A while ago, my niece who was far away in Shenzhen went on a business trip to Xi'an. After finishing her work, she had a day or two of free time. When she returned to the hotel, she found her eldest brother-in-law waiting in the lobby. She only said two words: "Go, come back!" and drove her niece back. It takes more than three hours to get home from Xi'an, there is no way, my mother and eldest sister miss her too much.
There is no object after the verb "return" in Shanxi dialect, because there is only one place to return, and that is home. In "Old Man in Mountains and Rivers", Shen Tao went to pick up his father who died suddenly at the station and said, "Let's go back", and he also wanted to bring his father home. Because of this, Shen Tao, as a mother, solemnly gave the key to his son Dale. , tell him that he has a home he can go back to at any time. Home is too important to Shanxi and everyone.
Perhaps because Jia Zhangke's lens is always the familiar Shanxi that I am familiar with, the gray Fenyang is the same as all the gray towns from northern to southern Shanxi, with brick houses, earthen kangs, and dirty streets and alleys. It's like watching a documentary of a junior high school classmate, I always don't have much expectation for the section chief's film, but after watching "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers", I found that there are too many places that resonate.
A leaf-shaped Shanxi has great differences in each part. The southern part of Shanxi is fine. The Hedong plain produces grain, and at least one can eat enough while guarding the land. a little more difficult. A few words in the Yellow River's inner and outer rivers and mountains make the Shanxi people of the generation of their parents love their home the most, and crave a little warmth from "wife and children's hot kang head", and only go out unless they have to. Encourage the next generation of children to go out and strive for more opportunities.
Japan can see many rural primary schools, remote islands or mountain villages. There are only a few children in the whole school. The conditions are no different from other primary schools. There is also such a primary school in a small town not far from my home. There are only a dozen or so in the whole school. child. In China, in the process of urbanization, the children in the village go to the primary school in the town, the children in the town have to buy a house in the city to go to the primary school, and many children in the city go to the city to live in the school and go to the middle school since the junior high school. Go out layer by layer. Kangzhong used to have only high school, but now there are more than 4,000 students in junior high school. They moved to the new high school campus near the airport. There are more than 6,000 students.
Children who study well are expected to "fly far away", which is what the dean of education often told us many years ago, where do they go? It is natural to go up. Most of the candidates who took the test chose Beijing and Tianjin or Xi'an nearby. At least those in the province should stay in the provincial capital. Are you doing well? Are there any prospects? do not know. But there is no way, everyone is pushed away like this from birth, which is also a microcosm of the rapid changes in these years.
There are those who go out, and there are those who stay. Shen Tao gave up her son after the divorce, and it was also because of the reason she tried to convince herself: the baby was born with Jin in Shanghai, and she could see the world, so she could be promising in the future. As for whether her son will come back in the future, as a mother, she must be What I hope is that the mountains and rivers of this hometown can attract my son back from what angle? If she knew the pain of her grown-up son, would she regret the decision of that day? What is the definition of "promising" by parents? Big cities, overseas, getting ahead, rich and powerful, but always ignoring whether the children are happy or not. When he grew up, Dale thought he could do anything, which meant that he could do any freelance occupation, and his father was still obsessed with these conditions for his son's "can do", completely forgetting that he was so ambitious to buy a coal mine back then. , earning a lot of dollars, the standard of this "can" is different.
In the first part of the play, Shen Tao, as a teacher in a small town, played a bit exaggerated, but still in place, with a simple ponytail, always smiling confidently, being surrounded by two hair, sitting in the car She also shook her head and asked the "geometric question, or algebra question" like a trembling (this stalk seems to have been used in our high school), I can't see which side her feelings are more inclined to, from the age setting, Zhang Jinsheng bought When Che bought mine, he was only 25 years old, and Liang Zi was the same age. In gray Shanxi, the men were really old.
At the beginning of the second part, after the photo was taken, everyone dispersed, leaving Liang Zi alone. That scene looked really lonely. This is also the fate of more ordinary people. After many years abroad, they may not be able to go back in anger and go back and wait. I only have an ice pot and a house full of dust. Shen Tao, who is not trapped by life, also has his own ordeals. It was only because of the funeral of his father who died suddenly that he was able to see his son who was getting away. Shen Tao may have been very sober in his heart: "Everyone can only accompany you for a while. , sooner or later we will part..."
I like the third part very much. Although many people think it is too jumpy, the other side of the earth with beautiful scenery and blue sky and sea is a completely different world from the small town of Fenyang, where the soil is slag. The "promising" place is also the place of freedom that Jinsheng who fled back then yearned for. There is more confusion and acquaintance between Dale and Mia, who are "the same people in the end of the world". For Dale, isn't it a kind of redemption? Freedom is also a bondage. The communication between father and son cannot be angered by each other. It seems that it is not a problem that can be solved by Google translation. Both of them are really pitiful. Under the lens of the section chief, there is a lot of suffering, but there is little warmth. Although it is the normal state of ordinary people, I hope there will be a little more. But when I saw the surging crowd crowded around outside the lively Yangko during the Chinese New Year of the last century, I couldn't help grinning. To be honest, I was quite happy to be in the crowd and watch the fun. Every year once.
If you leave, there may be a return, especially after having the next generation. Every year I bring my sister and brother back to China. No matter how they understand the difference between countries or the difference in living environment, maybe they can't understand the dialect, at least they It is enough to be able to see how the previous generation gets along with each other, what kind of kinship they have, and to know their own roots.
The mother who made dumplings in the winter seemed to hear the whispered "Tao" on the other side of the ocean, and hesitantly turned around to look for it. That scene was too tearful. "Let's go, let's go back!" Although he knew that Dale had been completely cut off by the ever-changing environment and culture, he still hoped that he could return to his mother who was dancing alone in the snow, even just once.
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