"Book"
The Getaway
Author: Ban Yu
Continue your journey of northeastern literature exploration.
The second work of Ban Yu of Tiexi Sanjie.
The Northeast is more pathetic and hopeless than what I see in my daily vision.
The ordinary people in the story are all shrouded, ravaged, and insulted by gray-black life—or fate—and they resist with tenacity, nobility, and indifference, but in the end they fall into the river like broken ice, like a faint starlight falling into the headlights of a truck, like a contemptuous futility.
It is a lost boundary, beginning in cowardice and ending in bleakness, sighs echoing over and over again in the emptiness.
This is a northeast that is very different from "Liu Laogen Big Stage" and "Rural Love Story", there is no jubilant and noisy rural fairy tale, only a ruin that cannot bear to stare.
The title of the book is The Getaway, which, in my opinion, is the opposite of it.
The first round of Northeast Sanjie (also known as Tiexi Sanjie) has been read, "Getaway" is the first book of the second round, and in the next plan, there are Zheng Zhi's "Immortal Disease", Shuang Xuetao's "Aviator", "Winged Ghost", "Tianwu Handbook" and so on.
"Out of the Northeast: Literature from the Northeast Writing to the Age of Algorithms"
Author: Huang Ping
In order to appreciate Northeast Literature more systematically, I read this literary review again.
Critics can explode thunder in silence, and theoretical critics are even more so, and in the process of reading this book, I often exclaim "so" and "so" in the process of reading this book.
The first half of the book talks about Shuang Xuetao, Ban Yu, and Zheng Zhi, the three masters of Shenyang.
The second half of the book suddenly talked about Wang Zhanhei, a post-90s novelist in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and finally ended with AI writing, which made me ignorant in the clouds. Or is this what the title of the book "out" of the northeast means?
Also, I don't have statistics, but my intuition is that the name that appears most often in the book is not the Northeastern novelist, but Walter Benjamin, the great master of literary criticism. This feels like an ode to the "Lord", and the Northeast Sanjie or Wang Zhanhei AI is similar to the tool man.
Why We Sleep
Author: Matthew Walker
Translator: Tian Yingchun
The impact of this book on me should be enough to be included in the 2022 personal focus list.
I'll write a postscript.
In short, how to pay attention to sleep is not excessive, in the future my blessing to friends will be, I wish you a good sleep, greetings are, sleep well?
Horse Bridge Dictionary
Author: Han Shaogong
In reading, I often observe and think about a question, how to write my own hometown?
Of all the ways I've seen, the Horsebridge Dictionary brought me the biggest surprise.
While deconstructing the novel in the form of a dictionary, a new novel structure has been created, which is really amazing.
Han Shaogong's concentration of lingran and compassion also made me admire.
The Steel Road - 200 Years of Railway History of Technology, Capital and Strategy
Author: Christian Walmar
Translator: Shuai Chen
My father was a railway worker, and he dedicated his life to the cause of China's railways, and I grew up in the dean of the Railway Staff College, and I lived in several places before going to college, and the straight-line distance from the railway was no more than 150 meters.
Railways and trains are small to me.
Recently, the epidemic could not go out of the waves, and the library borrowed a bunch of heavy books related to wandering to see, along the railway, by train to go on a divine tour.
Measuring the World: A History of the World in 500 Classic Railway Routes
Author: Sarah Baxter
Translator: Liu Fang
ditto.
A Brief History of the Subway
Author: Catherine Zeden, / Jean-François Pitt, / Sylvie DeMe
Translator: Liang Yan
Love House and Wu, Metro is my newly acquired little brother.
