After more than 6 months of absence, the cinema finally ushered in the resumption of work on July 20.
The audience and the cinema seem to have experienced a reunion after a long absence. On the first day of resuming work, the new film "The First Parting" was released, using the texture of oil painting to tell the parting in life again and again.
"The First Parting" has won awards at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival and the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. This is the debut of director and screenwriter Wang Lina, and it is also a memorial gift dedicated to her hometown Shaya.
On the northern edge of the Takmalakan Desert, flocks of sheep, cotton, poplar forests and childhood memories precipitated rich material, and finally wrote this true poem - the inseparable parting and growth in life.
Although the title of the film is "The First Parting", if you look closely, you can find that there are at least 10 partings in the film.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > 10 partings, both inseparable and never.drawn</h1>
In Shaya County, Asok Region, Aisa and Kelly walked through the desert together, raised lambs together, climbed poplar trees together and talked, and the free childhood like a bird made me envious when I grew up in the city. It's just that this childhood joy is also mixed with troubles and sourness.
Isa's family was not wealthy, her mother was sick and brain-hurt at an early age, she couldn't hear or speak, she couldn't take care of herself, and she often went missing. When her father was working, Isa and her brother both helped and took care of their mother. Schoolwork, farm work and motherhood became early on the shoulders of the two boys.
My brother failed to be admitted to Xinjiang University and wanted to go to a technical school in a distant place. It was the parting of the brother, saying goodbye to his hometown and moving towards the future life. It was also the first time that Isa faced the separation of her relatives, and since then, the responsibility of taking care of her mother has all fallen on Isa's shoulders.
For the first time, the taciturn father had the idea of sending his mother to a nursing home. More than ten years of not abandoning, there are times of exhaustion, but more importantly, the family's income and the future of the children are practical issues that fathers need to consider. The separation of father and mother is a trade-off after weighing the pros and cons, and it is to make everyone's life easier.
At the family meeting, Isa's aunt was adamantly opposed to sending her sister to a nursing home. However, when persuaded by the clan, she could only hold her face and accept the forced parting.
Aisa disagrees with her father's proposal, but when he returns from school, he finds that her mother has been sent away. He was most afraid of his mother's disappearance, and he wanted to hear his mother say to himself, "Son, you're back," but he didn't want to leave her. This time of forced parting, let him write in his diary: Brother, if we don't go out to study, how good it is to eat together at home and live together.
However, Isa did not expect that her good friend Kelly and her brother would have to transfer to a Chinese language school in Kucha in order to improve their academic performance. This time away, Isa lost friends around her. There was no longer the laughter of the three people under the poplar tree, only his own shadow.
However, for Kelly, it was not a parting. Leave your familiar home, go to a strange city, and never play with your best friends again. The beautiful childhood seems to be cut off here into two parts, one part remains in the memory, and the other part is left in the unknown far away.
The young man under the big tree at the mouth of the village, he wanted to leave his hometown to live in the city, wanted to pursue a better future, but was hindered by his parents and predecessors, forced to stay in Shaya County, according to the comfort zone of the elders and could not leave.
Kelly's mother wanted to leave the hard days and divorced, but in the end she could not let go of the two children, and chose to remarry for the happiness of the children, and she could not leave.
And I think the best parting in the film is the two partings of Isa and his lambs.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > chicks leave the nest, whose life is not parting again and again</h1>
At the beginning of the film, Isa personally feeds a lamb. The lamb, who had not yet learned to drink milk obediently, was forcibly carried away by Kelly. Isa reluctantly followed Kelly's house and built a nest for the lamb to be relieved.
At the end of the film, after Isa experiences a series of partings, the lamb is gone. Like running out that night to find her lost mother, Isa rushed into the snow and wind in search of her beloved lamb, but unfortunately never got it back.
At the end of the sunset, Isa drove the sheep alone. There is a hint of sourness in the good scenery at dusk, it is accustomed to the growth of separation, and it is a life that can only go forward.
In fact, each of us will experience our own "first parting". But if you look back, it's hard to tell which one was the "first time."
The people in the film also seem to be parting all the time.
Some people want to leave, some people don't want to leave, some people can't leave, and some people say goodbye forever.
Perhaps, everyone will have many "firsts", because every parting is a new growth and opportunity.
Isa and Kelly talk about what to do when they grow up, my brother entrusts her college dreams to Isa, and the night her mother goes missing, her brother scolds Isa for "how she always doesn't grow up"...
"Grow up" and "dream", these two keywords and parting together through the film.
If children are happy when they look forward to the future, then in order to reach the future, they must embark on a path of growth, cutting through thorns and never stopping.
We will continue to meet along the way, and we will always have to say goodbye. Like the young man at the mouth of the village, Kelly's mother, and Isa's father, no matter what age, parting is always an unavoidable choice, even if you grow up, you will encounter a sudden parting.
However, even if we can't get used to parting for a lifetime, we have to learn to face and accept.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > will reverberate</h1>
The nostalgia that can't go back is parting.
The inseparable affection is parting.
Affection, friendship, familiar places, favorite pets... The parting that time and space can be divided into, as long as it can be placed in the heart, can become an eternal memory.
I love Kelly's mother in the film, who tells her daughter that she can draw a picture, so that she can never be separated from her friends in the painting. Perhaps this is the wisdom that comes from life, the mother taught her daughter to deal with parting in the way of children.
And this film is also a compulsory course in life through the eyes of children, not so much to tell the story of children, but to say that there is a sense of looking back at the road after going through the vicissitudes of the sea.
Poplar forests, cotton fields, footprints in the desert, sheep in the setting sun, and the beaten bread are all beautiful pictures.
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