In the dust, flowers stand still

Ona 2022-04-20 09:02:26

One day, the uncle RID in the office suddenly yelled my name across my desk, "Shui Muding, what should I do?" In the end, he said to me very seriously, "I watched the good people of the Three Gorges, and I thought it was very ordinary." I laughed dumbly. At that time, I hadn't watched "The Good People of the Three Gorges", and there were already N friends waiting for me to tell the "Good People of the Three Gorges". "What's so good, because in their eyes, I seem to have become Jia Zhangke's trustee, even if I have been very cautious not to comment on a movie I haven't seen, but explaining why it is good, it still becomes a responsibility of mine.

Of course I would watch this movie, but why is it good? I don't know, I took this movie apart and watched it after all the crazes had passed, when everyone who liked Jia Zhangke and didn't like Jia Zhangke watched the Three Gorges Man, and frankly, I didn't remember anything after the movie was over. live. I turned off the tv and went to bed, just like my normal life, no excitement or sadness about the lives of the people in the social strata, I just went to bed and woke up the next morning, cooked, and ate , take a car, go to work. Trying to remember a movie, trying to think about it and then proving whether it is good or bad is not something I like to do anymore.

The place where I live is very close to a university, so every day I turn around from the street corner, I always meet many men and women with fake IDs. "Do you want a certificate invoice?" This winter, they suddenly gave birth to a few children. One day, you will suddenly find a few more bundles in their hands. If you look carefully, you will find a pair of bags sticking out below. Little feet, it turned out to be a small baby. In a few days, the baby will walk. Because he has to stand with his parents on the street, he is wearing unusually thick clothes. Usually, he is holding their parents like a bag. Now, poking them on the ground, It's a little square robot-like thing, with a rope tied around its waist, and it can hobble around. I forgot about it after watching "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", and then the next day, when I passed the group of people who issued false certificates, got on the bus, and shuttled through the gray reinforced concrete jungle, I suddenly remembered the appearance of the Three Gorges. , Thinking of that open-air dance hall, and the sound of migrant workers waving hammerheads in the early morning, spread to the river surface, spread far and far, suddenly, I felt that my heart, from this city, escaped.

Pian Ruo MM said that she was very good at watching the good people of the Three Gorges, but she felt uncomfortable. I thought, why do so many people feel uncomfortable watching this movie? Why, they see so much suffering, and they only see so much suffering, but can't see the beauty? What a beautiful Three Gorges, what lovely people, be it Sanming or Zhao Tao, many people see them as migrant workers or abandoned wives, but these are just their labels, but people can't see them, how amazing It's been 16 years since Sanming went to see his woman. There are so many things that we thought we couldn't explain, but it turned out to be clear in just two sentences. When Zhao Tao saw her husband, he just told him , she let go. You don't have to question life, you just have to make a choice. Most of the people in "The Three Gorges" live like this. They are people at the bottom. They read less books than we do, and they have been to less places than us, but , They know what they want better than many of us, and they live more clearly. They are a group of people who are strangers to each other. They met in the Three Gorges, but they have a great tacit understanding and mutual tolerance in silence. Even ordinary people can know each other. This is what I like. Some look, and their calm makes our noise seem so shallow.

I like to watch a scene, it is raining, Sanming puts his clothes on his head and walks briskly, my heart becomes wet, and then I think, I actually admire Sanming, and Zhao Tao and the others, they should take it I can pick it up when I wake up, and I can put it down when I need to put it down. I like Sanming very much, as well as the brother of Sanming’s woman, and the migrant workers who left Sanxia with Sanming at the end, and brother Xiaoma. In such a world, Life is so difficult, but it is not easy to be able to live a loving and righteous life. I watched Sanming snuggle up with the woman and watch the demolition of the building. I saw the migrant workers go home with Sanming. Their appearance suddenly made me feel so warm.

Sanming took the thing handed over by the woman and asked: What is this? The woman replied: Sugar. Is it really that bitter? Well, it's bitter, but there's actually sugar. I remembered there was always a woman standing there on the street corner, one of those people who exchanged fake IDs, and she always wore cheap, thick-soled boots with garish metal flowers on them, and I went from there every day When I walked by, I glanced at those boots, because the base was exaggeratedly thick. To be honest, I never thought it was beautiful before, but now, I understand that this is a person who grows flowers in his own dust. Maybe not beautiful, but very cute.

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  • Brother Mark: You're a nostalgist.

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