When I first watched "Falling Leaves To the Roots", I was often amused by the image of old Zhao Played by Zhao Benshan, how could there be such a stupid person. However, more than a decade later, when I was also working outside the home, I re-watched "Falling Leaves to the Roots" without tears, which is what the movie should look like.
Filming the most real situation of the working people at the bottom, today's sentence: hometown can not tolerate the flesh, other places can not tolerate the soul, perhaps the most appropriate annotation of the film, maybe we are all "deceived" by the director and the actors, they told me that this is a comedy, and I laughed and cried.
1, the road encounters robbers, thieves also have a way
Old Liu and Old Zhao are workers at the same construction site, Old Liu is drunk to death, not counting work injuries, the boss "kindly" gave 5,000 yuan compensation fee Old Liu's family also has wives and children old and young dependent on support, so the money must be returned.
In order to save travel expenses and expenses, and also for the "promise of returning the fallen leaves to the roots", Lao Zhao decided to take the body back to Lao Liu's hometown, and did not expect to encounter robbers just after getting on the car.
After the robbers knew about the old Zhao Bei brother's return home, they directly praised him for his righteousness, and the robbers boasted to the point of rising up and twisting the back of his clothes with two big words: Battle Righteousness.
Old Zhao Gang wanted to praise him for his righteousness, but he did not expect to go up again, it turned out to be: fake righteousness, the robbers were sent out to sell their brothers when they were young, and as a result, they were tattooed on the ground with these three words, he did not wash them, he did not wash them for a lifetime, just to wake up to himself to be righteous in the future.
In order to express his admiration, the robbers poured all the looted belongings from the straw hat to Lao Zhao and left. However, as soon as he left on his front foot, the passengers on the car rushed to grab their own things back, and even if they were snatched back, after all, Old Zhao did not want to take it, he was very kind.
However, these passengers are very unkind, shouting that they dare not take this bus and have to refund the ticket. The driver had no choice but to let Old Zhao get off the car with Old Liu on his back and pull a car of people away.
2, the hotel meets the thief, the road meets the infatuated lang
This person stood on the road like this, trying to take a ride, but there was no car to stop, pretending to do cardiac resuscitation, and sure enough, a good-sounding big brother stopped and pulled the two to the hospital. After entering the county, Old Zhao originally wanted to get off the car under the pretext, but he did not expect that the eldest brother actually wanted to do good things to the end. He could only pay for the other party to continue to help register, and he could only quickly run away with the corpse on his back.
Old Zhao wandered around the county town and found a hotel that provided accommodation for taxi drivers, on the one hand, the beds were cheap, and on the other hand, he wondered if he could take a ride back. There is really a driver who is running in Chongqing, and old Zhao came forward and nagged, asking if he could hitchhik? And this driver seems to have something in mind, is in a bad mood, picks up the bottle and grunts all over the stomach.
Old Zhao saw that the other party had finished drinking the wine, thinking that there was a drama, who had thought that people would not pull them, and they would sleep on their heads, but they could not find anyone, and they could only think of another way. That day, old Zhao lay in bed and slept very deeply, and as a result, in the middle of the night, someone got up and carefully stole a few hundred yuan from his jacket pocket.
The next day, Old Zhao found that he had run out of money and discussed with everyone whether he could search his body. The man who stole the money rightly took out a new hundred-dollar bill and asked if it was his money. Old Zhao saw the situation and could only threaten to call the police, but when they took out their mobile phones, they quickly stopped it.
As soon as the police came, the matter of finding Lao Liu's body was broken, and Lao Zhao could only break his teeth and swallow into his stomach. The driver who drank last night sat in the corner silently, and if he helped, he would be despised by his peers. But he looked at Old Zhao pitifully, so he offered to pull them for a period of time, just to pay him back the wine money.
Along the way, Old Zhao sang happily, singing "Wildflowers on the Side of the Road" to the feeling of two people turning.
Listening to his face getting heavier and heavier, he finally pinched his neck and asked him where he learned it from? It turned out that three years ago, the driver met a woman on this road, she also sang this song, the driver was fascinated, and he would always take this road to take care of the woman's "business". He made a promise to drive up to 300,000 kilometers to make money, and then took her away.
But a few days ago 300,000 kilometers is driven to, the woman is gone, the mobile phone is also turned off, see the man is in pain, old Zhao Kai to solve, you have opened 300,000 kilometers, it is better to continue to drive, found it, did not find the next one.
There is no shortage of love on this road, and the driver slammed on the accelerator and went all the way forward. At sunset, he met Yang Biao at a fork in the road, and Old Zhao reminded him to pay attention to safety on the road, while he continued to move forward under the afterglow with Old Liu on his back.
