"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 the hell do you write this movie review?
"Into the Dust" or "Warm Spring" would be easy to write a film review on their own, but putting the two together is a headache.
If you haven't watched it or only watched one of them, then for any film critic, the movie review is easy to write.
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 such indifference as in “Into the Dust”, then what about “Warm Spring”?
Do you believe this movie?
If any movie is taken alone, "Into the Dust" will make people feel that it is too depressing and too painful. What age is it? How can there be such a painful place?
"Warm Spring" will make people think, did it capture the people in the countryside too well?
Everyone is so warm and loving?
Du Xianghai, as Li Yi's official film critic, has no such worries at all.
Although he also felt that Li Yi's two movies were released this time, which was indeed a thief.
It’s also very uncomfortable for people who want to be black.
Du Xianghai immediately prepared a film review.
"I have always hated watching romantic movies, whether they are domestic or foreign, whether they are art movies or commercial movies. There are too many worthwhile things in this world, and those crazy men and women complaining about love, hate, and hate without any reason. , I don't care and don't want to waste time going.
In fact, I agreed that I didn’t have high expectations for a rural-themed movie at first. After all, Director Li Yi’s background has never had much to do with the countryside.
What kind of good local films can a director who has never experienced rural life make?
But "Into the Dust" was different, it touched me very deeply.
It is a love movie, but it is not just a love movie. I saw a rural love story, two dirty people, two people full of suffering, two people who didn't know what love was. They were reborn because of each other's company. Because they saw love, Being warmed by love, he eventually died because of love.
To be honest, this touched me a lot. What is love?
When it comes to romance in current film and television works, either the man is handsome or the woman is beautiful. It seems that if you don't, you are not worthy of love.
But "Into the Dust" is different, really different. It is an extremely simple movie, and at the same time, it is also an extremely complex movie that makes people feel after watching it.
The love in "Into the Dust" is "I'll give you a steamed bun and eat it", it's "get in the car, I'll make a nest for you", it's not pretentious at all, but full of thick, simple and heavy love. emotions. After watching the movie, I will be willing to believe that there are really two such people in this world who fell in love so simply in a corner.
It even triggered some thoughts that I have 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 I don’t know if it can be called love. The complicated thing is the background of this story and the story.
Its simplicity lies in the fact that the film does not deliberately complicate the story. From beginning to end, it tells the joys and sorrows of two marginalized 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 luxurious "love", let's call it love.
Although poor, there is no lack of romance!
But this movie is complicated. What’s so complicated about it?
First of all, this movie reveals a dark corner of the countryside for us. Its description of the countryside is very realistic, which is what our film and television industry is currently focusing on.
A characteristic of scarcity. In the past few years, 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 rural areas, but IMHO, these movies have one Common problem - the story does not take place in a domestic rural area, but more like it takes place in a rural area in Switzerland or Northern Europe where the per capita GDP exceeds 5 US dollars. The farmers in those movies and TV dramas live in bungalows with several floors per capita, and every household drives a car. The food they eat and drink every day is very exquisite, which made me feel ashamed.
While watching the movie, some colleagues complained that the countryside shown by Director Li Yi was a little too fake.
Are rural areas in this era so poor? Are farmers in this era so miserable?
Some people also say that this is a country movie made for city people.
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 18,931 yuan, which cannot afford the kind of life described in some film and television works. Every year when I go back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year, I have a very obvious feeling - that is, time seems to have stopped in the countryside, and the outside world has no relevance here. In this movie, life is very simple - eating, working, sleeping, and even watching TV have become very precious pastimes. These overly realistic descriptions may make some people unhappy, but you have to admit that this It is the most authentic Chinese countryside.
We do not rule out the possibility of truly prosperous rural areas, but you also cannot deny that rural areas like those in "Into the Dust" have always existed.
For this reason, I say bluntly that "Into the Dust" is a rare and good film, especially in this era and at this juncture. Like a lost pearl on the beach after a storm.
Its story is too simple, but not simple at the same time. The love story between an old farmer named Youtie and Guiying, a woman much younger than him but suffering from urinary incontinence.
The simplicity is what you see in the whole film, which is about a farmer couple working hard to farm and improve their lives. It’s not simple, because the true love and amazing philosophy of life shown by this pair of farmers who are the lowest and most short-sighted in farming and daily life will actually benefit us city dwellers who think they are superior. .
From the winter snow when Youtie and Guiying first met, to the early spring when they were sowing seeds together, to the midsummer when they slept on the roof at night, to the golden autumn when the rice ears were harvested, and finally to the early winter when the tall buildings collapsed, a season was formed. cycle. ….
Each of us seems to be complaining that "everything is too fast" now, and then curl up in bed to read fragmented information. We haven’t seen the real appearance of this world for too long. We have evolved so well that all our basic necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation can be completed with one click. We have forgotten that food takes time to grow and clothes require needles and threads to sew. We Only the results are important, but the process is ignored. The results that can be easily achieved are the least interesting, so anxiety follows you like a shadow.
