Today, I can finally be moved by a movie and want to write something. Strange to say, since I started to study movies systematically, I suddenly felt like aphasia. After seeing a good movie, I can no longer have some kind of movie viewing experience that I really want to write and have to write in my mind. After watching a good movie, I thought, let's write something, but either my thinking is frozen, and the words are not enough to make a sentence, or I have a crappy "professional" analysis, and I can't write half of it myself. , or you can't bear to look directly at it when you see it, this is indeed a vicious circle of limited thinking. After studying, I found a short movie to watch and take a break. I found it. I have "wanted to watch" for several months and have been unable to care about it. After watching it, I "insomnia" again. Telling it in hours, in terms of time, it is really a viewing result that is different from the original intention. The most criticized thing about the documentary is its loose narrative, with a sense of theme interspersed in weaker plots, but this film has a very smooth narrative connection, regardless of whether it echoes the beginning and the end, and has quite the quality of a narrative movie. After reading it, I checked it out. I didn't expect it to be a documentary, but through three years of recording, the storytelling extracted from a large amount of material is so sincere and admirable.
Before discussing the theme of the movie, I have to praise the beauty of the movie. It is so beautiful. Nature is really the best palette, and it is also the most beautiful world famous painting. Everyone can touch it.
In my opinion, the film has three themes, loneliness - life and death - personal powerlessness in the process of modernization. Loneliness seems to be a long-term bedridden elderly mother who cannot do without Hatiz, but in fact it is the thread of life that depends on each other. Bees, such industrious and pragmatic creatures, have become a bridge connecting nature and human beings in this wilderness. The gift of nature is the source of life for mother and daughter. Although they live in poverty, they do not lose the smell of fireworks. A dog, a litter of cats, the sweetness of honey, the full and warm sunshine, the green of spring and Hatiz in bright skirts constitute the The peach blossom garden of human society seems to exist independently from modern human society. The only thing that will be linked to modern life is Hatiz returning to "reality" with half of the honey accompanied by the rumbling sound of the train, but everything is still so beautiful, cordial conversations, kind gifts, sincere promises... But With a modern twist, a family of nomadic neighbors drives a herd of livestock to visit and settle. Breaking the tranquility of Peach Blossom Garden, I thought it would bring more bright colors to Hatiz's life, but I didn't expect her life to gradually fade away, neighbors lost their respect for nature, and the predatory way of living made Hatiz This is a disaster, and the good Hatiz can do nothing about it. Yes, the neighbors are like driving a high-speed train of socio-economic development into Hatiz's life, Hatiz can't stop it, this train brings a lot of joy to Hatiz, a group of lovely children, and Talking about the short-lived objects, talking about the past, making the weather forecast and playing music on the radio can make her curious for a while, gathering and visiting festivals, everything is beginning to prove - Hatiz exists in the world, she, the swing She looked young as if she was rippling. However, the train quickly left her life after the search. A young son of a neighbor family was close to Hatiz. He was once killed because of the bad consequences of his father ignoring Hatiz's beekeeping experience. I hate my parents, and I asked Hatiz at night: Why don't you leave here. Hatiz replied: If I had a son as old as you, a lot of things might be different. To live, one must always believe and believe in something, so that life can continue. Her mother always felt that she restrained Hatiz, but it was not the case. Hatiz could not do without her mother. Of course, Hatiz also knew that even if he left here, it was unknown whether he could adapt to the life outside. Hatiz is a lonely person. She is so proactive in talking to the stall owners when she goes into town to sell honey, and at festivals, she dances and talks with people without any shyness.
"Who doesn't want to be pretty?" said Hatiz, who dyed his hair for the next day's rally.
"Why didn't you agree with so many matchmakers who came to propose kisses?"
"I don't disagree"
"Is that Dad?"
Now that she is alone, it is naturally difficult for her to marry again. Therefore, she is afraid of being alone and experiencing loneliness, and she is even more afraid of her mother's departure. The duet of life and death Spring comes and spring comes again. The film begins with spring and ends with winter. Spring has always represented vitality and vitality, while cold winter often implies death and loneliness.
"Mom, do you like spring?"
"I've been through a lot of winters."
Hatiz's mother has faced too many deaths, and Hatiz's recollection proves that several of her sisters died when they were young.
In the picture full of spring, Hatiz came from a distance, like opening a picture of life. In the cold wind and the ice field, Hatiz and Little Jack were left with each other and walked into the distance.
This seems to be the cycle of the four seasons of the year, and it is more like the alternation of life and death.
