The Girl from Huangshan is an old Chinese movie released in 1984. The first shot is of a girl from the countryside carrying a piece of meat, running down an old staircase in a hurry, rushing all the way to the meat counter, pleading that there is one or two pieces of meat missing, and then the camera pans out to show the shrewd hostess, who is weighing the vegetables with a handheld weighing scale, weighing them by the pound.
Quite a dramatic beginning, shaping a rural and urban, employers and nannies confrontation, a bit of a facetious cliché, I thought it would be a "class oppression" story with the mark of the times, but the whole movie down, but it's a pleasant surprise, from the Huangshan Mountain to Beijing to work as a nanny Lingling, representing the initial opening of the 80s, the countryside to the city of temptation, and the countryside to the city of the initial opening, and the countryside to the city of temptation. In the 1980s, the countryside was exploring and integrating into the city, and while witnessing the rapid development of the city, there was also the awakening and rise of the rural economy.
From the beginning to the end of the movie, there is no real-life part of the countryside, and the director's design is very clever, with a series of changes in the countryside through the nanny Ling Ling's letters, as well as the talk of the townsfolk in the performance of the layer by layer. As the main language of the movie, "Huangshan", and finally fixed in Ling Ling and the city girl stars *** with the prospect of returning to the countryside: "By the time the countryside and the city are the same, everywhere is a skyscraper, electric lights and phones ...... "
The movie has a shot of a strong rhythmic music, a jeans, permed curly hair, "fashionable" young man carrying his girlfriend, riding a motorcycle kissing through the background of the red and white trolley buses, as well as bicycles, Ling Ling is very new to stop and watch, eyes glittering with The young man was riding his girlfriend on a motorcycle, making out with a red and white trolleybus and bicycles in the background.
This complex emotional expression is very detailed and real, from the conservative countryside into the bustling city, uneasy and uneasy at the same time there is a "native" self-awareness, the times change, the city and the countryside is still difficult to integrate the gap, in today's context, a girl from the countryside stood under the skyscraper for the first time, there will be this kind of unseen overwhelm. The first time I saw this, I was able to get a good look at it, and I was able to get a good look at it.
However, the movie is not creating such a dichotomy. Instead, through Ling Ling's life as a helper, the movie enters into the most real fireworks of the city, presenting the complexity and richness of human nature, including the selfish and mercenary citizens, and the neighbors who are eager to help each other, as well as the seriousness and self-discipline of the intellectuals, and the equality and mutual love of the families of the veteran cadres. In the three-dimensional image of the city, it shows Ling Ling's self-respect and self-love as well as the warmth that flows between people.
Lingling has served three families in one ****, and these three families also epitomize the class of Beijing citizens in the 1980s. The first family, the Qi family, consisted of Qi's mother, Qi's father, who was traveling abroad on business, his brother Dali, and his sister Xiaojuan. The family works for a state-owned enterprise and lives in a high-rise with an elevator.
The second family, the Liu family, consists of the mother, Hongrong, the baby, and her husband, who has never been seen. This is a typical worker's family, living in a bustling, cramped hutong compound; the third family Zhou family, the old man is a retired cadre, the old lady is a well-known calligrapher, there is a high school graduation drunkenly examining the dance troupe's granddaughter, stars, living in a spacious courtyard.
The three families are very representative of the times. At the same time, Ling Ling's situation in the three families is also a process of slowly integrating and feeling cared for.
I. The first employer, Qi's family, deepened Ling Ling's isolation from the city
Qi's mother and Xiaojuan's attitude towards Ling Ling is one of condescension and arrogance. The mother always suspects that Ling Ling's hands and feet are not clean, not to mention the respect for her personality. At lunchtime, vigorously pinch an egg to Lingling, Qi mother quickly cut off and sent the egg into her daughter Xiaojuan's bowl, saying, "Lingling doesn't like eggs, she got tired of eating them in the countryside long ago." Underneath the facade of decency, there is contempt for the laborer, and the irony is that people such as Mother Qi still exist today.
Xiaojuan bosses Lingling around, spraying perfume on the bed where she has put her clothes on, asking for massages, and complaining about the "bad behavior" of previous nannies.
Although her employer made things difficult for Lingling, she digested the grievances in order to earn money. Until one time Xiaojuan's sweater "lost", Qi's mother balked at the idea that Lingling stole it, and turned her luggage upside down. The mother of Qi told Xiaojuan not to tell Lingling that she had lost her sweater.
