The images on the screen are very similar to a realistic narrative style, consisting of loose slices of life, but they are also a complete day.
After the opening scene, she returned to the living room of the house. Rui was giving medicine to a middle-aged and elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair by the fire. The woman had deep wrinkles on her face, messy long brown hair, unfocused eyes, and a dull look. Mentally disturbed, she swallowed the pills without saying a word.
The camera simultaneously intercuts with Sonny and Harold, who are sitting on the sofa facing the TV, eating cornmeal, and watching some morning drama on the public channel on the old TV set with the antenna. Suddenly, the signal is not good, and the screen The image blurred, and Sonny said "Please!" a little irritably. He got up, walked over, and slapped the left side of the TV, making a banging sound.
"Try knocking on the back!" Harold said.
"Don't bother, finish eating quickly, the school bus is coming." Rui took a comb to comb her mother's hair, but Sonny was still patting it. Harold stood up to help, Rui said louder: "Aren't you hungry? Can you? Please finish his breakfast? He¡¯s going to miss the train! Do you understand?¡±
Harold sat back and Sonny stopped.
Off-screen, the audience knows more about the situation. In ordinary people's perception, this is definitely a bad family. It is one thing for the mother to be mentally disturbed, but it is another thing to be quarrelsome about everything; Rui is a A terrible sister, almost every sentence is a curse word, and does not create any "family warmth", on the contrary.
However, the audience gradually understood why.
"Compared to the previous scene, the two brothers seem to be becoming more and more disobedient, and Rui is losing her support of them. Although she was rude, she cared deeply about going to school and knew that was the most important thing. But what about herself? She looked about 16 or 17 years old.
The whole scene, in the panoramic shot, the three siblings are walking on the rugged mountain road, and she is wearing an old black coat over her dress. There is no beautiful scenery around, some are just desolate and broken, the trees have no leaves, the withered brown weeds on the roadside are half as tall as a person, and there are no vehicles or people in sight.
The camera cuts to a wide angle shot from the mountain. There is a yellow school bus parked in a small open space at the end of the mountain road on the right side of the frame.
"Try not to fight." Rui's voiceover pulled the camera back, and she said to her two brothers: "But if one of you is beaten, you'd better both bleed." Hadro on the left and Hadro on the right Sonny nodded, but Rui made no intimate gestures, "Okay."
The atmosphere in the movie theater is getting colder and colder. Rui is working hard to protect, lead and educate them, but what kind of education is she providing?
Correct? Still wrong?
The camera did not stop. Inside the school bus, the three siblings got on to the school bus one after another. There were more than a dozen children of different sizes sitting in the bus. Their expressions were all unfriendly, and there was a lot of noise in the background. The two brothers walked to the back of the car, and Rui stood by the door holding the handle.
The driver was an old man with middle baldness and white hair who was as fat as a pile of meat. When he saw Rui, he shouted happily: "Rui, are you going back to school?"
"No, just a ride." Rui was not angry.
The door of the school bus was closed, and the driver said happily: "You haven't been here for a long time, I missed you."
In the background sound that sounded like a quarrel, Rui looked at the driver expressionlessly and said, "If you want to fuck me, go fuck yourself."
"I'm no longer good at that job." The driver said with a chuckle, as the school bus drove away in a bumpy way, "Don't always make fun of me."
"Bullshit," Rui said.
Regarding what is happening on the screen, saying this in front of a car full of children, the camera does not pay attention to it, does not exaggerate it, and does not have any emotional fluctuations. As usual, the children continued to make noise, Rui continued to stand there, and the driver continued to drive.
No one thought there was a problem, as if this was the most normal situation, as if this was the original appearance of the school bus.
But the audience, especially the parents, felt uneasy. Some of the rich children present frowned and frowned. Even for a public school, isn¡¯t this too bad? Is it real or dramatized? Growing up in such an environment I can't really blame Rui for her lack of education.
