The film critic told them that I went by white crane

"Tell Them I Went with the White Crane"

---- film reviews

Celebrating Meaninglessness writes, "Your gender is not chosen by yourself, but the color of your eyes, the century you live in." Your country, your mother, everything that matters is not your own choice. A person has rights only in matters of insignificance. ”

Noncommittal. However, in the traditional Chinese concept, there is also a phrase such as "death and life are also big". Yes, we still have the right to choose to live or die, we still have to choose how to live and how to die.

This movie tells the story of an old man who chooses to die.

Before watching it, I thought it was a big stuffy film, and I was even ready to fall asleep. Unexpectedly, I was still facing the screen until the end of the ending song.

Well, it is very responsible to say that this film you can sleep with confidence and wake up with surprises.

The long shots full of aura are stunned to capture the feeling of the great northwest as a smoky water town; the melodious long tone pulls the sunset infinitely long; the rich vernacular dialect and bright tones slightly fill the heavy theme; the earth that breathes all year round hints at the final destination...

At the beginning of the movie, the old man depicts the crane on the coffin. In traditional culture, there is a saying that the crane goes west, but with the implementation of the cremation policy in the village, the coffin is rarely used.

Old people don't want to be cremated. This kind of thinking comes from the traditional concept, from the educational environment since childhood, and also from the deep sense of belonging to the land in the depths of the elderly.

Some elderly people in the village secretly buried them in order not to be cremated. The screams were no longer blown, and the ceremonies were no longer done, for fear of being heard and being dragged to the crematorium. As a result, in the great harvest of autumn, the grave bag was found and was to be cremated...

This is when the mandatory cremation policy is less cute. Policy is a good policy, but improper means of implementation will always encounter emotional obstacles.

The old man was afraid, and the sons and daughters decided to wait for the old man to die and go to the cremation. So the old man childishly blocked the white smoke in the house several times with straw, even if the house was smoky and burning. Just because the white smoke of this chimney is the same as that of the crematorium, the old man is afraid that after death, there will be nothing left, only turned into green smoke and scattered. At this time, the old man's idea of not wanting to be cremated slowly took root in his heart and became an obsession with the crane.

It is said that when a person dies and is buried in the soil, the crane will carry the person to heaven.

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"Grandpa, you can't bury it anymore, and if you bury it again, you really can't breathe."

"Bury it again, and when you go back, tell them, I'll take the white crane and leave."

- Accompanied by the cheerful tune of the Past Life Mantra, the old man has been buried on the earth ever since. It is because the way of death is what you want, so you will be so at ease.