These days to see the book "Boiling Sea Time: Hou Xiaoxian's Light and Shadow Memory", I originally wanted to turn over several of Hou Dao's representative works to see, when I saw the part of "Winter And Winter Holiday", I looked at the two words "Winter Winter" and did not think about looking at this one.
Until I saw this sentence in the book: one of the scenes I like very much is that Tingting helps the little sheep doll inject, which is very cute and warm.
Seeing this, I am not calm, how to drop have to go online to find this film to watch, because my nickname is dongdong, my sister's nickname is Tingting. For this coincidence, I watched this film.
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1. Story background
The source of this film is a short story written by Zhu Tiantian, "The Holiday of An'an", Hou Dao added some materials from other novels, as well as some materials in newspapers, such as culverts, smashing people with stones, and there was this news in the newspapers at that time.
Among them, the experience of the last brother-in-law's cutting hemorrhoids in the film is Hou Dao's own experience (here please allow me to laugh for three minutes, hahaha), and the plot of catching birds when I was a child, put together, and made this film.
The film was released in 1984, mainly about primary school graduate Dong Dong and sister Tingting, who could not take care of them during the summer vacation because of their mother's illness and hospitalization, and returned to the countryside to spend the summer vacation.
At that time, Hou Dao was filmed with a house, and the box office of the film was dismal, but the Douban score was 8.6 points, which was a rare film that made people feel real and warm after watching it.
If the film is called "Ann's Holiday", I don't think I have a fate with this film.
2. Child actors
Director Hou's film will have some child actors, but this one has the most, and there are many "non-actors".
There is a scene where several little boys are swimming in the river, to take off their clothes, when the children first started, it was not so easy to take off, and then Hou Dao gave two hundred pieces, the children all took off, took off and covered up, Hou Dao team ignored them, they slowly relaxed, and the shooting was natural.
One of the details is more in line with the character setting, the children in the countryside are all stripped naked, only winter wear a pair of white shorts. The character settings of city children and country children are different.
Tingting has been playing behind her brother, and her brother refuses to take her sister to play. Children like to play with children who are older than themselves, they don't like to play with children younger than themselves, boys like to play with boys, and they don't like to take girls.
Some people commented that Hou Dao filmed our "past and present lives". Looking at the film, it will remind people of many things when they were young, the film is not only the winter and winter holidays, we can also find the shadow of our childhood holidays.
3. Plot
One line of the story is Tingting's perspective, telling about Tingting and the madman. One line is the perspective of winter and winter, the matter of winter and a group of little boys, the matter of winter and uncle.
Dongdong plays with the little boy, showing that although Dongdong graduated from primary school, he is still a child, and hangs out with children, including seeing the sparrow catcher flirting with the madman, and the car thief seen under the culvert, which strings together the story behind.
Tingting wants to catch up with Dong Dong and go to the field to play, but she can't catch up with the boys and falls on the train tracks, or the madman arrives, saves Tingting, and carries Tingting home.
The sparrow catcher defiles the madman, the madman accidentally becomes pregnant, Tingting picks up the dead bird under the tree, and the madman wants to put the bird on the tree. The madman fell from the tree and miscarried, and Grandpa came back to cure the madman, causing Grandpa and Grandma to be unable to go to Taipei to see a serious mother.
At night, Tingting sat next to the madman and cried, and later fell asleep next to the madman.
Dong Dong's perspective is that he went to his girlfriend's house with his uncle, and then his uncle had a relationship with his girlfriend, and the girlfriend was pregnant, and her mother went to the door to quarrel. The uncle moved out to live, and later Dong Dong attended his uncle's wedding alone.
Dong Dong saw in his uncle's house that the car thief under the culvert went home to tell his grandfather that he was covering up, and his grandfather called the police station to report the letter.
The daily life of Dongdong and Grandma and Grandpa, as well as dongdong's narration of writing letters to his mother, Dongdong's daily life of climbing trees with boys and going to the river to play, children grow up a little lonely, there are also some bumps, but in the end it will grow up.
Finally, Grandpa said a word: Parents can not take care of their children for a lifetime, only before he enters the society, lay a good foundation for him, teach him at least some things that he should have as a person.