The scene has all reached the side gate of the school. It is a long shot. The two school buildings in the background are like simple large factories. Rui is walking with her hands in her pockets. The camera follows her from left to right, with a slight movement like walking. Shake. Three boys leaning against a yellow pickup truck entered the picture. They were all smoking, and one of them shouted: "Hey! Rui, want a shot?"
Rui walked straight past, as if she didn¡¯t hear him at all. During the quick cut, someone was fighting not far away. A thin boy was lying on the muddy ground being beaten by a group of boys. There were several girls with heavy makeup around him who were either smoking or watching;Not far away, a pair of students and a man were making out next to a white pickup truck. The boy was touching the girl's breasts with one hand, lifting his hand up and inserting it into her skirt to move it.
The camera was still calm and cold, and there were no background sounds such as screams or moans. There was only the sound of Rui's heavy footsteps. Neither she nor anyone else made a fuss. She didn't look at it, just like the most ordinary passers-by. When she saw a group of five pregnant girls walking towards them carrying schoolbags, her eyes froze.
"Rui." "Come back to play?" they all said hello.
"Hey, just on my way." Rui responded, a little confused: "Abby, are you pregnant too?" The camera focused on a blond girl, who touched her slightly bulging belly with a forced smile. Another red-haired girl said: "It's hard for her, she doesn't know who the father is." The girls all smiled silently, Rui also showed a half-smile, and another brown-haired girl said: "The last thing It's a good one, so you don't have to worry about daddy." Abby suddenly said: "If it's a girl, I'll throw it away."
"Let's go." Rui had no attitude towards this and continued to move forward. When young pregnant girls go to school, it is so natural.
There are no teachers to be seen. Except for the vulgar driver, no school staff appears on the screen. There are only bastard students smoking, fighting, making love, and early pregnancy It seems that the school is not an ivory tower to grow oneself, but an ivory tower. A melting pot to destroy yourself and others.
??Can the audience still not understand? This girl named Rui is full of swear words, but compared to others in the film, it doesn't seem to be a big deal. In a place like this, her education for her two younger brothers seems to be a necessity? One correct?
The men are just busy fucking like savages, and the women are just busy being fucked like savages. It¡¯s all bullshit, this kind of place.
It¡¯s only been a few minutes since we watched the movie, and a lot of people in the media were surprised!
Every segment of the cold video tramples on conventions, or defies the norms of political correctness, including independent literary and artistic films. Each of these topics is so sensitive that it would be impossible to make a movie about it. They are displayed there, as if There is an unknown storm brewing.
And film creators such as Cahill and Ma Ling somewhat lamented, viy is viy, what a big heart! Adapting this story in this way is the most difficult path.
The original work of w¡¯sb could have been made into a simple, direct, and effective feminist story, but it was not made like this.
In this opening paragraph, Rui has not been unfairly harmed. It is not that the school is good and the students have hope. It is just that Rui dropped out of school because of her family. No, in this kind of school, her dropping out of school is nothing, and even her family's plight is nothing. Those children on the school bus, these people in the school, and their cousins ??all suffer from the same environmental plight?
The focus of the movie seems not to be a family, but a region, but this is a feminist story about a young hero protecting her family, isn¡¯t it?
The problem is that this family is not cute, warm or beautiful at all. It does not have one or two cute dogs or a little sister with a bright smile. The problem is that this girl is not cute at all. She has not been provided with a correct education and has not been treated unfairly. Harm, kindness, ability, etc. do not count.
Looking at a very reasonable and rough family, a pair of brothers who are like wolf and tiger cubs, and a girl who swears at every turn, they are simply a bunch of annoying people.
When a crisis arises and a girl like this wants to protect such a family, will the audience understand and care? Can it resonate?
It was quiet in the Brown Bear Cinema. The audience all saw that they were in a simple small supermarket. Rui was walking between two shelves full of food. Her eyes were paying attention to the left and right, and suddenly she reached out and took a bag of small snacks from the shelf on the right. He stuffed the packaged flour into his black coat from the bottom of his clothes, hugged it with his arms around his chest, and walked away as if nothing had happened.
