In the past two days, many primary and secondary schools have opened.
But for many left-behind children, they may not be happy because their parents have to go away to work.
Today Junjun wants to recommend such a movie, it can be said that the peak of domestic movies is better than 99% of drama films!
Childhood in the South, I, 2007
Douban 9.4
Reason for recommendation: the peak of domestic movies
Duration: 91 minutes
Referral Index: ★★★★★
"Childhood in the South" is director Yi Han's film debut, adapted from the real life of Yi Zhibing, who plays the lead actor Yi Zhibing.
It took only 19 days to shoot the film, and the actors are all non-professional Yichun locals.
However, the finished product does not have a trace of perfunctory scribble, making people feel real and natural, intimate and pure.
It also received a high rating of 9.4 from Douban, surpassing 99% of drama films.
The simple and true plot of the movie, the just right folk songs, and the quiet and beautiful rural pictures all make this movie absolutely not a loss.
Many people commented: It's horribly real! Watch cry once and cry once!
01
The story takes place in a small mountain village in Yichun, Jiangxi.
At the beginning of the film, he stands on a bumpy pickup truck, dressed in a clean white shirt and carrying a briefcase, on a muddy country road, looking slightly obtrusive.
He is Teacher Yi.
As a teacher-training intellectual, he was well respected in this small village. And he is now in full swing planning to run a kindergarten.
A student's one-month package meal package is only 60 yuan.
However, it is inevitable that the people in the village will taunt: What is the use of reading? Running a kindergarten is nothing more than making money for children.
Your monthly salary as a teacher is only one thousand, while the monthly salary of working in the south is three thousand.
In the evening, the villager Old Li sent his daughter Xiao Li, wanting her to stay in the kindergarten as a teacher, and by the way, she had the idea of going out to work at a young age.
Teacher Yi agreed, but his wife had a quarrel with Teacher Yi because she had to pay an extra person's salary.
The next day, Teacher Yi took Xiao Li everywhere to post leaflets for opening a kindergarten, and on the way, he met Mr. Yi's former student Wencai.
Wen Cai brought back from outside a 19-year-old unmarried and pregnant girl, laughing and saying that she wanted to marry her wife and hold a banquet.
After the people left, Teacher Yi said to Xiao Li in a serious tone, to study more, it is always necessary to suffer when going out to work at a young age. Xiao Li looked at the pregnant woman's big belly and fell into thought.
After a short walk, they happened to witness a failed rural blind date.
The cause was that the parents of the little boy TuTu went out to work and entrusted the tummy to an old woman in the village.
And the tummy who missed his parents actually managed the old woman's son to call up his father, causing the latter to fail to go on a blind date.
After returning home after a busy day, Teacher Yi and his wife mixed their mouths again.
15 children signed up, should have received 900 yuan, but actually only got more than 500.
Kindergarten is about to start, and this little money simply can't afford to get people to pick up and drop off children and make lunch.
Teacher Yi does not care about income and expenditure, and wants to do her best to teach the children knowledge and make the kindergarten better and better, but her wife is full of sorrow because of money.
02
After the kindergarten started, there were more and more troubles.
The eldest brother who helps to pick up and drop off the children is not in harmony with his wife because he cannot take care of farm work.
Because the eldest brother did not have time to look at the field, the water that he had worked so hard to divert was secretly intercepted by the field next door, and he had a big fight with the latter.
Then, Xiao Li wrongfully accused Lump of stealing other people's beef jerky and criticized him.
The lump without his parents did not know who to talk to, and could only sneak back to the village where he was separated from his parents, which was a great annoyance to Teacher Yi's family and Xiao Li.
Some passers-by said that the lump went to the pond, and some villagers said that they saw the floating lump in the river....
Finally, I found the lump hiding under the big tree at the mouth of the village.
After a day of chicken flying and dog jumping, Xiao Li came to Teacher Yi's house late at night to admit his mistake, brought Tuotuo an apologetic snack, and proposed that he would not come to teach again tomorrow.
