"Hidden Dust and Smoke": The cycle of the cultivation of agricultural cultivation, the beginning and end of rural marriage

The people on this land and animals were busy and busy.

Author ｜ Di Fei

In 2022, Douban's first domestic film with an 8 points or more finally appeared- "Hidden Dust Smoke".

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This literary film shortlisted for the Berlin International Film Festival's main competition unit has become a work that breaks the "zero shortlisted" in the three major Chinese films in the European Film Festival.

However, it is also a "non -call" rural theme literary film with a box office of only 3.56 million in the week since its release on July 8th.

As the director Li Ruiyi said, "Just like farming, the scattered characters are condensed into the script. Finally, it blooms on the screen, which is the same as those seeds to the ground."

"Hidden Dust and Smoke" is like a documentary, and the lens language is straightforward. While showing the cycle of agricultural cultivation, it also reflects the beginning and end of a rural marriage.

The power contained in the meantime also followed the rotation of the four seasons and appeared to the fullest.

People in the corner of the village are soaked in forbearance

"The fourth, go to the new gown." The strong Gansu accent was flying with the sky northwest.

The actor Ma Youtie took an unstable step and walked towards the fence. Following the footsteps, the camera was swept into the dim house, and the heroine Cao Guiying also appeared.

This is the first meeting of the audience and the male and female protagonists, and the first meeting between the male and female protagonists.

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This was a blind date. The male and female protagonists did not speak. They were like two people who were at the mercy of others, waiting for others to talk about the price, and then traded.

They are "people in the corner of the village", and they are people who are not noticed in the bottom farmers. "Hidden Dust and Smoke" starts here, and the tone is slightly heavy, and the background color of the hidden background is indeed.

Ma Youteng and Cao Guiying have become difficult households in the rural marriage market. It is a solid reason for social reasons. This is the first half of their life with their bidirectional force: the disadvantage of Ma Youteng is the poverty of birth, and his personality The extremely honest Musta has become the label of "good bullying". The brothers like a donkey like a broken house that was dirty and lived in dirty, lived in nothing, was sarcasted by the neighbors, and was squeezed by the main farm to donate blood again and again. ; Cao Guiying's weakness is her root root. The disability of her body makes her unable to live like an ordinary person. The infertility in the worseness makes her fully lose her position in the countryside. She has not been qualified to have her own room since she was a child.

And these they endured half of their lives, perhaps "窝 而", but the future life will only continue in such endurance.

This is the two rural middle -aged men and women who are eager to be shaken away by relatives and are partially affected by each other. They have not even dared to look at each other, but they still accept them without saying a word.

As Yu Hua said in the preface of "Living": "The word" living two words is full of strength in Chinese language. Its power does not come from shouting, nor from offensive, but to endure, tolerate the life given to us that life gives us Responsibility, to endure the happiness and suffering, boring and mediocre given by reality. "

Ma Youtein also has a similar "wheat theory": "It is scraped by the wind, what can the wheat say? What can the wheat say that the wheat can be pecked by the flying sparrow? What? What can the wheat say? "What can the wheat say?"

The tolerance in "Hidden Dust and Smoke" has a distressed tone, but this is the only force in the first half of the two. And through the dim background of the forbearance, their love for life, the longing for beauty, and the care of love flowers are more shocking and impactful.

At the end of the film, Wan Nian's chewing with iron removal of his donkey is ready to let it go. As a result, the donkey only kicked the hoof in place. In this regard, there was a blame: "You stupid donkey, you have been made for a lifetime, you don't know running after letting go." This sigh seems to say to himself, even this is already tolerated. Fight.

Power is hidden in trivial, and sprayed thinly

During the day after day, the power of love burst out, and it also sprayed from countless tiny places and gave birth to life.

The life of Ma Youteng and Guiying has uniform bitterness. But when they met each other like each other, they brightened a match, the fire was weak, but there was a hint of hope.

There are wheat flowers that have iron marks on Guiying's hands "I can't get lost everywhere"; Guiying heated over and over again, waiting in her arms to wait for a glass bottle hot water to the fourth in the rain; the hot ravioli There is a piece of iron first and handed it to Guiying: "You eat first"; use the light bulb to incubate the "telegram chicken", and the shiny starlight flashed from the gap of the carton; The big red characters that are carefully posted; they bathe and catch fish in the river canal, sowing, fertilizing, waiting for harvest on the earth ...

These trivial and scattered details of rural life seem to be a "love" defined by modern cities, but this gives the two very pure power.

Because in the rotation of the four seasons, they lived quietly with the earth. You will find that the iron mouth is clever, and Guiying's face has more smiles. In a mutual temptation and sincere life, they found their dignity and sense of security they had never had, and also awakened their ability to love people deep in their hearts.

Director Li Ruiyi said in an interview: "No matter what the external environment is, as part of the life of a person, love is rich, and anyone will be willing to choose to love." Hidden Dust and Smoke "shows this concept." The power of love, because the root was born in the bitter forbearance, and highlighted the stubborn vitality. Together with the color of the film, it followed the character's mood to show warm yellow, which also faded the sad background.

Movie creatively uses elements in various villages: carefully install the chicken that is raised in a carton, the tadpoles in the release bucket, the swallow nests on the wings, the shovel and the wheat seedlings buried ... These meticulous images It is the concrete presentation of "Hidden Dust Smoke" to life. Not only did the majestic vitality, but also the hopes of iron and Guiying to the future.

