Why so calm and no resonance?
He was born in the same era as Jia Zhangke, he was born at the beginning of the era, and I was born at the end of the era, and I exist in the same social environment, but I can't empathize with him, but I can't fully appreciate the humanistic care in it.
I am often ignoring, often forgetting various fragments of the past, and he is slowly magnifying them.
Ask yourself what am I doing today? And where will I go tomorrow?
"The old has gone, the new has not yet come." - Xiao Wu
"The old county has been submerged, and the new county has not been built." - The Good Man of Three Gorges
He depicts China in the transition between the old and the new, a China that survives in the cracks , everything is in China, where is our spirit?
Have been wondering why people under the camera don't mind his camera?
They are still natural and real in front of the camera, their doubts, their helplessness, their persistence, and their free and easy, I believe that only Jia Zhangke has the ability to photograph the Chinese themselves so deeply.
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