On December 8, at the award ceremony of the 2nd Hainan Island International Film Festival, director Wang Lina won the Best Director Award for her film "The First Parting". This is the 69th Berlin International Film Festival "Best Film in the New Generation Children's Unit", "New Generation Children's Unit Jury Award", the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival "Best Film in the Asian Future Unit", the 32nd China Film Golden Rooster Awards "Best Supporting Actress (Nominated)", "Best Directorial Debut (Nominated)", "Best Cinematography (Nominated)", the 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival "New Talent Film Competition Firebird Film (Chinese) Award"; the 13th First Youth Film Festival "Best Feature Film (Nominated)" and many other awards after another award.
Lina Wang
For a young female director, Wang Lina has achieved very high achievements and recognition with only one debut, and it is clear that her "First Parting" is very discussative. Below, sister pickpocket will talk to you about this film that has just won the "Golden Coconut Award" best director at the 2nd Hainan Island International Film Festival.
- "The First Parting"!
"The First Parting" is a film directed by Lina Wang and starring Isa Yasen and KailiBinur Rehemituli. The film takes the life of Xinjiang boy Isa as a clue, telling the childhood story of him and Kelly Binur, a good friend of Qingmei Bamboo Horse, and the family relationship of his mother who suffers from diseases.
The American anthropologist Morgan once wrote in "Ancient Society": "The Tarim River Basin is the cradle of world civilization, and if anyone finds the golden key left by the old man in Taklamakan, the door of world culture will be opened." Arnold Toynbee also said, "If life could come again, I would like to be born in the Tarim Basin, because the four great civilizations meet here." ”
Director Wang Lina was born in the hinterland of Taklamakan and the Shaya of Xinjiang in the Tarim Basin.
I believe the director made this film with luck and excitement – the place where she was born and raised not only provided her with inspiration, but also a source of creation!
She wants to show the relationship between people and people, people and society, people and nature, people and heaven and earth, and people and all things in this land through movies!
In what way?
Writing a script—that's just a woven story; hiring some professional actors—that's just the emotion that was deliberately expressed.
So, even the script does not need to be written, how it is itself, I will shoot; simply, the actors do not need to be invited, how they live, I will shoot it like this.
Parting and reunion are the norms of life; and joy and sorrow are the common emotions of life.
Many critics simply defined the film as "an imitation of Iranian director Abbas", or associated with the work of Asha Farhati based on the title. Sister Pickpocket feels that this is unfair to the film, the director, and the creators!
The story is set in Shaya County, Aksu Region, Xinjiang, in the Taklamakan Desert, facing the Tarim River. The cotton forest and greenery of the agricultural reclamation area are lined with trees, and the water of the Tarim River flows freely; the Gobi poplars in the vicinity are few, the yellow sand is full of sky, and the wind of Taklamakan blows freely...
Camel bells sound from the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert; boats made of poplar wood sail on the Tarim River; cotton plucked by the old people in the agricultural reclamation areas travels all over the world with trains and planes...
This thick history, this vibrant life, this contrast between yellow and green, this consideration of life and death, the collision of local civilization and modern civilization... Who will witness it?
Is it the old man? Is it the poplar that can survive for a hundred years? Is it the Tarim River that has flowed for thousands of years? ......
Neither.
It's a movie!
There are three partings on the surface of the movie: 1. The boy leaves his mother; 2. The girl leaves his hometown; 3. The lamb leaves his master.
Simply put, it's about family, friendship, and growth.
The boy leaves his mother, who is unable to take care of herself because of her old age and has to be sent to a nursing home;
The girl left her hometown, because her Chinese was not good, she wanted to study in a place with a better level of education;
The lamb left its owner only because it was lost.
The mother went to the nursing home, has better medical conditions, and has more professional care;
Girls go to new schools, have better teachers and a better learning environment;
The lamb went to a new place and was free...
But after all, this is only interpreted from the perspective of an adult, if you go up, it will not become a boy leaving his mother - the aging problem; the girl leaving his hometown - education problem; the lamb leaving the owner - cultural identity problem.
Interpreting this movie from this perspective makes you feel afraid to think about it.
Parting in the concept of adulthood has been a very heavy topic since ancient times - amorous parting from ancient times! However, from the child's point of view, it is not.
The boy's mother is going to the nursing home, and although the child is reluctant to give up, he knows that there must be a reason for his mother to do that; the girl wants to study at the new school because she has scored 20 points in the Chinese test, and although the boy is reluctant to read, he knows that "if he speaks Chinese well, he can become a cadre"; the lamb leaves the child, and although the child does not give up, he knows that the lamb may have gone to a better place.
In the eyes of adults, family, friendship, and growth are very serious problems, but in the eyes of children, they are full of warmth.
Adults habitually contrast simplicity with civilization, modernity with tradition, but in the minds of children, they are impure because they are innocent in their perception of the world.
Therefore, when they walk on the desert of Tala magan, shuttle through the rows of poplar forests, and stand in the cotton fields of the harvest, the history and culture, the division of reality, and the pressure of survival and life in the eyes of adults are both incomprehensible and unwilling to understand.
- Actually, what is it for children to understand them?
In short, "The First Parting" is a pure documentary film about three children and two families. The director completed the film purely from a child's point of view, without any emotional interference, and only post-editing.
It was a dream of hers, or her original intention.
Before the first parting, on the one hand, there was a soft and beautiful countryside, and on the other hand, there was a serious and bitter campus.
After the first parting, the dream woke up, they grew up, and we grew up!
"The First Parting" went to Berlin, Tokyo, and then to Shanghai and Hainan Island.
Can it still go back to that little village?
After writing this article, I found out that some movies do not do evaluation, in fact, it is the best evaluation!
I am a pickpocket sister outside the circle, like me please pay attention to me!