Defeated the Spring Festival stalls, he is not ashamed

Go home for the Chinese New Year. We are accustomed to saying: celebrate reunion, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, do New Year's goods, set off firecrackers, visit relatives, and have family ......A year of busyness is the best solace at this time. But likeThe younger you are, the stronger the flavor of the year. Now that you're back to work, do you really feel that you have enough power in the Spring Festival? From childhood to adulthood, the Spring Festival seems to have been adjusted"Power Consumption Mode".。Cleaning, cooking, the New Year is no more idle than going to work. Gifts, red envelopes, and workers' wallets are very hurt. Not to mention the "annual review" of relatives, urging marriage, childbirth, and asking for salary ......Tired. This year, there is also a topic of "people who don't go home for the Chinese New Year", and they choose to stay in urban rental houses. Some can't go back, and some want to spend the New Year in a way that they feel more comfortable with. Because it is in a passive cooperation, the away game that is cross-examined. It's better to stay in your home turf - the rental house is not lively, but comfortable; It's small, but what's inside is mine. There was wifi, there were treats and possibly kittens. What sir said is not that he doesn't need to go home for reunion in the New Year. In fact, Sir believes that no one does not want to go home. It's just that. We may be ignoring the situation of such a group of people, for whom they are—Can you afford the cost of going home? Is the warmth of hometown really enough to make up for the loss? Today, Sir is here to talk about a movie before the Spring Festival. The theater before the Spring Festival was deserted, and not many people paid attention to it. But after the New Year, you may have experienced itNight is coming

There are two sentences. One sentence is:If you have money or not, go home for the New Year. And another sentence:Come home rich or famous. Both sentences, both correct. Because China's countryside is so ambiguous and contradictory. It's like the title of the film "Night Falls" - is it the end of all the light, or the harbinger of the dawn? It's up to you to experience it. OfflineSummarize the story briefly:An older social animal's way back to their hometowns. 30 years old, is it big? Anyway, for Liang Zhe, in his hometown, it is too late to be married at the age of 30. He is a university student and has been working in Beijing since graduation. In the eyes of the villagers and Fa Xiao, he is considered to be promising. But what life is like in Beijing, how much he can save after doing a lot of fucking work, and how much money he can save after digging up the cost of living such as rent, food, and socializing, only he knows. Catch up with the pandemic. His job was gone, and he was evicted by his landlord. At this juncture, he came back early and returned to his hometown, which he had not returned to for many years, in the countryside of Hequ County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province.

The film is in the form of a road movie. Follow Liang Zhe and transfer to buses, coal cars, vans, motorcycles and other means of transportation to see through the social outlook of the town. Said it was back for the New Year. But the tone of the film is more gray. In addition to the dusty coal mines, the "scenery" along the way is the big trucks pulling coal mines.

This is a landscape that belongs exclusively to Shanxi. After getting off the train, Liang Zhe got on the bus.

The car was full of fellow villagers who spoke the same accent. As soon as Liang Zhe got in the car, he saw that the driver was someone he knew, and eagerly asked his buddy how to change his career to become a bus driver.

After chatting a few words, the atmosphere in the car gradually warmed up. An old man turned around and said to Liang Zhe, I'm a certain kid and his grandfather, don't you remember? Another uncle said who I am, who is his relative.

It seems that Liang Zhe seems to have found a sense of belonging to his hometown in the process of talking with them. But is that really the case? Liang Zhe dragged heavy luggage along the way, and he didn't look like a man who was about to return home. It's better to say that in the dusty countryside of Shanxi, he is more like a homeless man.

Because every place he goes,It seems to have a connection to this place, but in fact there is no connection. Different means of transport. There are several different spaces that make up the film, showing different social structures and interpersonal relationships – neighbors, distant relatives, alumni, hair young, first love, ......These are all alienated because Liang Zhe went out to study and drifted north for many years.

He once thought that he could gain a foothold in another world, and he no longer had to maintain this dense network of relationships. But I didn't expect that one day, he would have to come back. I went back to my hometown, but I still ...... like an offline personCollapseIn addition to a sense of alienation from the people around you, there is also a sense of pain that I don't know where to start. This kind of pain is not a deliberate injury to you by others, but a moral judgment about the success of your career is hidden everywhere in the seemingly casual greeting. For example, on the bus, Liang Zhe met an uncle he knew. The uncle eagerly asked Liang Zhe where he worked - Beijing? That should make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Liang Zhe was a little embarrassed, and the uncle continued to ask, what are the ten thousand that year? Liang Zhe could only prevaricate with words such as the current economic recession, and then continued to talk about the shortcomings of the parents of the villagers. Is the uncle malicious? It seems that there is not, but for Liang Zhe, his unimproved career will touch the pain in his heart as soon as someone asks about it. Especially in a backward and underdeveloped rural area, the villagers always think that those young people who work in the big cities of Beijing should not be bad. But Liang Zhe not only didn't mix well, but he didn't even talk about the object.

This worldly requirement of a double harvest in love and career often involves a moral judgment about you. If you don't live up to worldly standards, such a person seems to be unmotivated. A stray dog is used in the movie to symbolize Liang Zhe's situation. This little dog was met by Liang Zhe on the road when he was on the bus, no one wanted this dog, Liang Zhe put it in his bag.

