The protagonist of the story, Wei Minzhi, is a primary school student in a neighboring village. Teacher Gao, who helped his mother get sick, became a teacher at Shuiquan Primary School. Before leaving, Teacher Gao told her that there must be no fewer students in the class. It was such a sentence that she regarded as a kind of belief. After all, she was still an inexperienced child, and there was still a childish childishness in her body. However, she has a precious quality, like Lei Feng's perseverance and stubbornness, she will do it right after she believes that one thing will be done. This point was well reflected when she traveled to hide and find Zhang Huike in the city. Some people may say that she has a tendon. In fact, this is a kind of spirit, a positive mental attitude that is not afraid of difficulties, and will not abandon or give up when encountering problems, and finally reach the other side of success.
In this film, the narrative montage technique is used to enhance the fluency of the story, so that the director's expressiveness and narrative are well reflected. At the beginning of the film, scenes such as rural ridges, barren land, and age-old soil embryo houses are presented in a distant view, rendering Shuiquan Town’s impoverished face and local conditions and facilities simple, highlighting the harsh conditions there. In addition, when Wei Minzhi discovered that it was possible to find Zhang Huike by means of missing persons notice, she immediately bought paper and pen and wrote on the stool in the station hall. At this time, the camera looked at a sleeping man next to her. The old lady performed a dissolving process, and the director used this technique of transition to make the scene very soft and it also showed that the old lady was sleeping very heavily. Movies are a kind of space-time art. In this way, the director compresses the time of a night into just a few tens of seconds, which embodies a kind of space-time compression and also reflects Wei's persistence from the side. In the second half of the film, Wei Minzhi appeared as a guest on a TV program in the city. She sat in the studio and was at a loss, but when the host asked her to say a few words to the camera, the camera closed her On her face, she burst into tears, and her eyes were full of missing Zhang Huike and venting the pressure of teachers' lives these days. In doing so, the director enhanced the expression of the characters' emotions and allowed the audience to resonate.
In terms of music, the film uses the sound opening method, through the sound of dog barking, to explain the rural environment, straightforward, avoiding wordy and complexity, in addition, the film uses the tragic and sad folk music of the Erhu, It caters to the atmosphere of the time, fits the theme, pushes the story to a climax, and attracts the audience into it. For example: when Wei Minzhi was driven out of the car, the sound of music sounded. In the picture, she was walking alone on the mountain road, reflecting her kind of helplessness and sadness. When Zhang Huike was walking aimlessly on the street, this time His music well reflects his hungry state and sad and homesick psychology. It is worth mentioning that Wei Minzhi's three-part singing scene in this film is very classic. For the first time, it was Teacher Gao who asked her to sing. She sang shyly and out of tune. The second time she raised the flag and sang the national anthem with the children. Although everyone sang it unevenly, they sang it completely because it was the only song they could sing completely. For the third time, Wei taught the children to sing. They sang two songs in total, but they didn't finish singing. The out-of-tune songs and poor dances reflected the poor teaching situation in the local area, lack of teachers, and poor conditions. The director did not use a lot of space to express, but only through her three singing to reflect these problems, this kind of skill is worth learning.
To sum up, the film is not artificial, but interprets the story in a very intuitive and true way. It is remarkable and it is a masterpiece.
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