In the era of short videos, there is a popular saying: the end of the universe is to repair hooves and catch the sea.
Hoof trimming refers to the pruning of the hooves of cattle, horses, donkeys and other livestock.
Catching the sea refers to the residents of the sea who salvage and pick up seafood according to the law of the sea tide.
Catch the sea
These two kinds of work, pushing away the hustle and bustle of the era of big data, retaining the soothing of the farming years, and at the same time carrying the ingenuity of craftsmen, the decompression effect brought by young people is exactly what young people covet.
At this time, "All Creatures", which is known as "one of the most healing British dramas in history", recently ushered in its third season.
Two years ago, the first season of "All Creatures" was launched, and the first job shown in this veterinary-themed drama was to repair the hooves of cows.
At that time, the newcomer veterinarian Jimmy used a knife to cut out the pus in the hoof of the diseased cow, and his boss, the veterinarian of the Royal Veterinary College of England, Siegfried disinfected the wound with iodine and turpentine.
The turpentine poured out and the lilac flames rising in the hooves of the cows was a professional and wonderful scene for Jimmy and the audience.
Today, the third season of "All Things" has a high score of Douban 9.7 and IMDb 9.1, which once again proves that under the double attack of the digital era and the post-epidemic era, people's yearning for pastoral life is growing day by day.
Veterinary writer who was received by the Queen
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All Things Are Creatures is based on the British writer Jimmy Harry's book Everything Is Great and Small.
The English title "All Creatures Great and Small" is the same as the title.
The book is Jimmy's autobiographical novel and belongs to its "All Things" series.
This series also includes "Animism and Beauty", "Everything is Wise and Wonderful", "Everything is Instant and Eternal", etc.
Jimmy Harry
There are many film and television adaptations of Jimmy's works, such as the 1975 movie "This Shouldn't Happen to Veterinarians" (adapted from "Animism and Beauty"), and the 2011 miniseries "Young Jimmy Harry".
Among them, the most often adapted is "Everything is Great and Small".
In 1975, Anthony Hopkins starred in the film adaptation of the book, "All Sentient Beings".
Three years later, the old version of All Things was released, and from 1978 to 1990, this version was produced and aired for seven seasons.
The new version of "All Things" is a remake of the old version, which has been fully broadcast for two seasons and has launched two "Christmas Special Episodes" in 2020 and the end of 2021, with a Douban rating of more than 8.8.
Moreover, British Television Five has confirmed the renewal of the fourth season.
Film and television adaptations tend to bring flat pages to reality, constructing a completely realistic three-dimensional world, and the same is true for Jimmy.
For example, the filming location of the old version of "All Things" has now become a local tourist attraction.
In Thursk, North Yorkshire, England, there is also a museum named "Jimmy Harry", which displays Jimmy's tools, medicines, dress, etc., like a historical site of British veterinary history.
It is worth mentioning that in the play, Jimmy's place of medicine "Darrobi" is fictional, and this beautiful town is actually a collection of four places in the United Kingdom: Thurske, Leborn, Richmond, and Middleham.
This also explains why the museum is located in Thirsk.
Jimmy Harry's Museum
It can be seen that Jimmy's novels have built a healing British cultural system through film and television, tourism, peripherals, etc., but this did not make Jimmy abandon the profession of veterinarian before Jimmy's death.
Born in 1916, Jimmy began working as a veterinarian at the age of 24 and worked with a variety of animals until his retirement in 1989 at the age of 73.
Jimmy didn't start writing his first book until he was 49 years old, and the first two books failed miserably until he published "All Things Are Great and Small," borrowed from a 19th-century English hymn.
Anthony Hopkins' film made Jimmy famous, and the BBC's older series further boosted the "Everything" series.
The old version of "All Creatures"
Today, Jimmy's novels have sold 60 million copies worldwide, and Jimmy himself was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1979 and received by the Queen.
Veterinarian and writer, these two identities have been parallel in Jimmy's life.
What is needed is a state of mind that can integrate all things with itself, and this state of mind is also reflected in the new version of "All Things" episodes.
In a small town in England, everything has light
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All Things Are Extremely Concise.
Each season has 6 episodes of about 45 minutes, and the story time is set in the 1930s.
Without deep historical infiltration or a multitude of era portraits, the core of the series is highly focused on a veterinary clinic in the town of Darrobie, Yorkshire, England.
There are only four members of the clinic. Attending physician Siegfried , physician assistant Jimmy, Tristan, housekeeper Mrs. Hauer.
Among them, Siegfried and Tristan are brothers, known as "Fanon" and "Little Fanon".
In the third season, Jimmy marries Helen, a local farmgirl, and is promoted by Siegfried to be a clinic partner, so the clinic has another member, Helen.
