Introduction: China's decades of reform, opening up and urbanization have swept through every village in China, and the young and middle-aged labor force in the countryside is wrapped in the waves of the times like grains of sand, scattered in China's cities, without roots.
Author | Book Shadow Jun 462 original article
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In the lively National Day file, there is a more special film, which has the main theme of youth entrepreneurship, rural revitalization, and poverty alleviation, and there are youthful and enthusiastic, lively and cheerful comedy faces, as well as the pulse warmth of teenagers chasing dreams and father-son reconciliation.
Some people describe it as a dark horse in the blockbuster National Day file, and some people call it a young version of "Chinese Partner". It is "Home at One Point" starring Liu Haoran, Peng Yuchang and Yin Fang, three popular young students.
The film tells the story of three young people who return to their hometown to start a business, it is about youth, about struggle, and also about nostalgia. But what I see most in the film is "reconciliation."
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Wei Jinbei, played by Liu Haoran, is a once-spirited serial entrepreneur.
He spent all day thinking about the trends and entrepreneurial trends of the future world, he did shared bicycles, fast food takeaway, electronic digital, but all ended in failure.
When the latest venture ended with the complete loss of his last asset of 860,000 yuan, Wei Jinbei, who was once full of pride, eventually became low and decadent, insomnia and anxiety.
A huge sense of failure and a huge debt finally pushed him to the roof of the tall building.
At the moment when Wei Jinbei jumped, the courier Peng Xiubing gasped and pulled him aside and asked him to sign for the courier.
Wei Jinbei was a man who set extremely high standards for himself and did not allow failure. But the succession of entrepreneurial failures shattered his self-confidence.
He was almost forced by Peng Xiubing to his hometown and began to start a business together.
Later, three entrepreneurial partners partnered to grow Pu'er coffee, and eventually the company bid 6 million yuan for the acquisition. Wei Jinbei was extremely excited at first, because he finally succeeded in starting a business for the first time in his life.
But the entrepreneurial partner who has a lot of feelings for coffee disagrees with the discriminatory acquisition plan of the big company, so the three young partners completely fall out.
Wei Jinbei returned to Beijing in a fit of rage. But the vast Beijing has never been able to accommodate his thoughts about his entrepreneurial partners.
He can't forget the three years when the three of them worked hard together to start a business, and he felt the meaning of cooperation and the strength of the team from the two partners.
In the end, Wei Jinbei returned to the countryside of Yunnan and reunited with his partners to realize his dreams of e-commerce, express delivery and coffee.
He no longer struggled with whether the individual could succeed, no longer struggled with whether the value of the individual could be realized, because he finally understood that success could not rely on single-handedness, but only on large-scale collaboration.
Just as Wei Jinbei stood at the head of an ancient tree on the back hill of the village, looking at the sunset on the distant mountain, he sighed:
"I worked two years in the tallest office building in Beijing, but I've never seen it so far!"
Yes, some of the principles of life, Wei Jinbei did not understand in the modern city full of high-rise buildings, but in a remote and ancient village, he had an epiphany.
At that moment, Wei Jinbei reconciled with his past self.
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Peng Xiubing, played by Peng Yuchang, initially ignored his father's opposition and resolutely left the backward and closed hometown of Huanglu Village in Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, and came to the metropolis of Beijing.
Peng Xiubing's job is as a courier.
He lives in the basement, spending only 20 yuan a day on meals, sending goods that others do not want to send, and doing work that others do not want to do, just to save more money.
In Peng Xiubing's own words, the courier profession is his immersive experience of urban life.
He has worked hard and has been a business pacesetter for express delivery companies for many years in a row, and a role model for many colleagues to try to surpass.
But at the moment when his work achievement reached its peak, Peng Xiubing chose to return to his hometown to start a business. In his words, "The roads in Beijing are too clean to leave his footprints." ”
His dream of returning to his hometown is to seize the blank express delivery market in the ancient village of his hometown in Yunnan.
In the face of Peng Xiubing's incredible choice, not only did the colleague leaders not understand, but even his father used sticks as a response to his return home.
But Peng Xiubing did not hesitate to look at his choice. For in his heart, there was a fierce fire burning: this was the hometown where he was born and raised, and there were the natives of the homeland. He wants to bring the things of the outer world into his hometown, and he also wants to send the things of his hometown to the outside world!
The young man who left his hometown to go to the city without hesitation finally chose to return to his hometown and start a business without hesitation.
When he left, it was the land of his hometown that could not tolerate him, but now that he is back, it is his heart that cannot let go of the villagers in his homeland.
Between this walk, it contains peng Xiubing's reconciliation with his hometown.
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Li Shaoqun, played by Yin Fang, originally cut down the Pu'er tea tree that his father had planted for many years and chose to grow coffee, which eventually annoyed the conservative village chief's father, directly drove him out of the house, and even announced to the outside world that he was dead.
Li Shaoqun planted coffee trees alone in the back mountains, constantly experimented with the coffee making process, and pursued his inner ideal: to make China's own coffee.
Later, the coffee he planted won awards at world competitions and was promoted all over the world. It seems that his dream has come true, but there has always been a hurdle in his heart that he cannot pass, that is, his father.
Finally, one day, their coffee plantation received an order from the village, and the name of the consignee turned out to be his father.
In a state of uneasiness, Li Shaoqun chose to personally deliver the coffee to his father's door.
Father and son sat facing each other, silent.
When his father tasted a bite of the coffee grown by Li Shaoqun and immediately frowned and said that it was difficult to drink, Li Shaoqun smiled, because when his father first let him drink Pu'er tea when he was a child, he also had the same expression and reaction.
As the film's English title is "Coffee or Tea?" Two drinks represent two generations, two minds, two worlds.
At the end of the film, these two seemingly unrelated drinks are integrated and fragrant.
As Li Shaoqun said, when he chose coffee, it was actually a kind of rebellion against his father, but since he planted coffee, he began to understand why his father insisted on growing tea.
At that moment, father and son finally reconciled.
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Everyone has nostalgia, but not everyone will choose to touch nostalgia and return to the place where they started.
But Peng Xiubing and Li Shaoqun did it.
At the end of the film, there is a rather touching clip: young people and middle-aged people who go out to work in Huanglu Village have returned to their hometown Huanglu Village to start a business with Peng Xiubing and three young people.
When everyone says the city they have been in and the profession they have worked in, I feel a lot of emotions in my heart.
China's decades of reform, opening up and urbanization have swept through every village in China, and the young and middle-aged labor force in the countryside is wrapped in the waves of the times like grains of sand, scattered and rootless in China's cities.
The most direct consequence of over-urbanization is the decay and hollowing out of traditional villages, as well as the faults and declines of traditional cultures.
The biggest creative value of the film "Arriving Home at One Point" is expressed in a slogan shouted by Li Shaoqun in the play: "Bring things out, bring people back!" ”
This slogan is precisely the film's reflection and correction of this process of excessive urbanization.
Who says there is no hope in the countryside? Who says the homeland is withering away?
As long as there are young people like Peng Xiubing and Li Shaoqun who cherish their homeland and return to their hometowns to start a business, the goals of rural revitalization and poverty alleviation will certainly be achieved.
Because every time we go, it's all about going home!
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【About the Author】
Shuyingjun, a psychological counselor who does not understand the law, is not a good film critic.
Read movies into poems, and turn words into light.
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