"Listen to the Book"
"Imagined Community" "Beauty" benedict Anderson
"The Cut Blood Vessels of Latin America" "Uruguay" Eduardo Galeano
Making the World Make Sense: Ten Laws of Digital Thinking, "Beauty" Tim Harford
Adaptation in the Line of Fire: Military Change in The Age of War, "Beauty" David Barno and Nora Bensahel
"Rethinking: The Power to Know What You Don't Know" "Beauty" Adam Grant
The Impossible: Primer to Peak Performance, "Beauty" Steven Kotler
"Great Powers and Great People" Wang Zhigang (author)
"Classic Charm" "Japan" Saito Takashi (author) (Professor of Literature, Meiji University, Japan, Master of Communication)
Capital in the 21st Century, "France" by Thomas Piketty Thomas Piketty
French post-70s emerging economist, professor at the Paris School of Economics, has long studied the problems of wealth and income inequality.
"The Dark Web" "Uk" Jamie Bartlett. A well-known expert of the United Kingdom's internet think tank.
"Leap" Classical (Author)
"The Elephant in the Mind" "Beauty" Robin Hansen (Economist), Kevin Simmerer (Software Engineer)
"Why Buddhism Is True" "Beauty" Robert Wright (Science Author, Evolutionary Psychology Scholar)
"Reading"
Fernando Pessoa (author)
"Immortal Disease" Zheng Zhi (author)
"The Method of Reading" Luo Yonghao (author)
"Great Powers and Great People" Wang Zhigang (author)
「PROGRAM」
"Round Table Pie" Season 5 (Guest) Liu Zichao
Liu Zichao is a travel writer, about the same age as me, like me, who loves wandering alone, who has a strong talent for wandering like me, and what is different is that he has written 4 books with his own journey. I've read 3 of them, and I'm fascinated. He knows much more about what he has to do in this life than I do, much more determined.
(No picture found)
Thirteen Invitations Season 6 (Guest) Ge Zhaoguang
Back to the level of the thirteen invitations. Loved this issue.
"Shadow"
When I finished sorting out the list of books and movies in March, I once lamented that "in the whole month of March, I actually did not watch a movie."
The retribution of happiness came quickly, and in early April, I participated in a movie week, hiding in the big black auditorium of the Academy of Fine Arts, watching 11 movies in three days, like a dream.
Written separately, here's a gathering.
"Birds of the Suburbs"
A group of suburban children grew up in a confused state of rapid urban expansion.
The friendship between the boys, and the friendship of the boys and girls, walking through the school, the field, the woods, the ruins, on the way to find a missing partner, the children disappeared one by one, leaving only the male protagonist and the two girls, dazed in the sudden night,
Many years later, the adult male protagonist returned to his hometown to do tunnel engineering surveying and mapping, looking for childhood memories in the reciprocation of work, and insisting that the tunnel project he was doing had safety hazards.
"Post-Screening Communication"
The director (Qiu Sheng, born in 1989, a native of Hangzhou) said that the story of the film is derived from his own growth experience, he lived near Hangzhou East Railway Station when he was a child (perhaps heard wrongly), demolition and new construction are the main themes in memory, and he was deeply impressed by the major landslide accident in the Hangzhou subway project in 2008, so he formed a connection in the film.
The children in the film all speak Hangzhou dialect, but there are several tastes that are awkward, and may also be the first time they have heard the Hangzhou dialect on the big screen, and they are not used to it. Checked again, it is true that the children are not all found in Hangzhou, and several are estimated to have to be temporarily learned. The adult male actor is Li Chun, the son of Li An, who also learned some Hangzhou dialect, channeled a few words, in short, said better than me. "Big-name" actors also include Huang Lu (old actors in small productions or art films, I like it, works "Blind Mountain", "Tuina", etc.)
"Siberian Tiger"
The story is very interesting, to my taste, it is the best film of the day.
Or maybe it has something to do with my recent immersion in the Northeast narrative.
In short, if only one is recommended in today's movie, please watch this one.
"Post-Screening Communication"
Director (Geng Jun, born in 1976, Heilongjiang Hegang), in order to get a 60,000 yuan competition reward from a film company, based on a friend's story, wrote a story synopsis and the first 30 shots, and then the reward was obtained, but it was not enough to shoot, and the second was to account for 25% of the copyright (or dividend rights?). Didn't hear clearly).
