Watching "Sherlock on the Plains", I feel very intimate. Because, this movie, filmed in Hengshui Shenzhou, is less than 100 kilometers away from my hometown, the actors are all local farmers, and the lines are also in the local dialect. For this Hebei dialect, many people may sound earthy, but for me, it is full of local sounds.
The Sherlock in the title "Sherlock on the Plains" refers to The Detective Sherlock Holmes, which seems to be classified as a reasoning movie, but the detective side is not one of those super-capable and good-looking detectives, but two ordinary rural masters, making the plot significantly absurd and full of comedic color.
However, behind this absurdity is the real rural world, and behind the comedy is a heavy sigh.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > absurd, humble gesture of the countryside before the city</h1>
The director of "Sherlock on the Plain" is called Xu Lei, and his hometown is Shenzhou.
Xu Lei had heard of such a thing. He had relatives who were hit and injured by a car, and the hit-and-run car escaped. However, relatives do not dare to call the police, because in the lack of monitoring in the countryside, it is difficult to find the perpetrator, if you call the police, the medical expenses can only be borne by themselves, but if you lie that you fell, you can report to the new agricultural cooperative. Therefore, relatives believe that they can solve the case themselves first, find the perpetrator and then report the case.
After hearing about this, Xu Lei felt that this logic was particularly absurd, but he also thought that it was in line with their situation.
It was precisely this incident that inspired Xu Lei, so he created the movie "Sherlock on the Plain".
In the movie, Chao Ying sold cattle to get more than 100,000 yuan, planning to build an old house, and the villagers came to help, but the tree river that helped buy vegetables had a car accident.
After the tree river suffered a car accident, someone advised Chao Ying not to call the police, saying that the tree river fell by himself, so that he could be reimbursed 70%.
However, Chao Ying insisted on calling the police, because he had to give Shuhe an explanation, and the price of calling the police was that he might bear all the medical expenses of Shuhe.
As a result, after calling the police, because there was no surveillance and no witnesses, although the police said they did their best, there was little hope.
Therefore, with the increase in the medical expenses of Shuhe, under economic pressure, Chaoying and his friend Zhanyi, these two rural uncles, had to incarnate as Sherlock Holmes and Watson, riding tricycles, looking for clues everywhere, hoping to find the vehicle that caused the accident.
Therefore, the rural uncle investigates the traffic accident case, and this plot seems absurd, but it is actually real.
Fry, a famous Canadian literary critic, took personal ability and environment as the standard, and divided fictional literary works into five basic models:
1. The protagonist is superior in nature to others and the environment in which others live, then the protagonist is God, and the work is a myth;
2. If the protagonist is superior to others and the environment in which others live, then the protagonist is a legendary figure, and the work is a legend, folk tale and folk fairy tale;
3. The protagonist is superior to others to a certain extent, but cannot transcend the environment in which he is located, then the protagonist is the hero, and the work is epic and tragic;
4. The protagonist is the same as others, neither superior to others, nor superior to the environment in which others are located, then the protagonist is an ordinary person, and the work is a comedy and realist novel;
5. The protagonist is inferior in ability and intellect to ordinary people, thus giving people a sense of contempt for their enslavement, frustration and ridiculous situation, which belongs to the "irony" model.
Compared with the city, there is a huge gap between the economy and culture in the countryside.
Therefore, in how to deal with traffic accidents, due to different living environments, the way taken by rural people such as Chaoying and Zhanyi feels incredible in the eyes of people who are accustomed to the rules of urban life.
This is "Sherlock on the Plain", on the silver screen dominated by urban culture, presenting a rural world with "ironic" characteristics, thus creating a sense of absurdity.
However, the countermeasures taken by Chaoying and Zhanyi are in line with the logic of life, and the reason why people feel absurd is only because they are in a downward view.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the abyss of the old, rural areas falling in front of the city</h1>
In the film, the countryside presents a state of decline.
Chao Ying and Zhan Yi, in order to investigate the suspect vehicle of the shop owner, adopt a strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain. Chao Ying pretended to buy something, and Zhan Yi sneaked into the backyard to check the vehicle.
Chao Ying walked into the store and saw that the store was full of daily necessities, so he said that he bought an air pump. As a result, the boss actually found the air pump and asked Chaoying for 220.
