"The Glory of Fathers": In difficult times, touching warmth
What was your first impression when it came to Tohoku?
Heavy snow, biting cold wind
Or is it a northeastern dialect that you feel friendly when you hear it?
In the first half of the year, in "The Long Season", the golden cornfield and the aging birch steel let us see a different northeast.
Now, what kind of northeast will "Glory of Fathers" show us?
Endless primeval forests, from thousands of trees to layers of forest to the vast expanse, welcome to the northeast in the 90s.
This is the Sandaogou forest farm, and generations of foresters have made a living by logging, relying on logging to get married, have children, and raise their families. The "iron rice bowl" of the Forestry Bureau is the reliance of many people, and of course, it is also the shackles that imprison them for a lifetime.
At this time, a great change was brewing - forestry reform.
923 work team, the model work team of the forest farm. Gu Changshan, the captain of the labor team, is an old man of the Forestry Bureau and a model worker. As far as 923 is concerned, he is not only a manager, but also a pillar-like existence.
Whether it is a birth, or a short parent, he can always come forward to preside over the host. But it was this pillar who ran into a problem. As the harvesting targets dwindled, the Forestry Administration decided to reduce the number of people going up the mountain to harvest wood, leaving only 20 places in the team.
Who goes up the hill and who doesn't? Gu Changshan couldn't get it right, and he didn't want to take this idea. As the captain, he believes that this team cannot be called a collective without one person, let alone understand that the unit that everyone has worked hard for all their lives will abandon them.
Not letting the matter of going up the mountain not only bothered Gu Changshan, but also really made all the people of 923 worried.
Some people are afraid that the iron rice bowl will not be guaranteed, and the family will drink the northwest wind;
There are also people who see the infinite opportunities outside and want to leave here and go out...
When people's hearts are floating, it is also a time for change. In order to keep the 923 work team, Gu Changshan decided to let everyone go up the mountain, and everyone divided the wages of twenty people equally.
As a result, co-worker Chen Shangyou was accidentally smashed to death by a tree in order to help his newly hired apprentice. The wife left, leaving only his son Chen Xingjie, who was about to take the college entrance examination.
Before leaving, Chen Shangyou's only concern was his son. Seeing the child huddled in the house to review his homework and eat an unpalatable meal, Gu Changshan, who couldn't bear it, took Chen Xingjie home.
Since then, the Gu family has had another child, and Gu Changshan has also borne the burden of supporting the family of five with a salary.
At the same time, the efficiency of the forest farm not only did not get better, but worsened, and a group of workers were needed to stay without pay.
Who is written on the list? This calculation is in Gu Changshan's heart, and it is also in the hearts of everyone.
Some people calculated: whether to show Big Brother Gu that there was no himself on the list.
Some people calculate: willing to take the initiative to stay without pay, provided that Gu Changshan's son gives up the place to serve as a soldier to his son.
There are also people who calculate: the family once had one more child, and now the child has come from his hometown to join him. Will someone catch this matter and report him and make him lose his job?
As a result, defecting to his second daughter became the most embarrassing person in the family. She came to "run" because her grandfather in her hometown was ill, and her aunt really couldn't take care of herself.
At home, her parents whispered behind their backs, and her sister could not accept her existence. Plus I heard that my mother was going to throw herself to feed the wolves.
The frightened and frightened little girl decided to walk back to her hometown along the railway tracks, but was picked up by Chen Xingjie. The little girl met the soft-hearted god, and the Gu family expanded from five to six.
In the end, because the former co-worker was imprisoned, leaving a child with no one to take care of, the Gu family population expanded again.
Someone must want to ask, how can Gu Changshan's salary alone support such a big son?
The answer is in the play.
Gu Changshan himself is a loving father, so he often suffers to become a child.
Seeing Chen Xingjie studying in his old home, which was leaking on all sides, he used cabinets and curtains to separate him from a world of learning on the already wide kang.
Seeing the two children living trembling at home, fearing that they would be abandoned again, he proposed that after the meal, everyone go to the town to choose a gift for themselves.
Only to himself, he picked and picked, and the snacks handed over by the child were repeatedly pushed back to the child.
And the virtuous and kind wife Na Cunhua. Gu Changshan brought back several children one after another, although she complained a few words, she also tightened her trouser belt and took care of the family.
Worried about the children's growing bodies, she gave the children one egg per day.
Worried that Chen Xingjie's college entrance examination location was too far from home, she paid for her children to stay in hotels.
Over the years, she hasn't changed into new clothes, and some people have gold ornaments hanging from their necks and ears.
And sensible children.
The eldest Gu Zhaocheng, after becoming a soldier, was afraid that his father would be worried and that his family would be burdened, so he offered to go to the forest farm to work.
Chen Xingjie is always worried that he will increase the burden on his family, and every time he secretly puts money on the dinner table, he often gives pocket money to his younger siblings.
Feng Qin, a person who experienced coming from his hometown to his mother, was treated as a burden at home, and finally had the warmth of home in the Gu family. She is always idle, takes the initiative to help work, and thinks about the Gu family for the first time when she has food.
There is also self-improvement, knowing that after his father went to prison, the only reliance was Gu Changshan and his wife. He recognized his parents as soon as he spoke, and he was very diligent at home.
Being hardworking, considerate of each other, not complaining, and knowing how to be grateful make this family's life sweet despite the hardships.
The Gu family's parents also reflect the changes in the forestry industry in Northeast China.
Gu Changshan's master is a forester of the previous generation, and after entering the forest, he can cut down vigorously, without moderation and planning.
When they arrived in Gu Changshan, forestry resources began to face a shortage, and when green trees no longer became "cash cows", going out and surviving became a problem they had to face.
Then to Chen Xingjie, as a new generation of foresters, how to balance the ecological environment and industrial development is an urgent problem for them to solve.
At present, the plot of "Glory of the Fathers" is not fast, it slowly depicts everyone with fine pen and ink, whether it is the small warmth or the development of the industry, the changes of the times, all appear real and vivid in such a detailed description.
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