The two who met in the depression winter of all things were built with their own houses in the long seasons of the four seasons; they raised chickens and looked forward to growing; they ushered in new swallows in spring; they used their feet to loose soil. Then, the seeds were broadcast on the ground and waited for harvest -they re -created their own lives in nature.

The most common images in these rural areas are the most important links with people, and it is also an endless reincarnation.

It seems that everything is getting better. The sick Guiying went to the bridge to wait for the iron to go home, and accidentally fell into the river and died. The wedding photos of the two became Guiying's photos. You Tie sent away the only donkey to accompany him, and then sought to die.

Life and death are fixed, sadness and anger are all fixed. This impermanence of life has set off the previous life power more shocking.

The entire film does not have twists and turns and bizarre plots, and there is no conflict selling point of the conflict of the cinema movies, but it uses the moving image to describe the cycle of agricultural farming and show the beginning and end of a rural marriage. And the vitality connected in it was thoroughly passed out: "The people on this land and animals are busy, busy,"

Hidden into the dust and smoke, and then break out of the soil

"Hidden Dust Smoke" is a story that grew out of rural land.

It closely combines farming and love, showing the close relationship between land and humans. The humanistic care that the film wants to convey — the love of those people is rooted in land and grows with the land.

"Hidden Dust and Smoke" is not the first movie of the director Li Ruizheng: "Old Donkey Head" and "Tell them, I took the white cranes to go" and "Home in the place where the water grass is rich", all made in his hometown, The subject matter comes from the real rural situation.

He insisted on using movies to express the awe and love of the land, and pay more attention to farmers and land. The original rural environment in "Hidden Dust and Smoke" gradually disappeared with a large number of village houses. Guiying died, and the new house collapsed.

In contrast, the results of the "Hidden Dust Smoke" courtyard line, it is undeniable that the dilemma of rural theme literary films "not called a seat" has not been broken.

Since its release on July 8th, the proportion of films on the day of the premiere was only 2%, and then about 1%of the day. Even in the rare sessions, there were only a few audiences in the courtyard. One week, the box office of "Hidden Dust Smoke" is only one -70th of the "Detective War" released on the same day.

However, the good reputation of "Hidden Dust and Smoke" also reflects the improvement of the quality of rural literary films at another extent.

In recent years, the popularity of film and television works "rural+" has not decreased, and the display form is also introducing new:

"Rural+Literature", "The Northern", "The Taste of Rice Flowers", "Rural+Literature" "Tour until the sea becomes blue", "Rural+Comedy", "Go Home", "I and my hometown ";" Rural+Women "" Finding her ", etc., all extend the audience of rural theme to varying degrees. In particular, the form of "rural+comedy" has greatly opened the theater market. The National Day file of "One Point" is still competitive and performed well. It also allows the market to see the new possibility of "rural+".

"Rural+" works should work hard after adhering to the primary true elements, and then work hard on the novels of the angle and the creativity of the story.

Just as the actor Hai Qing, the ten -month rural life experienced by the actor Hai Qing, put on the clothes of rural women, and followed the villagers to pick up wheat ears, fire and cook, clean the house, and catch up with her life. Incorporating the yellow land, even for dark skin and fine wrinkles, they experienced the wind and sun in the wheat field every day to break their own aura.

This is why the "rural+" film attempts to try an actor. Farmers act as farmers, their own sincerity and simplicity and performance of performance make the characters closer to freshness.

The Ma Youtie of "Hidden Dust Smoke" was played by the director Li Ruizheng's uncle Wu Renlin. The authentic farmers successfully shaped the corner of the horse with a kind of kindness.

The film "Sherlock on the Plain" starring Chao Ying is the father of the director Xu Lei and the peasant. The friend Zhan Yi and Shuhe of Chao Ying are also Xu Lei's father and friend in reality. Among them, Zhang Zhanyi, who played Zhan Yi, was later selected by director Ning Hao, playing cousin in "Beijing Good Man" in "My Hometown".

The appearance of the amateur actor makes the role of farmers more real and natural, especially the recklessness and the acting method of their skills without skills, and also make the authenticity of the "rural+" works pursue.

The starting point of the "rural+" theme is the stopping of the real rural areas. The expression of the background of the story is particularly important. This also requires the creator to hidden into the dust and the soil. No. 1 conclusion

In 2021, the nation's seventh census, my country's rural population was more than 500 million, accounting for 36%of the national population. However, in the grand narrative of the cinema movies, this "group" is gradually losing their voice.

It is precisely because ordinary individuals cannot do something in the current situation of the rural areas that are collapsed, and even help those "people in the corner" to help, but fortunately, the movie can be like a window, let them be seen, know, and know. Remember.

Just as "Hidden Dust and Smoke" said: "We can't see it, it does not mean that it does not exist. It is like wheat grains that will become wheat seedlings and grow tall, and then the wheat ears are harvested. Mai Di's initial state. "

Reference materials:

1. "" Hidden Dust and Smoke ": Irrigation, planting, harvesting, building houses, four seasons all year round, each other with each other"

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/s/s3yriqt7nttpw9pr0urbeg

2. "Annual Rating the First Chinese Film, Not only in Rural Love"

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