Who is the world we live in? Did it ever make you think deeply?
At this warm moment of the Spring Festival, thousands of homes are lit up like stars, people are dressed in new clothes, hugging relatives and friends affectionately, drinking fine wine, gathering in front of the TV to enjoy the grand scene of the Spring Festival Gala, and savoring the sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner full of family affection.
The older generation is smiling on the sofa and passing the red envelopes full of blessings to the children.
Director Sun Hong gave his own answer to this question from a unique perspective. In the documentary "Fireworks in the World", which was released on January 13, he did not follow the traditional shooting techniques, but ingeniously chose the vertical screen and split screen to show all aspects of life.
This 82-minute film is carefully edited and synthesized by 887 short ** materials, and 509 ** creators play the leading role of the film. The content of the film covers the five basic dimensions of life - clothing, food, housing, transportation, and home, and delicately and comprehensively depicts all aspects of fireworks in the world.
As soon as the film was released, it aroused heated discussions from all walks of life, and there were voices of praise, calling it "unique in creativity" and "novel and chic"; There are also voices of skepticism, believing that its perception is "like a short ** collection for more than an hour".
However, as for the form of the film, we will put aside it for the time being, and let us focus more on the vivid and vivid life picture presented in the film, which is full of fireworks in the world.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, each has its own difficulties
The film unfolds slowly in five chapters, of which the first four chapters focus on the four basic elements of life, which are closely connected with our daily life and form the basic context of life.
For us, when we're hungry, grab a bowl of hot rice, put on a warm coat when the wind is cold, find a place to rest when we're tired, and just tap the screen of our phone to put the item in our virtual shopping cart when we want to buy something on a whim.
These seemingly ordinary behaviors actually contain incomparable convenience, and behind this convenience, there are countless people's hard work and silent cultivation, and there are many difficult processes that we have not deeply understood.
Under the blazing sun, the workers in the rice fields sweat like rain and work tirelessly.
When the dawn first appeared, the villagers were ready to go, and they shuttled through the vast fields, sowing wheat seeds full of hope, and planting vigorous rice seedlings.
Since then, on the ridges that stretch to the sky, you can see them everywhere busy, whether it is weeding, insecticide or irrigation, until the arrival of the golden autumn season, behind the joy of harvest, is their perseverance and dedication to the cycle of the four seasons.
Starting from the careful cultivation of seedlings, through careful sowing, timely fertilization, to the expectant harvest moment, and then to the simple but crucial initial processing process, each grain of rice carries hard work and sweat, and finally turns into sweet rice on the table of thousands of households.
After a long and arduous day's work, the peasants dragged their tired bodies home, their waists aching and their legs stiff. The vests they wore were soaked with sweat and could wring out a bowl of water; The boots under his feet are full of the smell of earth and the marks of hard work.
Therefore, every grain of rice in our bowl is full of the hard work of countless silent cultivators, and that seemingly ordinary bowl of white rice contains the tenacity and silent efforts of many people behind it.
And by extension, where do the clothes we wear come from? It also contains the wisdom and sweat of many workers, and behind every piece of clothing, there is a story worthy of our respect and gratitude.
Cotton, as the cradle of clothing, breaks out of the fertile soil of the farmland, goes through the cycle of sowing, growth and harvest, and then is reborn in the modern factory, first into pure white cotton threads, and finally through the skillful weaving of female textile workers, the achievement of warm and comfortable clothes.
In the depths of the textile mill, the industrious women workers find themselves in a challenging environment – a sweltering production hall with limited air circulation, where the symphony of machinery reverberates in their ears. They are faced with monotonous and heavy repetitive labor, accompanied by rows of silent but life-carrying threads. Each precise and orderly operation is to place the bobbins one by one on the textile machine until the threads are empty, and then replace them with new bobbins, and the cycle repeats itself.
Even though sweat has already soaked their clothes, they still stick to their posts, and their tenacity and perseverance are like the continuous warp and weft threads on the loom, interweaving a picture of ordinary and great laborers.
At the same time, the road network crisscrosses the road network, and the truck drivers shuttle between the east and the west, north and south, day and night, and their lives take on a different kind of rich and diverse color. Both men and women are brave warriors of long-distance transportation, and when fatigue hits at night, the cab seat quietly transforms into a temporary resting place, and a simple mattress is a temporary respite for them under the stars.
The film focuses on the story of a pair of high-profile Internet celebrity truck drivers, Brother Hui and Sister-in-law Hui. This tenacious couple from Xingtai, Hebei Province, Brother Hui Ni Wanhui grew up in a poor family, and learned to live independently early, relying on his own strength to work hard to earn living needs.
As the years went by, in search of better living conditions, he resolutely devoted himself to the long-distance trucking industry, embarking on the arduous and challenging road of making a living by driving a truck.
