other after they met, but fate is like this, the wheat will grow well, the corn will grow well, the chickens will successfully hatch and lay eggs, and the house will be built I finally have my own "home", but the greatest loss has also come.I can't understand the intention of the director's arrangement of such an ending, but I accept the heavy blow brought to me by such artistic expression, and I am willing to be sad.

There are hundreds of millions of farmers like Youtie who are working hard to survive, but the situation is mostly unsatisfactory.

Who are the right people?It is those relatives who are ruthless at home, and the dignitaries who suck blood and withhold food in the village.He is the only person who sows seeds one by one and builds houses brick by brick. He is the only person who creates objects and values ​​with both hands, and is the smallest foundation for a country to be strong.But the good fruits will always be easily taken away by those smart and ruthless people, forcing the real spine to be completely shattered.

When the iron falls, the "soil-based" rural relations all over the world will fall.The original simple truth of "If you sow melons, you will reap melons, and if you sow beans, you will reap beans", it has become the fallacy of "If you sow evil, you will reap melons". Human blood eating steamed buns is devastated.

Of course, I think the film is more about howling to us in this tragic way-you can lighten up the mercenary black hand, and leave a breath of confidence for the grassroots who are steadfast in creating their lives.After all, they created this world that you enjoy and squander.

As an aside, director Li Yi actually played a trick this time. "Into the Dust" also screened another local film "Warm Spring"!
The simultaneous launch of these two films made us film critics inevitably start to contradict ourselves.

Because "Into the Dust and Smoke" shows suffering, but "Warm Spring" is just the opposite.

When I was writing my review of Into the Dust, I couldn't help but have images of another film in my mind.

In "Warm Spring", the suffering is the same suffering and the same poverty, but the difference is that it shows another kind of countryside from another angle.

I have to say that director Li Yi's ambitions are indeed great, because only "Into the Dust" can indeed make people horrified by the evil of human nature, but with "Warm Spring", we are willing to believe that human nature The goodness and beauty.

In "Hidden in the Dust and Smoke", Ma Youtie, Cao Guiying, the people they meet and the people around them all seem to be filled with a kind of indifference, but in "Warm Spring", there is kindness everywhere.

"Warm Spring" took place much earlier. From this point of view, the countryside in "Warm Spring" is more bitter than the countryside in "Hidden in the Dust and Smoke".

But people's hearts are better. I don't know. Director Li Yi wants to express the pros and cons of this world through these two diametrically opposed films, or he wants to express through two films of different eras. Development, but the spiritual level is falling.

The truth, goodness and beauty of "Warm Spring" and the fake, evil and ugliness of "Into the Dust and Smoke" are the development of the times and what we lose when we are rich in material? "

(End of this chapter)