With the rapid economic development, people's lifestyles have also changed.

On the contrary, it makes people miss the past, and there is an increasing market for historical works about the old era on the Internet.

Similarly, some nostalgic films have begun to appear on the big screen recently, and some movies from the past have been revitalized by movie fans.

Li Yi has also recently become obsessed with related works such as "Educated Youth Going to the Countryside", "The Fiery Age" and so on.

Suddenly I recalled a piece of prose.

"Once Upon a Time Slow"!

The sentence inside: "In the past, cars and horses were very slow, letters were far away, and there was only enough time to love one person in a lifetime!"

And now?

Sending a message will arrive instantly, which is far different from the feeling of writing a letter.

There are many things that have changed. In the past, people talked about dedication, because everyone worked in state-owned enterprises and worked hard, not only for themselves, for their families, but also for the country.

Therefore, that kind of spirit makes many workers proud of their profession.

And Li Yi suddenly remembered a movie, a very special movie about the 1980s.

It was an era when great social changes had just begun, and Li Yi couldn't help but burst into tears while watching the movie.

In fact, that movie was not sensational at all, nor did it have too many ups and downs. It was just a light, light but extremely touching thing.

Although Li Yi was also born in that era, he was born in Hong Kong Island, and when he grew up, the wheels of the times had already passed that era.

In addition, his parents are not workers, so he doesn't know much about many things.

But even so, he still liked that movie very much.

And he had the urge to make it, but he didn't rush to do it because it was a very special film with a strong sense of the times.

He also needs to collect a lot of relevant information, otherwise, he won't be able to capture that feeling.

Movies don't mean you can make them well just by knowing the plot.

Not to mention that it can be reproduced directly. The lens language also contains strong personal emotional expressions.

If you can't understand the emotions and things you want to express, then even if it's a complete technical reproduction, the thing you shoot will be missing its soul.

That movie is called "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog". The movie tells a story on the rural postal road in the 1980s: the father of a rural postman who is about to retire takes his son who takes over as a rural postal worker on his first day on the road.

The postal route has been on the road for more than 20 years, traveling through mountains and rivers. The brief solitude between father and son has changed the original delicate family relationship, and the estrangement in their hearts has gradually been eliminated.

This was originally a lonely journey with no scenery to see. The film only excerpted images of the three-day journey between the father and his son. But this journey definitely has a different meaning.

This journey was a ceremonial trek that the father made in order to teach his son how to be familiar with the postal work in the future. After this trek, the son would be the real successor, and the father would also retire. The father trekked for dozens of times on the mountain road.

No matter how you say it, retirement is tragic.

But the father is not sad, and only shows a little nostalgia at the end. The film does not talk about "sadness" here. After this journey, the father will retire, and the son will inherit the job. Such maintenance and inheritance are carried out in this ritual.

The nature of the trek seemed profound during the journey.

This is a relay of life, the intersection of the fate of father and son. It is the last time for the father and the first time for the son. On that poetic mountain road, the life trajectories of the two generations are connected.

In Li Yi's view, all this is a traditional inheritance from son to father.

This ancient tradition has long since declined, and decline may be the wrong word, because this situation of sons inheriting their father's inheritance has not disappeared and is still very common. However, the social acceptance has changed a lot.

The street stall economy is now popular, and street stalls can be found everywhere.

But how many people would think about letting their children set up street vendors in the future?

It's more than that.

In those days, children were expected to succeed. Many times, if parents had a job, their biggest hope was that their children would take over their jobs in the future and inherit their father's legacy. This was enough to make the older generation proud.

things.

To be honest, many people today cannot understand the people of that era.

In the movie, the father, who is a rural postman, is undoubtedly a man with a "professional spirit" and has dedicated his life to those postal parcels and those postal routes. His work is excellent, even brilliant. It is not

Only those brave generals or wise scientists can achieve brilliant careers. As a rural postman, this father's career was equally brilliant.

Suddenly Li Yi remembered a sentence: It is enough for a person to concentrate on doing one thing well in his life.

Everyone knows this, it is a simple and easy-to-understand sentence, but how many people can really do it?

But in that era, looking across the country, there were countless people who really focused on doing one thing well their whole life.

Back to movies, the reason why Li Yi particularly likes "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" is because it is difficult to find such a rhythm in current domestic films: soothing, melodious, simple and quiet, and eloquent. All this is just like the postman's father's

sex

He is down-to-earth, kind, silent and introverted. He has been walking this mountain road for decades. The beautiful scenery with beautiful mountains and clear waters is not so easy to measure with feet, not to mention carrying a heavy mail bag.

sky.

