Late at night, the northwest desert is silent.
The boy sat at the end of the seesaw.
Oh.
He sucked in his nose, looked up and asked:
"Dad, what the hell are you doing?"
The father laughed: "I am a poet. ”
He looked up at the Heavenly Vault and explained seriously:
"My job is to write poetry in heaven every day."
The boy seemed to understand.
The boy's parents are space scientists.
In the 1970s, China's aerospace technology was backward and its funds were insufficient.
Studying rockets seems like a thankless task.
But there is such a group of people who stand up.
They are anonymous.
Rooted in the barren northwest desert.
At the risk of explosion, I experimented day and night.
The poems in "My Fathers and Me" tell their stories.
The biggest feeling of the film is that it is real.
Researchers are no longer a cold stereotype.
They are just like the ordinary you and me.
Will sweetly fall in love.
"The poems I write, see how well they are written."
When I opened the letter paper, only one big word was written on the big white paper: poem.
They are also the children's mom and dad.
There will be worry and tension, there will be sadness.
If you are provoked, you will also grab a stick and spank your ass.
Moreover, director Zhang Ziyi carefully reproduced the scene of that year.
The Gobi is full of sand, the adobe house will leak rain, the staple food is nest head, and the clothes are gray.
Children playing jump rope, rolling iron buckets, climbing rope ladders in the sand...
Qi Faxuan, a veteran academician of China, watched the film with tears in his eyes.
"It takes me back to that time."
What is even more rare is that the film is delicate and full but restrained.
There is no forced sensationalism, no deliberate exaggeration of sorrow and joy.
Just calmly present their lives.
Emotions are underneath.
Just right, not more than a point.
This is the first work directed by Zhang Ziyi.
But there is no childishness.
The performance is good, and the narrative is amazing.
Under her lens, a documentary and magnificent journey slowly unfolds.
The story begins with this ordinary family.
After a cannon shot, the boy's father never returned home.
Ask your mother and just say "in overtime."
That rainy night, my mother returned, but my father did not.
"What about my dad?" He rushed out like crazy.
After a long time, he returned.
"I went door to door and asked, and all the dads came back, except for my dad!"
He knew that his father was no longer there.
An accident occurred while "writing poetry".
Such a heroic and painful sacrifice has really happened in the history of China's aerospace industry.
Academician Gao Chongwu of the Aerospace Research Institute said:
"The plot in the movie is real, I have personally witnessed the burning, witnessed the explosion, witnessed the sacrifice."
But no one backed down.
Including the mother of the boy who lost her husband in the film.
In that era, there were already many women who broke free and fought hard.
They look weak, but their shoulders are straight, and their eyes are like torches.
They walked down the fields and into the factory.
Also walk into the research center.
He has assumed quite important responsibilities in his post.
The mother played by Zhang Ziyi is one of them.
It may seem simple, but women are powerful and tough.
She was not willing to be confined to household chores, and she was even more reluctant to be attached to her husband.
She is herself.
Independent and self-reliant, with a sense of enterprise and dreams.
At the Institute of Aerospace Research, she was a gunpowder sculptor.
This is an extremely important task in rocket research and development.
Every time you drop the knife, you can hear your own heartbeat. You have carved a small amount of gunpowder, and there can be no difference. This is a hair tied by a thousand jun, and every weapon of a big country is inseparable from you. You are a craftsman, you are a craftsman of a great power.
This is the award speech given to a gunpowder engraver by "Moving China".
In the film, the mother shoulders this heavy responsibility.
Watching her study in the lab, I have a deeper understanding of the title.
Director Zhang Ziyi has stressed in interviews many times:
"Father's generation" refers to the generation of parents.
The unit of "Poetry" also perfects the concept of "father generation".
Gender independent.
It doesn't even matter the age.
Rather, it refers to the predecessors who have overcome all difficulties ahead and paved the way for us.
The scarf never let the eyebrows be shaved.
In aerospace research, women use their delicate and flexible strength to push the gears of technology forward.
Despite the hardships of the years, they sparkled.
The mother in the film, even if her husband sacrificed, her faith did not waver.
The superior asked: "Time is tight, can you complete the task?" ”
Her response was loud, "Yes! ”
Turn around and plunge into the lab.
But gunpowder engraving is not easy.
Extreme precision is required and dangerous.
A slight difference in the pool will cause combustion and explosion.
The chance of escape is almost zero.
She was ready to sacrifice at any time.
There is a scene in the film that is deeply moving.
The child knows that his father is crying when he dies.
The mother said with tears in her eyes:
"My mother's job is dangerous, and if there is an accident, I will die."
"Mom and Dad don't necessarily have the time to grow up with you."
It's too cruel for a kid under 10 years old.
