Stone Dreams movie review

The filming of "Stone Dreams" is legendary. In 1965, director Chen Yaoqi produced "Liu Bijia", the first real film in the history of Taiwanese documentaries with the connotation of observational documentary. The protagonist in the film, Liu Bijia, was a soldier who was drafted into the countryside in the mainland in the 1940s and came to Taiwan with President Chiang Kai-shek. Before he was discharged from the army, he went to the riverlands in eastern Taiwan and worked hard to pick stones to open up fields. When the "Liu Bijia" documentary was released that year, it caused a great shock in Taiwan's art and literary circles. Unexpectedly, decades after the filming of "Liu Bijia" was completed, Hu Taili was engaged in veterans' research and was surprised to discover Liu Bijia in a farm by the Papaya Creek in Hualien, so she began to use a camera to record this veteran from other provinces and them. A new immigrant settlement composed of wives and children from different ethnic groups in Taiwan. Liu Bijia married a widow with Aboriginal ancestry from the Amis and Hepingpu tribes and adopted her son. What are the differences between father and son, birth and nourishment, original and Han? Are there any difficult feelings? "Stones" are the most important symbol in this film. It connects Liu Bijia's generation, who worked hard to cultivate rocks, and Liu Bijia's son's generation, who loves to pick up and appreciate stones. It also reflects the changes in Taiwan's political, economic and social life. Liu Bijia and his family are as dark and ordinary as rose stones on the outside, but they contain magnificent and elegant scenery on the inside. Accompanied by the distant and simple sound of the guqin in the film, they weave dreams with the flowing flowers in the stream. The film also reminds: Because stones contain a variety of minerals, they transform into beautiful inner scenery; because Taiwan has a diverse ethnic group, it shows its strong life and rich culture.