First of all, on the whole, I feel that the picture is very beautiful and warm, such as the scene of Hatiz returning home with the neighbor boy in the sunset, the interaction between the protagonist and his mother by the candlelight, and Hatiz using a green leaf Gently picking up the bees that fell into the water, etc. These pictures look full of poetry and have the feeling of oil painting.
Secondly, the content of the documentary is very touching. This film tells the story of the last female bee-picker on the European continent. Hatiz and his 86-year-old mother live in an abandoned village and rely on honey to make a living. Hatiz lives in an abandoned village. When picking honey, we have always adhered to a principle, that is, pick half and keep half. Hatiz's seemingly primitive approach is imbued with awe for nature. Although there was not much honey collected, Hatiz was content with it. After selling the honey, he bought bananas and fans for his mother. For the sake of her mother, she married her whole life, but she never regretted it. She wholeheartedly waited for her mother and made her happy. The relationship between her and her mother was touching. But the arrival of the Hussein family broke the tranquility here. The Hussein family brought the laughter of children and the greed of human nature. The simple and kind-hearted Hatiz taught his neighbors how to keep beekeeping. Hussey broke the principle of taking half here and keeping half in order to support his seven children, causing the ecosystem to be destroyed. As the bees slowly die. It also deprived Hatiz of his only source of living income. They will be punished, as Hatiz's mother said. A sudden plague killed the cattle of the Hussein family one by one. The Hussain family finally had to move out of here. After the Hussain family left, Hatiz's mother also died on a snowy night. Hatiz shed tears in front of the camera. The hardships of life have never brought down Hatiz, but without her mother, it means that she has lost her only spiritual support, and she is the only one in this vast land. In addition, there are two lines that left a deep impression on me. Hatiz cried and said to her mother: If you are a baby, I will take you away from here. And said to the neighbor boy: If I had a son like you, life may be completely different from now. These two sentences are very touching, and they describe the protagonist's sorrow and difficulty.
In the end, I learned that the filming of this film lasted three years, and there were 400 hours of material. A co-production of two directors and two cinematographers. The mutual learning between them presents such a visual feast to me. And in the process of shooting, the photographer could not understand Turkish, and the translation was done later. It's really not easy to make such a blockbuster in such a difficult environment. The most important thing is that the protagonist's life attitude of loving life and revering nature brings us a lot of thinking space.
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