The scene of a bee carrying another dead one has also become the node of the whole movie's plot. In the life of Hatiz and his elderly and sick mother, the mother with a deaf ear, Hatiz can always repeat the same words patiently, and can always bring a little greenery and surprises in the ordinary life. What impresses me the most is that The neighbors gave the watermelon to Hatiz's family when they first came. When Hatiz finished eating it for her mother, her mother said before she lay down: "I didn't expect that I could eat watermelon." What a simple and sincere sentence.
Death is a problem that Hatiz and his mother have to face every day. During a cleaning, we saw that the mother was very ill. Despite this, the mentality of the mother and daughter is always good, and the daily communication has never touched such a solemn topic as death. But the mother's body like a dead tree seems to be saying goodbye to Hatiz every day. As mentioned earlier, Hatiz said when answering the question of the neighbor's son, if she had a son, many things might be different, maybe she would have the courage to change her life, the motivation to move forward in life, and put her life on the line. The letter is transferred from the mother to the new life, and such a relationship is the proof of her existence, like the ups and downs of the breath to a person. The unrestrained looting of the neighbors had a great impact on the mother and daughter. The mother and daughter, who had never quarreled before, had two small quarrels. One was a clip of Hatiz talking to her mother about the death of honey: "If you As a child, I can carry you and run away, and they kill all my bees." Two women wiped their tears, one was crying and complaining, the other was silent; the second time was in winter, there was no food, no honey, just a bucket of milk left by the neighbor who had moved away in a hurry, and because of time The reason became "yogurt", the mother complained that she would not eat it, and Hatiz threw the bowl to the ground angrily. Also because of Honey's death, whenever a picture of mother and daughter is presented, it is cut into two pictures instead of coexisting in one picture, and the relationship becomes silent, or sadness spreads in the picture. Hatiz, who had everything under control, felt helpless and powerless in the face of all this, and it was the root cause of it all. When Hatiz was excited to share the music with the mother in the house because he had repaired the radio radio by himself, the absence of an answer had already hinted at the mother's departure. In this joy and sorrow, the unfamiliar singing of the radio revealed the vitality and the silence of the house. The double meaning of death is juxtaposed in the picture, which is shocking. At the end of the film, Hatiz comes to the place where the wild bees are found at the beginning of the film, which is not only the hope of finding life, but also the beginning of rebirth. Facing the reappearing bee, Hatiz, who lost his mother, seemed to rekindle the hope of life at this moment.
Of course, I don't know whether what Hatiz does is driven by the simple survival instinct of human beings as a creature, or whether it is full of desire for life. When the wolf howled in the night, Hatiz, who was looking for little Jack in the dark with a torch, seemed to be holding on to the last trace of sustenance, loneliness is the devil that devours the soul, and she shouted to drive out this darkness. Everything is the preservation of her last hope, she is fighting, she is breaking out. Personal powerlessness in the process of modern society The nomadic neighbors are a very modern family. They have cars, chainsaws, radios, and honey piercers. They are in stark contrast to Hatiz's previous life. . They have become symbols of the modernization process. They plundered nature uncontrollably. When they suffered revenge from nature, they left angrily, leaving behind a piece of chicken feathers. They only have their own interests in their eyes, just like the ark of the modernization process. Xia never considers others and nature, and in the face of such a modern invasion, Hatiz in Peach Blossom Land is helpless and has no power to parry. Every move of the leader even threatens her living space. She is like the only one under attack. The remaining five surviving house bees are as helpless.
The first time a bee falls into the water in the film, it climbs up along the leaves, retaining the last shreds of life as Hatiz transfers the last bee to a distant tree trunk. The second time, she rescued bees in the water with leaves and reached out to rescue troubled tortoises in a dry pool, as if she herself were like these weak but tenacious creatures. With the loss of her last hive, which was also plundered by the homeowners and greedy honey buyers, Hatiz could no longer afford to cry to her mother. Tiez loses her mind and collapses in front of the enormous pressure of survival. She is a bee falling into the water, or a turtle in a dry pond, but no hand reaches out to help her. Hatiz is like a group of people in our society, small and strong, and that group of people also exists in Jia Zhangke's movie universe. Jia Zhangke said that he likes to make films, especially documentaries, that is how his films keep their vitality, and he can always learn new things from the process of making documentaries.
Finally, let’s talk about the visual effects. Whether it is the composition of the picture or the use of tones, it is very beautiful. Sometimes it is like a modern landscape painting, but also like an oil painting. It is both poetic and sympathetic. It is both fiery and cold, like a duet of life and death, and a song of ice and fire. By the way, let me say one last sentence. This sentence has nothing to do with the above. I always feel that the man in the neighbor is a bald man, and the buyer who buys honey is a bald boss.
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