The clinic revolves around the natural beauty of small towns in England, the weather of farmhouses, the state of livestock, and the rustic residents and cultural landscapes of small towns.
Everything in All Things is British.
The clinic has two cars, one black and one green.
When a black car is racing on a country road due to brake failure, or when someone is upside down on the seat due to lack of power, you can experience a little cold humor brought by traffic.
And when the green car (Siegfrie's baby) soothes in the woods, it is full of the elegance and confidence of the young gentleman of the British countryside.
These two cars play a lot in the play.
In the vast shot, they gallop in the green mountains, wild birds jump in the field, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep walk lazily, outlining a peach charm at the same time, the valley streams, stone embankments, moss, dead trees, etc., with its cold texture, build the recognition of British natural scenery.
Wrapped up in this scenery is the real protagonist of All Things, the health of the animals and animals.
Each episode of the series presents the ailments of poultry, livestock, and pets, as well as the treatment of them by veterinarians.
For example, calcium deficiency in sheep, difficult birth in cows, tuberculosis in cattle, heart disease in pet dogs, pneumonia in ewes, blindness in cats, and parrot mouths rolled into several circles (need to be pruned)...
In the process of treating animals by isolation, injection, diet adjustment, surgery, etc., the series presents the run-in and trust between people and animals, and between people.
For example, Helen's dog scared the sheep to death, and Jimmy changed Helen's father's idea of "killing" the dog, bringing the dog into the flock and training it to live well with the flock.
For example, if the cattle of Mr. Henry's family suffer from tuberculosis, he is first worried about whether there is a problem with the milk that everyone drinks, not whether his own interests are damaged.
Although the absurd plot of just treating one animal and putting another animal on the dinner plate the next moment appears, it gives rise to the lament that "everything will finally do its job" (from a human perspective).
However, all the scenery, animals, characters, behaviors, etc. in the play still jointly push away the disturbances of the times, and build a warm pastoral with light and self-sufficiency.
Jimmy's naturalism, unlike the depth of Walden, and the fashion and leisureliness of the British writer Peter Mayer's Provence, is rooted in life and rejects an over-interpretation of life.
That is to say, "All Creatures" does not avoid the world, nor does it enter the world with a radical attitude.
Its cure lies in its perfection.
The changing times have never been absent
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In the 2021 "Christmas Chapter", farmer Kisen questioned the position of veterinarian in the tavern.
Keesen believes that valley agriculture has lasted for more than two hundred years, and the farmers' own experience is far more valuable than the science of veterinary medicine.
Helen retorted:
Everything is always changing, the plough is replaced by a horse plough, and then by a tractor, and everything is always changing.
This change, corresponding to the main theme of All Things, is also what the writer Jimmy has been emphasizing in his autobiography - veterinary technology, or any kind of technology (farming, animal husbandry, etc.), has continued to evolve in times and years.
For the first two seasons, the town of Darobi became a small world of its own, and it seemed that there was a vault that belonged only to the town, covering the town, making it isolated from the world and quiet alone.
But in the latest season three, the vault cracked open and a torrent of the whole world seeped in, the impact of World War II on Britain.
At the beginning of the season, Jimmy and Helen get married, which brings the happiness of the town of Darrowby to a peak, and after the peak, the people of the town have to face the interference of war.
This also corresponds to the trajectory of the life of the veterinary writer Jimmy in reality.
During World War II, Jimmy served in the RAF for two years, and it was during this time that Helen gave birth to Jimmy Jr.
In this regard, there is a meaningful plot in the play.
Jimmy and Helen return from their honeymoon just in time for the troops to recruit troops in town.
Jimmy got out of the car, guided by nature, and slowly walked to the recruiting office, and the chief of the recruiting office saw Jimmy and walked towards him as well.
Suddenly, Helen interrupts Jimmy and his country's "two-way journey."
Helen stops Jimmy and tells Jimmy to look back at the clinic's door number: it turns out that it was at this moment that Siegfried upgraded Jimmy to a partner.
Jimmy and Helen walk into the clinic excitedly, but the audience knows that Jimmy's heart to serve the country has been set, and the historical storm of the 1930s will eventually write an important stroke in Jimmy's life.
Come to think of it, this is the most fascinating part of "All Creatures".
It does not hang an English town in suspended time and space for the sake of deliberately quieting the years. Instead, it brings the town to the ground and then outlines the purity of the hearts of the people in the story.
After all, the times are never absent, and its greatness and smallness, cleanliness and filth, will envelop everyone.
The charm of people lies in being wrapped up in the times, but not being threatened by the times.
Just like the writer Jimmy, and his veterinarian Jimmy.
Author | County Howe
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