Stills from the large-scale documentary "Decisive Battle of Xihe"
As an important way of interpreting the party's and the state's "precision poverty alleviation" policy, the documentary on poverty alleviation is a kind of video memory of the struggle process of poverty alleviation cadres and poor people. The documentary "Decisive Battle of Xihe" broadcast on Gansu Satellite TV, Longnan Television and other platforms recently focused on the poverty alleviation cause of Xihe County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, vividly recording the hard work made by all parties to help Xihe get rid of poverty, witnessing the historical moment when Xihe tore off the label of poverty for thousands of years, and reflecting the vitality and vitality of rural revitalization in the new era.
>> small incisions reflect the big theme: valuable experience in interpreting poverty alleviation policies and practices
The large-scale documentary "Decisive Battle of Xihe" is composed of 6 episodes of "Wind and Rain in the Same Boat", "Landing roots", "Crossing Mountains and Seas", "Vicissitudes and Great Changes", "True Feelings Like Songs", and "Concentric Dreams", which unfolds macro themes such as "two worries, three guarantees" and industrial development with small incisions, and clearly outlines a colorful picture of poverty alleviation and prosperity.
On the one hand, the film cuts in from a microscopic perspective, and vividly narrates the practical experience of "precision poverty alleviation" of "Xihe style" with dots and lines and lines. For example, the third episode of "Crossing mountains and seas" is narrated through an individualized head-up perspective: under the "East Wind" of poverty alleviation policies and the strong impetus of various support forces, the garments produced by Liu Caiying's garment factory are shipped to developed coastal areas on a large scale, a large number of domestic service personnel trained by Qiu Shengnan's Edelweiss Maternal and Infant Care Center are imported into big cities for employment, and Zhang Zhonglong, a Xihe entrepreneur who works hard in Shenzhen, processes amber raw materials from Europe and transports them to Shenzhen for sale. These stories of entrepreneurship and prosperity vividly interpret the "precision poverty alleviation" strategy of "east-west cooperation to alleviate poverty, first get rich and help later get rich", and also reflect the vivid practice of the help model of "overall allocation, each showing its strengths, complementing each other's advantages, and concentrating on strengths" in China's rural society.
On the other hand, the film adopts the method of displayive discourse and faithful recording, which strengthens the authenticity and persuasiveness of the image, brings the audience the perception of being in the scene of poverty alleviation, and gives it the experience of independent cognition and judgment. For example, the fourth episode of "Great Vicissitudes" shows the poverty alleviation answer sheet handed over by Xihe County through the reproduction of the situation, the insertion of early news feeders, and the narration of various people at the same time: after the laying of the 4,000-meter-long water pipe in Mahe Village, the drinking water problem of 114 households was solved; after the four-sided small mountain village was connected to the road, the driver Mou Guoxiang embarked on the "road to get rich"; after the implementation of the relocation policy in Hanhe Village, Daqiao Town, three generations of five members of Deng Shiqing's family lived in resettlement houses. The documentary images of these ordinary individuals let the audience truly realize the poverty alleviation work concept of "building a well-off society in an all-round way, no one can be less", "the well-off are not well-off, the key is to see the hometown" and "real poverty alleviation, real poverty alleviation".
Of course, the quality presented in "Decisive Battle of Xihe" is inseparable from the creator's intentions, feelings and hard work. It is understood that the film crew conducted sufficient fieldwork and interview preparations in the early stage, and in the two-year all-round and three-dimensional shooting process of Xihe County, they ran all over the landscapes and rivers, through the spring, summer, autumn and winter, and finally dedicated this "dirt, dew, and heat" to the audience.
>> small people show big feelings: the group portraits of the characters build a regional picture of poverty alleviation and prosperity
The characters stand on the basis of the works, and the real and vivid typical characters concentrate on the spirit and artwork of the documentary images. Based on the big picture and big vision, "Decisive Battle of Xihe" shows the image of a number of advanced model figures who have emerged in the battle against poverty in Xihe, who express the spirit of the times and the great cause of poverty alleviation, and highly condense the noble feelings and human brilliance of ordinary poverty alleviation workers in real life.
The work vividly depicts the group image of poverty alleviation cadres at all levels. They are not afraid of hardship, selfless dedication, conscientious work, in the process of poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, they have established a deep affection with the poor people. Yu Wansheng, the leader and first secretary of the Renyi Village Help And Support Task Force in Shili Town, will not only actively help build a local honey enterprise, but also "cheat" his wife, who teaches in Lanzhou, to solve the problem of education for left-behind children in the village. Ma Qiyuan, who served as the first secretary of the village under the jurisdiction of Luoyu Town in Xihe County, said bluntly: "This work is really too difficult, basically it takes no less than ten times to do a family's work, and there are all kinds of swear words." Ye Hongchun, a help doctor in Qingdao's North District, choked up several times before going to Xihe, and his heart could not let go of his 99-year-old grandmother and his parents in their 70s. These expressions of not shying away from contradictions and "de-facialization" when expressing poverty alleviation work and the relationship between cadres and masses make the audience truly appreciate the necessity and urgency of poverty alleviation work, as well as the character and dedication of these grass-roots poverty alleviation cadres.