Regardless of whether the supermarket staff saw it or not, everyone outside the screen saw that Rui was stealing. However, just like the plainness of the shots and the silence of the soundtrack, the atmosphere since the opening has already made people feel: so what? Otherwise, what else could she do?
Suddenly, before Rui walked out of the picture frame from below, she turned back, took out the bag of flour and put it back on the shelf. She paused and stared for a few seconds before turning and leaving.
Rui¡¯s calmness lets the audience know that there is no danger of being caught, this is her wishshe doesn¡¯t want to do it. Maybe things weren't bad enough to steal, or maybe her backbone won out in this struggle. What about next time? There is always a next time in this environment.
The brothers are getting bad, and so is she.
oh! Excellent story strategy. Cahill, Ma Ling and others saw that Ye Wei used the point of "persistence-giving up persistence" to make the audience resonate and care.
When Rui told Harold, "Never ask for an answer.""Something", when Rui puts back the undeserved flour, she has the persistence of an unconventional hero, and it is a valuable persistence. Not all rights and wrongs in the real world can be clearly explained. In a poor and dangerous place, she still has her own faith and works hard to educate her two younger brothers.
In a way that she can think of, understand, and be able to do.
Why isn¡¯t she kind? Why isn't this family warm? People wanted Rui to succeed, whether she was considered a "good girl" or not.
In the heavier atmosphere caused by this resonance and concern, the screen returned to the dilapidated mountain house. In the small bathroom, Rui, who was no longer wearing a coat, was washing her mother's hair. Neither of them spoke; the scene Everything, Rui is drying clothes on the hillside behind the house, and the clothes hanging on the clothesline are old clothes; everything in the scene, Rui is sitting on the porch in front of the house, gnawing on a piece of moldy black bread, and turning the pages. Looking at a recruitment poster, he looked thoughtful and suddenly spat a mouthful of bread crumbs.
Rui seemed to want to enlist in the army, but her demeanor and movements showed that she wanted to leave here out of practical considerations.
¡°Although joining the army is a symbolic masculinity, and she is wearing a skirt, that should be an obsession, but after joining the army, she can escape from this ghost place, say goodbye to this home, think about her own affairs, and have her own affairs
Bang bang sound! Sawdust was flying everywhere, and Rui was chopping firewood at the end of the wood pile. The hem of her dress was rolled up and tied around her waist in her jeans. Her movements of chopping wood with an ax were skillful and powerful, short and fast. Compared to the morning, there was a pile of firewood neatly stacked behind the pile head that could accommodate people.
After splitting another piece of wood, Rui breathed heavily, coughed and spit on the ground, threw away the ax, and sat down on the woodpile as if finished, with his legs spread on both sides, and his feet in black boots were steady. Firmly rooted to the ground, too rough to be a girl.
But she looked ahead quietly.
At this time, a series of empty landscape shots appeared on the screen, which seemed to be Rui¡¯s subjective perspective:
She saw the open sky dyed red by the sunset, and a group of unknown birds flying by; she saw the dead forest in the distance, and the bleak trees seemed a little soft at this time, which must be the birds' nest; she saw maybe Imagine a stream in the forest. The water is flowing slowly, quietly filling your heart.
When the camera shot towards Rui again, she was seen holding the firewood pile with both hands, her legs together, her body leaning back as if she was about to lie down, and her slightly raised face suddenly looked beautiful.
At this moment, no matter what Rui was thinking about, her soul calmed down. She was imagining, longing for, yearning for, and enjoying the tranquility that existed in the future.
The camera was so still and there was no sound. The audience followed Rui in silence. Those beautiful scenery allowed people to see another side of this country girl. In fact, as long as there is a chance, she can also understand the things that city people do. Bullshit.
That¡¯s what she wants, and that¡¯s why she¡¯s so persistent.
At this time, all of this is very quiet and beautiful.
