"Stay in Summer", the blue sky, a touch of summer's refreshing green, in the cover of many movies, its cover is unique, it looks particularly fresh.
And the title of "Liu Xia" is also very intriguing, what does "Liu Xia" mean? "Keep the summer", or "stay"? What was left behind, or who left what? The meaning behind it is evocative.
Cover of the film "Stay summer"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > movie synopsis</h1>
At the beginning of the film, the green of the field emerges from the director's lens. Dewdrops, rice paddies and dragonflies, a vibrant summer scene is really beautiful!
Just look at the first two or three minutes, full of green, and even think that this is a documentary about the rural landscape. However, the camera turns and comes to the classroom of a young boy, who is the protagonist of the film - Zhang Hanxiang.
From here, the camera suddenly becomes extremely realistic, as if it were a home video we usually shoot with our mobile phones, without a trace of the dream and surreal sense of the movie.
Zhang Hanxiang is a third-grade elementary school student, and the film begins with him and his little friend Zhang Zile who went to steal watermelons from the villagers and were caught. The filming is in a small village, and the whole film captures many childhood memories of rural children.
Stills of playing in the field are beautiful
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > children who have been "left behind."</h1>
In fact, the film is mainly about rural life.
In the film, except for Yiyi, who came from the city, the other children are left-behind children. Parents have to go to big cities to work in order to live, and they have no conditions to take care of their children, so they can only leave their children in their hometown and give them to their grandparents to take care of.
In the "2019 Left-behind Children Investigation Report", it is pointed out that there are usually three types of guardians of left-behind children: the indulgent type who is powerless and only "eats"; the doting type who only cares about "giving" in generational education; and the indulgent type who lives in his home and cannot be managed.
Zhang Hanxiang and Zhang Zile are typical grandparents who can't discipline him, and only provide him with three meals a day, while the other little fat is a child who is spoiled by his grandmother.
One night, when a group of neighbors gathered together and gossiped about home, Zhang Hanxiang was still unfinished homework, and his grandmother casually said that "it is not good to do homework, and when you grow up, you can only drive like your father."
Stills from "Stay summer"
Usually, she can't guide her children's homework, and she won't communicate with her children well, but just preach. When Zhang Hanxiang, in order to help Zhang Zile, broke Xiao Fat's head with a brick in a hurry, his grandmother only scolded him for not understanding things, and then took money and eggs to atone for his sins.
Grandma didn't understand why the child hit someone or teach him how to deal with it right, but just scolded and went alone to apologize. This is less educational for the child who has done something wrong, but will trigger his sense of rebellion, because you have not tried to understand his real thoughts.
The people around the child are the child's teachers, and the words and deeds are not only excellent qualities, but also those bad words and deeds will be subtly absorbed by the child.
For left-behind children, in addition to children's learning, their personal safety is also an important aspect of social concern.
In the film, the film is filmed of children playing in the field, playing with their peers, and having fun. However, if you look closely, you will find that there are many dangers.
When grandma took a nap, Zhang Hanxiang took Zhang Zile and Yiyi and ran to a small cliff to play, and Yiyi almost fell off the cliff. After Yi Yi said that it was dangerous to leave quickly, Zhang Zile just laughed at her timidity.
Then, they played by the river, the depth of the water is not yet known, but in case one of them does not stand, it is very likely that a drowning accident will occur if they fall into the river.
Three children frolicking by the river
In fact, the children who are left behind are not properly protected in terms of academics, physical and mental health, or life safety.
In 2011, a book titled "Diary of Left-Behind Children in China" was published, including the diaries of 26 left-behind children at Maocaoping Primary School in Wanfenghu Town, Anlong County, Guizhou Province.
"Don't eat any more, tomorrow won't be enough..."
"Hungry and stuck until school ended in the afternoon. I was so hungry that I couldn't even get my intestines gone. ”
"I really wanted to cry, Dad had a hard time getting home, but it was only one night, and he was leaving again."
"I went to a well far from home to fetch water. I had just walked halfway and saw the shadows of those black trees moving, and I was so scared that I stood for a long time. Then I went on. ”
I want to say to my mother: "You only gave birth to me and my brother, did not raise us, you did not fulfill the responsibility of a mother!" ”
The sentences written by the children with their most immature strokes are painful to see... At a young age, they have borne too many heavy burdens, but they cannot escape.
In "Stay summer", it is more about children enjoying the joy of summer vacation, but it is also a profound reminder to us:
Zhang Hanxiang doing farm work
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the elderly who are "left behind."</h1>
In addition to left-behind children, the problem of empty nesters has also attracted much attention in recent years. Parents who have worked hard all their lives have raised their children, taken care of their grandchildren, and finally become lonely empty nesters.
In their twilight years of old age, limited mobility and many illnesses, they were left in their hometown, and to put it too much, they were self-destructive...