When the children grew up, his wife Li Chan knew the burden on her husband's shoulders, and she chose to work together to survive the wind and rain and join in the long and long transportation journey. Since then, next to Brother Hui's driver's seat, there is an additional loyal partner who dispels loneliness with laughter and accompanies him through the boring trip.
This truck husband and wife, who have experienced the wind, frost, rain and snow together, recorded all the ups and downs along the way with their real and simple life, and shared them to the online world in the form of short **. Their story quickly attracted the attention and resonance of the majority of netizens, and they accumulated hundreds of thousands of loyal fans in a short period of time, and their lives became more and more colorful.
However, fate is unpredictable, and a sudden tragedy changes all that. In a difficult journey to the first place, in the face of the harsh environment of extremely high altitude and easy to cause altitude sickness, when the vehicle arrived in Golmud, Hui's sister-in-law had severe dizziness, vomiting and other uncomfortable symptoms.
Despite a short break and replenishment of oxygen, they decided to move forward. Unfortunately, when the truck stopped at Wudaoliang, it never restarted. It wasn't until the grocery store owner discovered the abnormality and called the police that people were shocked to realize that Brother Hui's sister-in-law had quietly passed away in the car for a long time.
This bad news made the country's truck peers deeply saddened, and countless cardholders who had shared the hardships of the journey with them have reached out to help, many of whom have traveled thousands of miles to drive in person, just to escort the soul of Brother Hui Hui back to their hometown, so that the couple who once used their lives to interpret the extraordinary in the ordinary and wrote the true feelings of the world with persistence can rest in peace on the land of their hometown.
Finally, the house where we live.
Whether it's a high-rise building or a low-rise bungalow, someone needs to add to it.
On the towering tower crane, a silent "high-altitude stunt" is being carried out, and those brave and fearless workers are challenging the limit. Their daily work is like a thrilling acrobatic performance in the clouds, which moves the audience. On that unreachable horizon, they perform all kinds of delicate welding tasks, and any slight negligence or accident can have immeasurable consequences.
When the wind suddenly rises, the tower cranes sway in the wind, and they can only hold on to the cold railing, with firm strength to resist the invasion of the wind, to prevent themselves from being swept away by the merciless wind. And in the hot summer, they are in the closest place to the sun, and the blazing sun will roast their ** black, but they still stick to their posts and have no regrets.
The seemingly ordinary "clothing, food, housing and transportation" in our daily life actually covers the whole connotation of life.
In this vast land, in this prosperous country, we are immersed in comfort and comfort.
However, behind this, there are countless people who have paid silently, who are not afraid of hardships and dangers, endure unimaginable hard work of ordinary people, withstand the scorching sun, sweat like rain, and build a solid foundation for our better life.
Food, clothing, shelter and transportation are the most basic needs of life;
But behind every food, clothing, housing and transportation, there is an incomparably hard work and dedication.
Heroism
However, when you look deeper, you will find that the characters on these screens, despite their own tastes of life's hardships and bitterness, also find unique ways to have fun and cope with them.
The brothers, who worked hard in the rice fields, followed the natural law of "planting a grain of millet in the spring and harvesting a thousand seeds in the autumn", and whenever the golden autumn season came, the rice fields turned into a brilliant golden ocean. At this time, the eldest brother who was sweating in the field would skillfully set up a mobile phone holder to record the moment of the harvest.
He said heroically: "This is the country I created with my own hands!" ”
In the cotton mills, the industrious sisters find the joy of life in repetitive labor. Whenever their work falls into monotony, they skillfully dance the spindle in their hands into a rhythmic melody, like a baton, weaving a symphony of life and work. They laughed and teased each other, dissipating the fatigue of heavy labor in a relaxed and happy way.
These heroines holding spindles, as if they are the rhythm controllers on their respective stages, swaying their unique charm as they like, and every rotation of the spindle is full of the enthusiasm and vitality of life.
On long transportation routes, truck drivers often choose to cook their own meals in order to cope with the dietary needs of long journeys. Among them, a driver chef who is affectionately known as "Brother Bao" has honed his superb cooking skills in such an environment. Whether it is frying or frying, he can easily transform pots and pans into a hymn to food.
He always said boldly: "Whatever you want to eat, we will make it ourselves, and ensure that every dish is made in a good way, with all the color, flavor and taste." Such an attitude to life is not only a positive response to the hard work of the profession, but also a unique expression of love for life.
The hot home-cooked meal not only warmed the stomach, but also dispelled the hard work and fatigue of the journey while talking and laughing freely.
The chefs are as skilled as the chefs of the well-known restaurants on the street, so much so that the restaurateurs can't contain their curiosity and come to taste the delicious food.
And in the reinforced concrete construction site, there is also a different kind of scenery.
On the construction site, there is a figure known as "Xiaowei who moves bricks", he used the construction site as a stage, repeatedly honed his skills, and finally successfully performed a set of horizontal bar stunts comparable to Olympic athletes on the ground without any safety protection measures, which is amazing.