Ling Ling spent almost a month's salary to buy a new sweater for Xiaojuan, saying that she washed it and lost it, but she decided to quit her job, and when she went out, she heard Xiaojuan's abdominal pain and moaning on the bed, and without saying a word, she carried Xiaojuan to the hospital, where, thanks to the timely delivery of medical treatment, Xiaojuan was out of danger.
After the surgery, Xiaojuan was full of guilt and confessed that she did not lose her sweater, so that Lingling did not go, Lingling experienced for the first time the sincerity of the city people to her, as well as the work to bring her a sense of need, but before the false accusation touched her bottom line, she promised to wait until Xiaojuan recovered and then left.
As a nanny who came from the countryside to work in the city in the 1980s, she was one of the first to venture out into the city at a time when population mobility had not yet thawed. The city people and the rural people are actually in each other's imaginary barriers, each labeling the other.
People like Ling Ling are the ones who blend the two disjointed opposites. The Qi family's mother and daughters confirm Ling Ling's imagined insensitivity to city people, and they also preconceived the label of lack of upbringing for Ling Ling. Ling Ling's bonding with her first family is in fact the bonding between the countryside and the city, and Ling Ling's reconciliation with Xiaojuan penetrates the first layer of the city's hard outer shell: prejudice.
The second employer, the Liu family, is Ling Ling's perception of the city's many facets
Hong Rong's condition is not generous, living in a small room in the hutong compound, her husband did not return from work, she bit the bullet and hired Ling Ling to take care of the month. Hong Rong and her husband are both workers, usually like literature, because of similar interests and the combination. Her husband's articles were favored by a magazine and he was hired to work there. From workshop workers to magazine editors, Hong Rong is very proud of her husband, and Ling Ling said "Brother Liu", a face of happiness overflowing.
In order to save money, the whole month, Hong Rong ate a chicken, but also reluctant to say "wait for Brother Liu back to eat together", Ling Ling really can not stand to see, the chicken stewed "tough" to let her drink soup.
Turning the corner of the child a month, her husband still did not return, but also cut off the cost of living, the red honor can not afford to pay Ling Ling's babysitting fees, heavy heartedly go to find her husband. Returning late at night, Hong Rong saw Ling Ling and clothes and other sleep, for Ling Ling took off her shoes and covered with a quilt. She burned the handkerchief that she had so carefully treasured, and crouched on the desk, sobbing in a low voice.
Ling Ling understood the situation of Hong Rong, introduced her to the work of the fellow townspeople to find her another family, just Ling Ling's family urged to money, the family money than Hong Rong nearly twice as much, but the kind of Ling Ling is not willing to leave the difficulties of the Hong Rong, preferring to do a job to earn money on their days off.
Hong Rong knew that Ling Ling's family was short of money, let Ling Ling find another job, she gave her sweater to Ling Ling, grateful for her care during this period of time, the two women embraced each other and cried. In the prosperous and modern city of Beijing, there are many groups of people like Hong Rong who are struggling to survive. The city is not unattainable and overbearing, and it has a smoky atmosphere that settles on the ground, and there are sorrows and joys, and life's pains and sufferings.
The most touching thing is that after Hongrong carries his child to work, Lingling, who is short of money, buys a chicken and stews it on the stove before leaving. The first time I saw this, I was so happy to see you, and I was so happy to see you.
The third employer, the Zhou family, brought Ling Ling spiritual sublimation
Grandpa Zhou was a retired veteran cadre, who had fought for the motherland in the bloodshed of that generation. He and Grandma Zhou both have the gentle introspection of intellectuals over the years. They also love Ling Ling as if she were a younger generation. His granddaughter, Xingxing, is a typical urban youth who chases her dreams and has her own clear plan and pursuit of love and career, in contrast to Xiaojuan, who is the first family's materialistic and vain.
In the Zhou family, Lingling feels the equal love and care of her family. Grandma Zhou teaches Lingling how to write Chinese characters in brushstrokes every day and is strict with her. Before Star's art exam, she has been asking her grandfather to use his connections to help her get through the door, and maybe a phone call can change her granddaughter's fate, but this principled old man is against all backdoor behavior, and teaches Star to win the future through her own abilities.
But because other people went to the relationship, the stars ultimately failed to get what they wanted. The cultivation of family education has developed a positive mindset, she quickly adjusted her emotions, agreed to the neighborhood committee's hiring, and became the manager of the state-run hotel, the business will be run by the wind and water. The star has the unique vigor and enthusiasm of the youth of the 80's, and has the ideal of having a feeling of hard work.