3, the cart is not interesting, but want to feel the hilarity
But so early is really tired, along the way the tram is not good to take, until encountering a car that breaks down, the other party agrees to help Old Zhao push the car, then pull him for a ride, but as soon as the car starts, it changes and goes away.
But what if you don't feel happy in your heart? Old Zhao picked up Old Liu and continued to move forward. In the afternoon, he met someone from a nearby village doing a funeral, and he thought about eating food. Old Zhao tied Old Liu to a wooden shelf and put it in the field, which at first glance looked exactly like a scarecrow, and then trotted all the way into the team into the village pretending to be a filial piety and crying bitterly.
Waiting for crying and crying and moving true feelings, it was not easy to come, dinner did not stop chopsticks, but there was an old man sitting next to the meal, old Zhao was a little confused, looking at the posthumous photo behind is his. The old man said that these people were all hired by themselves to act, and none of them were family members.
He had no children and no daughters, his wife died early, he was lonely and bitter in this life, worried about calming down after death, so he handled a funeral before he died, and he also wanted to feel the lively scene after death. But Old Zhao is very curious, this group of people is crying on Old Zhao that is called a moving, how can you be so sad?
Old Zhao told about the process of carrying Old Liu home, but Old Liu's body had begun to stink, and the old man took out the local local treatment from the coffin, and stuffed the pills into Old Liu's mouth, ears and nose, which had the effect of preventing odor, and could make the body not smelly for half a month. The old man also gave Old Zhao a car, although it still had to make people work hard, but it was much more labor-saving than carrying it.
4, race with cattle, but can not run the wheels
Old Zhao encountered a cow, and even began to compete, the result was that the master did not stop using the whip to smoke the cow, old Zhao slapped his own ass with his hand, plus the help of the donkey friends behind him, and overtook the cattle herder. This scene is witty and humorous, but it is also poignant.
Life in the world is like a cow and a horse, it is very lamentable, especially compared with the donkey friends in front of you, one is for survival, the other is for life. Old Zhao is no money, can only push the cart to Chongqing, the young man is rich and does not spend, challenge themselves, two people with very different identities drink coffee together, and then go their separate ways to run things.
Old Zhao did not say anything sad, with the opening of the embrace of the world, when the downhill did not slow down and fell on his back, the car was also torn apart, so people are no big trouble. Old Zhao noticed that there was something more miserable on the lower side of the slope, and a tricycle was also broken, so he stepped forward to set it almost and successfully obtained a new means of transportation.
The vehicle continues on the road, the tires push downhill is fine, the uphill is difficult. But did not want to go downhill when one did not stabilize, the tire directly out of control, catch up to find that their shoes are broken, can only wear old Liu's, did not expect that old Liu shoes actually have 430 yuan, old Zhao anyway is not moving, so with old Liu to discuss with the old Liu to use money to rent a car.
5, counterfeit 5,000 yuan to deceive old Zhao, beekeepers really exchange true feelings
After going back to the driver to confirm the 700 yuan back to Chongqing, he went to the restaurant to eat and celebrate. Who into thinking that this is a black shop, the boss is not good to annoy at a glance, even asked for 600 yuan, old Zhao is not stupid, know that he is into the wolf's den, do not want to give money can not be, because behind the body do not know when has stood three strong men, do not give on the beaten,
Old Zhao had to take out the stinky 400 yuan and pull out two pieces from the 5,000 yuan. Unexpectedly, just out of the restaurant is complaining, the boss will take someone to rush out, grabbed Old Zhao and told him that four are true, but the other two are fake money. Old Zhao can only take out two more pieces from 5,000 yuan, but the boss found that this is still fake money, the original construction site boss gave 5,000, all fake money, old Zhao was deceived not to say that he was beaten.
Old Zhao's heart was completely cold, he burned the fake money and gave it to Old Liu to use on the road over there, and now that the money is gone, how to account for it when he goes back? Grief-stricken, he could only bury it on the spot, if the last time he cried at the old man's place, there was also an element of acting, this time crying was really sour.
Old Zhao planed a large pit in the forest, he lay down first, try the depth of the pit, when he saw the blue sky and white clouds, cool breeze, fatigue swept away, Old Zhao instantly had an epiphany.
He and Lao Liu both lay in the pit, using large stones tied to the tree to hit him back and forth, only to ask for one piece to go to the other side to "enjoy the blessing", but when the stone hit Lao Zhao's head, he reflexively dodged it, and finally the stone hit his back and fainted.
