Every second, more than 7 billion people are sharing it, so it’s only natural to be curious about how other people spend their days.
time, starting at midnight.
Some people just got off work, some people just got drunk, some people want to know the current time in a daze, and some people are immersed in their sleep.
Well, floating life.
The sound of the alarm clock, the sound of chickens crowing, the sound of cars passing by, the sound of family clamoring; waking up in a big bed, waking up on the side of the road, waking up in the office, waking up at home...
In short, this is the moment when people, or most people, start their day.
The old father pointed the camera at his son in the bathroom, watching him clumsily fiddling with the razor, with encouragement in his tone, but when his son got scars all over his face, he seemed to be gloating?
"You've gone through manhood now," said the father.
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In another room, another father woke his younger son and dressed him with his own hands. Then the father and son came to a photo and offered incense to the deceased mother. The son rang the bell, and the father told him to light incense before ringing the bell.
"I don't want to ring the bell..." the son grumbled softly.
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The nun set up the offerings. Today seems to be a more important festival? She knelt before the statue of Vishnu for a long time, and then devoutly sprinkled the food with liters of water.
"Hurry up, there are still many people who need holy water."
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An eight or nine-year-old boy walked out of the house, carrying a lot of things on his back, and set up a stall under the not far corner. After arranging things in order, he watched the crowded streets. The business came quickly and he was very happy.
"Actually I made a lot more money the day before than I do now," he said when facing the camera.
When asked what was your favorite, he said father. "Because he'll cook for me."
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The employees of the restaurant started serving meals, and the supervisor was explaining the rules to the new employees;
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The herdsmen in the pasture were milking cows, and a cow raised its hoof uneasy, so the milk was sprinkled on the herdsmen. "What a bitch..." The person next to him smiled and didn't speak, and pulled his head again.
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A dozen people were sleeping in a room of more than ten square meters. This was a father and his children. He can't go further to work because no one can take care of his children, especially since his eldest son in his twenties has an intellectual disability
"But we are alive!" he said. "God has not abandoned us, we are alive!"
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Although we all live in this world, our destiny is different. Just like some film critics said, if there are really aliens in this world, then this documentary is the best way for them to understand people on earth.
The director asked the crowd a few small questions in the play: What do you have in your pocket now? what do you love? What are you afraid of?
To be honest, I really didn't know that people can carry all kinds of strange things in their pockets.
Daily items include tissues, toys, mobile phones, and belongings. And then it seems that it is not incomprehensible to be able to pull out several flags of different countries at will? So a temperamental beauty took out a small and exquisite police pistol and said to the pistol in a loving tone: I like this baby, is it normal?
The rich took out all kinds of car keys, the beauties took out anti-wolf spray, and the students picked up the test papers.
Well, it's floating again.
So what do people love?
One boy called his mother and asked her how to confess to the girl he liked; another called his grandmother and said he actually had a boyfriend; "I love refrigerators!" A man Putting his face against the refrigerator, he said, "I love my family and my dog, but if I ask what I love the most, it's God, because without God all this is not possible."
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"Women should kneel to the man they like." A girl from an unknown remote tribe said with a smile. The camera turned to the silent boy and asked, "What do you want to say?" The boy thought about it and said, "She Kneel down because of respect for me." Looking at their radiant smiles, the photographer was speechless. I think more viewers are also speechless, after all, this is also a real day.
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Some people were born on this day, and their mother saw their offspring for the first time; some people died on this day, and the old man did not seem so calm when facing his life; some people took pregnancy test sticks and said to the camera excitedly: " I'm going to be a mother!"; there are also parents who are educating their children on the camera, although the children keep saying: "Can you stop recording..."
In fact, I used to think that I was particularly vulnerable to being deceived, because it was really easy to deceive me. Schools, dormitories, companies, supermarkets, a few points, and even a place as big as a city are not needed, because no one can really spread their footprints in every corner of the city. It doesn't even take a lot of group performances. The most contact with people is in the subway every day, and there are no lines!
So many times, I may prefer to believe that I am living on a huge stage constructed by others. Although false, at least the stage was full of audiences. But this idea is still naive, or arrogant. Because people will always understand that everyone lives in their own world. For more people, they are just a trick in other people's worlds that don't even have lines. The only sense of existence is the denominator in statistics.
Thinking of it this way, it seems that life like a salted fish is also destined?
"So, what are you most afraid of?"
"I'm most afraid of people who don't have God in their faith." The believers said, "Oh my God, they can't go to heaven in this way!"
"War," said an old man. "There is only war."
"Love, I can't imagine what it would be like if I lost my love."
"It's me!"
When the camera turned to the edge of the hospital bed, the man silently watched his wife lying on the bed: "I have nothing to be afraid of," he said. "I'm terrified of my wife getting cancer, and then she'll get cancer; I'm terrified of relapse, and then relapse. I feel like there's nothing to fear now."
He pulled the corner of his mouth, as if trying to force a smile, but in the end he didn't laugh.
Technology, religion, humanities... In between, the nouns of these concepts are just nouns, but after someone appears, I think these nouns become teachers, believers, old farmers in vegetable fields, police chasing thieves, early morning A homeless man who woke up.
I once asked the police, isn't there a shelter in the city, why do people still sleep on the side of the road? The policeman didn't say anything, just looked at me strangely.
"Are you cold?"
"Ah, it's not cold."
"It's good, don't let anyone steal it for you as soon as you walk by."
"Uh-huh."
"Let you go to the shelter, will you go?"
"Don't go, don't go!"
"That's it."
I listened to the conversation, inexplicable. The police said helplessly: "He doesn't want to, and we can't help it!"
"Because he went to the relief center, he will be deported to his hometown. At that time, he will have to get a ticket back, so he won't be able to commit it."
My lips moved, but I still couldn't ask why these people had to stay here. The police looked me up and down, "Who are you? What are you doing when you don't sleep in the middle of the night?"
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So in the past, when I looked at things, I was looking at flowers in the fog, which was vague and unreal, but the more I grew up, the more I could discover the real depth.
The end of the documentary is the monologue of an ordinary girl. She said that she thought she could do something different today, something that she could proudly say, but in the end she didn't do anything.
"But I won't give up, I aspire to be that kind of person." The girl said firmly.
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