Youtie and Guiying's homes have gone through "three moves" and "three demolitions." The reason behind it is nothing more than "changing one's face because of money." Yes, "The rich are in the mountains and have distant relatives, and the poor are in the bustling city and have no close neighbors." The so-called "difficult to recite" in most of our families is nothing more than profit. Youtie was too poor, honest and humble, and almost unprofitable, so he was reduced to the predicament of "walking around a tree three times, with no branches to lean on" and still no one cared about him. He could only build a mud house on the ground with Guiying. The director reveals human nature through spatial variation - there is no real reliance, only our own hands. Whether we admit it or not, at the most critical moment, the only one we can rely on is ourselves!
If it were just a film depicting rural scenes, that would not be Li Yi's ambition. He has buried a metaphor in the characters of the film that can only be understood after a little thinking.
Youtie, from the name, hints at his status in the family. The eldest brother has gold, the second brother has silver, and the third brother has copper. When it comes to him, he is just a piece of "iron". Naturally, his position in the family is to be taken advantage of by others and become a free labor force. It’s people and family.
When Youtie was in the village, he just kept silent when people made fun of him in public. Suddenly one day his house was packed, not because he was overjoyed to have a wife, but because his blood was useful to the rich. As a result, he became the blood bank of the village bully.
With blood, iron is just a tool. This is people and society.
You Tie let the donkey go in the desert, but it didn't move. You Tie scolded the donkey, "You're a cheap bone. You've been used for your whole life, and you won't leave even if you let it go." You Tie wasn't scolding the donkey, he was scolding the donkey. People have been dealing with themselves for a lifetime, this is people and themselves.
After these three times, Youtie, who was an honest man and farmed carefully, realized that he seemed to be meaningless, so he had nothing to miss, so he left cleanly.
Let’s look at this story again. An old farmer who worked for his brothers all his life and had only one old donkey was a very gentle man; an old girl who was seriously ill and was rejected by her brother and sister-in-law and had to live in a shack was a very stubborn and talented man. A cute woman with vitality who loves to watch TV.
I have never been willing to watch heterosexual love stories on the big screen because I would probably find them boring, but this couple, the most despised couple, makes me feel that watching love stories is not so cheesy, but very real. They are just like me. My parents, my uncles and aunts, my uncles and aunts, my brothers and sisters-in-law all depend on the land and are trapped by it. They can only make a living from the land. They don’t know where to go without the land. They can only work with resignation and work side by side naturally. The love and righteousness produced, and the food 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 difficult.
Suddenly there was a 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, and they had to start from scratch, but the two people couldn't help each other. A person covered in mud and water, crying and laughing in the wind and rain, shows strength and the useless optimism inherent to many Chinese farmers. That scene made me want to cry.
I'm all too familiar with this. Maybe, I also have the courage to laugh in the wind and rain, maybe not. It's just that I understand them, just like the daughter they might have if they met early.
Of course they will not have children, they meet too late, and cherish each other after meeting, but this is fate, the wheat will grow well, the corn will grow well, the chicks will hatch successfully and lay eggs, and the house will be built. I finally have my own "home", but the greatest loss has also come. I couldn't understand the director's intention in arranging such an ending, but I accepted the heavy blow that such artistic expression brought to me, and I was willing to be sad.
There are hundreds of millions of farmers like Youtie who work hard to survive in the country, but their situation is generally not satisfactory.
Who are the people who have achieved enlightenment? They are the relatives who are ruthless at home, and the powerful people in the village who suck blood and deduct food. He is the only person who sows seeds of iron and builds houses brick by brick. He is the only person who creates physical objects and value with his hands. He is the smallest foundation for a country to be strong. But the beautiful fruits will always be easily taken away by those smart and ruthless people, forcing the real ridge to be completely shattered.
When the iron falls, the "soil-based" rural-rural relations all over the world fall. The simple truth of "you will reap melons if you sow melons, and you will reap beans if you sow beans" has become the fallacy of "sow evil, you will reap melons, and you will reap beans if you sow evil". From then on, the only thing left in this extremely developed civilized society is profit-seeking. Human blood eats steamed buns and is devastated.
Of course, I think the film is more about wailing to us in this tragic way - please be gentle on the profit-seeking gangsters, leaving some confidence for the grassroots who are creating life steadily. After all, the world you enjoy and squander was created by them.
As an aside, director Li Yi actually played a trick this time. "Into the Dust" was screened at the same time as another local film "Warm Spring"!
The release of these two films at the same time has made us film critics begin to contradict ourselves.
Because "Into the Dust" shows suffering, while "Warm Spring" is just the opposite.
When I was writing my review of "Into the Dust", images of another film inevitably came to mind.
In "Warm Spring", the sufferings are the same, and they are all the same poor, but the difference is that they show another kind of countryside from another angle.
I have to say that Director Li Yi's ambition is indeed very great, because only "Into the Dust" can indeed make people feel horrified by the evil of human nature, but "Warm Spring" makes us willing to believe that human nature Of
Perfect.
In "Into the Dust", 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" takes place in a longer period of time. From this point of view, the countryside in "Warm Spring" is more miserable than the countryside in "Into the Dust".
But people's hearts are kinder. I don't know whether Director Li Yi wants to express the pros and cons of the world through these two completely opposite movies, or whether he wants to express the changing times through two movies from different eras. Development, but on the spiritual level it is falling.
Are the truth, goodness and beauty in "Warm Spring" and the falseness, evil and ugliness in "Into the Dust" something that we have thrown away with the development of the times and the abundance of material things? ".
The world is black
