God's will is never high

Elinor 2022-04-19 09:02:48

"(According to Longquan's blood and tears sprinkled on the robe,) Sighing hero is alone, throwing his body into the water, looking back at the sky, his resentment is hard to disappear, and his anger is soaring into the sky! But the moonlight shines, and the cold wind blows! Still need to hurry Running and fleeing. I had to go to sleep, and I was afraid that someone would look at me, (I missed my Wuling youth in the red dust!)"

The smoky crowd on the migrant boat, the numb and tired face, the story is in the background music of "Lin Chong Night Run" expand in.
Regarding the background music, I didn't hear what it was at first, but it was desolate and low, and I sang it leisurely. The camera swept across the bare-backed men with dirty faces, the calm and docile women, and the sinking sky outside the cabin. The smell of drifting in the rivers and lakes came out. I was shocked and searched everywhere, only to know that it was "Lin Chong Night Run" from the Sichuan Opera.

Wherever the rivers and lakes are, there are rivers and lakes wherever there are people. A long time ago, there was a movie about the port that said this.
Jia Zhangke was also from the 1970s. No one has calculated the impact of Hong Kong films on this generation. Even in today's developed media, Hong Kong films still play a role in young people in some closed and dilapidated corners. For example, the "little brother" in this film. He was young, thin, and ridiculously posing as Fage's POSE in "The True Color of Heroes", a little gangster on the dock, a brat, and said with a serious face: "This is not our time." Indeed, Pony is a The young heroes of the 1970s, in the 21st century when the heroic halo has already given way to the business elite, are still fans of Xiaoma, how out of place. He defined himself by the loyalty, style, and clothes he learned in the movie, and he died in a fight, only worth fifty dollars from the boss. This child of the 1980s, at least one sentence he said right, he does not belong to this era, does not belong to this Fengjie city that will be submerged by water.

Shen Hong came to Fengjie in search of her husband who had no news of her husband. In fact, she had already had a bad premonition in her heart, and this trip was just to confirm it. Away from people's evasive expressions and glances, she met her husband, who had already made his mark. In just a few short years, Guo Bin, an ordinary worker from a closed factory, turned into a big businessman, contracting urban demolition projects, raising a group of horses in the engineering headquarters, and calling government officials brothers. All of this is probably related to a businesswoman from Xiamen, who climbed up on her and became a partner, complacent in this small city. Just like the boss who built the "Rainbow Bridge", with a wave of his hand, he can use his mobile phone to remotely send calls from the Electricity Commissioner, making the Rainbow Bridge shine brightly at night. This city is a feast for their subordinates. Naturally, he no longer remembers his hometown wife, even if there is a little affection, it is more of avoidance and rejection.
Shen Hong made up a lie and let herself leave with dignity. He didn't even need a man's guilt, his back turned calm, and his eyes were full of tears only when he was sitting alone by the window of the cruise ship. This is a smart, awe-inspiring, and ruthless woman, who has the quality to walk around the world alone, but the world here doesn't belong to her.

Another passer-by is Guo Sanming. He came to find the woman and daughter who left him sixteen years ago. He found her, and then left with her, who was no longer young and beautiful, at a cost of 30,000 yuan. Sixteen years ago, he bought this woman with 3,000 yuan. Behind the illegal procedures, he was actually very kind to her. But she was rescued and returned to her hometown with her daughter. Because my brother owed a debt, he was paid to the ship owner without a name. My daughter's school was closed due to demolition, so she had to go to Dongguan to work.
In this emotional scene where she and him met, a pair of rustic middle-aged men and women who had absolutely no external images to speak of, actually acted heartily. Every word and every word is the daily necessities of life. It is not deliberately forbearance, it is a real and true love. After 16 years, I found it again, not beautiful and vicissitudes. ? Back then, she was young and weak, but now, with a rotten face and a bloated body, he decided to support her again, and she decided to follow him. Two insignificant people in the bitter sea, at this moment, she is a woman who gently follows her man, and he is a man who can shield her from the wind and rain.
In order to redeem her, Guo Sanming went back to Shanxi and went to the coal mine to make money. From the initial indomitable and almost stupefied search to finally getting his wish, this man is affectionate, righteous and courageous, but this place does not belong to him. All he can do is to retreat with his own hope.

