"My Altay" ended with high scores and entered the top line of word-of-mouth in the first half of the year.
Adapted from Li Juan's award-winning essay collection, Teng Congcong, the director of "Send Me to Qingyun", directed by Teng Congcong, topic actors Ma Yili, Yu Shi, Zhou Yiyi, and Jiang Qiming gathered, and CCTV broadcast simultaneously to escort it, from the endorsement lineup to the platform, they all supported the stage.
And the end result did not disappoint us.
In fact, many people, including Piao, began to pay attention to Yu Shi in "Altay".
After soaring to the general trend of domestic entertainment overnight, this work has become an important basis for the audience to test his strength, and it is also the next springboard for his promotion.
But after watching a few episodes, I suddenly realized that I had overlooked the real treasure.
Yu Shi completed the test, and gave full play to his unique wildness, tension, and native feeling.
But the wilder and more vibrant drama is actually someone else-
Under the vast sky, the group of women in the world who are both small and majestic.
"My Altay" is not easy to change, it is an established fact.
The original book of more than 200,000 words (this is the version that Li Juan divided into three volumes, which contains her other novel "Nine Snows" many years ago), but the story can be told in one sentence.
The 19-year-old heroine didn't earn much money while working outside, and she was frustrated, so she decided to temporarily return to her hometown Altay to help her mother keep the shop.
In addition to the lack of plot conflicts, what is more difficult is the character of Li Wenxiu (played by Zhou Yi).
According to the original book, Li Wenxiu is almost Li Juan herself.
At the beginning of the TV series, it showed Li Juan's state at that time-
Poor, vain, sensitive, passionate, and endless.
The complexity of the personality makes this character extremely difficult to grasp.
And Zhou's presentation is neither too hot nor tepid.
She has always been excluded by her colleagues, and occasionally leaned on the wall to hear a male colleague talking for her, and she was panicked and touched for a moment, and she acted accurately.
But when she found that the other party had asked for 300 severance pay for herself and the boss, she secretly swallowed 200 privately, and the split emotions surged up on her eyebrows again.
The man across from him was the only one in the restaurant who cared about him.
But the complexity and multifaceted nature of human nature is beyond her ability to handle.
So no matter how much resentment you have, you can only turn into a grievance that you want to get angry but don't dare to do it because of your face.
She's not the kind of girl who is willing to be manipulated and let things go.
With a literary dream, he was born in a remote town, and his inner passion was always suppressed by the environment.
But the difference is that she always carries a wildness in her forbearance, and there is always a surge under the calm, which is the most difficult trait for Li Wenxiu to capture.
For example, the moment when I met Ba Tai (played by Yu Shi).
When she saw Ba Tai riding with her father, she couldn't take her eyes off it for a while.
There was actually no movement in the limbs, but the breeze had already blown the surface of the heart lake.
I especially like the scene of the two sitting on the "sacred tree" on the river beach.
Two young men, unguarded from each other, sat on a tree branch with a rainbow in front of them, and on the branches hung the bones of the herdsmen's dead horses.
The two of them were dangling their feet in the middle of this, blowing the wild wind.
Suddenly, I thought of "The Story of the Sahara", Sanmao wrote that Jose gave him the "best wedding gift"-
A camel skull found in the desert.
Sanmao "My Baby"
In such a primitive and vibrant land, the cycle of life is no longer terrifying, but with the ultimate romance.
Everything happens naturally, not by people.
It's like the accidental same frequency of two hearts.
At that time, there was still a local custom that interracial marriages were not allowed, but how could the throbbing of youth be stopped by one or two old customs?
Some people say that this scene is quite a bit like Brad Pitt in "Big River Love".
But I don't think Paul (Pete's character name) is missing the tragic feeling that although he is in the sun, his vitality is burning and draining.
It's more like "Heartbeat".
Life moves from youth to maturity and completeness, implying infinite hope and expectation for the world.
(Even the poster is quite similar)
At this moment, it is a crush that only belongs to Li Wenxiu.
She's not the well-behaved girl in the commissary who is roughly defined.
For the sake of his dream, he wanted to rush out of the town and meet a boy he had a good impression of, and he made no secret of his intentions.
Her wildness has never been erased, always beating with the pulse of this vast land.
If Wenxiu's wildness is hidden, then her mother Zhang Fengxia's wildness can be seen by a clear-eyed person.
The local village director commented:
Women all over the world
The last thing to worry about is her
It can also be seen from the name.