The skilled excavator master, in the interval of work, skillfully used the digging bucket to scoop water from the river, carefully bathed his own carriage, this series of skillful and creative operations, instantly won the amazement and applause of the majority of netizens on the Internet.
Even in the most inconspicuous corners, there are always people who are persistently looking for that ray of sunshine that belongs to them.
In the face of life's hardships, they chose to turn suffering into joy and turned challenges into motivation. This tenacious optimism is precisely the best expression of heroism, as Romain Rolland said: "After a deep insight into the essence of life, it is still unswerving to love life." ”
As long as our hearts are full of this love for life, no matter what kind of predicament, we cannot really defeat us.
Go home
In the final chapter of the work "Fireworks in the World", the concept of "home" is endowed with a deeper and richer connotation, which goes beyond the basic "clothing, food, housing and transportation" and explores the essence of home. So, what exactly is home?
The film gives an answer with affectionate strokes: home is the place that carries family affection, where beloved relatives are waiting.
The film debuts the "Way Home" through the three carefully constructed core scenes.
The wandering wanderer quietly returned home, intending to bring unexpected joy to his parents, although in the face of the sudden child, the parents wept silently, and on the other hand, they wondered why they did not inform them in advance, but behind the tears, it was full of indescribable relief and joy. Families spend warm time together, sticking Spring Festival couplets, making dumplings, and preparing for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which symbolizes reunion.
Next, we move on to the second scenario – "Celebrating the New Year".
When the New Year's bell rings, families gather around the steaming Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table to enjoy the experience of the past year, taste the Chinese New Year's Eve food cooked together, listen to the cheerful sound of fireworks and fireworks, and turn the tiredness and hard work of the year into laughter and go with the wind.
At this moment, the old man took out the heavy big iron basin and announced that all the mobile phones needed to be handed over during the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the young people listened to it, all with smiles, and put their mobile phones into the iron basin, and in an instant, the old man's hands were "fully loaded", and his face was full of satisfied smiles.
The third scene that is finally presented is "Leaving the Homeland". After the Chinese New Year, those children who work hard in the big city have to embark on the road of parting, and before leaving, their relatives will always carefully pack local products full of hometown flavors, until the trunk and even the seat of the car are filled with all kinds of food.
This is home, full of joy when you return, reluctant to leave when you leave, always filled with a full and down-to-earth sense of security.
At the same time, there is an intrinsic connection and continuation between home and "clothing, food, housing and transportation".
Perhaps, it is to protect the feeling of this warm home, so that no matter how far you go, you can have a place that can be called "home" waiting for you to return.
What is a lifetime of struggle for?
It is so that the family can be fed and clothed, and they can travel without worry.
This is the meaning of life, and it is also the mission of struggle.
In the face of those bitterness, I will also sing gentle songs
At the end of the film, we are able to witness such vivid and affectionate images:
On the vast paddy field, the rice planters performed a dance that was full of affection and touching despite the lack of established rules, and their figures jumped in the rice fields, like the concrete expression of an idyllic poem;
On the side of the construction site where the wind and snow are howling and the machinery is roaring, a little blue snowman wearing a hard hat stands quietly and resolutely in the snow, and his well-behaved appearance reveals his love for life and his tenacious and unyielding spirit;
On the banks of the pond, which has been carefully tended for months, colorful fishing nets are scattered to the surface of the water with great anticipation, carrying the longing and hope of hard work, like a rainbow blooming in the sparkling waves.
In the depths of the vast and barren Gobi Desert, a cyclist with a mutilated limb but a strong will is moving forward bravely, his figure seems so small but extremely powerful in the world, interpreting the life force of defying difficulties and forging ahead with actions.
Some people are burdened, but they can lift weights as lightly, carry 100 pounds of cement bags on their shoulders, show the beauty of strength in difficulties, challenge the limit with tenacity, and complete seemingly impossible push-ups at the same time;
Some people are in a dusty construction site, holding a scraper in their hands, swaying freely on the hard cement slab, one stroke at a time, vigorously and vigorously engraved the awakening words of "God rewards diligence", and their figures and spirits stand together between the reinforced concrete;
There is also a woman who sails through the vast rivers and seas, and she lives in a world of ups and downs with ships almost every day. However, when she gazed at the water reflected by the afterglow of the sunset, she did not have the slightest grievance in her heart, but clearly recognized that the magnificent scenery was not a defect of life, but a unique scenery that belonged to her.
Li Yuchun sang the theme song "The World Is Worth It" for the film and television work "Fireworks in the World", and one of the lyrics is affectionate and tenacious - "In the face of those bitterness, I will also sing gentle songs." This is a true portrayal of the coexistence of hardship and beauty in life.
Life is indeed full of thorns and challenges, but each of us, with unyielding faith and endless courage, strives to move forward on our respective paths, so that every step is solid and powerful, and every breath is full of love and perseverance for life.