From beginning to end, you will not think that the image of this old postman is so tall. He is so ordinary and has no glorious deeds. Instead, he always keeps a series of small things in mind, such as writing a letter of faith to the fifth wife's grandson for her, and giving

The man who had fought with the village committee delivered the letters alone. When he received the letters, he checked the ones without stamps and put them on himself. He was very honest and honest, but very careful. All of this was done so naturally that no one would think there was anything special about it.

If the work is like this, there is nothing to say.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! And the old father really did it, focusing on one thing for his whole life!

And the charm of this movie doesn't stop there.

As the saying goes, when the cigarettes are sold out and no one is seen at sunrise, the mountains and rivers are green.

This is like what I saw when I returned to my grandma’s house when I was a child, more like a painting from my childhood. “Why do mountain people live in the mountains?”

Li Yi once asked this when he was a child - green mountains, green water, rice fields and freedom.

But after watching the movie, he suddenly smiled. In fact, the people in the mountains were part of the rural painting that was as rich as ink and as mysterious as fog. They seemed to be a part of the mountains by birth. Maybe it was because they were

Descendants of gods. But to Li Yi, these seemed

He has disappeared for too long. He has recovered a little bit of plainness, innocence and a little persistence from this film. Maybe not only people in the mountains, but also urbanites living under neon lights should keep such a painting. This is an ordinary world.

, what we are looking for in the end may be just this little bit of peace and tranquility.

Li Yi then began to ask people to find some old people who came from that era, or people who had similar inheritance from their fathers, and conduct interviews.

He gained a lot from this trip.

Gradually, I began to understand, or in other words, have a deeper understanding of some things in the movie.

He began to analyze the movie seriously. "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" can be said to be a road movie, because it is a story that takes place completely on the road. Of course, is this an open line, a hidden line, or the blending and blending of two generations?

Inheritance, father and son’s different views on things

and conflicts, about the blind woman's grandson, about whether to take a ride on the mail route, about whether to go to the village chief's house, etc. However, it is not clear who is mature and who is young and ignorant. Inadvertently, the father discovered that his son

Having grown into an adult, the son found that his father was growing old silently.

In terms of character creation, the movie uses two different ways to show the psychological changes and emotions of father and son. The son is a psychological monologue - a voice, and the father is a past memory - an image.

Using two different ways to show the inner world of the father and son is self-evident in this simple and almost conflict-free story. It enriches a simple story and allows the viewer to enter the father and son in time.

The two hearts, completing this inner world journey together, is also the key to making the characters vivid and three-dimensional. The director's approach is extremely appropriate.

The role of the father is relaxed and relaxed, without any pretentiousness, and is completely integrated into the narrative space of the film, which is the most outstanding thing.

The movie describes relatively little about the role of mother, which is understandable of course. After all, the theme of the movie is not maternal love, but deep fatherly love.

In Li Yi's opinion, this movie, or this type of movie, is exactly what this era needs and what people crave.

Today's society is so impetuous that many people can't find their direction in life and can hardly regain their dissolute hearts.

People are glad that they are far away from their hometowns and have begun to reduce interactions with their parents, elders, relatives and friends. They feel that they have grown up, living in a dream woven by buildings, and dare not wake up. They feel that they know more and more people, but they

I can't find any close friends I can talk to.

Maybe not everyone has experienced rural life, but the typical scenes of mountains and hills in the film gave Li Yi an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

For example, the adobe house where the father and son live, the old-fashioned wood-carved bed, the stone slabs in the rural alleys, the small bridges and flowing water, the vast rice fields, and the green woods all over the mountains and plains are all extremely comfortable.

In fact, Li Yi has not experienced these, or is really familiar with them, just because there are no mobile phones and computers, there is no information and news that cannot be seen, and there is no shrinking and growing psychological distance between people.

Distance. This is true, "In the past, cars and horses were very slow, letters were far away, and there was only enough time to love one person in a lifetime."

It can be said that the carriages and horses in the mountains are like postmen, and their backpacks contain the love of that time.

Li Yi is certainly no stranger to writing letters. After all, he has also experienced the era of writing letters.

But people nowadays, especially the generation that has been born with widespread access to telephones, mobile phones, and the Internet, it is difficult to imagine that it was once possible to send a letter and then wait for half a month or even a month to receive a reply.

But Li Yi was sure that when the letter was received, the person who opened the envelope would be very happy.

This is the charm that comes from "slow" letters. The waiting process, the time of expectation, and the accumulated emotions are poured into those thin pieces of letter paper when the envelope is opened. The words between the lines seem to be full of

Overflowing with emotion.

For people in the mountains, letters carry a person’s thoughts and expectations.

Therefore, my father worked for this seemingly simple postman job all his life. As society gradually changed, people in the mountains continued to move out, leaving only the old, weak, women and children. In the late 1980s, the rise of communication tools such as mobile phone and mobile phone, etc., all these

, although the people in the mountains cannot feel it yet, it is already quietly changing the way of life of the people in the mountains.
To be continued...