In Altay, she has always lived like a chivalrous woman.
If you don't have a mobile phone, then carry a charging phone in your waist bag, anyway, it can solve the problem of communicating with people.
The daughter asked her about the storage of her belongings in the house.
Her: The salt is in the sugar jar, the sugar is in the alkali jar, the salt jar is not moved, and the inside is laundry detergent.
The main one is not in shape when he speaks and does things.
Also, he is extremely pessimistic about life and death.
It wasn't until she mistakenly threw the biscuit box in her arms into Fairy Bay that she cried and told her daughter that it turned out that the box was not filled with laundry detergent, but the ashes of Wenxiu's father and her husband.
There has always been a sense of absurdity in her life.
Always doing the most unreliable things and saying things that seem to be joking, but when she turns her head and ponders, which sentence and which thing is the best she can do within her ability.
Faced with the dilemma of not having a TV at home, in order to comfort her mother, she first used loess bricks to build a TV-like box outside the tent, and then brought a few chickens, which was called "Agricultural Channel".
Facing this scene, everyone laughed, but I felt a little sad for Zhang Fengxia.
She didn't want to provide good things for her mother. But until the desire arrives, survival can only make her keep traveling.
But she is a wonderful person, obviously the one who was stabbed in the back by life, but she will never be a victim.
I obviously wanted my husband to cry, but after crying, I wiped my tears, and when I met the "Cordyceps Merchant" played by Gao Xiaoliang (played by Jiang Qiming), the sad heart came alive again.
After saving the other party, she slept in the crook of the other party's arm, she was not greedy, as long as she was warm for a moment, as for the sincerity behind it, she didn't care.
She always uses the most disdainful attitude to resolve the infinite sadness that life gives her.
So I always think that she is the one who knows life the most in this play.
She is not aggrieved at all about her current desires.
's daughter told her that Gao Xiaoliang is not a reliable man (that is, he deducted 200 yuan from Li Wenxiu), so it can be seen that the well-informed Zhang Fengxia is not clear?
But for her, the death of her husband is like a thick fog that cannot be dissolved, and when she thinks of each other, she will always be depressed and drink by the river.
And, take care of the sick mother and act as a pillar for her daughter...... Life has given this woman too much suffering.
She desperately needs a little sweetness, this is her way of saving herself.
In the tent, she took out two bullets and said that she would take them as a token of her love affair with Gao.
But when she turned her back, she didn't fall asleep at all.
Even she didn't believe it.
The bullet was found in Fairy Bay, where she accidentally threw away her husband's ashes.
That day, she had made a special detour to talk to her husband again.
That's why I said that behind her seemingly crazy and unreliable behavior is the wisdom of life.
The more life treats her, the less easily she is grabbed by the throat by life.
While saving oneself, my heart is like a mirror, which is a real vitality.
There is a scene in the play where women take a bath in a large bathhouse.
In the dim light, they rubbed each other's backs, drenched in the rain, and threw their heads up and exhaled deeply...... Then he began to sing aloud.
The Internet likened this scene to "the halo of Mother Earth".
I visioned Zhang Fengxia's life.
The bathhouse was stuffy, crowded, slippery...... But the songs of these women are all about the green steppe, the golden Altay, these images of freedom.
The singing that broke through the roof is also Zhang Fengxia's freedom.
"Wildness" usually also means uninhibited, primitive, and uninhibited.
But in this remote land, you can see the most progressive female relationships.
Let's talk about Zhang Fengxia and grandma (played by Huang Xiaojuan) first.
Who is Huang Xiaojuan? Bai Sanniang in "Wulin Gaiden" is played by her.
In addition, she is also a national first-class actor who has made achievements in sketches, quyi, and film and television dramas, and she is a proper hidden boss.
In "Altay", she became Zhang Fengxia's mother who was confused from time to time and wanted to go back to Shenyang all the time.
She played a few places particularly well.
After a long night's sleep, she slammed to her feet from her uncomfortable grocery bag.
The trembling and trembling crutches that swayed with his body, and the strength to fall at any time was that of an old man with weak limbs.
This hides a trick to judge the actor's skills-
The new generation of actors enjoy close-ups a lot, and they only know how to make expressions, move their eyebrows, and their body language is often very poor. And the old drama bones who have acted in stage plays, no matter what the scene, can make people instantly convinced, because they are using every inch of musculoskeletal to enter the play.
There is also a scene of secretly eating ham sausages from his daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
Although he was confused, his sense of hearing was unusually keen.
