"Donkey Got Water" is such a movie: the name is not good, with the label of comedy, but in the bones is a well-deserved sadness and good movie.
Probably only people who watch this film for the first time can laugh out loud at the beginning; and the more you look back, the more tear-inducing it is, making it difficult not to cry, sigh and be heartbroken.
The film "Donkey Gets Water" is adapted from a drama script, the story revolves around a rural school in the Republic of China period, the background of the story is almost just a classroom transformed from a temple, and the main characters of the film are 4 volunteer teachers with educational dreams and a "Donkey Get Water" teacher, of which the "Donkey Get Water" teacher is the center of the story.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="8" > Act 1: Rejoicing</h1>
Donkey Water Teacher is originally a donkey, responsible for transporting water resources in the countryside, all the water used in the school, need Donkey Water Teacher to run back and forth more than twenty miles of mountain road every day. In order to obtain more teacher subsidies, Principal Sun lied to the Education Bureau about a teacher named "Donkey Water" to supplement daily expenses with that salary.
The first half of the film is cheerfully paced and relaxed. Although they are in poverty, they have a common ideal of several people who are happy and harmonious, willing to donate their meager salaries to carry out campus reform, and together they provide advice for the school's enrollment. Several people think in one place, and work hard to make each other, not only can they spit on each other, joke, or even open the yellow cavity at will.
Old people, men, women, children, domestic animals, a broken house, a big dream, it was like a little home. They are colleagues, but also family.
In the remote highland land, there is the fresh tranquility of the countryside, the warmth and warmth of the spring sun, and the warm and inclusive working atmosphere.
Their lives are like donkey water teachers, although hard, but ordinary and happy.
The small classroom carries the sparkling educational dreams of several people, which is the small joy in the cracks of the times, hidden in the folds of development.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="20" > act 2: Singing and dancing</h1>
However, soon after, the excellent Donkey Water Teacher attracted the attention of the above, and arranged for a special commissioner to go to the countryside to investigate and visit, naming and naming to see The Donkey Water Teacher. In a hurry, an illiterate coppersmith is temporarily arrested to replace him, and a series of oolongs follow.
So the film gradually entered a better situation, and all unexpected and reasonable things happened one after another.
A fire caused the real Donkey Water Teacher to lose its donkey shed and live in a cave. It was depressed and lost its voice.
A raid check made the dirty coppersmith a crappy English teacher and ascended to the three-foot podium. He swelled.
When all the dramatic conflicts come together, let people bring their hearts to the throat.
Fortunately, they got an investment and began to renovate the school in a big way, connecting water and electricity, purchasing materials, and everything was developing in a good direction.
In the midst of the song and dance, several people's hearts played a small calculation. What the principal wants is only the development of the school, Zhang Yiman wants unrestrained freedom, Zhou Tienan wants love, Pei Kuishan wants money, and the coppersmith wants to change his destiny.
A consummation becomes fragmented.
All the lies in the world need to be rounded up with another lie, endlessly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="39" > Act III: A Sharp Turn</h1>
After the farce of lies, the school gains fame and profit as it wishes, and what is lost never comes again.
When it was learned that the investor, Mr. Ross, was going to visit Mr. Donkey Water, an even bigger twist followed.
The coppersmith donkey got the water teacher changed. Influenced by knowledge, he began to awaken to his self-consciousness, he no longer obeyed the orders of the shrew wife, no longer content with the broken iron, he wanted to change his destiny.
Knowledge armed his mind, and lust burned his intellect. When the coppersmith learns that the female teacher Zhang Yiman's one-night entanglement with himself is nothing more than wishful thinking, the evil of his human nature is completely stimulated.
Hatred and revenge occupy his chest, like greed and selfishness eating into the hearts of others.
In order to round up that lie, everyone becomes a grasshopper on a rope. For his own interests, he mercilessly pushed others into the fire pit, and the biggest victim was Zhang Yiman, a female teacher.
They exchanged her body for the first profit, their dignity in exchange for their own safety, and when she was tortured to inhumanity and inhumanity, they said she was a madman.
Yi Man was humiliated both physically and mentally. Shaved, insulted, slapped, abandoned. The old days were shattered, and she forced herself not to shed a tear.
Pei Kuishan, who said that he liked her and wanted to marry her, only looked at her body and tried to possess her with a condescending charity mentality.
After being rejected, he became angry and ashamed, and when he did not get it, he destroyed her despicablely and mercilessly put her to death. Those ideals and feelings, in the face of money and power, become worthless. He became a dog that pleased the powerful.
And the enthusiastic young man Zhou Tienan began to be angry everywhere, and he never bowed to the evil forces.
After almost dying after a shot, he also became a person who wanted to die, bending his upright ideals and beliefs. Nod to the powerful, turn a blind eye to bullying, and turn a blind eye to evil deeds. The backbone of the so-called intellectuals was crushed by the mighty.
The truly idealistic principal, shouting about education, was not doing anything righteous at all. To achieve his ends, he could make everyone else sacrifice for his ideals. With noble feelings, everyone is bound to give everything for it.
His goodness becomes hypocrisy, and that hypocrisy is cast into true evil. He simply could not bear the consequences, and the result was to drag everyone together to recover. Too selfish.
From the beginning to the end of the film, only Jiajia is truly righteous. She is not equal to the real donkey water teacher, dares to expose all false hypocrisy, dares to challenge all authority, she is not afraid of hardships, can bend and stretch, is a real warrior. She left the mountain and went thousands of miles away, which was her first dream and final destination.
When the gunshots rang out, the plateau was calm again, only to become dead silent.
Who can pull out of a collective evil? When evil is rampant, all silence is complicity, and all inaction is accomplice.
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The days will move forward, but those past hurts will not be forgotten.
"Donkey Got Water" is a real tragedy, and the sadness under the cloak of comedy is a shocking viciousness.
When the diligent and down-to-earth donkey is slaughtered and turned into the appetizer of the magnate, when the weak woman is reduced to a tool for profit, when simplicity, justice, and ideals are trampled on, where is the road to hope?
A good script supports a rich, flexible, and full story; a three-dimensional, multi-faceted, and complex character performs a wonderful play; the film "Donkey Got Water" is a well-deserved comedy masterpiece, and its practical significance is worthy of deep reflection by every generation.
As the film says, "If the past is gone, it will only get worse and worse in the future." ”
Some roads, though difficult and tortuous, spiral upwards. And blindly pursuing the fast road will eventually eat its own evil consequences.
Only by constantly conducting profound reflection, doing good deeds and doing good deeds can we truly get rid of ignorance and numbness, move towards a new era, and embrace a brilliant future.
*About the Author: Clouds in the Air, a woman who combines love and loneliness, talks to herself between dreams and reality.