those familiar images

Amelie 2022-09-17 16:02:49

I really want to see what their happiness looks like, what happy people look like. When I saw the opening scene, I wondered if I had turned on the wrong channel, but I watched patiently, and in the irritable years of epidemic prevention, I actually had some different ideas about life, at least to calm down my impetuous and useless mind. If we are not happy, how do we deal with it?

The Yenisei River, hunters, huts in the woods, fishing, alcoholism... So many terms are enough to arouse my interest, and they are also the most impressive images after reading "The Fish King". some acquaintance. Especially for snow and Liao Wuyan's loneliness, which are only sensations, I can only think about the words. This film has added image assistance, can it help me realize the transformation from words to entities?

It has to be said that it is helpful. First of all, it is necessary to clearly recognize the real relationship between hunters and dogs in the hunting area, the ideal relationship, and what should the ideal dog look like? The old hunter gave many answers, and these seemingly profound replies were all the most profound insights after years of dealing with them. Don't let them in the house, don't let them ride on sleds, don't expect a moose-chasing dog to be interested in chasing squirrels, don't eat so much that it hangs on the snow, don't punish a dog for being interested in trap baits , From the dog's point of view, first tame them to be afraid of the consequences of stealing the bait. As for the friendship between hunters and hounds, it is manifested in times of crisis. They have their own weaknesses to guide and avoid, but they also have something to support each other. The hounds here are not pets, so they cannot be blindly grateful or indulge. It grows with the wild...

Then I met a river, and I met this river in the faraway land of China, and it seemed like I met a friend. The Yenisei River is the mother river of the tundra in the north. When writing about it, it is especially mentioned that there are many tributaries, and it also brings together many melting icebergs. How she gallops in summer and how she sleeps in winter, the author's pen and ink or Lyrical or line drawing, but with his deepest memory of the river. Although the author has conveyed the magnificence of this river well in words, when I saw the moment when the spring returned to the earth, the surging river water rushed forward with thick ice cubes, but I was still shocked, as if the earth In the fission, the sea is roaring, the power of nature is so uncontrollable, and the people who depend on her can do nothing but respect, love and obey. They fish from the Yenisei River, and they have to try their best to overcome the inconvenience and potential risks brought by the river. This is written many times in the book. For example, the villagers may catch nothing when they fish and may be arrested themselves. The fish's fork is injured and there is no room for manoeuvre, and can only wait for death... On the one hand, I am shocked by the spectacular scenery, and on the other hand, it is the cruelty implied by its rudeness. She is complex and endowed with The mysterious power of nature.

Maybe I also learned a little bit of hunting skills. The hunting season of hunters has its timetable that needs to be followed. Go to your area early to prepare food and shelter for the winter, and prepare hunting traps. These are enough time-consuming, and they also carry many uncertain risks. The climate is of great concern to the prey harvest. Even so, there is no shortage of preparations to be made, first to survive in the hunting area and then to harvest. Seeing that hunters do so much hunting-related work every day, I fully understand how life trains people! To avoid being swallowed by mosquitoes, to prevent small animals from stealing rations, and to prevent bears from attacking, but the ingredients are so simple: bread, fish, pheasant? That's why they look so old and tough, right? There is a chapter in the book about the young hunter who inadvertently saved a girl who almost died of typhoid fever. The limited rations and illnesses almost cost him his life, but he still chose to save, and even after the successful treatment A kind of mutual affection developed. Although regret is inevitable, this kind of ending still makes people sigh. In the normal world, they have almost no intersection, and companionship under extreme conditions is a last resort. Romantic imagination may feel good, but for living in that kind of situation They are really cruel in this situation. All this is under the director's lens, seeing that the hut will collapse almost the next moment under the thick snow and ice, and the same simple living environment also makes people lose all romantic ideas.

The long winter, the abyss-like loneliness, is not something everyone can endure. And the challenges of nature are more than these. The cold gave people the right to drink in that land, and it also gave the best excuse to those men who couldn't bear the ordeal. They know that they have been ruined by alcohol and cannot find the courage to fight in reality, but life must continue, labor is inevitable, they are pitiful, and they are just ordinary people. Maybe it's not ideal that the camera is not focused on what these alcoholics look like in the family?

So with so many statements and scenes, which scene shows their happiness, which is their exclusive happiness? Perhaps it was the embrace of the family when they returned to the village from the distant hunting territory to celebrate the New Year. The old lady's eyes were full of concern and joy, and the children's excitement. As for the hunter himself, he was so content with life that he did not complain in the face of hardship and loneliness. He has faith in his profession as a hunter, about life and harvest, and insists that man and nature achieve each other, no matter whether every young man is sent away in the end, or he is forced to welcome the disturbance of foreigners, but their survival The law has always been the basic idea of ​​human existence, and it will never change!

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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga quotes

  • [first lines]

    Himself - Narrator: This is the village of Bakhtia In Siberia. Although it looks like winter to us, it's already spring here. The village is located In the heart of Siberia, and we should keep in mind that this colossal landmass is one and a half times the size of the United States. The endless wilderness that surrounds this place is known as the taiga. No roads or train lines traverse it. There are only two ways to reach this outpost - one is by helicopter, the other by boat. The expanse in the foreground is not solid ground but the frozen-over Yenisey River, one of the largest waterways in Siberia. It's only during the few Ice-free months of summer that boats can also reach Bakhtia.

    Himself - Narrator: Of the 300 or so inhabitants of this village, a handful of them make their livelihood as professional trappers. One of these men is Gennady Solovyev. Here he makes his way into the wilderness across an enormous frozen river. He wants to show us an essential tool of his profession.

    Gennady Soloviev: [demonstrating] An animal would approach and begin twisting the bait. The pressure is very light, I'll keep my hand in it. Let me show you. See how light it is.

    [the top collapses]

    Gennady Soloviev: There you go. The animal is trapped. This is how I disarm the trap.

    [lifting the top back up]

    Gennady Soloviev: I take away the bait. I remove the wooden linchpin so squirrels or mice don't steal them. I put everything under the roof, and that's it.

  • Gennady Soloviev: [cutting wood for his skis] Of course, a good craftsman will make good skis using good wood. Getting around in these is sheer pleasure. You might have factory-made ones. If you and go into the Woods, you'll drop dead from fatigue after 15 kilometers. You won't be able to move a leg.