On the day of Chongyang Festival, I went back to my mother's house to visit my parents. There was only one sister-in-law in the family, and she told me, "My mother went to the movies, and my father went out to exercise." I laughed: "My mother is willing to watch a movie?" Why don't you go with dad? The sister-in-law said: "Chongyang Festival cinema to engage in activities, the elderly over the age of seventy can watch for free, the two people's schedule is not the same, the mother wants to watch "Captain China", dad exercises in the morning, and a bunch of old men go to see "My Motherland and Me" in the afternoon. ”
Sitting at home waiting for my parents, I was not in a hurry and did not call. Mom was watching a movie on the fourth floor of Jinhui Universal Plaza at the entrance of the village, lifting her feet to arrive, and dad exercised in the village, not far away. My parents have suffered all their lives, and when I am old, I can arrange my old age life happily, and I am glad that it is too late!
Our village is located in the southern suburbs of Xi'an City, called Jinliangtuo. Now it seems that our village is only a five-minute drive from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and the geographical location is superior, but in the 1980s, the village was still very closed, and it was a remote place where only farming could eat. When I was a child, although standing on the earth cliff on the edge of the village, we could see the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the TV Tower, but it took at least more than an hour to walk on two legs. There is a large dirt slope in the north of the village, and the township party members have to go to the city to do things, and they have to climb over that dirt slope, which is very difficult to go back and forth. If you have some food or rice on the back seat of the bicycle, and if you pull some grain and coal on the shelf car, let you use the power of the flood, you can only look at the slope and sigh, without a little temper.
There are difficulties, and there are naturally solutions. Our way of dealing with the big slope is to mobilize the whole family, send a ride when we leave, and then "pick up the slope" when we come back. For example, my father is going to the city to buy fertilizer today, and at five o'clock in the afternoon, it is estimated that my father will soon return, and my mother will take the three of us brothers and sisters to wait under the slope. When my dad came back, we pulled and pushed, and the family sweated a little to push the rack cart uphill. When going downhill, the children are the happiest, the adults raise the rut high, the tail of the car is next to the ground, let the child sit back and weigh the weight, the tail of the car will rub the surface of the loess all the way, "squeak" downhill. Whether it is for bicycles or rack cars, "slippery slope" is a technical job, if the control is not effective, let the car lose resistance and rush downhill, it is necessary to turn over on the horse and be injured.
Don't have to ask my parents or my hometown or my own experience of watching a movie for the first time, the answer is mostly the big playground of the village elementary school. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a major event in the countryside, and a movie would be shown on the playground of the elementary school, and my father called such a movie "Birthday to the Eyes". My mom called the playground movie "Walking Around.". Indeed, watching this kind of movie is no different from visiting the meeting, and the township parties in the eight townships of ten miles have heard the wind, and the small businessmen who sell melon seeds and peanuts have pockets in one hand, an electric pot lid in the other hand, a dime and a pot lid, and they are shouting hard. When there are many people, the children are even more excited for no reason, they play their special skills to run before and after, climb trees and walls, and do everything. Adults are not idle, pulling home, discussing plots, commenting on relatives and neighbors... There are more people, and the conversation is naturally higher than one, for fear that their voices will be drowned.
In the late 1980s, the number of playground movies was more frequent, and the average villager's family held a red and white happy event, and dared to have the courage to perform a movie to help the momentum. Later, television sets slowly became popular, and people's interest in open-air movies that were drunk and frozen gradually faded. That said, it's still hard for rural people to go to the cinema to see a movie.
The first time I went to the theater was probably in 1988, the first year of junior high school. I remember that at that time, a movie called "Red Sorghum" swept the whole world, and our Chinese teacher decided to take us to see this award-winning film, for me, I saw not only the movie, but also the cinema. We are all the way to the West Shadow Culture Palace, which is a spring smoke and smoke running and jumping from the 54th of Chunlin Village, the cinema has a solemn appearance, like a church, with a spire. It was very large, rows of pale yellow wooden seats, and a well-dressed audience, so that our children quickly quieted down and threw themselves into the plot without emotion, which was very enjoyable. Because I like to read novels, I like to watch movies, and although it is rare to go to the theater once, I like the rich emotional experience of full immersion. You can also watch TV at home, but the atmosphere is different, sometimes disturbing, and the feeling of the theater cannot be compared.
The first movie I watched with my subject was "Flying Over the Fascination", starring Jacky Cheung and Maggie Cheung, which was a romantic love story film, very touching. When the movie ended, there were many people, the object took my hand, and my heart "hissed" like a collapsed rice flower, and I still remember it clearly.
By the time I got home, it was almost nine o'clock, and it was completely dark. At that time, the conditions were better, and the land in the village was occupied by the Qujiang Water Plant, and in return, the water plant built asphalt roads for our village, but there were no street lights. The slope at the mouth of the village is still there, pushed a little more gently, not so steep. We pushed our bikes uphill and he said it was good to ride downhill and let me sit on it. I sat in the back seat beautifully, he braked the brakes and slipped down, the asphalt road was smooth, it was said that there was nothing wrong, but I didn't know who threw a stone in the middle of the road, the black light blinded the two of us, overturned the car, fell and scratched my face...
After we got married, we went to work in the city, and although we didn't live next door to the movie theater, we still watched a lot of movies. Later, busy work, coupled with having children, watching movies, the little feelings, was forgotten. But the habit of reading books and watching old movies on TV, I have always retained.
The village is scattered, an old man dies, a stubble child is born, the TV set is getting bigger and bigger, the more light it is, we are gradually entering middle age, and the parents are also unconsciously aging. With the reform and opening up, economic development, and urban expansion, the geographical advantages of our village have been highlighted, and in 2009, the overall demolition of the village was incorporated into urban planning.
Within a few years, high-end houses were built on the site of our village, and the village entrance was connected to Metro Line 4, and with the development of a large leisure shopping plaza, our village entrance was settled in the cinema.
There was a special offer on the opening day of the studio, and our whole family watched a movie together for the first time in history, which was not a small matter, the movie at 10:30, my dad started urging before 10 o'clock. The children are in a hurry, a few steps away, what is Grandpa shouting? My dad said to go early to occupy the seat, which made the children laugh. The cinema is luxuriously decorated, the aisles are soft carpets, the seats are separate sofas, and the auditorium is smaller than the original, but the silver screen is extra large and the sound effects are first-class. The promotion is limited to cartoons, the movie we watched was "The Seventh Dwarf", parents in their seventies, me in my forties, my brother and daughter-in-law, and two and a half nephews, my eighteen-year-old son, three generations of eight seats, occupying a row, young and old, watching cartoons with relish, enjoying themselves.
Since then, our family watching movies has become a common thing, thanks to the good times, let us enjoy the good mood brought by film art in our own villages, let my seventy-year-old mother go out and the old ladies open their mouths to praise the Chinese captain, let me realize my young film dreams, so that our children, like the children in the city, can broaden their horizons, increase their insights, and get the nourishment of art.