Comments on the Three Gorges Good Man

At the invitation of a friend, I was lucky enough to watch this small-budget film directed by Jia, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and was widely reported by the media as "applauding and not being a hit". After reading it, I can't help saying something. It's not all because the film moves people, but also because people react to it. The general plot of this film is: fengjie county needs to be demolished due to the "Three Gorges Project", interspersed with two stories about finding relatives. One story is that Shanxi migrant workers came to fengjie county to find their daughter-in-law bought with money and ran away; Another story is that a Shanxi nurse came to Fengjie County to look for her husband who had not heard from her for two years. In these two stories about finding relatives, Fengjie, a city with a history of more than 2,000 years, and its social ecology are vividly presented to people. One of the laid-off workers went out to work and broke his arm, but the original unit refused to take care of him because of the change of owner, so his wife had to live by prostitution. This plot is in sharp contrast to another: a fat official only makes a phone call, and the lights on the highway bridge in the night immediately "glow". Later, both relatives found lovers. Han's wife is a migrant worker who runs a boat with the boatman. The boatman promised to let him go as long as he paid 20,000 yuan. Migrant workers decided to go back to the mine to earn money to redeem people. The husband of the female nurse has already degenerated into the underworld boss who colluded with the local officials and made a fortune by damaging the demolition of the people. The nurse made an excuse and decided to divorce him. In the simple story structure, from time to time, like punctuation, some mysterious or frightening "episodes" are added. For example, UFOs appeared in the sky, sculptures soaring like rockets, circuit boards that suddenly tripped, vicious dogs that suddenly jumped out of the ruins, meaningful pop songs inserted from time to time, and so on. , revealing a sense of helplessness to the world, as if the film director had specially commented on the story. Finally, when a group of migrant workers followed Shanxi migrant workers to the mine, the camera zoomed to a tightrope walker in the distance, as if making a footnote for the fate of these migrant workers or the living conditions of the most vulnerable people in our time. During the screening of this film, I noticed that some fashionable young people got up and left their seats first. I think it may be because of their senses floating between the material desires of urban life, accustomed to the audio-visual bombing from Hollywood, and have long distanced themselves from human beings. Maybe they just can't understand why the images of migrant workers and dilapidated houses that are not funny can be put on the movie screen and qualified to be seen by them. After all, society has not told these young people that sympathy is a virtue. Why do they pretend to be sympathetic? After the movie, an old woman seemed to be full of feelings. She said: "Although I am still under the leadership of communist party, I seem to have gone through two completely different times. I used to tell lies, and I thought there was nothing abnormal. After watching this movie today, I found that I can tell the truth, which is incredible. " I wonder if this old lady is a retired cadre. If that's the case, I really hope this old woman will tell those who haven't retired yet. A middle-aged man (who seems to be familiar with CPPCC) spoke highly of the film. He said: "The film publicized the highlights of Zen culture in China." We should learn from the woman who lives as a prostitute in the film, because after her house was demolished, she made a firm decision to go to Guangdong. This middle-aged man reminds people that in this age when everyone is walking a tightrope, each of us regards it as a Zen-style "immediate decision". To tell the truth, I really didn't understand what the middle-aged man said. I don't understand how the woman who was forced to go elsewhere for prostitution made a "Zen-like decision". Does it mean that when we are faced with a situation similar to that of that woman, we should act decisively to engage in prostitution? Or actively organize prostitution? A designer friend seems to have a low opinion of Jia's films. I think its technique is blunt. I don't agree with him. I defended the film: "Tell the truth that ordinary people want to say but don't know how to say it. Can't you appeal?" He said that telling the truth is the starting point of art, and I said, "Why, even few people are willing to stand at this starting point?" After reading it, a lady seemed depressed and kept sighing. He said: "This is our life. We can't even face up to our lives. Why do you want to watch such a movie? " A buddy with glasses is very excited. He said, "Is it just a ruined city? No, it is a tradition, an inherent value system, and a' land' that our hearts can rely on. However, for the so-called' development' and the so-called' rise', we cut off our souls ... The reason why society becomes a society is because people can understand and trust each other. But with this fracture, the connection between people-humanitarian feelings also broke, and people looked at each other like aliens. Migrant workers regard officials as animals, and officials regard people as nothing, just a series of numbers used to decorate GDP. Is there anything more worrying than this? ..... "The person next to him, looking at this buddy, looked blank and didn't know what he was saying. Coincidentally, the young man next to me is also a "Three Gorges immigrant". I asked him what he thought of the film, but he just smiled and didn't answer. I know he is writing an epic myth, as if to use it to explore the mystery of life. To be honest, I don't know how to interpret his mysterious smile.