Dong Dong knew that Grandpa had forgiven his uncle. The story is still relatively clear when split into two lines, Tingting is still ignorant, and Winter has grown a lot during this holiday.
At first, winter and winter are the eyes of children, and then it is the eyes of small adults to see the world, and the perspective of looking at problems is different.
4. Sound
When I watched the first half, I didn't wear headphones, and I couldn't understand the Shanghainese, Hakka, and most importantly: no subtitles! In the second half, I put on headphones to listen, and only then could I hear some Mandarin clearly.
There is a lot of noise in the film, but in the noise, you can hear a lot of sounds heard in the countryside.
The sound of the train passing by, the sound of the wall clock ringing, the sound of the child jumping into the river, the sound of the gong banging when looking for the child, the sound of skating on the wooden floor, the sound of the phonograph, the sound of the motorcycle, the sound of cicadas, the barking of dogs, the sound of birds, the sound of insects, the sound of wind blowing leaves, crying, laughter, the scream of the brother-in-law after cutting hemorrhoids.
The film was filmed in the countryside, and at that time, there was no deliberate dubbing after the film was filmed, so many of the sounds heard in the film were very original and diverse, and whatever sound should be used.
5. Props and scenes
Hou Dao said that when he was filming, he would shoot whatever he wanted, such as a temple, a train, a culvert, a ditch, a bamboo whip and a fishing net, and every time the children went out to play, they had to bring it.
What do country kids play? Some children took the turtle and Dong Dong for a remote control car, and caught a lot of small turtles in the back and wanted to change toys with Dong Dong.
When the child plays in the water, he takes the car tire, when he was a child, he went to the river with the children in the village to play with the water, and he used this black car tire, which was full of gas and could float up in the water.
The boys were thrown away by Tingting, and they couldn't find the clothes, so they picked a few leaves to block the important parts of the body and went back.
When a child disappeared, his mother rang a gong and called his name by the river.
When I was a child, I heard that there was a child in someone else's village who was swimming in the river and disappeared, and he didn't find it for a long time, and then he still struck the gong to float. (Three more in the middle of the night to write here feel a chill in the back.) ）
There's no pastime in the countryside, snooker is a great way to do it, and there's a great way to climb trees and play, look at fields and mountains in the distance, well, that's what the countryside looks like, no doubt.
6. Lens
The child stood at the edge of the field and watched from a distance as the sparrow catcher drove the sparrow into the net and then into the cage.
The child stood at the door and watched the person who caught the sparrow go in and flirt with the madman, and then the madman's father came back, took the flat burden to chase the person who caught the sparrow, and the child stood in the distance and watched and laughed, only to feel that it was chasing the person to fight, felt funny, and did not know what was happening.
There were also children passing through the culvert and saw two people stealing things, one stealing a watch to steal money, and one person waiting next to him with a stone.
Grandpa and Grandma packed up their things and went to Taipei to see Dong Dong's mother, who was standing opposite the train station and took pictures.
There are a lot of empty shots used in the film to show the scenery of the countryside, like the landscape paintings we see, the pastoral atmosphere is very strong, and there are some long-range shots. Many times, the child, as a bystander, sees what is happening from the child's point of view.
Sometimes it's like sneaking a shot, as if something was already happening, just happened to be photographed.
Such shots, which are commonplace in the countryside, seem real and unpretentious.
Hou Director's prose style of film, when watching the first half, I feel that how to understand the film, the appearance of a personal character, it seems that there is no connection, but when it is connected in the back, there is a feeling of second understanding.
The two lines of the story intersect together in the back, and the whole film is less of a big conflict, but it makes people feel warm when they watch it, especially the children who grew up in the countryside, and when they watch the film, they feel that every shot in it coincides with the memory in their minds.
This film is especially suitable for the post-70s and post-80s who grew up in the countryside (suddenly thinking of this sentence exposes the age), because you can find some things you saw when you grew up in the film, and watching the film makes people feel particularly warm! If you want to relive the scenes of your childhood, then this film can give you this kind of emotional sustenance.