The most ferocious rural sex comedy.
These big words are put here, I don't know if you can imagine it.
What kind of funny sexual comedy can be produced in that place full of dirt?
This film, which was born 10 years ago, really breaks people's presuppositions.
You may not have seen this film, but you must have seen this poster:
Two peach-round ass eggs were exposed under the red skirt, long legs, and white panties.
The dark-skinned men who wore old people's hats and straw hats happily enjoyed the scenery under their skirts.
Anyone who looks at it can't look at the obscene light in both eyes, and the heart exhales a sentence of this is also bitter!
But this scene, and the erotic color is hidden, so that people can't pick one or two.
The most advanced eroticism is probably like this.
[Singles] scored 8.1 points on Douban
That's also how this movie called "Singles" feels.
There is no bed scene in the whole film, but raw and rough sex is everywhere.
01
Singletons are a very common phenomenon in the northern countryside.
Although for most people living in today's urbanized world, this is already a different world.
Tonight we'll go into the world and talk about the sex of the old bachelor in the village (?). Life.
In Wanquan County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, just 150 kilometers from Beijing, there is a village called Gujiagou.
Gu Jiagou, picture from Douban netizens
The county's website introduces the village as follows: "Talents are abundant, products are abundant, and the air is good."
But in fact, Gujiagou is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and villagers have been farming for generations.
It is also an exaggeration to say that "talents are born", but there is indeed a director here, called Hao Jie.
Hao Jie filmed a Story of Gujiagou that is the ultimate tide, which is [Singles].
At the beginning of the movie, we are introduced to four old single sticks. The old bachelors often gathered at the head of the village to chat.
Beam big head.
When he was young in the production team, he focused on teaching girls to use the machine by hand with the close-fitting oiling method, and as a result, he rolled one of his hands into the machine.
Not to mention the disability, there is no woman's popularity, and since then I have been naked.
Gu Lin.
When he was young, he married his daughter-in-law, but because he slept on a kang, he was bold enough to do something to his sister-in-law.
After being discovered by his daughter-in-law, the chicken flew and beat him and joined the army of bare sticks.
Six soft.
He was once a well-off family, and when he was 12 years old, he was married to a hot girl who was a few years older.
As a result, on the wedding night, I didn't want to round the house, and I was beaten up by my daughter-in-law.
Liu Soft made a single stick and is not much different from other single sticks. He was a rare man.
Finally, we came to our first male protagonist, known as "Gujiagou Gaocang Jian" Lao Yang here.
When Old Yang was young, he and the second lady were in love with each other, and they also made people's stomachs bigger in the field.
However, because she was poor and disliked by the woman's family, the second lady eventually married the village chief.
On the surface, it was broken, but the two also began decades of underground secret affairs.
When they were young, the two rolled in the grass on the hillside, and when they got old, this preference did not change, and then rolled in the cornfield.
Usually foreplay asks the question "What about your man?" "The meeting went!"
Gotcha! Take off your pants and fuck!
After wearing red pants, he went on chasing the cattle! This is probably the flexible benefit of the curtain.
In fact, the second lady is still the social flower of the village.
She didn't just have a leg with Lao Yang, but she was circling between the bare sticks in the village.
Add a touch of joy to the long night of the bachelors.
The second lady did this in order to raise enough tuition for her son who was studying for college.
Originally, all this was balanced over the years.
Until one day, Lao Yang, who was moved by other people's words, suddenly planned to "marry" his daughter-in-law.
The so-called "marrying" daughter-in-law, in this poor and remote area, means that you only need to spend 6,000 yuan to harvest a kidnapped girl from abroad.
Driven by money, Chuan Meizi was also sent to the head of old Yang Kang by several people.
However, seeing the broken nest of the tile kiln where the wall skin was falling, and there was such a rough old man around him, Chuan Meizi ran away the next day.
After being arrested, the girl ran to the young and handsome third child's house another day.
Saying that she would not follow Old Yang back, she would follow The Third Child.
Therefore, Lao Yang had a hard time "marrying" the daughter-in-law, and then 6,000 quickly changed hands to the young man's pretty third child.
Interestingly, The Pretty Third Er has money to ask for Chuan Meizi, or look for money borrowed by Liang Datou (Liang Datou and Pretty Third Er's mother have a leg).
Old Yang took back 6,000 yuan, changed hands and gave it to the second lady to support the other party's son to go to college.
Cows! Co-authored, Gujiagou is a circle.
Such a strange rural world driven by the sexual desires of the single sticks is simply shocking in [single sticks].
After the story of the daughter-in-law is over, there is also Lao Yang's journey to the prostitute in the county town.
And the wonderful night on the kang where the six soft gay identities are discovered.
In short, don't be surprised, see the end, what amazing stories are also integrated in the mountains of Gujiagou.
02
Meat songs, dirty talk, stealing in the wilderness, co-raising sons, buying and selling daughters-in-law, prostitutes, homosexuals...
The world of [singles] may make some people feel physically/psychologically uncomfortable.
Because, it's outside the scope of their lives and understanding.
Masahira Imamura said, "Sex is life." ”
It has something in common with his masterpiece [楢山節考].
[Guanggun' is sort of like a Chinese version of [The Mountain Festival], "Write maggots until you die." ”
It's a world that sinks even deeper than the bottom.
And the world is also driven by barbaric and primitive sexual desires.