The film more intensively narrates the entrepreneurial stories of a group of rich leaders. Liu Qiming, who worked as a waiter, builder, and computer repairman, returned to his hometown and established a large-scale tomato planting base; Guo Daquan, who was born in the "soil handle", changed the potato industry in Xihe with scientific and technological innovation; Ai Haidi became a well-known local "egg king" after receiving government funds and technical support; Bai Cunxi, who had repeatedly lost battles, gritted his teeth and insisted on turning the apple industry into a "golden apple" that led Xihe people out of poverty and became rich... "Decisive Battle of Xihe" Through the overall outline of the struggle map of entrepreneurial leaders in the historical process of poverty alleviation, it highlights the spiritual energy and personality growth they embody in the face of setbacks and adversities.
At the same time, the film faithfully records a series of individual samples who took off the "poverty cap" with external help and their own efforts. Yang Kaifei, a poor household, was strongly introduced by zhang Zhiqiang, the first secretary, to learn chicken raising techniques and successfully achieved poverty alleviation, Li Tao, a patient with myasthenia gravis, made bitterness into honey, and Liu Laosan, a "lazy man" in Shili Town, Xihe County, was awarded the post of public welfare ranger with the support of the government. Each poor household in the film accurately represents a typical group type, and the "poverty alleviation" policy in the "precision poverty alleviation" strategy has become vivid and perceptible because of these vivid group portraits of poor households.
>> small village interprets "big culture": the expression of local customs and folklore of the times
As a documentary on the theme of poverty alleviation with the countryside as the main object of expression, "Decisive Battle of Xihe" focuses on the various rural corners of Xihe County, while comprehensively displaying the new rural style of poverty alleviation and prosperity, it also excavates and presents the regional customs and folk culture contained in it, and tries to guide people to abandon some narrow ideas in rural ethics, so as to realize the reinterpretation and writing of rural culture.
The film is good at using comprehensive audio-visual means to show the unique charm of the West and the region. At the beginning of each episode, the choreographer mostly depicts the charming mountains, roads, and fields of Xihe with long-range and aerial aerial shots, and the soothing Xihe mountain songs are combined with time-lapse photography, high color saturation, and strong visual impact. In these real and delicate, smoky, beautiful and quiet rural scenery, the bits and pieces of continuous jumping to the west and poverty alleviation are extremely life and human meaning, giving people the impression of being in the original ecological countryside.
The film also focuses on the thick history of Xihe and the unique beggar culture and presents modernity. In the third episode of "Crossing the Mountains and Seas", the annual Beggar Qiao Daughter Festival was staged in Xihe County, and the straw embroidery base of He Fang in Shaoyu Village also took this opportunity to urgently produce a batch of handicraft orders. Through the series of stories about the Beggar's Daughter's Day and the development of modern women's causes, the documentary intends to convey the connotation of the new era of beggar culture under the background of poverty alleviation: a large carrier of inheriting the wisdom, skills and virtues of Western and female women, establishing a large classroom of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement, and providing a big platform for women to achieve all-round development.
With the advancement of the poverty alleviation process, rural reconstruction and concept reshaping have become the meaning of the film. This film truly and vividly presents the psychological debugging and transformation problems faced by the rural masses when the environment changes. In the fourth episode of "Great Changes", after Hanhe Village was uniformly planned as a relocation village, the villagers represented by the elderly Deng Shiqing had a strong love of the land. Through the patient persuasion of Zhang Zhiqiangxiao, the leader of the village-based help team, and the introduction of the golden silk chrysanthemum planting industry, the villagers' worries about their livelihood were gradually dispelled and gradually integrated into the process of home reconstruction and life transformation. In the sixth episode of "Concentric Dreams", Lu Runwu's noodle enterprises are facing sales problems, and his eldest son Lu Zhaoyuan makes full use of the e-commerce live broadcast in the Internet era to open up product export channels, and Lu Runwu, who blindly adheres to the traditional offline sales model, also consciously accepts the new sales concept of "live streaming with goods" in this "sales war" with his son. "Decisive Battle of Xihe" shows the fierce collision of traditional concepts and modern civilization in xihe county in the process of rural revitalization, and also tells the wonderful story of the people of Xihe in the inheritance and renewal of local culture, and constantly writes the wonderful story of struggle and dreams.
(Yan Wei is the deputy director of the editorial department of the China Television Arts Committee, and Shao Jiang is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts and Media of Beijing Normal University)
Author: Yan Wei Shao Jiang
Source: China Art News