Of course, various excessive interpretations will not actually affect ordinary audiences.
Well, to put it another way, in fact, most viewers will only hear: "Oh, there is a movie "Into the Dust" that is quite popular recently."
Yes, they don't think that the current domestic social culture has turned into a middle-class culture.
The popularity created by these topics makes the movie look more "hot".
But that's enough.
And more film critics and more media people focus on the movie itself.
Such as details.
Liu Fei, as a rich second-generation film critic, does not understand the countryside at all.
The suffering in rural areas is actually very foreign to him.
"I, Liu Fei, and those who know me, all know that I have never suffered much since I was a child. Therefore, if you ask me to comment and dig out these things from this aspect, you are obviously making things difficult for me, Liu Fei.
Therefore, I only interpret this film from the film itself.
Details, details, details.
In my opinion, many things shown in this movie are hidden in the details.
Let’s not talk about anything else but the movie itself.
First, the first detail, donkey!
A horse with iron is a donkey!
Why do you think so? Let's take a look at the details shown in the movie.
I believe everyone who has watched the movie will easily remember that the first shot of the movie is a window of an adobe house, and a woman keeps calling the fourth child off-screen. While the audience was waiting for the fourth child to appear from the window, a donkey stuck its head out of the window and looked towards the source of the sound. Then the real fourth child appeared from the window. This was the first hint that the fourth child was the donkey. donkey.
Later, we quickly learned that the fourth child was the male protagonist, and his name was Ma Youtie. This is almost a clear indication that the horse is nailed with iron paws, which is a symbol of being tamed and the beginning of becoming a donkey. A free wild horse will not have "iron". In addition, the donkey in the film wears a big iron bell on its neck, which is very conspicuous and keeps tinkling, echoing the name Ma Youtie.
Isn't it interesting? There is iron, there is iron, horses have iron, haha, I admire Director Li Yi for directly showing what is hidden in the name. Of course, it is possible that I am overthinking it.
So let’s look back and enter the first highlight, the blind date. In the middle of the meal, Tie's brother suddenly went out to beat and scold the donkey. He scolded it for eating too much and asked it how much more it needed to eat. At this time, Ma Youtie was also eating. This also hints at the relationship between Youtie and his brother. He has always been a cow and a horse in this family, and he is the donkey.
The bad director is also very skilled in the use of criticism. It is obviously a very life-like plot, but it is difficult not to make people think about it.
It was the same scene. When Ma Youtie was called to eat, he brought a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun. My brother said to him, there are all dishes on the table, why are you getting rice and steamed buns at the same time? I think this detail has two meanings. The first one is that Ma Youtie has been mistreated in this family and he is used to eating only staple food. The second layer is that the staple food is cereals, and the donkey basically only eats cereals.
Even if it's just these, this is a movie that can be called an explosion of details.
Putting aside the emotional doubts, I still think this is a good movie because it shows the skill of the director. Although I am not a director, I have learned about this industry and have read countless films. We know that many works often use lines to narrate, which is not efficient or advanced. In this movie, the above plot only lasts three minutes, and a large amount of information is conveyed in details through seemingly simple shots.
Even at this blind date dinner, Guiying has been eating staple food, which implies that she is in the same situation as Youtie.
Including the moment when Youtie walked into the house dirty and sat down to eat, a young boy playing with his mobile phone in the background suddenly got up and walked out. That was Youtie's nephew who was about to get married, and it was also because of his nephew's dislike that this The family decided to kick the hardworking Youtie out of the house on the pretext of marrying a wife and starting a new family. Later, the lines between the matchmaker and the hostess also echoed this detail.
The above is a summary of the detailed metaphor about donkeys and about the fact that a horse with iron is a donkey.
Let’s look at the second detail, panda blood!
This plot is actually very interesting. Some people may say that this plot was just wanted to show being sucked by blood.
But I think it's more than that.
A horse has iron and a donkey, but he has the blood of a panda.
Is this a strange setting? But you have to admit that this is a very real setting.
I think there are actually two perspectives: in the brother and sister-in-law's house, in the village, there is iron and there is donkey; but does the film want to tell the audience that the horse has iron inside is extremely precious, which is very rare nowadays, but there are many People can't see it.
This can be seen from what Ma Youtie did after that. He did not repay the kindness, and he only regarded the reward given by the other party as a loan.
He takes credit and pays it back no matter what. This is his most basic integrity as a person.
Etc., etc.
In addition, the poorest old widower in a village and the richest boss in the village actually have the same blood type. In fact, from this point of view, the essence of each of our lives is the same, and there is no distinction between high and low.
At the same time, there is also a rather ironic point. If it were not for the panda blood, the people in the village would not even know that Ma Laosi is Ma Youtie.
From the initial request to rescue Zhang Yongfu, the villagers began to resent and complain, saying that they were the ones who needed to be rescued. However, when they learned that they only needed horses and iron, their reactions were completely different. They began to laugh and it had nothing to do with them. Hang high.
The selfishness of human nature is vividly displayed at this moment.
The third detail is looking at each other.
Why mention this in particular?
Because I think this is a very, very touching design in this movie, that is, the two glances between Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying.
During the blind date between Youtie and Guiying, the two actually never looked at each other at all. After You Tie went out to feed the donkey and returned to his house, the camera stopped moving: on the right side of the picture was a mirror, which reflected You Tie eating, and on the left side of the picture was a wooden door with a raindrop hanging in the wooden door frame. It was snowing heavily, and Guiying stood in the snow, staring straight at Youtie, motionless, even a little sluggish. At this time, Youtie raised his head and glanced at her, then lowered his head shyly, completing the first time the two of them looked at each other.
The last time the two people looked at each other was in their new home after Guiying died. It is also a shot with a fixed camera position: on the right side of the screen is Youtie, who is eating an egg, and on the left side of the screen is Guiying's posthumous photo. She is mounted in a wooden frame, staring straight at Youtie, motionless and a little sluggish. At this time, Youtie raised his head and glanced at her, then lowered his head silently, completing the last time the two of them looked at each other.
If you look at it carefully, if you freeze these two scenes for comparison, you will find that the two looks at each other, the characters' eyes, movements, and positional relationships are almost exactly the same. Even Guiying It was also mounted in a wooden frame, but the first time it was a door frame, and the second time it was a photo frame. Because there are so many detailed echoes between these two shots, I believe it must have been deliberately designed by the director. The echoes between these two shots, one after the other, give off a sense of sadness, as if everything has changed after one glance.
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