Time ｜ Song Haihong: Watch the adventure of the open -air movie

Text/Song Haihong

In my childhood, rural culture and entertainment were very scarce. It was my biggest wish to be able to watch open -air movies. As long as I heard that the brigade is going to play movies, I didn't wait for school, my heart was like a flying kite, and it had already floated to the place where the movie was released. In order to watch movies, no matter how far I am, I am willing to go. In order to watch a movie, I almost lost my life. I still think about it so far.

In the summer vacation of that year, my father went to Huai'an Normal University training, and my mother took me and my brother to play with my grandmother's house. It happened that the brigade where the grandmother's house was on the movie was put on the movie that day. After hearing the news, I was happy like a happy bird. After dinner, the night before the night came, the mother and aunt brought the bench, holding my brother and my brother, and the villagers in the group hurriedly walked towards the screening place.

When I got there, I saw the surge of people in the court and joked. The four corners of a square large white cloth have been fixed on two wooden stakes, and a treble speaker is also installed under the screen. Even at night, the weather was very sultry. The waiting time was very torment. My mother hugged her brother, my aunt hugged me, and they kept driving us mosquitoes with a fan. Even so, there are still mosquitoes bite me from time to time. Although itchy, I can only endure in order to watch the movie.

After about an hour, the sound of the generator sounded not far away. The courtyard was suddenly bright, the children shouted excitedly, and some even ran around the field, and some stretched their hands into the light, and wanted to leave their "masterpieces" on the screen.

After the screening started, the light of the field darkened. People who came late had to stand on a stool, and some children were still riding on the shoulders or necks of adults. Most of the movies at that time were war movies or spy warfares, and I especially loved watching. As soon as the emblem of the Bayi Film Studio appeared, everyone would shout inexplicably. The movie watched that day was "Five Strong Heroes of Langya Mountain". The film vividly shows the story of the Eighth Route Army soldiers who are not afraid of bleeding sacrifice and fighting with the Japanese invaders.

When we looked at it, we suddenly made a strong wind, and soon the electricity flashed. In June, like a child's face, it changed, and it was raining in a blink of an eye. There was a piece of restlessness in the field, and everyone couldn't care about watching a movie, and they fled. As soon as my aunt didn't pay attention to grabbing my hand, I was scattered by the villagers who hurriedly hid the rain, scaring the cries.

I was frightened by this sudden situation, and my heart was particularly nervous, so I had to grab a man's corner tightly, and squeezed as inertia. The aunt and mother looked at the crowd of darkness, but did not see me, so anxiously cried.

At this moment, his father happened to rush home from Huai'an and listened to the neighbors that we went to the grandmother's house, and he hurried to his grandmother's house by bike. When I arrived at my grandmother's house, I learned that we went to watch a movie. My father was worried about raining and hurried over again. As soon as the screening field, Douda's rainfall quickly wet his father's whole body.

When my mother told him that when I was scattered by the crowd, my father was frightened. I didn't say a word. I rushed into the crowd and touched a child blindly. Yes, my father touched the child. When I heard my father's voice, the heart I was hanging finally let go, but I cried even more.

Under normal circumstances, after watching the movie the night before, the movie the next day will become a topic of discussion. But the "thrilling" open -air movie last night became the "news" of everyone's discussion. Some people say that the next day they picked a basket of shoes in the place where they were watching; others said that two children entered the hospital because they were trampled.

After listening to everyone's discussion, the more I wanted to feel the more cold behind, she sighed to my father, "If it wasn't for you to appear in time, maybe the child who was trampled was our daughter, it was a blessing!" Since then, when my father was not at home, my mother dared not take me to watch a movie alone.

Soon, the completion of the cinema of the township, which facilitated the villagers and avoided the rain. A few years later, the popularity of televisions made me even more like fish, and sometimes I could boil overnight to chase the drama.

The scene of watching open -air movies as a child has passed for many years. Although some memories have become blurred because of the long time, the thrilling experience of that time is as deep as my mind, and it has become my unforgettable memory.

【About the Author】

Song Haihong, a native of Lianyungang, Jiangsu, a deputy director, a member of Lianyungang City as a member of the association. Some works are found in newspapers such as "Qinghai Lake", "Yalu River", "Prose Baijia" and "Benci".

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