Handan. The only thing related to the movie "Old Man in Mountains and Rivers" is that "Liang Zi" got pneumoconiosis in a coal mine in Handan. When Liang Zi was checked out from the hospital, the camera flashed through the diagnostic bag, and it was a pleasant and sad mood to see "Handan Hospital".
Yes, it was a surprise.
There is another similarity. People always leave their hometowns, for whatever reason. Active, passive. I am the one who actively wants to leave Handan. Liang Zi chose to leave because of his feelings and "Jinsheng" because of a better life. Those who stay are also "broken" by those who leave.
The surprise is not only the mention of Handan in the movie, but also the intimacy and familiarity with the image.
The sad thing is not only the Handan coal mine and pollution, but also the fact that Handan has never been recognized as his hometown.
Therefore, no matter how good or bad the reputation of "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" is, it still touches the memory, and then feels: I owe myself a hometown.
I don't know if this counts as a movie review, and I don't like movie reviews in the true sense. In addition to the resonance of the film, it should be the feelings of thousands of people, and I prefer the feelings of thousands of people rather than the analysis and dismantling of the film.
The time span of the movie is very short, because 2025 is only 10 years away. In 1999, he was already 8 years old. Mountains and rivers can be man-made (pass away, dry up, collapse), but people are still people after the turbulent passage of time. The story is always like the passage of time, everything is inevitable.
I am a native of Handan, so
let’s start with my hometown.
◆Living in the countryside, because of his father's work, he moved to the city to attend primary school. Because he can only speak dialect, his classmates laughed at him for not being able to speak Mandarin. After learning Mandarin, I began to laugh at my parents' poor Mandarin.
The family moved 100m away from Handan Iron and Steel, which is a mythical existence because it supports hundreds of thousands of people. When I was a child, I happily sneaked into the factory to steal copper and rotten iron. At that time, I didn't know whether the sky was blue or not, and I hoped that I was really happy at that time.
◆Because of extracurricular tutoring in junior high school, Keke is the first, just like having the capital to laugh at others. Junior high schools are not important, and key middle schools and ordinary middle schools are like another kind of ridicule capital. I don't know that I will be laughed at by others. I don't know what a friend is, but for the first time online dating, the object of online dating is from Beijing, and I am very proud. Another mockery of capital.
The junior high school is 2km away from the steel factory. Most of the parents of my classmates work for the steel factory or are related to steel. including their own parents. It feels like I understand the industry, from raw material supply to design drawings (mostly parts) to steel tempering to security measures required for transportation. There is also a group of people whose parents are specifically opposed to Handan Steel, such as how to rob steel and how to hide and seek with the police.
◆Key high schools, many students from surrounding counties. I found that there are classmates who can live unrestrainedly without studying, and I want to learn from others. I found that there are classmates who are dressed in "trend" and "new" and want to learn from others. Found someone riding a 2000 yuan bicycle and wanted to learn. I found that others can graduate without taking exams, and I want to learn.
The high school is 14km away from the steel plant, and it has almost crossed the city. The parents of the classmates are also basically related to coal, and the son of the mine went abroad without having to study smartly. I began to laugh at why my parents couldn't let me go abroad, and at the same time I didn't want to say that I came from the countryside.
He came from the countryside, and he didn't mine. Oh, he was the son of a miner.
After graduating from high school, he left his hometown. happy.
As if nothing had happened.
1000km from the steel plant.
Pride got a job in Beijing and found many Handan people in Beijing. Hometown is the hometown that died in my heart. Because it is fixed and similar, the hometown has a certain overlap with the group. Therefore, it has a new function, using the memories of hometown to make friends now.
But found no township party. Because everyone here is willing to leave their hometown. And to decide whether it is a friend now, or whether the pursuit of the future is on the same path. The same is true for Jia Zhangke. From his graduation work, he has to return to the most familiar place to shoot "Xiao Wu", from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, from the Yangtze River to Shanghai.
And the mountains and rivers are still there, and people are the fastest and most ruthless.
I am from Handan
deceased.
A death in the film is both the end and the beginning. Northerners are far more important to death than marriage and childbirth. Because of their studies, they were unable to attend the wedding of their own sister and brother, but they must attend the funeral of the elderly at home no matter how far away.
I have never understood why people care so much about their old friends, and why don't they care about people who live well?
Because he is the fourth child in the family, his grandfather and grandfather died when he was very young. Except for some photos where the adults said this was me, I didn't know much about death except attending their funerals. In school, many excellent compositions must write who to die, so the distortion of death is a good point. It seems to have been living in the selfishness of who to live for. . . The old man has also become a show of capital.
A university internship, an exhibition of photographic equipment, requires running all over the country, which is an insight for those who have never traveled. Before one of the exhibitions, I got a text message: "Say grandma passed away", the first time I was so close to death, I ran away.
Waiting until the end of the exhibition to go home for the funeral can avoid seeing the soulless body. It was the first time I cried because of an old friend. At a lively funeral, it’s easy to hide, and in a daze, I recalled that I wrote an essay when my grandmother died in high school. The whole essay was like today, talking about my feelings, and it must be related to death, and I lied that I was crying madly. Narrated who died because I might. Funny. Death is none of your business, death is death.
Memories began to fill my mind again, time passed quietly, and people passed quietly. At that time, I began to think that if I died, I would be buried in my homeland. Childhood memories also began to emerge slowly, those who were bullied and those who were pampered were just as warm and not humiliated.
The smog is coming. It's a symbol.
When I was in college, I began to complain about the poor air quality in Handan, and then the smog came. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, where the introduction came from, where is my hometown, and another iconic topic: I am in Handan, a city with pure smog air.
Then he began to care about his hometown helplessly, and only limited to verbal complaints and the wish that his parents move out of Handan. Pay attention to the news of Handan, get to know more Handan people, and be moved when I see someone speaking about the air problem in Handan. Just like the diagnostic instructions in "The Dead in the Mountains and Rivers".
And everything is just repeating
the part of the film in Australia, and it is only 10 years later, just like returning to my hometown after a long time, no matter how big the changes, the people remain the same.
It is also after reading that the content of the complaints that my friends concentrated on, of course, not complaining about the love of the year, but the way of portraying the love of the year is very deliberate. Including filming, acting, dialogue. I don't like this part either. This long talk seems to be telling my own boring stories. In fact, it's also a feeling that everyone likes the first half. We love the past. Or wish it was pure once in a movie. The characters are just as pure.
ridiculous. No matter who accompanies you which way, repeating is repeating.
And you're crying inside: don't repeat, don't repeat, don't repeat.
When I can accept repetition, everything is very quiet, so quiet that the film needs to set off fireworks and explosives like a child. In addition to satisfying my pride, I also tell the world that I am not alone, and I have my hometown. Even "Dao Le" is no exception, but he expresses more forbearance and modernity, forbearing his childhood memories of his mother to the point that he must be in the same bed with an older woman before he can be released. I just think that this passage is not for us. It seems to be for those who "go abroad" back then. I wonder if they know Jia Zhangke and what kind of memories they will have.
Still working in Beijing, but starting to slowly face my "bad" self and watch it. I seem to owe it a hometown: a way to face yourself, a way to understand yourself, and a way to express yourself.
So, some people make movies, some people write film reviews
and suddenly want to chat with such people to see if they have similar experiences to share:
yo, you are also from Handan
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