Hometown Heilongjiang Hegang is the previous Internet very popular 50,000 pieces of a suite that the city, in the northeast of the huge lonely back shadow also seems to be particularly lonely, there are many "sneaky" writing, engaged in creation (novels, poetry), but feel unseemly, I often want to save them up, do something. Movies are a good way.
I also asked the director two questions on the spot.
First, why does the male protagonist use Zhang Yu? (Although I like him very much), he is from southern Guizhou, and he is not a typical northeastern portrait from appearance to body shape. "The Elephant Sits on the Ground" is also (the director committed suicide, no one has a chance to ask again)
Geng Jun answered: People are right, they don't care about the region. The male protagonist in the script is a man of about 35 years old, less talkative, firm, tender, fierce, Zhang Yu is very suitable, a chat, he is very interested, the lines do not change. That's it.
Second, regional narrative films, strong Northeast style, some people shouted "Northeast Renaissance", and several novelists who have become famous in Northeast China in recent years have mutual influence and mutual stimulation?
Geng Jun: There are many exchanges with the Northeast writers group, but the script has not been cooperated. I am usually wary of the slogan ("Northeast Renaissance"), but I am not rejected, but the premise of revival is to be brilliant first and then die through, and there seems to be no premise in the northeast.
"Roaming"
It was taken by a recent graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts.
I took it in my sophomore year. 18,000 flowers, less than 20,000.
Hear a story from a friend.
Begin to doubt myself, "Am I my mother's biological child?" "Do I have a brother who has died",
But it's hard to immerse.
Hangzhou.
See Deqing for the first time. Deqing Quarry.
Standing in a foreign country to see Hangzhou, full of green, the Grand Canal, Qiantang River, mountains,
Zhejiang New Wave, Hangzhou New Wave.
The director himself, denies or dismisses or ignores the label.
"Post-Screening Communication"
Zhu Xin, born in 1996, is a native of Hangzhou
"Trophies floating on the sea"
Ju Anqi was born in 1975 in Xinjiang. "The Wind in Beijing Is Great" and so on.
"See you again in Nara"
Orphaned in Post-War Japan.
This subject is slightly sensitive, and the filming of World War II is full of sweat and cattle, and there are very few orphans after the war.
Some Japanese people born in northeast China, or Japanese children who were brought to China when they were young, originally wanted to follow their parents to explore and take root in The Northeast as a new territory of Japan. As a result of Japan's defeat in the war, parents left China in a hurry, too late to take away their children, many were adopted and raised by the people of Northeast China, returned to Japan after adulthood /middle age to find their own families, could not speak Japanese, from the inside to the outside is a Chinese look, difficult to be accepted by Japanese society, but also difficult to be accepted by their brothers and sisters who grew up in Japan (afraid to divide the family property), more unfortunately, even their parents and family can not find. The orphan who is looking for in this film is like this, and finally dies in fear.
Wonderful metaphor: the old lady released the crab that her granddaughter bought for herself to eat into a lake, and the granddaughter was surprised to stop it, saying that this is a sea crab, you are not releasing or killing, the old lady said, can only let it adapt to its own efforts.
However, this film is more ink in the emotional escalation of the trio formed to help the Old Chinese Lady find relatives, so the tone of the film is very warm, and the emotions surge in Japanese restraint and blandness.
A lot of interesting and touching blanks, two foreign old people looking at each other's photos silently better than sound, deaf and dumb people writing and communicating when the crowd waits quietly, the last long shot of the trio walking on the streets of Nara at night, there is no dialogue, the three people just walk back and forth, as if walking into a family, as if walking, the sky will be light.
"Post-Screening Communication"
Director: Peng Fei, born in 1982, should be a beijinger.