Sensing that his granddaughter was running from afar, he panicked so much that he didn't have time to wipe the residue at the corner of his mouth, and pretended to be asleep for a second.
Eating without knowing what to eat is a symptom of the elderly with Alzheimer's disease.
Because of this, Zhang Fengxia took special care of her.
She seems unreliable, but in the face of some things that her grandmother said that are more absurd than her own life, she never shows disgust and boredom.
There's an interesting scene.
When her grandmother wanted to sell the beer bottle fragments to her as Hetian Yu, she didn't think the other party was delaying, and led her grandmother to start appreciating gems.
While carrying a big bag, you can still keep the words from landing.
Giving emotional value is often the most consuming, but Zhang Fengxia is always willing to treat her grandmother as a normal person.
This state of mind, which sees all beings as equals, also extends to her relationship with her daughter.
It is rare that even if she is a parent, she does not want to interfere in her daughter's life.
For example, when the people in the village said in a slightly admiring and envious tone that they heard that there was a girl in the village who wrote well, she used "work" to describe her daughter's occupation.
That's a wonderful word.
At that time, most people still regarded mental work and physical work differently, but Zhang Fengxia didn't think that it was more noble, just a means of living.
I also appreciate her stable mental state that she doesn't easily get PUA.
At the riverside, when her daughter questioned that she kept moving to escape and didn't give herself enough security, the mother said:
Run away from your mother
You really don't want to have anything to do with me
Go back to your city
What a sense of security
I'm still in charge
is worthy of Zhang Fengxia, the "motherhood guilt" that modern society pressures women to do can't handle her at all.
After all, she's the kind of woman who makes herself cool first and then talks about everything else.
But the sad thing is that not everyone on the grassland is Zhang Fengxia, and everyone can't be "lucky" to become Zhang Fengxia.
Zhang Fengxia's "luck" lies in the fact that her seniors and juniors are both women, and the common heart between women will always make her receive a life-saving straw from the same sex when she is tired and painful.
Other women weren't as lucky.
Ba Tai's sister-in-law, Tolkien, died because her husband drank alcohol, and according to the customs of the grassland, she was once arranged by her father-in-law to marry Ba Tai.
What's even more ridiculous is that Tolkien's rebellion will only become more evidence of this woman's troubles in their eyes.
When will I be able to remarry, she asked?
The other side will only answer her, don't say, it's too embarrassing.
Her pleas were never heard.
Since marrying her ex-husband, she has been asking for a washboard for a whole year, experiencing the death of her ex-husband, almost marrying her brother-in-law, and she hasn't come yet.
In the night when the prairie was so dark that it froze, she cried out in despair, "Nobody cares, nobody cares!" ”
is in a similar predicament, and there is the female writer who flashed.
She has dreams and a passion for life, and she finds time to write while she is taking advantage of her three children, and her talent has been recognized by professionals.
But when she heard that the other party wanted to give herself a bigger platform, she still subconsciously refused.
My husband would be upset, she said.
It's not a woman's weakness, it's more like life's ruthlessness to her.
When you hear Woolf's famous quote from the other side: Every woman must have a room of her own.
She opened her mouth, as if she had a myriad of things to say, but in the end she said nothing.
Tolkien's life with the female writer is a stronger afterglow left to me by Altay.
Through this gap, it shows to outsiders that sometimes the back side of the "wild" may not be civilized and civilized, but may also be confined and closed.
And the real answer to life may have been solved before "civilization" and "knowledge".
Just like my grandmother's confession about her past life-
I was collecting garbage in Shenyang at that time
In the evening
Just sleep under the bridge
I'm so tired, I want to cry
I just thought
I'm the one in that martial arts movie
is wandering the rivers and lakes and wandering the world
If you think about it, you don't feel bitter
Nietzsche once wrote:
All true tragedies release us with a metaphysical consolation, that is, that in spite of the ever-changing phenomena, life is unbreakable, powerful, and joyful at the very root of things......
- "The Birth of Tragedy"
In a trance, the brilliance of humanity in these women merges with Nietzsche's discourse.
Aren't they just telling the tragic appearance of their lives and living out of them unbreakable strength and happiness?
When you see them, you will know the weight that a free woman can carry.
After lamenting his life, the next sentence of Nietzsche is like this, which I use to express my feelings for the Altay women-
"These natural creatures seem to live inextricably in the hidden depths of all civilizations, and they are always the same despite the change of generations and the change of peoples."