Small mountain villages will never be a paradise. As villas and the mountain villages that those who join the WTO yearn for, are hermits who bring their own living materials, their own social relationships and their own psychological belongings. For the people in mountain villages, their life and survival are no more than other animals. Just one step.
Cities make life better, at least in terms of survival, absolutely.
The terrifying mountain village with low productivity is so big that a mountain cannot support a single village, and the land is so large that if one person increases in the family, one person needs to be subtracted.
People are productive forces, people are wealth, and people are resources. This is after the level of productivity reaches a certain level. Before that, people are burdens and mice.
The old man went up the mountain on his back, and the young man digs a hole. The first priority of survival is to control the population. Therefore, the family without population control, a large family, had no food to eat, so they had to steal potatoes. As a result, the whole family was searched. All the food was robbed and divided, pots and pans were smashed, and walls were dug up—this was the moment when we first discovered it, when everyone went home and felt that the family would continue to steal without food The village reached a tacit agreement without negotiation, and the village was dispatched that night to dig a hole and bury all the family members alive. Including the woman who had been pregnant countless times with the male protagonist's eldest son Yun Yu and had already been married - in peaceful times, under a sufficient social structure, a woman's body is the value of exchanging things. When you are like a fairy, no matter how charming you are, you may not be able to change a potato if you sleep with someone for a hundred nights.
This film is an anthropological specimen, and there are so many things to discuss.
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The custom of carrying the old man up the mountain:
The son who does not carry the old man up the mountain will become the object of disdain, disdain and accusation in the whole village. He is regarded as a joke for decades, and he is directly shot by the teenage son;
The old man who did not want to go up the mountain was bound by his son and refused to give anything to eat. After being bound, he was forced to go up the mountain on his back. He desperately resisted and begged and was pushed into the abyss.
The old woman who is used to seeing the situation, because of her husband's experience, knows the irreversible fate, so she took the initiative to arrange everything, take the initiative to conform to everything, take the initiative to create everything, knock her teeth loose, knock out her own teeth, take the initiative to ask to go up the mountain, take the initiative to invite the villagers to carry out ceremony"……
Customs of Burying Children to Control Population:
Overborn children are thrown directly off the cliffs and in the fields at will...
Selling Daughter for Food:
The productivity is extremely low, the man who can work is worthless, but the daughter can be sold to others...
The custom of the death of the thief:
Food is bigger than the sky, food is everything, stealing my food is killing me, stealing a potato is threatening the life of our entire village, we will exterminate your entire family in the village, and put an end to your threat;
Only the eldest son can marry and have children:
There is only such a piece of land, and so much food can be produced. The population should be controlled. The extra boys should not be allowed to start a family. Wouldn't the marriage directly increase the number of households, which means that there are piles of "rats" Coming to grab food!
In poverty, four people gamble on potatoes and three people get paid. The psychology of gamblers in this situation...
And about sex:
Sex here is very cheap, cheaper than food. After all, food makes people survive, and sex makes people happy and reproduce. Reproduction can only be done after survival, and happiness cannot be compared with survival.
Therefore, sex here is not so important. You can sleep with all the men in the village for a foolish idea, you can be a dog, you can stutter casually...
And about poverty of mind, poverty of spirit:
Asking his wife to sleep with all the men in the village to atone for his sins, because he died without being carried up the mountain. This is the punishment of the mountain god, who punished his father for beating to death a boy who ran to his house and broke into the house to get his daughter pregnant...
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In addition to events, you can also analyze these characters separately:
old woman
Eldest son
second son
grandson
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Asong and her family
Azhi and her husband
Ayu and her life
Old Ah Jin who promised the old woman
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villagers
Get along with other villages
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