"Overland Boat"
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Today I went to Foshan on a business trip, and in the Wusha Industrial Park, I took such a wonderful photo through the reflection of the window glass.
The boat that was originally on the river seemed to be traveling on land. A word suddenly appeared in my mind, "land boat."
Overland boat, forgot where I heard the word, not sure if it was an idiom. Later, I searched the Internet and did not find an explanation of the idiom, but found the name of a book and a movie.
The book is subtitled: A Chinese Journalist's Latin American Drug Investigation.
The author's name is Liu Xiaoqian, a senior foreign correspondent of CCTV, who once broke into the Brazilian drug trafficking group and chatted with drug dealers about life and death, which can be described as "not into the tiger's den, but the tiger".
In order to track the news scene, Liu Xiaoqian pretended to be a teacher, businessman and geologist, and also took an invisible camera to secretly visit the black market of guns, lingering in funeral homes and cemeteries...
"Land Boat" is a practical manual for him to use a section of life and death journey to merge into an in-depth investigation, the reason why it is called "Land Boat", probably because it is a metaphor for the investigation process as difficult as a land boat, but also has a certain idealistic color of "foolishness moving mountains".
The movie of the same name, "Land Boat", is not just a metaphor, but really let a giant ship walk on land, a veritable "land boat".
This is the work of the famous German director Werner Herzog, the story takes place in the 1890s, in the Amazon jungle of Peru, South America, the opera-obsessed Fitzgerald is known to the local natives as the dreamer "Fitzkarado", who often does some inexplicable crazy things, such as:
Plans to build a railway through the Inca Mountains, produce ice in the rainforest... In short, it is a fantasy.
Once, after enjoying an opera by the world-famous tenor Caruso, he had an incredible dream:
Build a luxurious opera house in the rainforest!
In order to get enough money, Fitzkarado accepts the arduous task proposed by the local rubber tycoon - to harvest in the mysterious and terrifying Ugueglia forest area, and a thrilling journey begins.
Along the way, he magically "conquered" the local indigenous people, and with their help, he dragged a huge 2-ton ship across the mountains and completed an incredible land boat.
Later, even though the natives destroyed the ship, the lovely dreamer did not feel a little depressed, and finally he used the tattered ship to carry an opera troupe to perform a wonderful opera and make the dream a reality.
This film, for the word "overland boat", is tinged with romance, dreaminess and idealism.
I have to say that building your own favorite opera house in a Peruvian town in South America has no profit to be gained, purely out of personal preference, and has gone through countless hardships, which is simply an "outrageous" dream.
In this world, there are indeed many "crazy people" who are not understood, who are daydreamers and idealists.
They have strong beliefs and vitality, deviate from worldly values and lifestyles, and pursue their ideal world, but they are often not understood by the world.
They may be spiritually rich and miserable all their lives, or they may be sought after by the audience, but they have never complained or regretted, and they are still the same.
Like Strickland in "The Moon and Sixpence", the strickland who gave up the seemingly good life of others and went to Tahiti in the South Pacific to paint, he injected all the value of life into the brilliant canvas.
"The ground was full of sixpence, but he looked up and saw the moon."
Oh, overland boating, how romantic!
Written in Guangzhou
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