What kind of life are the remaining singles in the countryside?
I don't dare say anything else, but [Guanggun' does show a part of the low-level reality of the countryside in northern Hebei.
A barren but raw ecological realism.
Here, singing meat songs at funerals is accepted and even popular.
Whose funeral doesn't seem so important, the villagers get together, that is, to "sing very much".
Beginning with "The little song is a bit meaty", "The pants are taken off to the bottom, revealing a good thing" is vulgarly sung.
The villagers smiled plainly and knowingly. Old Yang and the second lady also went to bed to find fun in this song.
Listen to meat songs, occasionally steal, and the rest of the time can only be spent with other old bachelors.
Everyone squatted together on the top of the hill, lined up in a straight line of pestles in the corner of the street.
Talk about whose daughter-in-law ran away, and talk about which brothers and sisters served a wife together.
They have a lot of idle time to waste.
Talk back and forth, and then go back to a person's cold kang.
The goodness of the bare stick of "saving food and wearing the brain, and not hungry for one person" cannot really soothe the soul.
You know, director Hao Jie is Gujiagou people.
He is one of the few college students who went out of the village, and also played the son of the second lady who is taking the college entrance examination in the film.
There was a comment on Douban who wondered: "Where do you find old men with such natural acting skills?" ”
You really don't have to look for it! These old men were originally the villagers of Gujiagou.
Except for changing names, the stories of the old men almost all happened in real times.
The old men were also illiterate and spoke in the local dialect, acting entirely on their own experience and instincts.
A lot of the classic lines are played by themselves.
At the end of the movie, Lao Yang discovered Liu Soft's homosexual identity and sat on the mountain the next day to talk with Gu Lin.
This widely circulated witty and foul language comes from the actors themselves.
Hao Jie also said: "Many of the lines are said by themselves, and if I can write them so well, I completely rely on life to promote them to say themselves."
The sale of foreign daughters-in-law also really happened in the local area.
In the process of writing the script and collecting materials, Hao Jie learned a lot about the past in the village, and in the past ten years, several villagers have bought daughters-in-law from human traffickers.
And those daughters-in-law who were bought, some of them successfully escaped.
Moreover, he had become his familiar aunt and grandmother.
Hao Jie did not deliberately avoid these bloody past events.
The role of Chuan Meizi reflects the fate of these women.
It has been said that art stems from a primitive scene, that is, primitiveness, a kind of unprocessed simplicity.
And [Singles] shows the original ecology of the vulgar and simple life of singles, making it very close to "art" (by the way, the cost of [Singles] is only 300,000 yuan).
03
[Singles] this movie, 10 years since its birth.
But to this day, the story takes on a different form and may still be playing out.
I don't know if you have seen the "magic" story of rural China on the short video platform.
Earthy, straightforward, rough, may be confusing, but it may also be real.
Ah Kan recently saw a rural blind date paragraph:
A rural man, after rejecting a second-married woman with a child, had to go home and cry silently alone.
Because he found, he couldn't find anything better. Looking back for the second married woman, the family has already married.
This paragraph received 652,000 likes, 19,000 comments, and more than 7,000 retweets on Douyin.
The following comments are all "how the bare sticks are made" and "the tragedy is real in the world!" ”
In 2017, Japan's NHK also went to Guanggun Village in Qingyang City, Gansu Province, to take a few examples and make a documentary.
It's called [Singles: Men in China Who Can't Get Married].
At the doorstep of the village's school-age women, men come to the blind date like a meal call.
When it's your turn, the woman may not want to see you, so how do you come to have to pat your ass and roll back.
A look has written a "30-year-old virgin" before, and there will be readers who will leave a message below:
"You're exaggerating, where are there so many older virgins in the countryside?"
For more people in cities, people don't even believe that there is such a world.
A vaguely familiar, yet so distant and strange, like a parallel world.
In today's China, Hao Jie and his [bare sticks] are so precious.
[Singles] had never paid attention to this more sinking world before;
Ten years after [single sticks], they are still out of the public's attention and discussion.
However, what is better is that [Singles] is that it does not make this already heavy subject matter bitter.
It is not unreasonable for [Singles] to be called the "Northern Countryside Version [Ten Days Talk]" by movie fans.
Pasolini filmed [Ten Days Talk], with a unique sense of comedy, praising human liberation and sexual liberation.
Hao Jie's [single stick], you can't see the curiosity consumption of the crotch thing, no avoidance, no beautification.
There is no moral judgment, and there is no sensationalism.
It is only responsible for rendering. And exudes a sense of humor and optimism.
The audience can even feel a kind of vitality that is still alive under the poor mountains and red waters.
The bare sticks in the countryside, like fierce animals, live according to their perceptions.
This is also where the film moved foreign audiences at foreign film festivals that year.
The world of the bachelor is full of another kind of logic and order, but it also reveals its wild nature in the order.
Under the dual poverty of material and spirituality, the joy of life and the primitive wildness are reflected.
Although behind this, there is a rather helpless and sour expression.
But all the simplicity and truth in the film brings unparalleled power to the people.
The film brought the singles to the attention for the first time, the first time they flew abroad to walk the red carpet. After that, it was over, and I returned to Gujiagou.
The bare sticks are still bare sticks, they still have to work in the fields, and they still have a lot of time to squander on the top of the mountain.
Nothing seems to have changed.
However, this is the real and absurd life itself.