Foreword: "Durian Fluttering": Northeast girls go south to Hong Kong, become a dust girl, who knows the bitterness of life?
All along, society has been secretive about "wind and dust women", feeling that they are a group of "immodest" women, always wearing colored glasses to look at this group. "Durian Fluttering" uncharacteristically reveals to us the daily life of the "Wind and Dust Girl", and unveils the mystery of the "Wind and Dust Girl" to us from the perspective of the protagonist Qin Yan.
The story is still set in the 1990s, and the era of planned economy has quietly ended. As the eldest son of the republic, the northeast region lost its status as an old industrial base, and a large number of workers were laid off, making a living and filling their stomachs became a top priority. Tens of thousands of workers ushered in a wave of layoffs, and the already poor families were even worse at the time. When the local economy can't support them to survive, going out becomes an inevitable thing.
This group of people does not have a good culture and does not have a prominent means of livelihood. The challenges a woman faces alone in the outside world are undoubtedly enormous. Even so, they still walked out with dreams in order to survive. Some people choose to go abroad, and some people choose to go south to Hong Kong and other economically developed areas to seek survival. The protagonist of the story, Qin Yan, is a girl who goes south to Hong Kong to make a living, and is also an ordinary member of thousands of people who go out to make a living.
The 21-year-old Qin Yan originally studied Peking Opera, but he practiced hard but failed to find a career to survive in his hometown. So she had a dream and stepped on the train heading south. "If people don't have dreams, what is the difference between them and salted fish", but when you are beaten hard by life, it may not be as good as a salted fish, at least the salted fish will not feel pain, and you have to compromise with life while enduring pain.
Qin Yan did not rely on her own efforts to become Bai Fumei, as a CEO, to the peak of life. Alone in Hong Kong, she embarked on a road of no return to selling her flesh in order to survive.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > life of a dusty woman, full of bitterness, and she tosses between the hotel and the bathroom every day</h1>
With a three-month tourist visa, Qin Yan was reduced to a dusty woman in Hong Kong, following pimps every day to hotels, restaurants, roadsides, and various dark and simple corners. The prosperity and hustle and bustle of Hong Kong seem to have nothing to do with this poor girl, and the low houses and harsh and dark working environment contrast strongly with the prosperity of Hong Kong, just like Qin Yan's life.
Qin Yan has no friends in Hong Kong, she needs to make as much money as possible in a limited time, and sometimes she can't even finish her meal, so she is called away by a phone call. Meet with customers, seek topics, ask for tips, rush back to dinner after settlement, or rush to the next customer. Sometimes when she encounters strange customers, she also has to deal with all kinds of unreasonable demands, in exchange for the poor prostitute.
Qin Yan's life was so monotonous and repetitive, she didn't even have much time to be sad, because in three months, she had to make as much money as possible.
Time flew by, and three months had come in the blink of an eye, and the day before she left, she had received a total of 38 guests. As soon as the camera pans, she leaves Hong Kong and returns to the northeast where she was born and raised. In her hometown, she was no longer Lily, not Anne, not Alice, and she had become the authentic Northeastern girl again.
She still talks to her parents, she tries to integrate into her previous life, and in the three months in the south, she should have a dream of herself, behind the prosperity of the south, is her countless days and nights of hard work and fatigue. She became the pride in the eyes of her parents, who used the hard-earned money she earned to feast on her friends, and the simple relatives believed in Qin Yan's excellence on the one hand, but also fantasized about the beauty of the big city. In other words, who will show their bad side to others? The wound can only be licked secretly in the dead of night.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > bathing, eating, and other details, once again highlighting Qin Yan in two different living states</h1>
During the time when Qin Yan was a dusty woman in the south, she needed frequent baths due to the needs of work. But there was no enjoyment in bathing at that time, and when something became a profession, it was boring and boring. She had to host several guests a day, and bathing became an essential activity, and many baths caused her hands and feet to be numb, just as she was numb in the wind and dust industry. Eating is only for the sake of food, and comfort and taste are not taken care of at all.
Only when she returned home did she return to a comfortable and comfortable life, when she lay in the warm bathroom, let the water flow through her skin, and once again enjoyed the comfort and comfort of this privacy, as if the spirit had also been baptized and sublimated. She could also calm down and eat the delicious meal without having to worry about eating because of entertaining guests, as if it had all passed.
The theme of the film, durian, also appears many times, and this fruit is characterized by "smelly and hard", just like people's desire for money, making money is not easy to spend money.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > historical theory</h1>
The film from Qin Yan was laid off, went south to Hong Kong to earn a living and fell into the wind and dust, after experiencing a three-month long life of wind and dust, she returned to her hometown again and returned to a normal life. The film shows us the hardships of the life of the "wind and dust girl", and shows the beauty of normal life, which triggers people's desire for a better life in contrast.
It is said that if it were not for the jackhammers of life, who would gamble with youth for tomorrow. The group of "dust girls" is not so much a degenerate group as a "miserable" group, and we hope that there will be fewer and fewer such people, and eventually they can earn money to support themselves with diligent hands, rather than putting themselves on the dark side of society, and a normal life of peace and ease is the best.