The film was nominated for both Best International Film and Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards, and you can imagine how well it was rated.
Even after watching this movie with such expectations, I still think it is rare. A documentary can be made so complete and "dramatic", it needs a lot of material, and a lot of material requires enough patience And concentration, it takes a huge amount of time to exchange. And this also requires a sincere heart.
Sure enough, the director originally wanted to shoot in three months, but after six months, it took three years. The living conditions in the area are extremely poor, the people are very poor, there is no water, no electricity, and no food to eat, so the filming team can be stationed there for three years, if it is not for the enthusiasm for what they do, I really can't think of anything else. .
The heroine in the documentary is a Turk who has not been able to return to Turkey. In that barren mountain, she is the only household. She lives with her seriously ill mother in a hole that does not look like a home at all, and uses beekeeping to collect food. Honey is sold to live a life. During this time, a nomadic family came and plundered her honey resources. But even so, she chose to forbear and retreat. She is someone who has not lived a social life, but she knows the rules and contracts with nature and land better than those people. She followed her principle from start to finish: "I take half and leave half for the bees."
Her tolerance for her neighbors, her sincere love for children, and her compassion for small animals and food sharing made her full of humanity. After all, there are too many people who are not human, or not even human anymore. In her life, her mother is a very important being. She also complains and complains to her mother, but most of the time she takes care of her without abandoning her. There are also very poetic expressions in the dialogue between the two. I was even close to thinking that was supposed to be a written line.
In one clip, she lit a candle and asked her mother, can you see the light?
The mother said that this eye can still see, the other can not see.
She wanted to take her mother out to see, but she said, I can't go out.
Then, my mother said, you can't take me out, I'm like a tree now.
In another clip, the heroine asks her mother, can you imagine when spring comes?
Mother asked back, is there spring?
The hostess said, of course.
Mother said that too many winters have passed.
Later, the mother left, as expected, and very few people who were seriously ill survived the winter. The heroine is grief-stricken, but she continues to live alone.
end. On the top of the mountain, she ate a piece of honey and shared it with the big dog. Who knows if she will live like this forever? Nobody knows. The land of honey, a woman so tough, so strong. She is kind to nature, and naturally she will be kind to her.
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