I have to say that "The Land of Honey" is a beautiful documentary. The beginning of the film is a vast and boundless wasteland and cliffs, which can grab the audience's heart at once. Not far from the capital of Macedonia, there is a village, and there is only one family in the village, which lives with Hades and her elderly and sick mother. Hades made a living by raising bees, a craft handed down from his ancestors. She went to the cliffs and the mountains to find habitats for bees, and also found shelter for bees in the ruins of the village. She follows the lessons left by her ancestors. Every time she collects beehives, she picks half and keeps half. It is precisely because she understands such natural rules that she can get a good harvest every year. Their family lived in the vast wasteland, and in addition to beekeeping, Hades spent time with her elderly mother. I bought delicious food for her. I was afraid of too many mosquitoes, so I bought a fan for her. The kind boss was moved by her and gave the fan to Hades for free. "Mom, I'll take you out to sunbathe tomorrow." "What you can't take out, I'm like a tree now." This is a dialogue between mother and daughter, humorous but heart-wrenching. Finally, the peaceful village was broken. The arrival of the nomadic family made the village lively. A couple and seven children came here and started their herding life. Soon, the easy-going Hades and the neighbor's children often played together and mingled together. They swinged together and fiddled with the radio together. Hades also gave them a cat at home, and they also brought Hades Go to a festival, give her a watermelon, and chat by the bonfire. They saw that Hades kept bees at home, and they came up with the idea of keeping bees. Hades unreservedly passed on his beekeeping experience to his neighbors. However, the neighbors who are too hasty seem to be unable to comprehend the mystery of raising bees. They do not follow the laws of nature. When the hives are not mature, they collect and sell them early. The bees that have nowhere to go attack the hive at Hades's house, making her hard-working hives fall short. She goes to the leader to have a theory, but the neighbors lied that they did not break the rules of beekeeping, and said that the Hades family The bees die because of the weather. Hades was very angry, but also very helpless, she had to find another way to make a home for the bees on the big tree by the river. In order to obtain more harvests, neighbors began to develop the surrounding fields. In order to allow grass to grow on the flat ground, they burned the branches on which the bees depended for survival. They even obtained wild honey from the big trees by the river. , cut down the whole big tree, and all this, Hades saw it in his eyes and hurt in his heart. She finally couldn't take it anymore, and ran to her mother to cry, like a beaten child, and the bedridden mother had nowhere to go. What they can do, they can only helplessly say to Hades, let God punish them. Perhaps it was God's punishment that the neighbor's livestock fell ill and ended up losing more than fifty cattle and sheep. The hostess puts the blame on his wife and children. Said they did not take good care of the livestock. His fourth son, Willie, had the best time with Hades, who couldn't stand his father's beekeeping and bee stings. He would rather follow Hades. Going to the mountains with him, collecting beehives on the edge of the cliff, and learning the way of beekeeping, this is also a small beauty between the two of them. The weather is getting colder and colder, and the grass and trees around the wasteland can no longer provide supplies for the neighbors' cattle and sheep, so they start to move away. Hades watched the family disappear from a distance, the village began to regain its tranquility, the neighbors left, but they were left devastated. Hades' mother eventually left in the snowy winter. At night, relying on the dim light, Hades began to fiddle with her radio again and chatted with the kitten. At this time, Hades was very beautiful. Her beauty came from her kindness and friendliness. Her love of life, I was thinking, where will Hades go next and what kind of life will I have, I don't know, but it doesn't matter. Because she already has the answer in her heart.
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