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This is a documentary filmed in Mongolia by two students from the Munich Film Academy in Germany. There is almost no music in the film, and there is not even much dialogue, with the most primitive sounds, the call sign of the wind, the call of camels, the whispers of people, and the carols of the sand in the desert. The lens language is very rough, and the transition of the lens is not smooth, which corresponds exactly to the environment in the lens. The rough wilderness is so simple that there is no modification, people and desert, life and death bump into each other. When I watched it for the first time in the class, I didn't think there was any fresh excitement brought by the short video, so I watched it again.
The whole documentary is so true that there is no artificiality, and the Mongolian men and women singing in the opening makes people feel a kind of natural beauty. The shepherd’s singing, dancing, kind and simple personality is presented to the world through the lens, so that those of us who live in fast-developing cities and who can’t stop the fast-paced life can see the most straightforward emotions of the Mongolian people. Express. The documentary does not add any sound effects, but it can melt people's hearts. The title is a traditional word-of-mouth, grandfather grandfather tells old fairy tales. He said: Long, long ago, camels had horns and velvets on their heads. The deer and camels borrowed their horns to play and never returned. The camels kept looking at the horizon, waiting.... When I first watched it in the class, I didn't understand. How did "looking at the horizon" become a story? When I went back to my bedroom and watched the documentary in its entirety, I understood a little bit, as if it was saying that acceptance and expectation are virtues. Put it in our lives, accept the challenges that life brings, and look forward to a better self in the future. The film tells the story of a family of three generations, grandma, parents, and a few children in the vast desert of southern Mongolia, forming a big family, plus dozens of sheep and the protagonist of the show-camels, living together. A vast and deserted place. The wind and sand here are slow, green and rivers are not seen all year round, there is no computer, mobile TV, and life is monotonous. In my opinion, the living environment in the documentary is unacceptable to me. It's not that I look down on their environment. We grew up in a building like us, and people who come into contact with the mud in the game of clay figurines in shopping malls are not capable of being in this way. The environment survives. Moreover, our lives are inseparable from the digital products that technology brings us. At this point, I am thinking about what civilization is? Is technology just the satisfaction of people's desires? If we take the sunrise and sunset of the people in the documentary as backward and uncivilized, then I am in a college in Chengdu, am I considered civilized? There is no telling in the documentary, just showing, showing a harmonious life.
Back to the documentary, a little thing happened. There was a camel mother who was difficult to give birth, and she did not give birth to a baby camel for two days. The owner's family had to manually assist in the delivery and finally gave birth to a weak baby camel. I don’t know if it’s because of dystocia and postpartum depression, or because the mother is a brown camel and the cub is white. The mother refuses to feed the cub and the baby camel is very hungry. What should I do? According to our logic, we should go to the veterinarian, take some medicine or get an injection, etc. But the logic of the Mongolian people who believe in religion and love music is not like this. Grandpa and Grandpa negotiated a solution. They sent their two children to invite musicians. So, the eldest son and the younger son took dry food and water and rode a camel on a journey to find musicians. They met TV sets, computer games, ate popsicles, and finally hired musicians in remote towns. They hope to use music to inspire the gift of God and restore the natural love and intimacy of mother and child camel. At the beginning of the ceremony, the hostess held the camel lightly and sang, without lyrics, her voice was full of tenderness. The musician's matouqin was also played. Surprisingly, the female camel’s eyes got wetter and wet, and finally big tears came down. The little camel was brought to her mother's side. When people helped him to lean over to feed again, the female camel finally disappeared. Rejected him, but quietly accepted his child. The little camel was saved, and his name was Botok. Finally appeared in the cast with her mother. The whole family finally let out a sigh of relief and sang happily. If someone told me this story, I wouldn't believe it, but the documentary is so true that it shocks me. Maternal love, whether it is human or animal, is the most powerful support for life.
The most natural emotional expression is often the easiest to move people's hearts. The story of this film is simple, but very touching. The teardrops in the camel's big eyes, and the cry of children through the whole storyline showed the kindness of the Mongolian shepherd family. Under a simple background, the most authentic life can comfort the deserted hearts of us urbanites. The documentary also gave me a feeling that humans should care for animals. Animals are also emotional. They will be happy and depressed. When they are sad, they will scream in pain and cry with tears. I saw a piece of news a few days ago saying that you should not base your happiness on the suffering of animals, and advocate rejecting animal performances. The animals we imagined "grins" actually expressed fear. Tigers are not good at piercing fire rings, they are just afraid of beating... Knowing the pain that animals endure behind the "joy show" that animals bring to humans, I have watched videos of their performances for entertainment. I don't know that this kind of situation is moved and ashamed. Everyone is responsible for protecting animals, and they can appreciate human love. Man and nature are originally one, interdependent. Perhaps we have been in the city for too long, and we have long been accustomed to the various gifts from animals and nature. It may not be the sadness of animals, which alienates the natural emotional bond between man and nature, but this kind of emotional connection is indeed true. It exists objectively.
This film left me with a lot of feelings. No matter how barren a place looks, there will be love, culture, and faith where there are people. What a magical power music is, it can turn mediocrity into vividness, and make the desert full of vitality and hope. The documentary brought me not only thinking about current life, but also let me see the most natural and simple folk customs of Mongolian herdsmen and the hard work of the Mongolian people.
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