After graduating from college, I studied with director Cai Liangming as an assistant for six or seven years, all the way to find my own style, and this film took only one machine and 19 days to shoot.
At the end of the film, the long shot of that road, I walked many times when I was in Nara, very quiet, and I shot it.
The director also appeared in the film as a Japanese cattle shop owner, learning cows to learn pig's feet and learning horses. Yi cha, born in a Peking opera family.
"Spring River Plumbing"
This is my favorite film of the day.
But I didn't watch it because I saw it 2 years ago and it was amazing. It tells the director's family memories and stories of growing up in jiangnan town (Fuyang),
Many of the actors in the film are his relatives in real life, and they really play the role. The picture, the mood, the rhythm are all right. A talented director's debut.
Please go and see.
"Post-Screening Communication"
Save time for movies and watch exhibitions in the Academy of Fine Arts. As a result, the post-screening communication was missed.
Online information: Gu Xiaogang, born in 1988, a native of Fuyang, Hangzhou, studied clothing marketing, and became interested in documentaries due to the opportunity to make images during college. After turning to the creation of drama films, he planned the long-scroll film "A Thousand Miles of Jiangdong Map", which lasted for four seasons in two years to complete its volume 1 "Spring River Plumbing".
"Back to the South Heaven"
I don't know why.
As the name suggests, the film is as stuffy as Hui Nantian, and the dialogue, emotions, performances, narrative rhythms, and story conflicts are all stuffy. I don't know why. Depression without exit, abrupt repressive neuroticism, incomprehensible inner performance.
"Post-Screening Communication"
Gao Ming, born unknown, Jiangxi people.
For a few years, I was in a very bad mood, trapped by negative spirits, and there was no way to come out, and making this film was also a process of healing myself.
The above film looks and feels here to find the reason.
"Why is the song slow and half-beat"
The real life picture of Henan's rural areas, the flying sand, the dilapidated village, the old man sitting at the temple entrance, the actors are almost all local villagers.
Especially Henan dialect, I don't know why, I listen to it very kindly.
Almost all of it is composed of long shots, except for two long motion shots at the end and one tail, most of which are long shots of fixed scenes in the middle, one of which is the whole process of the ewe giving birth to a lamb, a fixed long shot, classic.
"Post-Screening Communication"
In order to catch up with the sisters before going to bed good night KISS, did not participate.
Online information: Dong Sex, born unknown, Henan Anyang people. "Why the song is slow and half-beat" should also be his debut work.
"Tharlo"
Black and white films, a large number of shooting methods through mirrors and glass, contrast the situation of the male protagonist, a lot of estrangement and inhibition of the lens.
A shepherd, from the mountains to the county seat to take ID photos, and a wonderful relationship with a hair-washing and haircut girl, looking for himself to release himself at the same time lost himself, sold out all his more than 100 sheep, and sent his full wealth and dignity to the girl.
He can fluently memorize the entire quotations of Chairman Mao in Chinese (in Tibetan for everyday speech), but he can't even remember his age.
The male protagonist is jerky, wooden, and even sluggish in the camera.
I thought it was also a herdsman's true performance, but I didn't expect it to be a big comedian, and its status in Tibet was equivalent to Zhao Benshan's influence in the northeast, and Tibetans basically watched his sketches or TV series.
It is too powerful to be able to act a non-professional so professionally, without any trace of deliberate performance.
He had long hair in the front half, tied a small braid, and the second half was shaved off by the barber heroine — a small braid he had kept for 17 years.
Also, the heroine is beautiful. Playing a monk and nun in another film of Wan Ma Tse-dan,"Balloons," she is silent and widowed, and she plays a hair-washer and hairdresser in this "Tharlo", mischievous and charming. In reality she is a singer.
"Post-Screening Communication"
See the next part, "Old Dog," the same director.
"Old Dog"
More and calmer fixed long shots than Tullow (and possibly my subjective feelings).