Liang Zhe received a lot of care from the villagers on the way back to his hometown, and on the surface, the villagers cared about him, but Liang Zhe was like that puppy, teasing him one after another, but no one wanted to take it home.

In the movie, Liang Zhe got into a van after several transfers. As usual, I met a fellow I knew in the car again. And the two uncles in the car, who were much older than Liang Zhe, also chatted with Liang Zhe about the latest trendy news. An uncle said how profitable live streaming is now, he knows the daughter of a relative, and she went to do live streaming not long after graduation, but she made money. Will Liang Zhe not know about the live broadcast industry in Beijing? But he didn't say a word. Immediately afterwards, another uncle said that he was also opening an account on a short ** platform and began to tell some jokes. Then the uncle added a sentence very sophisticatedly, and it is easy to increase fans by telling some jokes in the early stage. The pace of the times has made the two uncles in the countryside able to talk about the live broadcast. And what about Liang Zhe? In Beijing, what he did was the new **, but at the moment he was restrained and dazed. This is another situation of returning to your hometown - you are in another and bigger place, the "high" experience has been cleared, and you have to be re-educated with "earthy" and "down-to-earth". So, those who are more educated, have their eyes broadened in big cities. When he returned to his hometown, he was silent. Because in the face of the collapse of the world in front of you, you know that you can't introduce your knowledge to the people here, and you also know that the laws of the outside world will not work here. And in the eyes of the fellows, it is summarized as——"It's stupid to read a book". Big cities can't stay, and small places can't fit in. Vanishing vernacularUsing a popular word in recent years to describe Liang Zhe, he probably belongs to the "small-town problem-solver". The way back to the hometown for the Spring Festival. In fact, it is a retrospective of his life path. Beijing, Taiyuan, Xinzhou, Hequ Village. His growth trajectory is roughly that he grew up in the village, then went to the county to study in junior high school, and then came to the city after high school, and was admitted to the university to take the train to Beijing ...... the provincial capitalNow, he is back to where he started (or rather flees). This may not be a problem of disliking the countryside. It's that his struggle direction and sense of value over the years have been in vain. "I lived like this for thirty years, until ...... the edifice collapsedBack then, he was a top student with outstanding achievements, and he was the "child of someone else's family" in the village. But now. He also fell behind in this small county town: no establishment, no house, no car, no savings, not married ......More critically. He is neither familiar with nor very recognizable to the "relationship society" of this small county, so he seems out of place. We often say that the countryside is disappearing. In fact, it's just that the ideal homeland that we miss has disappeared. People in the countryside don't stop living. They already have another way of living. Only a certain part of the people remainedAt a loss in the development of the alternation of the old and the new. Like in "Hidden in the Dust". Rural development depends on the village committee + Zhang Yongfu. One advocates the construction of a new countryside, and the other is a wealthy businessman who stimulates the local economy.

As a result, something unexpected happened, the village committee held a meeting to announce that Zhang Yongfu needed a blood transfusion, and called on everyone to save Zhang Yongfu together, and the village could not develop without him. But Zhang Yongfu's blood type is too rare, and he was complained by the villagers about panda blood, and the protagonist Ma Youtie is precisely this kind of panda blood.

The village committee and Zhang Yongfu relied on Ma Youtie to bring him back to life. The film also symbolizes the "blood transfusion" of farmers for development. The village is developing, and as long as the horse has an iron advance, he can get a house in the city by paying 10,000 yuan.

If Ma Youtie is said to symbolize the traditional and simple countryside. Then what happened to him and Gui Ying. It is to show us how our homeland has been overdrawn beyond recognition. In "Night is Coming", Liang Zhe is facing a traumatized countryside. Just like in the movie, Liang Zhe's return to his hometown was cut into several petals in the continuous transfer, and the power of the times also cut Liang Zhe's hometown into several petals. Mountains were blown up and mines were dug up. All of this is for the sake of development. Liang Zhe's countryside cannot be static, and coal mines have indeed brought development. In the movie, one of Liang Zhe's childhood friends has changed careers to become a truck driver transporting coal mines. Although it is disgraceful, at least it makes more money than before.

Director Kan worked in a coal mine for a year before he started making films. Later, he wrote:

Five hundred meters deep in the mine, I only felt that the coal washer was going to wash away my youth, the coal surface blackened my dreams, the loader carried away my hopes, the electric welding machine could not stitch up my sorrows, the sledgehammer hit my heart one by one, and the water pipe pressed my arms again and again.

When the whole mountain is hollowed out, it seems to mean that there is a new development in the countryside. But in the deep shafts of the coal mines,Those who should be full of hope for the future can only face the darkness that cannot be seen. In the movie, Liang Zhe's mood for returning to his hometown is also complicated. He is faced with the disappearance of his old homeland and the fact that a new world is far from coming. In the development of the era of the alternation of the old and the new, Liang Zhe is like the homeless dog, wandering around.

Liang Zhe's mourning is not a kind of "glass heart". When a society is moving in a more ambitious direction, those who are easily ignored actually have nothing to rely on. They don't have the confidence to do it all over again, and the hometown behind them is only left with mountains and rivers, and no small setback may knock them to the ground and be unable to turn over. Maybe it's like a big dream. Come naked, and go back empty-handed.

Life goes on. But where does the future lead? What was left for Liang Zhe was to reach out and grope alone in the dark night when he couldn't see his fingers.