This is a low-key domestic film, low-key, the director's information can not be found, the actors are vegetarians, after filming, they disappeared in the vast sea of people...
In 2017, it quietly landed on iQiyi, without stirring up any splash, but many people who have seen it have said: I don't know why, crying a lot.
This simple movie, especially suitable for summer watching: "Stay summer"
In July, Feidong County, Anhui, a small village.
Zhang Hanxiang, a 10-year-old boy, is about to usher in the third summer vacation of primary school.
In the last lesson before the holiday, the teacher repeatedly instructed: complete the summer vacation homework on time, do not play with water at home, pay attention to safety, and listen to the words of grandparents...
Why not listen to your parents? Because in this class, most of the children are left-behind children, living with their grandparents from an early age.
Zhang Hanxiang listened absently, and his heart had already flown out of the window.
homework? Let's go first.
Don't play with water? impossible.
Isn't summer vacation just a desperate sprinkling?
Zhang Hanxiang's summer vacation is: every morning when you get up, pickles are porridge, when you are full, you go to the next door to find a small partner to play, play marbles, play slingshot, play water drift... I played until my grandmother shouted "Come back for dinner" and then dispersed.
No need to go to interest classes, no one to write homework, no one to care how long TV... Very free.
However, Han Xiang also had his troubles.
He thought about his parents, and every time his parents called, he would ask: When will I be picked up to go to school in the city?
But Grandma said: The big one is already over there, the small one is over there, and the two people working so much money is not enough for living expenses.
Every time he asked, Han Xiang would be disappointed once, and gradually, he would not ask. His wish, from his parents taking him to the city, became that his parents often went home to see.
On this day, the bus stopped at the entrance of the village, and a little girl came down from the car. Her name is Yiyi, and she came from the city to her grandfather's house in the countryside for summer vacation.
Because they are both in the third grade, Zhang Hanxiang and Yiyi quickly made friends.
He pestered Yiyi and asked: When I went to school in the city, did my parents drive me to pick me up? Do you have a Sunday? What do you all play when you're not in school? Can't watch "Journey to the West" at noon?
This "Stay summer" premiered in November 2017 and is a big online movie.
Douban 7.7 points, not high. The shortcomings of the film are obvious: the director's technique is immature, it is made like a micro-film, the actors are obviously not professionally trained, and the acting skills are even a little awkward.
But it is such a roughly made film, and the content is not rough at all. The 85-minute film is full of life details, no ups and downs story line, but sincere and moving.
Some netizens commented: This is the summer of left-behind children, innocent and simple, the scenes in the play are so familiar, bamboo baskets, pu fans, large boilers, button mobile phones, desktop fans, grass, earthen houses, bamboo poles to dry clothes, crowded town streets, incomparably kind small shop signs... In Zhang Hanxiang's grandmother's eyes, it was as if she saw the shadow of her grandmother, and when they finally separated, they cried bitterly!
The film all uses the rural dialect of Anhui, Zhang Hanxiang and his little friend Zhang Zile, who starred in their true colors, played themselves in the film.
This is the summer of rural China, the real childhood of many post-90s and post-00s:
Play with slingshots, play marbles, play water, find a branch to ride as a horse, crouch on the ground with a magnifying glass and watch the ants move...
A bamboo strip is removed from the basket, bent into a circle, tied to a bamboo pole, and then wrapped with some spider silk to make a sticky dragonfly web.
Run through the grass, climb up small hills overlooking everything...
Go to the lotus pond to pick lotus puffs, peel lotus seeds to eat, go to the field to steal watermelons, a person put on a sentry, see someone coming, learn cuckoo call.
The watermelon must be placed in the well to ice, and then, a palm split...
Against the flying fan, whoa, whoa, whoa...
Watching "Journey to the West" on TV every day, I will memorize it and still have to watch it. Unfortunately, every Tuesday afternoon, the TV will run out of signal...
At that time, every boy had a neighbor "nemesis", and from time to time he took out the high-end snacks and toys brought back by relatives in the city, showed them to his companions, and played games with people who were tall and powerful.
At that time, there was always a girl who made the boys want to be a good man in front of her, you wanted to win any game to show her, you wanted to leave all the good things to her...
