The pace is slow, the scenery is beautiful, and the acting is great. There is not even a theme, no point of view, the director just wants to truthfully show the inner world of a unique group of people who have left reality and retreat to nature. There are also such people in China. In recent years, the media reported that there is such a group of people in Zhongnan Mountain, who live in peace and seclusion in the mountains and forests with simple and even hardships.
Through this film, you can have a general understanding of their inner world. More importantly, after watching the movie, you will think; do I need to live in such a hurry and with such a strong purpose? Can my pace of life be slower?
The protagonist of the film is a soldier who came down from the battlefield, and his psychology has been hurt. He did not become a homeless or a drug addict. He just chose to avoid crowds and live in seclusion in the mountains. Although life in the wild is extremely hard, he enjoys it.
The complication is that he is not alone. He also lives in the mountains and forests with him with his teenage daughter. The girl did not have his experience and experience. He returned from reality to the mountains, while the daughter was growing up gradually. Not only did the daughter have to live with him in the wild life of starvation and cold, wind and sleep, but her curiosity and instinct would also make her feel at ease with the lively people she had come into contact with. Civilized world, clean, warm and comfortable normal people yearn for.
When the father took his daughter to escape from the warm and comfortable normal house temporarily housed by the government agency, and was unwilling to let his daughter go to school, he picked up the train and took a shuttle bus to find the next deserted mountain forest, and continued to let his daughter and him suffer from hunger and cold, running around everywhere. , we will feel sorry for the girl, and the father is selfish and cruel.
And my father really already belongs to the wild mountains, not special values, not beliefs, not cultivation, and not escaping from reality. His heart really belongs to the wild mountains.
In the end, the girl chose to stay in the civilized society of the small mountain village, and her father disappeared in the forest again.
There is no right or wrong here, which is better or worse, only the way of life is different. The film not only shows the freedom and extreme hardship of survival in the wilderness, but also shows that the civilized world is concerned and friendly to them, and the residents of mountain towns Tranquil and soothing rural lifestyle.
After watching the film, we will find that in fact, each of us is entangled in these ways in our hearts. Many times we live in this state, and at the same time yearn for another state. In fact, it is impossible for you to have two lives at the same time, and each of the above states will make you gain and lose. If you choose a civilized society, you will have the superiority and comfort of material life, but you will inevitably become a big machine without freedom and pressure. The big screw, choose to hide in the mountains, you have freedom and liberation, but life in the wild is so difficult and difficult.
The living conditions in the mountain village and town at the end of the film are actually an eclectic way, or an ideal way of life in the director's mind. The pace of life is slow, there are basic material conditions, and there is not too much pressure.
Back to our present moment, through the film, we can understand which way we live, understand the gains and losses and sources of anxiety and pressure of our choice of the current way, and the meaningless complaints can be much less.
More importantly, if our increasing desires can be reduced, and the faster and faster rhythm can be reduced, no matter which way we live, we can actually make our hearts peaceful and soothing.
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