People are saying that the footage of "Hidden in the Dust" is engraved with the romance of "Miller & Van Gogh". From the contrast between the lens and the oil painting, we can indeed see the excessive similarity.
But the picture that this movie makes me feel afraid is that the people who cultivate the land in the village are middle-aged and elderly, the young people are all in the city to buy a house and can't come back, and occasionally what benefits the village will come back to walk around.
I've been to many places in the northwest, and it's true in the countryside I've been through. I have not heard such words as "the land under our feet is the heaven of our people" again. More than that, there are children who have settled in the city; Whoever got into college and stayed in town to work, and so on.
There are so many children in the village, but the village has not gotten better, farming is still hard, and you have to worry about geological disasters, mudslides and so on. The young people who remain in the village are just some "Mr. Tree" who have no background, no culture and no knowledge, who cultivate and herd sheep, and continue the red and white happy events and folk customs that have been passed down for many years. Thinking of this, I can't help but be afraid that the mainland is a big importer of grain, and it is not enough for everyone to eat, and when the people who cultivate the land now grow old, in the future, who will plant our land and who will plant it?
There is a scene in the film: Li Youtie picks up the steamed bun that fell in the place and says: "What are you afraid of, what is not born in the soil, the soil does not abandon us, do we still hate the soil?" "But what about in reality? The yellow land does not dislike us, but we dislike her backwardness, barrenness, and poor conditions, and it has taken generation after generation of efforts to escape from her, to stay away from him, to get rid of her, and only to be left with the hypocritical "nostalgia" between the teeth.