In order to avoid a deal, Chaoying smashed the price, saying that he was at most 150. However, to Chaoying's surprise, the boss was so cruel that he wanted to sell the air pump to Chaoying.
Chao Ying was very reluctant to ask the boss: "Then don't you lose money?" ”
The boss replied, "What is not to lose?" Now there are no young people in the village, there is no purchasing power, and I am not going to do it. ”
What the shop owner said is the truth of many villages, due to the migration of the population, young people have poured into the city's high-rise buildings, and the elderly are alone in the village wall ruins, resulting in a more serious problem of rural aging.
In particular, for their hometowns, many young people are not temporarily separated, but farewell, and the traditional thinking of "falling leaves returning to the roots" is submerged in the prosperity of the city.
When Chaoying decided to cover the old house, Zhan Yi advised Chaoying: "The children will definitely not come back to live, it is useless for you to cover this." ”
After Shuhe was hit, Chao Ying planned to contact Shuhe's daughter, but failed to do so, only to hear that someone had seen Shuhe's daughter in Wuhan and had a child, Shuhe made a special trip to find it, but did not find it.
From the dialogue between Chao Ying and Gemini, I can vaguely feel that Shuhe's daughter never returned because Shuhe opposed her daughter's distant marriage and had a conflict with her daughter.
So much so that gemini sighed: "Marry farther away, be farther away." Non-hard tube, this is good, white feed. ”
When the countryside loses the blood of young people, it will only become older, and these young blood will inject the pulse of the city, so that the city will continue to maintain its youth.
Thus, the countryside and the city, one is old and the other is full of vitality. Between the two, a huge generation gap has been formed that is increasingly difficult to connect, understand, and even tolerate.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > chivalrous, the last pride of the countryside in front of the city</h1>
Chaoying and Zhanyi, like many rural masters, are not economically rich, the level of education is not high, dirty and rustic, but when they bring bucket hats, put on ponchos, and travel east and west for friends, what the audience feels is the traditional Chinese chivalrous spirit.
The spirit of chivalry can be to uphold justice for the way of heaven, or it can be to sacrifice oneself for oneself and oneself. Chaoying belongs to the latter.
If there is a car accident in Shuhe, if according to strict responsibility, it is one thing for him to help Chaoying buy vegetables, and the traffic accident is another, Chaoying can completely pay part of the medical fees for Shuhe out of humanitarianism.
However, Chao Ying took the initiative to bear the medical expenses of Shuhe and paid a package ticket to Shuhe's nephew Xiaowa.
However, due to the fact that Chaoying has too much money and lacks money on hand, resulting in the untimely payment of Shuhe's medical expenses, Xiaowa came to Chaoying to ask for accounts.
Zhan Yi insisted on righteousness on the side, believing that there was a car accident in Shuhe, Chao Ying had already paid a lot, and as a nephew, Xiao Wa should also pay part of it.
As a result, there was a conflict with Xiaowa.
Chao Ying and the villagers stopped the two and said to Xiao Wa: "You inquire with the village, although I have a not spacious life, who do you say I have been on an errand with?" ”
This sentence of Chao Ying represents too many rural people. They are poor, they are backward, but they have a high sense of morality, because even if they do a thing that is sorry for their conscience, they are afraid of being poked in the spine by the villagers.
A person, in the village, if his reputation is notorious, is not only disgraceful, but also unable to survive.
In "Native China", Mr. Fei Xiaotong believes that traditional Chinese society and Western society have the difference between "rule of law" and "rule of etiquette". The rule of law relies on state power, while the rule of etiquette relies on tradition.
When the city was included in the track of the rule of law, there were still traces of etiquette in the rural people of Chaoying and Zhanyi.
The spirit of chivalry, on the other hand, is often more willing to grow in the soil of etiquette. Because, in a world with a high degree of rule of law, there is no need for chivalry, only law enforcers.
Moreover, not only Chaoying, even zhanyi, who has many troubles, also has a chivalrous spirit, he accompanies chaoying, saddles before and after the horse, tirelessly, chased by security guards, punished by urban management, and also imprisoned in the police station for pretending to be a takeaway brother.
Watching Sherlock on the Plains is a process from laughter to crying. Because, in those seemingly absurd comedies, you will feel the simple and mellow friendship of the countryside, experience the helpless cunning of the peasants, and even think of Li Changping's sigh: The peasants are really bitter, the countryside is really poor, and agriculture is really dangerous!