Unlike previous films about left-behind children, this film does not exaggerate the misery of left-behind children too much, but focuses on their daily lives and is full of childlike fun.
In "Staying in Summer", Zhang Hanxiang is a beloved child, and his grandmother hurts him, does not let him do farm work, and always makes food for him.
He was mischievous and stubborn, and he fought with the neighbor's children and broke the other person's head.
In the end, grandma carried a basket of eggs, carried a small amount of savings, and went to apologize to people.
Grandma will not tutor his study, do not know how to talk about the great truth of life, but the simplicity and kindness of rural people have really taught their children a lesson.
From mischievous to well-behaved, children often grow up only in an instant.
That summer, Han Xiang suddenly matured and understood things, and he began to follow his grandmother to work in the field and help her push the cart...
At this time, Dad also planned to take him to live in the city.
Everything came so unexpectedly.
The little friends who once played and made trouble, from now on, may be difficult to see again in this life;
Grandma, who once depended on each other, has since become an empty nest old man, eating alone, going to the ground alone...
On the one hand are the parents who think about it day and night, and on the other hand, the grandmother who gets along day and night, at the age of 10, Han Xiang has to bear and face the cruel reality that does not belong to this age.
Before leaving, he told his grandmother: The mobile phone is answered according to this, I will call you every day, and the mobile phone remembers to charge every day...
The story of Han Xiang is just a small microcosm of china today.
Since the late 1980s, a large number of migrant workers have poured into the cities, and the number of left-behind children has soared. According to statistics, the number of rural left-behind children under the age of 17 is as high as nearly 70 million.
In recent years, this number has continued to decline, but as of last year, the number of rural left-behind children under the age of 16 in China was still nearly 7 million.
Perhaps for many people living in cities, left-behind children are a series of statistics, an extreme news event: suicide by drinking pesticides, illegal crimes, sexual assault, abduction...
We have stereotypes about this group: poverty, inferiority, sensitivity... But very few really come close to their lives.
It's only when you get in touch with specific people that you can understand what they're going through.
The first generation of left-behind children has grown into adulthood and entered society. In fact, most of them are not much different from us. Even many people, because they have tasted the hardships of life early, are more able to bear hardships, have a strong will, and know more about responsibility and responsibility.
However, the psychological trauma caused by the back-and-forth pulling and wandering turmoil experienced in childhood has left a mark on the body forever.
In terms of knowledge, there is such a hot question: What is the state of the former left-behind children when they grow up?
Some people say: insecure, rely on yourself for everything, suppress emotions, dare not expect love...
Some people say: For a long time, I thought that my grandparents were my true "parents", and between my parents and my distant parents, it seemed to have become a relationship of interest acquisition... I just can't kiss it.
Some people say: In my hometown every day I want to go to my parents, when I really leave, I cried hoarsely, and the first time I went to Shenzhen with my parents, the language was not clear, that sense of loneliness, unforgettable...
It is also said that the place of birth, the place of residence before the age of 6, the place of residence after the age of 6... Every time it was uprooted, to a completely unfamiliar place, did not understand dialects, did not grow small, did not learn interpersonal communication, parents were busy with their own affairs, had a serious sense of alienation...
In "Liu Xia", there is a special setting: there is no shot of Zhang Hanxiang's father's face.
Some netizens said: Probably because it is not needed. Just like the growth of left-behind children, there has been no role of parents, parents for children, is a vague shadow.
We feel that we take it for granted, a stable living environment, the hugs of parents, someone to share when happy, someone to comfort when sad... In their childhood, it is missing.
And this lack, after adulthood, needs to be used dozens of times, or even a lifetime, to find and make up.
One respondent said: Fate is not chosen, we can only try to make ourselves better. If you want to get any inspiration or advice from my answer, it is to be yourself, and to accompany your children, no matter how busy you are, don't leave it behind.
The name of the movie is "Stay Summer", which refers to both the summer of left-behind children and the summer of our childhood that we can't keep.
It's rare that we can have a little intersection with left-behind children this summer and understand their lives instead of sympathizing and looking down.
It is rare that there is such a movie that records the happiness and sorrow of a special group under the tide of the big times.
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