When he woke up, he was saved by a beekeeper, the beekeeper's wife was injured in the face of a safety accident when working in the factory in the early years, and since then there has been no face to see people, psychological inferiority, the husband has found a beekeeping industry, all year round for home, less contact with the public, to give the wife a more comfortable living environment.
Let the wife gradually repair the previous sadness and inferiority. After listening to their encounters, Old Zhao seemed to find the meaning of life, thinking that he must send Old Liu back, and the beekeeper sent Old Zhao to their next stop, separated from Old Zhao, and continued their respective life journeys.
6, the road meets fellow countrymen, and when selling blood, encounters true love
And just got off the bus, to a hair salon door, the hair salon sister is driving away the men with bad intentions, and warned him that this is a regular hair salon, Old Zhao heard the girl's colloquial language and knew that it was a fellow countryman, carrying Old Liu into the hair salon, he immediately knelt in front of the girl, telling him that he hoped to make up for Old Liu and make Old Liu's face more energetic.
After the girl knew the bumps in the road of old Zhao, she still agreed, during which the police who liked the girl entered the hair salon, the girl also lied that old Zhao was her distant uncle to avoid being discovered by Old Liu's condition, but after makeup, the police wanted to set up almost Old Zhao to let him say good things to the girl, and also sent Old Zhao and old Liu who seemed to be drunk to the train station.
But how could he take the train? First, there was no money, and the second was that Old Liu couldn't get on the car, and the next morning, he put Old Liu in the cement pipe of the nearby construction site, and tried to find a way to get some food to eat, and the blood donor said that he had hepatitis B that he couldn't use, but he still gave him a box lunch, but when he was just ready to leave, he was stopped and said that they collected blood for 500 at a time, as long as there was no AIDS.
Old Zhao also followed, here met also ready to sell blood big sister, the eldest sister is a pick-up, come to sell blood three times a month, make up enough money to send living expenses to the son, the son is now in college, send money in the past after being seen by classmates several times, he no longer let his mother send it over, let her send it over, dislike the people who lost him in school.
Who expected that this blood sale was raided by the public security organs, the criminals were arrested, and the old Zhao and the eldest sister were sent to the rescue center, where baths, free meals and tickets to go back were provided. Just in time for the party, Old Zhao and the eldest sister performed a double reed, and the performance was the speech state of the leader during the day, and everyone was happy.
After the performance, the two of them told their own life experiences, they were like the tacit understanding of love at first sight in the double reed, but the eldest sister knew that Lao Zhao still had to fulfill his promise.
After each other's heartfelt complaints, the two promised to return to her after completing the fallen leaves, and the eldest sister gave Lao Zhao the only few hundred yuan she had to pick up, which may be a promise about love, And Lao Zhao did not shirk it, took the money, continued to move forward, and also deposited this love harvest here.
7, the police sent old Zhao, old Zhao sent old Liu ashes, and the fallen leaves were still seven hours away from rooting
Along the way, he also hit all kinds of vehicles, some people stopped to send, some people went away, a dislike, but old Zhao did not give up, because this is his only belief, must send old Liu home, after passing a collapsed road, everyone retreated in the distance, only old Zhao fearlessly carried old Liu forward, has not stayed.
It's just that he fell in the collapsed mud pit without paying attention, and when he woke up, he was already lying on the hospital bed, and after the police around him asked about the situation, they confirmed the situation on the other side of the old Liu construction site, and finally the old Liu was cremated on the spot under the advice of the police, and when he saw a wisp of smoke rising in the cremation chimney, he might be thinking that it was probably the soul of old Liu, maybe he didn't have the heart to think so much.
With the help of the police, Old Zhao came to Lao Liu's hometown in a police car, but found that his hometown had been demolished, leaving his son's words to his father on the broken door board of the relocation: probably some childhood regrets about disobedience and missing his father and the address after the relocation. Along the way, the arduous search is found in a devastated and ruined world, a disappearance of the old and a new unknown, the leaves are turned into ashes, and there is no home.
This is probably also the fact that most workers have to face, this film based on the real events that happened in 2007, so that everyone who has seen it can't help but feel nostalgic and bitter, isn't life so real and funny? Some people have cheated a silly promise with a bunch of fake money, and some people have guarded a promise with a piece of true feelings: the fallen leaves return to the roots! How many more 7 hours will he have to walk: the fallen leaves will return to the roots?
Remembering the verses he read on the truck of his beekeeper son, he may have been thinking about his future at that moment, and perhaps his current mood in the car was his future. Yes, life is full of tastes, life always needs to face, laugh at life. Just like Zhao Benshan's attitude towards life brought to us with one joke after another.