While the relocation was in progress, the thousand-year-old town that was about to be submerged by water had no time to pay attention to two foreign visitors. With the roar of the blasting of buildings and the waving of the hammer of demolition, people passively left their homes for generations. She left her hometown and has been on the road for a long time. The owner of Tangrenge Inn, the old man lived in Qiaodong; the workers followed Guo Sanming to Shanxi, and they would not be able to come up to work in the black coal mine in the morning and evening; the girl who dropped out of school pulled a foreigner to ask if she needed a babysitter; The middle-aged woman next door went to Guangdong... It's probably just a few ways, and there are some daring ones who carry bags and grab mobile phones in economically prosperous provinces and cities, who knows, obey God's will or man's will, thousands of In the past hundred years, I have traveled the same road. After drinking the last cup of reunion wine in silence, I will go on the road. I can't get out of the dawn, the eternal night, and the soul that is dead or wandering in this night.

"Looking at the mountains and rivers of my hometown / But I see the white clouds are misty / Lao Xuantang is afraid of death / Oops, my wife and children have no support / Oops, howling! / Sighing heroes / Sighing heroes, how can I get rid of my hatred?
" Gao Nan asked, turned around and looked back, there was no hometown. In the era of no heroes, the era of the end of heroes, ordinary people are still running at night. Who knows where they will go, and if there is any hope ahead.

As romantic as Hong Kong-made hero films, it is a flying saucer flying through the sky, an abandoned building that soars into the sky like Shen Liu, a weirdo with biochemical protective equipment all over the rubble field, and a sitting in a small restaurant. Liu Guanzhang, who is in full-body costume playing with his mobile phone, is also the one who saw Guo Sanming looking up at the end of the play, walking a tightrope in the middle of the building.
"In the end, I walked along the silk and walked in the clouds. I think that although the road ahead is bumpy and slim, or the road ahead is very dangerous, no matter what kind of person we are, we must go on. I think it is very dangerous, but we have to go on, so It's also very romantic." This is Jia Zhangke's explanation, people who think like this are worthy of respect and are truly romantic.
And I agree with Chen Wenqian more. "Usually in a society, those who immigrate first are the smartest, and those who stay are the dumbest!"

"Today, this place has become the focus of the world because of the Three Gorges Project, which has attracted worldwide attention. The construction of the Three Gorges Project is the ideal of several generations of national leaders in China, and the people in the reservoir area have also made huge sacrifices for this. The water level here, On May 1, 2006, it will rise to 156.3 meters, and you will see these small houses on both sides of the strait, which will all be submerged..."
In the tour guide's commentary, it was over. Z once described to me the scenery of a town in the Three Gorges before it was submerged. The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the trails are secluded, and people hear each other. In that year, he was there. There is nothing left now. What is lost is not only the scenery, not only the poor but peaceful life of people, but also not only the great achievement of a high gorge out of Pinghu. If people are destined to wander and never return to their hometowns, what is the use of merit.
My dear brother said in the article: "The Three Gorges Incident is a bonanza of masters and classics like Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Zola's Germination, and Hugo's Les Miserables."
Yes, but only Jia Zhang was harvested. Ke's "Three Gorges Good People". As always, Jia Zhangke is touching the life at the bottom and asking for their direction. In fact, this direction is not only for them, but also for all the people on this land. It's just that many people don't care anymore and have forgotten about it. In the period of "Xiao Wu", it was only a description of the state of existence. In "World", more realistic collisions have been introduced, and the thinking about loss. When I arrived at the Sanxia Good People, it was a stop in the process, not so heavy. But don't mean it. With the narration of wandering, a corner of this covered "world" has been uncovered.
That world is at the foot of the prosperous city, behind the prosperous Huazhang, many people choose not to see, and those who see will accept the pain from the heart. Holding the charcoal, he said nothing. No one said it, and the one who said it, I can't help but salute him.

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  • Brother Mark: You're a nostalgist.

    Shen Hong: We can't forget who we are.