Because she understood what she wanted to do: she was determined to be admitted to the teacher training and then come back to teach her children.
One day after Xiao Li left, Teacher Yi took advantage of his free time to drag the car and led the children on the road in the countryside, rapping and singing all the way, full of happiness.
But soon after, the little girl Xiuxiu, who was in kindergarten, did not come to class for several days.
Late at night, when Xiuxiu's mother, Teacher Toyi, forwarded the things she bought to Xiuxiu, Teacher Yi knew:
Xiu xiu's father cheated on him, and for this matter the couple has divorced, and the child is awarded to his father.
Teacher Yi was responsible for visiting Xiuxiu with Xiuxiu's mother, but Xiuxiu's father said with a strong attitude:
It is Xiuxiu's mother who insists on divorce, and the child is awarded to herself that she will not let their mother and daughter meet, and Xiuxiu's mother can only leave helplessly.
The next day, Teacher Yi secretly hugged Xiu Xiu and said goodbye to her mother who went out to work, and Xiu Xiu's mother did everything in the car and could not cry. And the young Xiu Xiu, because she gathered less with her mother, even did not want to call her mother.
03
In this way, the kindergarten was run for three months amid ups and downs.
At this time, the township education office said that the kindergarten could not be run again if it was not compliant.
One is that the organizer (Teacher Yi's wife) does not have a teacher qualification certificate, and the other is that there is no special shuttle bus and professional pick-up and drop-off staff.
The teacher's qualification certificate can be taken, but a shuttle bus costs 30,000 or 40,000 yuan. Even if Teacher Yi sold the house, he couldn't make up ten thousand yuan, so he had no choice but to pull up a homemade cart and send the children home one by one.
The other children all went home, but Xiu Xiu and Tuo Tuo had nowhere to go.
Xiuxiu's father also went to Shenzhen to work, but Xiuxiu's uncle and aunt had a big fight because they had to take care of Xiuxiu, and finally the two adults left Xiuxiu to hang out and busy themselves.
The previous old woman was unwilling to take care of the lump, and Teacher Yi could only send the tuotuo back to his grandmother.
Teacher Yi looked at the white-haired and blind grandmother in front of her, and finally plucked up the courage to carry the tuotuo back home.
On the way, Xiu Xiu, who was crouched in front of his uncle and aunt, was also picked up.
When Xiu Xiu and Tu Tu follow Teacher Yi home, the dialogue between them is simple and touching.
After carrying Xiu Xiu and Tu Tu home, Teacher Yi inevitably received a complaint from his wife again.
At this time, Wencai found Teacher Yi with his newborn child in his arms, and it turned out that the 19-year-old girl could not stand life in the mountain village and left everything to return to the city.
At the beginning, the student Wencai wanted to put the child in Teacher Yi's place and go out to find his wife who left. Just when Teacher Yi hesitated, the teacher's mother took over the baby...
People who have actually seen this movie will be more or less touched by this true and cruel story.
The film mainly focuses on left-behind children represented by Tuotuo and Xiuxiu and rural teachers represented by Teacher Yi.
What is the use of reading? For the children in the movie, it is the only chance to change the fate of their lives and help them jump out of the unfortunate trajectory of life.
There are not a few people like literary talents, they have no knowledge, and they have children in the process of going out to work.
Their children become left-behind children, do not have the opportunity to receive a good education, and may leave home early to work, and eventually give birth to another left-behind child...
If he hadn't met Teacher Yi, Xiao Li might have been the next literary talent.
And the image of Teacher Yi is a light in this mountain. Because he had an ideal of running education in his heart, the kindergarten, which was laborious and undesirable and profitable, was reluctantly set up under his insistence.
The mountains and rivers from Yichun to Shenzhen have separated countless left-behind children from their parents.
Leaving and staying behind are both a kind of longing and suffering, and the vigorous "migrant worker tide" seems to have become a unique memory of the times, but the scars left behind are still imprinted on the land of the countryside.
Finally, a tribute to a respectable rural teacher like Teacher Yi!