"The Girl from Huangshan Mountain" is an old domestic film released in 1984, the first shot is a rural girl carrying a piece of meat, running down the old-fashioned stairs in a hurry, rushing all the way to the counter where the meat is sold, earnestly saying that one or two meats are missing, and the camera turns, it is a shrewd hostess who uses a hand scale to weigh the weight of the dish.
Quite a dramatic beginning, shaping a rural and urban, employer and nanny opposition, a bit of facial stereotypes, thinking that it will be a story of "class oppression" with the mark of the times, but the whole movie is very surprising, from Huangshan to Beijing as a nanny Lingling, representing in the initial opening of the 80s, the countryside to the city of the temptation and integration, while witnessing the rapid development of the city, there is also the awakening and rise of the rural economy.
From beginning to end, there is no rural real-life part of the film, and the director's design is very clever, with the spring and autumn techniques of secret writing, a series of changes in the countryside, through the nanny Lingling's family letter and the conversation with the villagers. "Huangshan", as the subject of the film, is finally fixed on the prospect of Lingling returning home with the city girl star:
There is a scene in the movie where a piece of rhythmic music comes, a "fashionable" young man in jeans and permed hair carrying his girlfriend, riding a motorcycle to make love and warm, the background is a red and white trolleybus and bicycle, Lingling is very curious to stop and watch, her eyes flash with surprise, freshness, funny and unacceptable light.
City streetscape in the 80s
This complex emotional expression is very meticulous and true, from the conservative countryside to the bustling city, cramped and uneasy at the same time there is a "duty" of self-knowledge, the times change, the city and the countryside still have a gap that is difficult to integrate, put in today, a rural girl first stood under the skyscraper, there will be this kind of confusion that has never seen the world.
However, the film is not creating this antagonism, but through Lingling's helper life, walking into the most real fireworks in the city, showing a complex and rich human nature, there are selfish small citizens, there are enthusiastic neighbors who help each other; there is the serious self-discipline of intellectuals, and the equal love and mutual love of the families of old cadres. In the three-dimensional urban image, Lingling's self-esteem and self-love and the warmth of flowing from person to person are shown.
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > three employer families, reflecting the truest human feelings</h1>
Lingling served three families, which were also a microcosm of Beijing's civic class in the 1980s. The first Qi family, the family members are Qi Mother, Qi Father, who is on a business trip abroad, brother Dali and sister Xiaojuan. The family works in a state-owned enterprise and lives on a high-rise building with an elevator.
In the second Liu family, the family members are maternity Hongrong, the baby, and the husband who has never met. This is a typical worker family, living in a lively and cramped hutong compound; the third Zhou family, the old man is a retired old cadre, the old lady is a well-known calligrapher, and there is a granddaughter xingxing who graduated from high school and drunkenly studied the song and dance troupe, living in a spacious courtyard.
The three families are very representative and are a facet of the times. At the same time, Lingling's situation in the three families is also a process of slowly integrating and feeling cared for.
First, the first employer, Qi Jia, deepened Lingling's estrangement from the city
Qi Mu and Xiao Juan's attitude towards Ling Ling is arrogant and arrogant. Qi Mu always suspected that Ling Ling's hands and feet were not clean, let alone respect for her personality. At noon, she vigorously clipped an egg to Lingling, and Qi Mu quickly cut it off and sent the egg into her daughter Xiaojuan's bowl, saying: "Lingling doesn't like to eat eggs, she is tired of eating in the countryside." "Underneath the decent exterior, there is contempt for laborers, and ironically, people like Qi Mu still exist."
Xiao Juan gave lingling a commanding hand, sprayed perfume on the bed where lingling had let her clothes go, asked lingling to massage her, and also accused the "bad deeds" of the previous nannies. Ling Ling tried on her vest, and Xiao Juan asked Ling Ling to wash the vest immediately, and said without anger:
Although the employer tried to make things difficult for Lingling, she digested this grievance in order to earn money. Until one time Xiao Juan's sweater was "lost", Qi Mu insisted that Ling Ling stole it, and turned her luggage upside down. Later, it was found that it was left at the unit, and Qi Mu told Xiao Juan not to tell Ling Ling.
Simple and stubborn Lingling spent almost a month's salary to buy a new sweater for Xiao Juan, saying that she was responsible for washing and losing, but she resolutely decided to resign, just when she went out, she heard Xiao Juan's abdominal pain and moaning in bed, this kind girl did not say a word, carried Xiao Juan and rushed to the hospital, fortunately, it was timely to send treatment, Xiao Juan was out of danger.
