The first half is really uncomfortable to watch. The delicacy of mountain delicacies is hard to swallow in front of your eyes. Poverty, ignorance, throw away the baby boy, sell the baby girl, so..., I thought, it is probably a Japanese-style "sell ugly" movie of that era.
Seeing that the Yuya family was destroyed, the impact was particularly great.
It was also a living family, and there was a warm atmosphere when sitting together to eat baked potatoes. The mute mother also hurriedly gave food to her children.
But the brood that was rushed in was so brutally abducted and buried alive.
The so-called rules, and everything here, is far from 'civilization'. This repression of survival and desire, the ugliness, urgency, and chaos exposed in the repression, will make people feel suffocated when looking back from a slightly civilized environment.
Poverty and bad habits, the inferiority of human nature and animal nature make the world far away from civilization, no matter how beautiful the environment is, there is no pastoral at all, and the pastoral may just be a dream.
Old people who have reached their age have to carry them up the mountain on their backs. I saw them in cartoons when I was a child, and now they are reproduced in real life. The older men were reluctant to go and needed to be bound. Older women would rather go up the mountain than die first.
After all, living is the greed of life.
Chen Ping's mother seemed to be mentally prepared early to knock out a healthy tooth. A good day was chosen and all the rituals before going up the mountain were performed. The mountain road is rugged, and many people did not send it up the mountain (it was instructed in advance, it is fine if you don't want to send it up the mountain). Those who can send it up the mountain should be pretty good sons.
Climbing and wading finally arrived, and the shocking white bones and white-haired skeletons lived in the abdominal cavity of a crow. The mother who will also become this bone never said a word, and pushed the rice ball around and hung it on the shelf on her son's back.
In that parting scene, the warmest part of human nature is revived. Touching the hand of the son who is about to leave is the last temperature. Holding her mother tightly and being reluctant to let go is affectionate and hard to let go. That is the awakening of the deepest feelings in human nature.
On the one hand, it was such a farewell, and on the other hand, the old father, who was unwilling to go up the mountain, rolled off the cliff in the torn with his son.
The gentleness and decency of humanity meets the brutality and bloodshed of humanity.
At that moment, the desires and thoughts of everyone in front of them, the faces of life and death, all emerged, and together with the two parents and children, they formed the appearance of all beings. Suddenly it snowed (on the way up the mountain, my son said, if there is a mountain god, then it should snow) It seems that there is a god, looking down at all this - all kinds of colors, that is, the appearance of people.
Excitedly, Chen Ping returned to see his mother. Snow covered all the ugly and ordinary, and also covered those bones. He told his mother earnestly in his eyes that it was really snowing, and it was good to be snowing.
At that moment, the pure love between mother and son had the radiance of God against the background of snow.
Down the mountain, back to the snow-covered village, back to the beginning, and back to the daily life, all kinds of things, to eat, to desire, to multiply, to live, to face death... The appearance of a person.
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