First of all, I'm glad I finished watching this movie (almost shut it down halfway through). A good film is not to capture the hearts of the audience from the beginning, such as this "Land of Honey". It does not have any obvious expression about an attitude, it is to quietly show the life of people and bees in harmony in front of people; it reflects the good and evil of human nature in a pure natural place, which is so beautiful that people are awe-inspiring , makes people want to cry peacefully.
Kadis, a bee-picker who lives in the mountains; after the whole village left the barren land, she still accompanies her old mother, who is over fifty years old, to depend on each other here. She abides by the golden rule of "eat half and keep half" and does not ask for too much food from bees. She knows what it takes to live in harmony between humans and bees.
She went to the city to sell honey just to meet her daily needs, without being too demanding or reckless.
But the sudden arrival of nomadic neighbors broke the tranquility here. His boisterous seven children, and herds of livestock. When he saw the economic benefits of honey, he became overly greedy and unscrupulous. He did not give the bees half of the living space like Kadis did. He asked for too much. In order to earn a little economic benefit, he took out all the honey and sold it, causing the bees of Kadis to die in large numbers;
When Kadis asked them to move out, the neighbor tried his best to argue that he didn't sell any honey, as if he was aggrieved. But eventually, as her own bee production dwindled, Cadiz knew the reason behind it. There was nothing she could do, because she obviously couldn't fight the tyrannical neighbor.
She hid her honey in a tree hole by the river. But the neighbor who suffered thousands of knives betrayed her again for profit. Cadiz was distraught, crying like a child in front of her mother. The mother didn't say much, just told her: they will be punished like this.... Just like this, I don't know how long it took, the neighbor's cattle died in groups, and he blamed it all on his own. On his wife, on his children, he does not take responsibility for himself at all. Therefore, objectively speaking, he is a particularly selfish and irresponsible person.
When they moved away, Cadiz's world returned to peace again. But her mother died that winter. The day before, Cadiz asked her mother: Do you like spring? I saw her mother answer: Is there still spring? I have been through too many winters....... This sentence is so sad and powerless.
In the face of fate, people are insignificant, but in order to take some responsibilities, the gap between people has become especially obvious. Kadis tasted her mother and took on the responsibility of being a daughter, although they lived half the life of a hermit. But their kindness in the depths of human nature has not changed in the slightest because of external interference.
A very quiet movie, so quiet until the first twenty minutes, you have many urges to close it, but believe me, watch it patiently, because after watching this movie, I myself fell into a long meditation:
We ask so much from nature, do we really need these things? We will betray our interests and betray our own relatives and friends, but is it worth it in the long run? We work hard to live, to satisfy our own hearts or to live for others to see? We may be bullied for being a kind person, but time will tell: persistence itself is the essence of life.
Finally, respect your own living space, because it can be really fragile sometimes.
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