This time the actors are all non-professional. Filmed earlier (2011), "Tharlo" is 2015), and the last long shot, which is said to have been boycotted by many parties in Europe and the United States because of ethical issues. No spoilers.
This is consistent with the contradiction behind a female student's question about "polluting women" in the back of the screening, that is, can we use the ethical and moral standards of the here and now to evaluate people and things at that time and place? I'm not going to go into that anymore, I'll write about it.
In addition to "Balloon", "Crashed into a Sheep", "Quiet Ma Ne Stone" (did not finish watching), I have seen four or five films directed by Wan Ma Tse-dan, in addition to liking him, I am more envious of him, leaving so many works for his hometown and his people, to him he is still a writer, and his film stories are based on the novels he wrote. He presented the life and culture of Tibet to the whole world, and in a certain sense, he was more meritorious than any living Buddha in Tibet today.
If you're willing to watch it too, start with "Knocked a Sheep Dead."
If you're confident in your appreciation, start with Old Dog.
"Post-Screening Communication"
The original idea of "Old Dog" is the reality that Tibetan mastiffs are sought after by rich people in the mainland.
I came up with this ending first, and this thought brought out the previous story.
While selecting scenes, while perfecting the script, I lived in that small hotel in the township, the script was only more than 10,000 words, even an actor, a small team of less than 10 people,
Live in the township, very relaxed, shoot 7/8 hours a day,
Small machine, just like Jia Zhangke when he filmed "East", he started to read, and then he had "Three Gorges Good Man" shot with PD150,
After having the script and having the content, find the expression form, the lens language.
"The Question of Not Having Enough Money to Make a Movie"
Production costs can be very economical, it takes some money to enter the platform in the later stage, the film bureau reviews films, etc., and many voices have to meet the standards, and technically have to spend some money.
"Tharlo" had the opportunity to go to a little theater, and was later bought by iQiyi, slightly better.
"Old Dog" didn't have that kind of luck.
If you go to various film festivals to win awards, there are some prizes, Tharlo took 4 awards, and the basic cost came back.
In addition, try to find some friends to cooperate and save some money.
It has been difficult to find investment, I want to think of various ways to shoot, "Old Dog" has been my third feature film, or no money,
There are ideas, there is determination, there is execution,
The first film, the family DV machine, five or six thousand, I borrowed one from someone else to shoot.
"Questions about the subject matter and sensitivity of the film"
The environment, the audit, the market, changes every year, find the possibilities yourself.
"Questions about whether it will be limited by "Tibet" and the possibility of shooting in multiple genres"
Photographing Tibet may be my destiny,
Regarding the subject matter, many can't be filmed, I have written a very grand story before, but I can't shoot it, "King Gesar", what a good Tibetan epic, but I can't shoot it at present.
Tibetans also need timing to come to life in inland cities and so on.
Movies need timing.
If the time is right, definitely shoot.
《1428》
Post-earthquake documentary of the Wenchuan earthquake.
The name "1428" is taken from the time of the great earthquake: 14:28 on May 12, 2008.
Divided into 2 parts, the upper half, 10 days after the earthquake, the second half, and 210 days after the earthquake.
Trauma, pain, numbness, warmth, ignorance, indomitability, confusion, mutual help, hardship, struggle, hope... Presented truthfully.
Profound picture: the person who demolished cement and grabbed the steel bar, the parents and the eldest son in the middle school dormitory to find the relics of the younger son, the elderly father took care of the mentally ill child, in a ruined temple, the villagers are still burning incense to the collapsed Buddha statue, begging for blessings.
A Taoist priest said that bodhisattvas and gods are to suffer the same sins as people. This is a matter between heaven and earth.
An old man said that no one had provided for the land father-in-law for a long time, and I had no money, and he had no money.
"Post-Screening Communication"
I rushed back to see my sisters and didn't attend.
"Director" Du Haibin, independent video representative, born in 1972, from Shaanxi.
————————