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Chapter 1203 After the horse is nailed to the horseshoe, there will be iron
Of course, all kinds of excessive interpretations will not affect ordinary audiences.

Well, to put it another way, in fact, most viewers will only hear: "Oh, there is a recent "Into the Dust" that is quite popular."

Yes, they don't think that the current domestic social culture has become a middle-class culture or something like that.

The enthusiasm created by these topics is more to make this movie look "hot".

But that's enough.

And more film critics, more media people, focus on the film itself.

Such as details.

Liu Fei, as a rich second-generation film critic, doesn't understand the countryside at all.

The suffering in the countryside is actually very strange to him.

"I, Liu Fei, and those who know me, know that I haven't experienced any hardship since I was a child, so if you ask me to comment on and dig out these things from this aspect, it is obviously embarrassing me, Liu Fei.

Therefore, I only interpret this film from the film itself.

Details, details, details.

This movie, in my opinion, shows a lot of things that are hidden in the details.

Let's not talk about anything else, just the movie itself.

First, details first, donkey!
A horse with iron is a donkey!

Why do you think so?Let's take a look at the details shown in the movie.

I believe that everyone who has watched the movie can easily remember that the first scene of the whole film is an adobe house window, and the woman keeps calling the fourth child outside the picture.When the audience is waiting for the fourth child to appear from the window, a donkey pokes its head out of the window and looks towards the source of the sound, and then the real fourth child appears from the window. This is the first hint-the fourth child is the one donkey.

Afterwards, we quickly learned that the fourth child is the hero, and his name is Ma Youtie.This is almost an indication that the iron paws nailed to the horse is a symbol of being tamed and the beginning of becoming a donkey. Free wild horses will not "have iron".In addition, the donkey in the film wears a big iron bell on its neck, which is very conspicuous and keeps tinkling, which is also an echo of the name Ma Youtie.

Isn't it interesting?There is iron, there is iron, horses have iron, haha, I admire director Li Yi's direct display of the hidden things in the name, of course, it is also possible that I am thinking too much.

Then let's look back and enter the first highlight, the blind date.In the middle of the meal, the brother with iron suddenly went out to beat and scold the donkey, scolding it for eating too much, and asking how much more it needs to eat?At this time, Ma Youtie was also eating.This also implies the relationship between You Tie and his elder brother. He has been working as a cow and a horse in this family, and he is the donkey.

Pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, this dog director also uses it with great proficiency. It is obviously a very life-like plot, but it is hard not to let people's imagination run wild.

In the same scene, when Ma Youtie was called to eat, he brought a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun.My brother said to him, this table is full of vegetables, why do you take rice and steamed buns?I think this detail has two meanings. The first is that Ma Youtie has been treated badly in this family, and he is used to eating only staple food; the second is that the staple food is grain, and donkeys basically only eat grain.

Even if it's just these, this is a movie that can be called an explosion of details.

Emotional qualms aside, I still think this is a good movie because of the skill of the director.Although I am not a choreographer and director, I have learned about this industry, and I have also read countless films. We know that many works are often used to narrate with lines, which is actually not efficient or advanced.In this movie, the above-mentioned plot only opened for 3 minutes, and a lot of information was explained in details through seemingly simple shots.

Including this blind date dinner, Guiying has been eating staple food, which implies that she has the same situation as Youtie.

Including the moment Youtie walked into the house dirty and sat down to eat, a young boy playing with a mobile phone in the background suddenly got up and walked out. It was Youtie's nephew who was about to get married. Only then did the family decide to drive the hard-working You Tie out of the house on the grounds of marrying a wife and setting up a separate family.Later, the lines of the matchmaker and the hostess also echoed this detail.

The above are the detailed metaphors about donkeys and horses with iron are donkeys.

Let's look at the second detail, panda blood!

This plot is actually very interesting. Some people may say that it is just to show being sucked blood, so this plot is arranged.

But I think it's more than that.

Ma Youtie is a donkey, but he has panda blood.

Isn't this a strange setting?But you have to admit, this is a very real setting.

I think there are actually two perspectives: in the house of brother and sister-in-law, in the village, there is iron as a donkey; but does the film want to tell the audience that horses with iron inside are extremely precious, which is very rare nowadays, but many People can't see it.

This can be seen from the things that Ma Youtie did after he did not reciprocate the favor, and he only regarded the remuneration given by the other party as a loan.

He has to pay off the credit no matter what, this is the most basic integrity of his life.

Etc., etc.

In addition, the poorest old widower in a village has the same blood type as the richest boss in the village.In fact, from this point of view, the essence of life for each of us is the same, there is no distinction between high and low.

At the same time, there is also an ironic point, if it is not because of the panda blood, the people in the village would not even know that Ma Laosi is Ma Youtie.

From the initial request to save Zhang Yongfu, the villagers began to feel disgusted and complained, saying that they were the ones to be saved, but when they knew that only Ma Youtie was needed, their reactions were completely different. They started laughing and started to have nothing to do with themselves. Hang high.

The selfishness of human nature is fully displayed at this moment.

The third detail, look at each other.

Why is this mentioned in particular?
Because I think this is a very, very moving design in this movie, that is, Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying's two stares at each other.

During the blind date between Youtie and Guiying, the two actually never saw each other.And after You Tie went out to feed the donkey and returned to his house, the camera stopped moving: the right side of the picture was a mirror, which reflected You Tie who was eating, and the left side of the picture was a wooden door with It was snowing heavily, and Guiying stood in the snow, staring straight at You Tie, motionless, even a little sluggish.At this moment, You Tie looked up at her, then lowered his head shyly, completing the first time the two of them looked at each other.

The last time the two looked at each other was after Guiying died, in their new home.It is also a shot with a fixed camera position: on the right side of the screen is Youtie, who is eating an egg, and on the left side of the screen is a photo of Guiying, who is placed in a wooden frame, staring straight at Youtie, motionless and a little sluggish.At this moment, You Tie looked up at her, then lowered his head silently, completing the last time the two of them looked at each other.

If you look at it carefully, if you compare the two pictures in a fixed frame, you will find that the eyes, movements, and positional relationships of the characters are almost exactly the same in the two stares, and even Guiying is also very different. The same is installed in a wooden frame, but the first time is a door frame, and the second time is a photo frame.Because there are so many detailed echoes between these two shots, I believe that it must have been deliberately designed by the director. These two echoes of looking at each other will give you a sense of sadness that can be seen for thousands of years, and things are different.

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(End of this chapter)