Road movies are a special category of movies that use journeys to reflect life, just like a saying: body and mind always have one to be on the road. Road movies capture this core. People and cars, roads and scenery, the story always takes place in the next second, which is the meaning of the journey and the highlight of the movie. Today we want to talk about a niche rural road movie "Passing Zhaoguan", released on May 20, 2019, which is a rare domestic film about the love of grandfather and grandson.
The historical "Passing Zhaoguan" tells the story of Wu Zixu, a Chu man, who was sad and worried about Wu Zixu's white head overnight. The movie "Passing Zhaoguan" tells the story of an old man in Henan.
In Henan, Li Fuchang, an old man of 77, made a bold decision to satisfy his grandson Ning Ning's desire to "travel", and he planned to take his grandson on a tricycle by car, from Zhoukou, the easternmost section of Henan, to Sanmenxia, the westernmost part of Henan, where he would visit a former friend of his, a distance of 412 kilometers.
Is Sanmenxia fun? Is Sanmenxia far away? Old Li actually didn't know it himself. But for the sake of his grandson, he decided to try it, ate breakfast and set off.
Sure enough, before I left the village, the accident came.
Painstakingly thinking about learning from the experience, on the car repair booth on the side of the national highway, Old Li learned a lesson: electric vehicles are not good, you have to change the horsepower. So what car to change? On the same day, the grandfather and grandson returned home in a gray and slippery way. Ning Ning was full of displeasure, old Li looked up at the starry sky at a forty-five-degree angle, he made another decision, and the next day asked the dumb neighbor to borrow a fuel three-wheeled motorcycle. This car, the panoramic sunroof stepless shift, more space to control better, the power is more secure.
This trip is far away, the dumb neighbor is very worried, when smoking at the door, he wrote a line to tell Old Li: Be sure to pay attention to safety! Drove my car back by the way. Old Li replied that it was safe to rest assured. So the grandchildren set off for the second time.
At night, the grandfather and grandson slept in the tricycle, and on this night when the insects were singing and frogs, Lao Li told his grandson the allusion of "Passing Zhaoguan" and also told his own life story. It turned out that Old Li also suffered all kinds of hardships when he was young, and finally got through the difficulties with the help of friends, so he had his current family, so Old Li liked to use "passing Zhaoguan" to describe himself. In addition, Old Li is already over the age of ancient, so this journey is almost the last long-distance trip of his life.
So the rest of the story revolves around the trip. For example, they met a young man who was fishing. Young people are cheated of millions of dollars in business, he has a home and dare not return, so Old Li uses his own story to persuade young people: life is like fishing, if there are fish, slow fishing will always have gains. Don't you think this catches one?
Later, they met the truck driver who broke down, and the driver offered to drive Old Li's tricycle to buy parts, so that he and Ning Ning would wait on the side of the road, and Old Li agreed. Watching the stranger ride away from his car, Ning Ning asked a question from the soul:
Fortunately, the driver came back in a three-wheeler. In order to express his gratitude, he gave Old Li 50 yuan, and carried the three wheels to the truck, carrying the grandchildren for a ride. In this way, the driver's soul was also sublimated.
Later, the grandfather and grandson also met the "melon field watchman" who had his throat removed and could only rely on the machine to make a sound, and he told the grandfather: The road is wrong, stay and drink. Ning Ning looked at the strange old man with a look of fear on his face: Shouldn't we continue to hurry?
The grandchildren walked all the way. Old Li also finally met his old friend in the hospital in Sanmenxia, who he had not seen for many years, lying on the hospital bed and looking at Old Li with a serene face.
It turned out to be the wrong person. To the next bed old Li finally met his old friend, but unfortunately he was already terminally ill, two gray-haired old men clasped their hands, life is like this, when they saw each other again, it was such a desolate evening scene, and they couldn't help but sigh. Bidding farewell to the deceased, Old Li sat in his son's car and returned to his hometown, remember the dumb neighbor? He died. The family called him for a few days and no one answered, and when he came to the house, he found his body.
Life, old age, illness and death, this is the road that life will inevitably go. When the final journey comes, perhaps like the last stage of "Passing the Zhaoguan", the ending will be lonely, but the process must be satisfactory. To be fair, the story of the movie "Passing Zhaoguan" is somewhat bland, and the personalities of Lao Li and Ning Ning are somewhat thin, and it can only be said that this is a rural literary and art film full of idealism. However, yang Taiyi, the actor lao Li, is a farmer himself, he is 78 years old, this is the first time in his life to act in a movie, not only became the protagonist, but also won the best actor award at the Pingyao International Film Festival. Lao Yang can change from a farmer to an actor in his lifetime, and his life has completed such a transformation, is not it also a "Pass zhaoguan"?
In life, everyone has their own "Pass zhao guan", and it is difficult to close and close. Life is not so magnificent, most of the time like in the movie, quiet and peaceful. Telling a life and feeling a piece of warmth is also the goodwill expressed by this movie. We felt it.