After the operation, Xiaojuan was full of guilt, confessed that her sweater was not lost, let Lingling not go, Lingling for the first time experienced the sincerity of the people in the city to her, and the sense of need brought by the work, but the previous slander touched her bottom line, and she promised to wait for Xiaojuan to recover before leaving.
As a nanny who went from the countryside to the city in the 1980s, in the context of the unfreezing of the population flow at that time, it was nothing less than the first batch of adventurers to come out and break in. Urban and rural people are actually in the barriers of each other's imagination, and each other has labeled each other.
People like Ling Ling are the existence that merges two disjoint opposites with each other. The mother and daughter of the Qi family confirmed the inhumanity of the urban people in Lingling's imagination, and they also preconceived the label of Lack of Education for Lingling, Lingling's run-in with the first family is actually the run-in between the countryside and the city, and the reconciliation between Lingling and Xiaojuan penetrates the first hard shell of the city: prejudice.
Second, the second employer, Liu Jia, is Lingling's understanding of the multi-faceted city
Hongrong's conditions are not generous, living in a small room in the hutong compound, her husband has not returned to work, she gritted her teeth and invited Lingling to take care of Yuezi. Hongrong and her husband are both workers, usually like literature, and are united because of similar interests. Her husband's article was favored by a magazine that hired him to work. From workshop workers to magazine editors, Hongrong is very proud of her husband, and when she talks about "Big Brother Liu" with Lingling, her face is overflowing with happiness.
In order to save money, throughout the month, Hongrong ate a chicken, and reluctantly said "wait for Brother Liu to come back and eat together", Lingling really couldn't look at it, and stewed the chicken "hard" for her to drink soup.
In the blink of an eye, the child is full moon, the husband has not returned, and the living expenses have been cut off, and the overstretched Hongrong can no longer afford Lingling's nanny fee, and he is worried about finding her husband. Returning late at night, Hongrong saw Lingling and Yiyi asleep, and took off the cover of her shoes for Lingling. She burned the carefully treasured promise handkerchief and sobbed quietly on her desk.
LingLing understood Hongrong's situation, introduced her to work with the hometown aunt to find another family for her, just when Lingling's family urged for money, the family paid nearly twice as much as Hongrong, but the kind Lingling did not want to leave the poor Hongrong, and was willing to do another job on the rest day to earn money.
Hongrong knew that Lingling's family was short of money, and asked Lingling to find another job, she gave her sweater to Lingling, grateful for her care during this time, and the two women who were distressed by each other hugged each other and cried. The bustling and modern city of Beijing has many low-level groups as difficult to survive like Hongrong, and the city is not an unattainable grandeur, it has fireworks that settle to the ground, there are sorrows and joys, and there are life's hardships.
The most touching thing is that after Hongrong carried the child to work, Lingling, who was already short of money, bought a chicken stew on the stove before leaving. Hongrong looked at the pot of chicken soup after work, warm to the point of tears. Hongrong's gentleness and forbearance, Lingling's deep affection, the unique "stupidity" of the people of that era, the mutual help and mutual love of the neighbors in the hutongs, but also let people see the "Chinese warmth" precipitated in the city life under the cold appearance of the city.
Third, the third employer, Zhou Jia, brought Lingling's spiritual level of sublimation
Grandpa Zhou is a retired veteran cadre, the generation that once fought bloody battles for the motherland. He and Grandma Zhou both have the gentle introvertedness accumulated by intellectuals over the years. He also loves Ling Ling like a junior. Granddaughter Xingxing is a typical urban youth chasing dreams, with her own clear planning and pursuit of love and career, which is in stark contrast to Xiao Juan, the first family material vanity.
In the Zhou family, Lingling felt the equal love of her family, and Grandma Zhou taught Lingling to write brushes every day, and set strict requirements on her. Grandpa Zhou returned from a trip to Huangshan and specially brought snacks from her hometown to Lingling. Before the Star Art Exam, he has always asked his grandfather to use the relationship to help her open the door, and maybe a phone call can change the fate of her granddaughter, but this principled old man opposes all backdoor behavior and teaches The star to win the future through his own ability.
But because others have gone, the stars ultimately failed to do so. The influence of family education cultivated a positive attitude of the stars, and she quickly adjusted her emotions, agreed to the employment of the neighborhood committee, and became the manager of the state-run hotel, which made the business operation flourish. Xingxing has the unique vigor and enthusiasm of the youth of the 80s, and has ideals, feelings and hard work.
Lingling in the Zhou family, not only in the cultural literacy has made progress, refined cooking, but also broadened her thinking and horizons, as her brother quit gambling to run a farm to make a profit, her work in Beijing is no longer the main supply of the family economy, Lingling also began to think about her own life plan...