Ling Ling in Zhou's family, not only in the cultural literacy progress, refined cooking, but also open up thinking and vision, with her brother quit gambling to run a profitable farm, her work in Beijing is no longer the main supply of the family's economy, Ling Ling has also begun to think about their own life planning ......
Anhui is a famous nanny town in the eighties and nineties, especially WUWEI nanny abundance, which is also inseparable from the historical reasons. At the time, there were many rural girls like Lingling who integrated into the city, and there was no shortage of people who were taken care of by their employers, regained their education, and completely rewrote their lives. However, the movie aims to express that Ling Ling's return is not a negative dimension of the urban-rural dichotomy, but rather a baptism of the new age style, reinventing her independent personality and adding to the building of the countryside economy, where both the city and the countryside are equal in terms of ideals and hard work.
Compared to the narrative of the movie, I personally feel that what is more precious is the images that are rich in the characteristics of the era, which freeze the time and allow us to see the unique urban and humanistic landscape of Beijing more than 30 years ago. The flowing streetscape of old Beijing, the architectural features of each class of residence, the living atmosphere with the mark of the times, the Forbidden City, the Beihai, the Great Wall, subway stations, bus interchanges, bell tower compounds ...... Audiences who have not experienced the eighties can also feel the steaming, vibrant energy across the longitudinal dimension of time.
Personal understanding of the eighties comes from literature, and I feel that it was a wonderful and ideal time. It was a wonderful and ideal time, with a lot of people in the ascendant and a hundred schools of thought competing for attention, and it was a key transition in the process of China's modernization. Most of the more influential modern writers rose to prominence in the 1980s, and poetry and literature even belonged to the masses, rather than the present-day highs and lows. For example, Hong Rong's husband, a worker who was discovered by a magazine because of his love of literature, sighs that although the 1980s were not rich in material things, there was a hot place for ideals to go and respond to.
The movie's pure and soothing pace, the camera is simple, there is no showy shooting techniques, but it has the power to move people's hearts. As a nanny, Ling Ling is not ashamed of the nature of her profession, but respects herself and approaches her work without condescension. Auntie's help and care for her fellow countryman Ling Ling, Ling Ling's brother's lack of money to start his own business, and the nanny's little sister's generosity even though she has little money.
Like vigorously, stars such as aspiring young people, have a firm spiritual pursuit, discipline, the kind of positive upward is the heart of the fire, the light in the eyes. Hutong compound people **** appreciate a pot of chrysanthemums, Hongrong enthusiastic neighbors, took the initiative to help her take care of the children. Grandpa Zhou, an old cadre, is clean and honest, and Grandma Zhou, such an old artist is humble and smooth and calm. Knowledge is highly respected, human feelings are higher than interests, and the spirit is more abundant than the material, so it is no wonder that such 80s will be collectively missed by several generations of people who have experienced it.
The end of the film is somewhat deliberately idealized, and Ling Ling's brother's transition from gambling addiction to entrepreneurship is a reflection of the process of rural youth's spiritual awakening from chaos since the reform and opening up of the countryside, as well as the transmutation of the traditional rural social and economic structure in the process of progress. The economic development of the countryside allows rural people like Ling Ling to go out and come back, the first restaurant was opened in the town, and Ling Ling, who has seen the world, was invited back to be a chef. Star accompanied Ling Ling embarked on the train home, she will focus on the countryside cheaper, green vegetables, meat and poultry, ready to cooperate with Ling Ling source.
Star and Ling Ling, two girls from the city and the countryside respectively, represent a group of young women who have benefited from the dividends of the times, and are self-reliant and self-supporting, with their own life pursuits and value realization. The progress of civilization in a society is measured by women's complete economic and spiritual independence. From this point of view, The Girl from Huangshan Mountain is a sincere eulogy for the times.
It's worth mentioning that the film's vision and imagination of the future are now largely realized. The star mentioned the future of rural people will be rich in the city travel, and even out of the country, China's earliest outbound travel is 1983, but just more than thirty years, the ideal has long been into the reality. 1984, Shanghai only have private telephone installation, 1988, the first highway "Hu Jia Expressway" began to build into the pass! ......
We now easily have everything, have experienced too grand thrill, the times experienced, far more than we imagined.
Suddenly thought of Dickens in "A Tale of Two Cities" wrote a sentence: "This is the best of times, this is the worst of times," when we suddenly began to nostalgia for the lost era, it means that we have been losing some of the precious things, such as "the girl from the Huangshan Mountain," a small nanny to bring me the simplicity and innocence.
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