But this is the real situation of countless aerospace researchers.
They danced on the edge of the cliff.
If you are not careful, you will be crushed to pieces.
Home and country, they always choose the country first.
While the boy's father was still alive, he had a conversation with his wife.
"If the children ask if Dad is dead, what to say?"
The father replied calmly:
"Tell the truth."
But when he really sacrificed, the boy's mother could not tell the truth.
She hid from the child: "Dad is busy at work. ”
No matter how the child asked, she did not say.
Just secretly crying in the middle of the night.
This is too real.
Chinese view of life and death, there is one thing:
Taboo to talk about death.
For the deceased, we always hide our loved ones, or avoid talking about them.
But no matter how sad it is, it will always be faced.
The mother finally explained it to the child.
The boy finally learned that the poem written by his father turned out to be a rocket.
I also understand that for parents, this is a career beyond life and death.
From escape, to conflict, and finally to reconciliation.
The film shows Chinese unique expression of life and death.
Implicit, implicit.
Reluctant to face it.
But we avoid talking about death, but we are not afraid of death.
In the film, the father uses his life to observe the data.
The mother was also ready to sacrifice at any time.
The same goes for others.
This is also Chinese typical view of life and death .
For common purpose, at all costs, including lives.
This is a belief engraved in the bones.
Like the poem that a mother leaves for her child:
Fuel is something that ignites oneself and illuminates others;
Rockets, for the sake of dreams, throw away their own things;
Life is something that burns;
Death is something that verifies life...
Why should we develop space research at any cost?
Because technology equals discourse power.
Equal to the dignity of the nation.
Time back to the 1960s and 1970s.
The Soviet Union and the United States successively launched sputniks.
China is not to be taken lightly.
Declare "We're going to heaven too!" ”
But at that time, China's technology was backward.
Don't talk about rockets, it's hard to build airplanes.
The whole world is laughing at the questioning.
At this time, Qian Xuesen threw down a sentence:
"What foreigners can do, Chinese can't do?"
He avoided all kinds of obstruction and returned to his homeland.
The battle began.
More than 100,000 engineering troops and scientific researchers arrived in the northwest desert.
They come from all over the world.
The task is to build a "two-bomb" research and development base at the fastest speed.
The weather was bad and the wind and sand were raging.
Construction is difficult.
But they held on silently.
This group of young people was the top talent in China at that time.
They are anonymous, uprooted, and rooted in remote deserts.
I lived in an adobe house that leaked wind and rain.
Eat the nest head.
The conditions for the study were also very poor.
Almost nothing.
The calculation is made using a hand-cranked computer.
The data for a track takes several days.
Draw a satellite plan, there is no curved board, even the ellipse can not be drawn.
They put pens on paper and tied a rope.
Draw according to geometric definitions.
They even face danger to their lives.
When studying the power of a rocket, an explosion can occur at any time.
Antennas several meters long also often throw out to hit people.
Some were injured, some were sacrificed.
But no one retreated.
All signed the life and death papers.
Race against the clock to overcome difficulties.
It was a time of boiling blood and burning passion.
Just like hundreds of years ago, thousands of households strapped to a chair with a bazooka tied to a try to fly.
He looked at the sky, his eyes blazing.
"Flying in the sky is my long-cherished wish for the millennium in China." Today, even if I am crushed to pieces and blood is splashed on the heavens, I still have to break out a path to explore the heavens for future generations! ”
We did it.
In 1970, the first artificial satellite was successfully launched.
"Oriental Red" resounded in the universe.
Subsequently, China's aerospace technology made rapid breakthroughs.
We unlocked the manned spaceflight.
Yang Liwei
With a professional scientific research center.
The Tianwen probe successfully landed on Mars.
Start the probe mission.
On September 17, 2021, the Shenzhou XII manned spacecraft successfully returned.
The three Chinese astronauts landed safely.
Two days later, on October 3, Shenzhou XIII will also be launched.
The new "Space Trip Trio" is about to set sail.
In this team, there is also a female astronaut Wang Yaping.
The Chinese space station is being built in an orderly manner.
The vast universe is no longer out of reach.
Huaxia Millennium Flying Dream, we have realized.
At the end of the film, the children in the desert have grown up.
The youngest daughter became an astronaut.
She flew into space and rubbed shoulders with the Eastern Red Satellite.
It was a satellite that my father had worked on and sacrificed for.
The spirit of spaceflight is passed on.
In the movie, the daughter inherits her father's legacy.
Outside the movie, countless astronauts have taken over the baton of their fathers.
They're on the front lines.
Representing 1.4 billion Chinese, he continued to compose psalms in heaven.
This poem condenses the romance of generations of astronauts.
Never write it.
Forever burning.
Author: Soda
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