Lingling has all the beautiful qualities of a rural girl, diligent and kind, honest and simple. But growing up in the context of rural patriarchy, the lack of culture and education makes her lack of self-attention, complete sacrifice of the family's sense of autonomy, and glimpse the current situation of survival in this female group under the limitations of the times. Lingling has gradually completed the advancement of self-worth in her work, and the superior family environment of the Zhou family has further incubated the awakening of the spiritual level.
Anhui is the home of nannies that are famous in the 1980s and 1990s, especially Wuwei,000 nannies, which is also inseparable from historical reasons. At that time, there were many rural girls like Lingling who were integrated into the city, and there was no shortage of people who were cared for by their employers, regained educational opportunities, and completely changed their lives. However, the film aims to express Lingling's return, not the negative level of urban-rural duality, but through the baptism of the new era, reshape the independent personality, and contribute to the construction of the rural economy, under the ideal and struggle, the city and the countryside are equal.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > film presents a vivid picture of urban life in the 80s, condensing the rich information of the times</h1>
Compared with the narrative context of the film, I personally feel that what is more precious is the image rich in the characteristics of the times, which freezes the time and allows us to see the unique urban and humanistic style of Beijing more than thirty years ago. The flowing streetscape of old Beijing, the architectural characteristics of all classes of residence, the atmosphere of life with the imprint of the times, the Forbidden City, Beihai, the Great Wall, subway stations, bus interchanges, bell tower compounds... Audiences who have not experienced the 1980s can also feel the steaming and vitality that spans the length of time.
My personal understanding of the 1980s comes from literary works, and I feel that it was a beautiful and ideal era. The rise of the party and the controversy of a hundred schools of thought are a key transition in the process of China's modernization. Most of the more influential writers in modern and modern times rose in the 1980s, and poetry and literature even belonged to the masses, rather than to the current qu gao and widow. For example, in the play, Hongrong's husband, a worker who was discovered by the magazine because he loved literature, lamented that although the material was not rich in the 80s, the ideal had a hot place to go and respond.
The film has a pure and soothing rhythm, the shots are plain, and there is no showmanship shooting method, but it has the power to touch people's hearts. As a nanny, Lingling is not ashamed of her professional nature, but self-respect and self-love, and treats her work without humility. The aunt has no help and care for the hometown Lingling, Lingling's brother lacks money to start a business, and the little sister who is also a nanny has no money but generously donates.
Aspiring young people like Dali and Xingxing have firm spiritual pursuits and self-discipline, and that kind of positivity is that there is fire in the heart and light in the eyes. The people in the hutong compound enjoyed a pot of chrysanthemums, and Hongrong's enthusiastic neighbors took the initiative to help her take care of the children. The old cadre Grandpa Zhou is honest and upright, and the old artists like Grandma Zhou are humble and peaceful. Knowledge is highly respected, human feelings are above interests, and spirit is more abundant than material, so it is no wonder that such an 80s will be collectively remembered by generations of people who have experienced it.
The end of the film is somewhat deliberately idealized, Lingling's brother from addicted to gambling to practical entrepreneurship, but also from the side of the reform and opening up, the process of rural youth from chaos to awakening in the spiritual aspect, but also the transformation of the traditional rural social structure and economic structure. The development of the rural economy has made the rural people like Lingling who went out come back, and the first restaurant was opened in the town, and Lingling, who has "seen the world", was invited to go back to work as a cook. Xingxing accompanied Lingling on the train back to her hometown, and she set her sights on cheaper, green vegetables, meat and poultry in the countryside, ready to cooperate with Lingling on the supply of goods.
Xingxing and Lingling, two girls from the city and the countryside respectively, represent a group of young women, who also benefit from the dividends of the times, are self-reliant, and have their own life pursuit and value realization. To measure the progress of civilization in a society is the complete independence of women from economic to spiritual. From this point of view, "The Girl from the Huangshan Mountains" is a sincere acura of the times.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
It is worth mentioning that the film's vision and imagination of the future are basically realized now. Xingxing mentioned that after the rural people are rich, they will travel to the city, and even go abroad, And China's earliest outbound travel was in 1983, but in just over thirty years, the ideal has long been illuminated into reality. In 1984, shanghai only had private telephones installed, and in 1988, the first high-speed "Hujia Expressway" was completed and passed...
Everything we have so easily now has gone through too grand a thrill, and the times have experienced far more than we think.
Suddenly thinking of a sentence written by Dickens in "A Tale of Two Cities": "This is the best era, this is the worst era", when we suddenly begin to miss the lost era, it means that we have lost some precious things, such as the simplicity and innocence brought to me by a little nanny in "The Girl from Huangshan".
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