During the Cultural Revolution, Zhao Tianyou, a young man in the countryside, almost fell into a nervous disease because his family was born as a landlord, and he had no choice but to enter the Liugou River in the mountainous area. After the reform and opening up, he was elected as the chairman of the village committee. With the help of his grandfather's long-term worker son, he started a Chinese herbal medicine business, and after a few years of hard work, the Liugouhe people made a fortune by planting Chinese medicinal materials, and Zhao Tianyou became a farmer entrepreneur. Executive Vice Mayor Wang Hualin saw the development prospects, upgraded the Wenyang County Development Zone to the Yunshui City Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Zone, and strongly advocated the deep processing of Chinese herbal medicines. Wang Hualin was later pulled into the water by the fake Hong Kong businessman Ru Lihua to help her play "karate" in Yunshui City to obtain funds. Zhao Tianyou, a peasant entrepreneur, won Ru Lihua's beauty plan, and Ru Lihua deceived the farmers of Liugou River of chinese medicinal materials and then absconded. Zhao Tianyou was forced by moral pressure and legal questioning, and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on a snowy day.
In recent years, "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Red Sea Action", which have become "blockbusters" in the Chinese film market, have proved the amazing market potential of domestic mainstream blockbusters with box office. How do filmmakers tell the story of China? How does the lens present the Chinese dream? How to truly highlight the grandeur of a big country and cultural self-confidence in the creation of the big screen has become a topic of the times that Chinese filmmakers need to think deeply about and actively face.
The industrial upgrading of Chinese films in the "Internet +" era has given the development of Chinese films greater inclusiveness and openness, and the Chinese film market needs the market model of "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Red Sea Action" to open the "new mainstream blockbuster" with high-cost large-scale commercial films, and also needs the exploration of small and medium-cost films with humanistic care and social thinking as the main expression, so as to build a healthy and benign development of China's film art and the rapid development of the industry.
Gansu's local film "Snow Burial" can be seen as an exploration of the second type of mainstream film in a sense. The film takes the development of the times and the dilemma in the process of reform and opening up in the rural areas of western China as the main content, and the choice of the theme of the film shows the creator's artistic consciousness of thinking about history and caring for human nature, and also shows the sense of cultural mission of revitalizing Gansu's film and television creation and industry.
The film should first of all be artistic creation with humanistic care, and the screen story needs to point directly to the emotional temperature of people's hearts and the emotional power to hit the pain points of the social era. "Snow Burial" begins with Zhao Tianyou's inability to enlist in the army during the Cultural Revolution because of his birth problems and then joined the door-to-door son-in-law, telling the story of his personal fate of jumping off a cliff and committing suicide by jumping off a cliff to make up for his inner moral guilt under the policy of reform and opening up, and later becoming a peasant entrepreneur after being trapped in the trap of collusion between officials and businessmen. The film promotes the narrative with the twists and turns of the characters' fate, constructs the relationship between the characters and the dramatic conflict, and satisfies the audience's basic demands for the story. However, this is not the story of Zhao Tianyou alone, but the struggle dreams and dilemmas of countless reformers in the history of China's reform and opening up, and it is also the reflection and exploration of countless strivers. The ideals and personal struggles of the homeland have obtained a delicate and shocking artistic expression in the film.
The creation of small and medium-cost main theme films must find unique characteristics and positioning, otherwise it is difficult to obtain mass communication and a certain degree of market response, and it is impossible to truly achieve the original intention of the creation of the main theme film. At this point, "Snow Burial" has also carried out more exploration and attempts. The film has distinct regional characteristics for the audiovisual performance of the western countryside and the customs and customs, and is a valuable cultural expression and dissemination of the western rural images that are disappearing from the Chinese film market. The film involves the social hot topics of anti-corruption and clean government in terms of content, and after the hit "The Name of the People", it has fully proved the audience's attention to social and political topics, especially the attention of post-90s audiences, and "Snow Burial" is also a conscious attempt to borrow power.
"Snow Burial" consciously seeks a balance in terms of personal destiny and the waves of the times, historical reflection and contemporary significance, national vision and western perspective, social significance and artistic expression.