Chinese often say "raising children and preventing old age", but now it seems that this sentence has long become an empty phrase.
In "Stay summer", basically children and elderly people appear. The camera also often focuses on Zhang Hanxiang's grandmother. She took care of her grandchildren alone and did farm work alone in the fields.
Once, under the scorching sun, she was sunburned in the cornfield and could not open her eyes, her lips were white, and she was about to faint when she saw it, which made people can't help but pinch their hearts, afraid that the accident would really come...
After returning home, she found that the money she had painstakingly saved had been stolen by Zhang Hanxiang and sat down by the door. Later, when chasing Zhang Hanxiang to fight, through Zhang Hanxiang's perspective, watching the scene of grandma breathless, trembling and slowly squatting, it really made people can't help but wet the corners of their eyes...
When I saw Zhang Hanxiang's grandmother, I thought of my own grandmother. After her grandfather's death, she took turns living in the city's three sons' homes, but she was never able to adapt to life outside. Children and grandchildren have their own things to do and have no time to spend with her. She didn't dare to go out alone, afraid that if she went out, she wouldn't recognize the way back...
In the end, she chose to go back to the countryside alone. Therefore, when I was far away in Guangzhou, I had to call her every other day, and whenever she didn't answer the phone, a strong sense of uneasiness would rise in my heart...
Once, my grandmother next door fainted on the side of the road because of a bad heart. Fortunately, someone passed by and found it, and was sent to the hospital in time. If she faints at home, it is estimated that no one will find out for several days...
In 2014, Mr. Chen of Jiaxing found that the phone call home was not answered, and he did not pay attention to it at first. After repeated phone calls home, no one answered. When he rushed home from Shanghai, he smelled a foul smell after pushing open the door, and saw his parents lying on the ground and one lying on the bed...
There is a lot of news like this, in the face of such a tragedy, we should pay more attention to the problem of empty nesters while lamenting.
Grandma was unwell, and Zhang Hanxiang silently watched this scene from behind
The famous host Bai Yansong once said that he liked a sentence that "every time is a small death"...
When separated from parents, such "death" may be greater and more likely to occur... Please cherish every opportunity, often go home to see, and care more about them. If you can, try not to let them suffer the loneliness of old age in their twilight years...
At the end of the summer vacation, Zhang Hanxiang's father did not stay overnight when he returned, and he took Zhang Hanxiang to the city to study on the same day. When Zhang Hanxiang reluctantly left, only his grandmother was left, walking on the path back to the village that seemed to have no end in sight...
Before, on this small road, Yi yi left, and Zhang Hanxiang stood there alone to watch her. He was the one who was left behind. And this time, it was his grandmother who was left behind...
The lonely background of Grandma coming home alone
At the end of the film, in the dark and simple house, there is a scene of grandma cleaning up the dishes alone, and a sense of loneliness suddenly arises...
Who can really know the negative emotions in the hearts of those who are left behind?
Grandma after a simple dinner
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the countryside that was "left behind."</h1>
With the rapid development of China's economy, the development of cities and towns is also getting faster and faster, and the pace of rural urbanization is also accelerating.
However, not all rural areas can successfully urbanize, they have borne the impact of rapid economic development, and they have been left far behind history.
More and more rural villagers choose to leave their hometowns to go out to develop, and they rarely go home all year round, and the current rural areas have basically lost their previous functions.
Young adults have basically become exported labor, and farmland has been abandoned and depressed.
The high-rise buildings in the cities are getting taller and taller, and the population in the countryside is getting smaller and smaller. Many children who grow up in the city are basically reluctant to return to their hometowns, even if it is only a few days of the New Year, which will make them extremely bored.
Therefore, more and more children willfully refuse to return to the countryside with their parents, and parents can only accommodate their children and choose to stay in the city for the New Year.
The elderly parents who wait for their children and grandchildren to come home for the New Year all year round are like the countryside itself that has been left behind, and has been left at the end of the times forever.
When the elderly who are still in the countryside of this generation die one after another, the countryside will probably disappear with it.
In "Staying in Summer", the director used a lot of shots to shoot the beautiful scenery of the countryside, and perhaps such a scenery will become the memory of some people in the near future, a passing scenery that will always be left in history...
At the beginning of the film, the long-range shot of Zhang Hanxiang and Zhang Zile who were caught was filmed
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > postscript</h1>
Times are advancing, and failure to keep up will eventually be abandoned. But O times, can you move forward a little slower, a little slower, let us engrave those memories of the scenery in our minds, and leave them in the record film?
Time flies, and generation after generation will eventually be erased. But time, can you fly a little slower, slower, let us take a good look at the person who once loved us, let us love them a little more?
Dad has gone far, and Zhang Hanxiang reluctantly said goodbye to his grandmother