This Saturday, a "special" film, "Fireworks in the World", will be released nationwide.
Because it breaks through the original form of most of the world's creative films, abandons the process of image collection, and chooses to salvage the existing documentary images in the massive video library - director Sun Hong led the main creative team to select more than 800 vivid and vivid life images of ordinary people from more than 50,000 materials on the short video platform, and edit them into an "alternative" vertical screen movie.
These images are made by 509 "amateurs", simple and novel, joyful and tearful, together constitute a true portrayal of thousands of contemporary Chinese, presenting a variety of life.
Some viewers have seen the film at the Pingyao Film Festival before, and they have sat in the theater again after more than three years, with a different mentality and a new look;
509 ordinary people are the directors of their own "lives"
"Fireworks in the World" tells the story of ordinary people, with a bright background and a warm tone.
We have seen herdsmen and their sheep "snatching food from people and sheep"; farmers who grow rice jokingly say to the rice fields full of bumper harvests: "This is the country I have laid down." Fishermen try to feed fish bigger than a kitty into the mouth of an osprey, a truck driver known for his cooking skills boils eggs in an engine, a construction worker performs a "gymnastic horizontal bar" on a construction site, and an excavator driver controls the buttons of his mobile phone...... Similar vivid characters and funny scenes are everywhere in the film, and the real, pyrotechnic humor makes the audience laugh.
At the same time, the boat runners spend 365 days a year on cargo ships, sighing that they can enjoy the river scenery while cooking;
The truck driver drove the car of the dead cardholder he didn't know back to his hometown and sent them home;
The elderly grandmother used the basin to "confiscate" the mobile phones of the younger generations one by one at the reunion dinner......
All kinds of warm moments in ordinary life made the audience move to tears.
"As a documentarian, it is our original intention to present a facet of real China and pay attention to how everyone in it can settle down in the torrent of the rapidly changing times. Referring to the original intention of the main creative team, director Sun Hong said that she hopes to send the real life of ordinary people to the big screen, let ordinary people become the protagonists of the movie, and let the world see their light.
"It's really a sweet time to do this documentary, because in the past, I had to run around to do documentary research, but this time I was swiping my phone under the covers. Talking about the difference from filming documentaries in the past, Sun Hong said that after watching a lot of short videos, his mentality changed from shock to shame, "I used to pass by other people's lives, and I never imagined what their lives were like, such as tower crane female workers, because of high-altitude work, they can't come down for a day, but from their perspective, we can take pictures of the sea of clouds that we have never seen." ”
See the steaming real China
In the view of director Sun Hong, the protagonists of "Fireworks in the World" are a group of "civilian heroes", and they can even be said to be the co-directors of this film: "Everyone must face the suffering in life, and the real heroes still do not lose their courage and do not forget the beauty of life in the suffering." ”
"Fireworks in the World" uses the original ecology of all living beings to form a rare video memo. They are the "little people" who are often ignored on the big screen, the majority in numbers, but the minority in attention. These incomparably simple but vigorous faces are a more specific, vivid and moving image that is scarce on the big screen, presenting more possibilities of life, allowing us to see the life of the Chinese people, so as to re-examine their own lives and have more power to start anew.
For example, the big orange that runs on the big river, almost all of the 365 days a year are spent on cargo ships except for the Chinese New Year. She can only use river water every day, and if she can use tap water, she is so happy that she wants to shoot a short video to commemorate it. But even so, when she burns fish in front of the small iron window of the boat, she is still relieved by a beauty that belongs only to the runners: "You see, you can see the scenery while cooking." ”
Because the time span of the original footage is very long, we can see the characters moving forward in their respective life trajectories. Da Chengzi was single from the beginning, and in the final tidbits, you can see that she is married and now has two babies; Xiaowei is now a "big blogger" with 8 million fans, he continues to work out and is frequently invited to variety shows, but he still works on the construction site.
Talking about the harvest of making this movie, Sun Hong said: "Everyone has to face the hardships in life, but the real heroes can still not lose the courage to be born in the suffering, and still do not forget the beauty of aesthetic life, their achievements do not lie in the sufferings that have been overcome, but in the stronger personality strength gained in the process of overcoming the difficulties." It is this power that forms a kind of splendor that belongs to life and dispels the decadence in our hearts. ”
At the beginning of the new year, "Fireworks in the World" will bring a warm current to the cold winter, add some "fireworks" to the theater, and invite everyone to cheer and cheer for their stories.