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Book Day
Today is World Book Day, and the CCTV-9 Documentary Channel of the Film and Television Drama Documentary Center (CCTV-9) specially rehearsed the documentary "Bookstore, Meet You", which visited six bookstores in five cities and randomly interviewed some book buyers, readers or just hangouts who entered the bookstore.
The bookstore is a decent city with Sven.
We meet in bookstores, buy books, read books, talk to predecessors, meet others.
At the moment when fragmented and sensory reading is popular, reading, staying, and killing time in bookstores is not a graceful thing, but it is also a precious thing.
Audiences follow the footage of the documentary "Bookstore, Meet You" to see the books they read, and sometimes follow them to their homes, enter their life stories, and share their joys and sorrows.
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Encounters and dialogues between people and cities
Each episode of the documentary "Bookstore, Meet You" is named after the city + bookstore.
Here, the audience first meets the city, and then the city's bookstore.
In fact, every bookstore here is deeply imprinted on the city.
The All Saints Book Garden is engraved with the weight of the city of Beijing;
The struggle of Shenzhen people and the fast pace of the city, there is also a Shenzhen 24-hour book bar;
The temperament of the small county town of Shichi in the interior seems to be a metaphor for the old state-run Xinhua Bookstore;
Comfortable, casual, and enjoyable urban character, Chengdu Fangsuo not only has books, coffee, cultural creations and exhibitions, but also clothing, everything is comfortable, it is a comfortable space.
The bookstore is the window of the city, where you can see the prosperity or loneliness of a city;
Here, the tired crowd will stop for a moment, take a short rest, absorb the energy of life, and enter the flow of people again.
Bookstore encounters are, in essence, the most radiant of countless encounters between a city and people.
People who come here include bus drivers, Tibetan girls who are ready to take the civil service exam, retired aunts who come to the Internet red shop to punch in, female doctors who are afraid of affecting their roommates to rest and come to the 24-hour book bar to read at night, and judicial examiners who resign from financial institutions to prepare to become lawyers and stay up late to review...
The time they meet the bookstore is a dialogue with the city.
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The mirror image of the reader and the inner candle
A book is a mirror of a person, reflecting a person's hobbies, character, and even personality and temperament.
In the sixth episode of "Wuhan Youhe Bookstore", a bus driver came to the bookstore to buy "Qi Baishi Seal", which attracted the special attention of the director, so he followed his sports car for a while, and also followed up to his family, there was a stroke father to take care of, the son was preparing for the college entrance examination, the wife did not have a job, and books and potted plants were a space he reserved for himself.
The calmness and optimism in the face of family difficulties make him have a strong heart and not bow to life.
A book, read at different times, due to the changes in the heart and different life circumstances, the same person will also read different realms.
The second episode, "Wuhan Baicaoyuan Bookstore", interviews a mother and daughter who braved the rain to come to the bookstore. Her mother is a "red fan", she said that she watched "Dream of the Red Chamber" at different ages and had different feelings. Constantly return to the world in the book, and keep going into your own heart.
Books are in a way a way out of life, and in order to go further for themselves or others, they go into bookstores to buy books and read books.
Books no longer make people lonely.
In the sixth episode of "Wuhan Youhe Bookstore", a young man with the current incurable syringomyelosis is studying in a rented room in a village in the city, and he says, "You think it's lively outside, I tell you, it's only lively in my room."
Books are an emotional medium for oneself and one's family.
In the documentary, a woman who bought second-hand books remembers her mother's love for Rebecca and has been looking for the most satisfactory translation in order to repair her already estranged feelings from her parents.
Books give people spiritual freedom and a goal to move forward.
What kind of books to read, what kind of people you want to be close to, reading makes people have a sense of progress and have the motivation to move forward.
Or do not want to approach what kind of people, but also to read, only reading will make themselves become immune.
A book is like a lamp, illuminating the path of every reader and opening their hearts.
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The roadshow of life and the struggle of fate
"Bookstore, Meet You" randomly captures interesting interviewees, including private bookstore owners, senior bookstore clerks, and more book readers, who are the protagonists of bookstores, the most important link in the reading ecological chain, and the narrative subject of the entire documentary.
All of the above interviewees, their encounter with the bookstore, may be a long-awaited or inadvertent encounter.
In any case, every encounter is a roadshow on the way of their lives, a road show of life with a strong aroma of books.
Buying a book becomes a clue or context for this documentary to express the sense of destiny of the characters.
In the fifth episode, "Chengdu Fangsuo Bookstore", a father with two children reading in the bookstore, the director follows them home for an interview, and finds that this is a family that has participated in the construction of the third line.
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Grandparents are foreigners, in response to the call of the state to come to Sichuan Panzhihua to carry out construction, and later the family moved to Chengdu.
The two old men have always retained the unchanged rural tone and dreamed of the hometown that could not be returned.
There are two or three such character interviews in each episode, and many of the characters have prominent personalities and vivid images.
They are ordinary people, sometimes unsuccessful in life, they do ordinary things, they fight against fate.
The fourth episode, "Shichi Xinhua Bookstore", interviews Xu, the manager of the Orchard Township branch, and his son Xiao Xu, who works at the county bookstore.
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Xiao Xu rebelled since childhood, did not study well, ran away from work for a few years and returned to his hometown, and got married and had children at the request of his parents. Under the pressure of supporting his family, he began to work in the bookstore to make little money, and he did not like to read in his early years, and now he deals with textbooks all day.
In front of the camera, he is no longer the unruly teenager, but a man who knows how to advance and retreat, has the responsibility, and hides a little shyness, a father.
Interestingly, although the director of this documentary has never appeared, he has "appeared" in the form of interviewers or interlocutors, thus constructing a discursive narrator image that is quite characteristic of the documentary.
This narrator selects interviewees from a variety of sociological characteristics. Men and women, parents, occupations, generations, age, rich and poor, and even the number of people, all took care of everything.
The narrator of the documentary pays attention to the simplicity and complexity of the interviews with the characters.
This narrator is keen and active in talking to bookstore readers and book buyers.
This random form of news gathering makes the documentary appear relaxed and natural, and the sense of reality is multiplied.
In the interview, the director and the interviewee asked and answered, which made the documentary's sense of immediacy and reality explode.
This narrator, who has always been active throughout, makes the documentary fresh and alive.
Bookstores are a good memory for many people.
Reading makes us grow up,
Reading makes us insightful,
Reading makes us no longer confused.
Everything in the world is in chronological order.
Between books,
We may be with ourselves,
With time, with civilization,
There is an endless conversation.
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Let's get further afield.
Let's not just read on Book Day!
Commentator: Chen Liqiang
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Chief Executive Producer | Zhuang Dianjun
Producer | Zhang Xuemei Yang Chunguo
Editor-in-chief | Yang Jun
Responsible for the | Zhang Xiaoyan