Suddenly, she was interrupted by the sound of cars approaching from the distant mountain road. Rui came back to her senses, stood up and looked, but her look of anticipation immediately turned into eagerness! She ran. In the long shot, a police car was seen, and Sonny's head was sticking out of the back seat and looking out the window.
"Fuck you!" Rui yelled and rushed in front of the police car, almost stopping the car. Her demeanor and movements were full of aggression. She shouted: "They didn't do anything! They didn't do anything! They didn't do anything!" What do you guys want to do?"
At the same time, the rear doors on both sides of the police car opened, and Sonny and Harold got out of the car. They were still smiling, but Rui glanced at them, and then they became sullen and stood still.
"Baby girl, I just took them all the way from the school bus stop." A middle-aged police officer said as he walked out of the front door of the bus. He was as tall as average, with a serious expression, and a pistol holster clearly stuck to his waist. . He looked around, and the camera panned. Over there, the blond Milton and several other men were looking at him with visible hostility.
When he heard what was going on, Rui's panic disappeared, and he looked cold and stinky again, and said to the two brothers: "If I see you riding in a car again, you will just wait to be slaughtered and fed to pigs. "The two brothers nodded quickly, and Rui said: "Go and move the firewood to the kitchen right away!" They ran away.
¡°I was going to come too,¡± the police officer said.
"What's wrong with him?" Rui asked.
The camera shows the two people's backs walking towards the wooden house one after another. The police officer is saying: "I have to say a few words to your mother." The two younger brothers carrying firewood saw their eldest sister standing on the porch, and the police officer walked away Enter the house. Diagonal medium shot, Rui is standing there, and the police officer's voiceover comes from inside the house: "Connie, how are you doing lately? Can I ask you something about Jesup?"
There was no response, Rui's face was expressionless.
????????????????????????????????????????? The police officer came out, and stood on the porch almost side by side with Rui, sighing, which seemed to be sad and pitiful. Rui said without looking at him: "Just tell me." The police officer asked: "You know that your father is on bail pending trial, right?"
"So what?" Rui asked.
¡°You know he made ice and spent several years in jail, right?¡± the police officer asked again. The camera panned again at the blond Milton and others over there. Some were smoking and others were looking at them. Rui's voiceover tone was calm: "That was the last time. You have to have evidence every time. This time you have no evidence."
"Listen," the police officer said, and the camera cut back to the porch, and he looked directly at Rui: "I've been driving on this bad road for two hours, and I'm not here to talk nonsense with you. Who doesn't live here for more than thirty miles? Drug dealer? He's in court next week, but it looks like I can't find Jesup."
"Maybe he saw you coming and hid." Rui's tone remained unchanged and continued to be hostile and sarcastic.
"Maybe. But this matter also has something to do with you. He has mortgaged your house and forest land to borrow bail." The police officer said. Rui then looked at him seriously and frowned in confusion: "What?" The police officer put on the police hat he had taken off before and said, "Jesup has escorted everything out. If he doesn't appear in court, , According to the contract, this place will be taken away." Rui's expression changed, and the police officer paused and asked, "Do you have anywhere else to go?"
Rui¡¯s right hand was holding on to the porch guardrail, and she said in a daze, ¡°I will find him.¡±
"Girl, I've been looking for it, and" the police officer hesitated.
"I said, I will find him." Rui said again, even more decisively.
The blond Milton over there was about to come. The police officer seemed a little timid, so he said, "You must let me understand the seriousness of this matter." and walked away. The blond Milton also walked back, and they watched the officer get into the police car and drive away.
But Rui was still standing there, his eyes fixed, thinking about something.
Off the screen, the audience¡¯s previous questions were all clear. Things were just like this, cold and cruel. This girl, who was already overwhelmed by life, got nothing but a huge crisis. Is she going to find her father? How could she hold on to what she had to hold on to?
She cannot be found, otherwise she, her mother, and her two brothers will all fall into hell, like wild dogs, and she will never have a future of her own.
The film is only shown here for the first 10 minutes. According to the classical three-act structure, the first act ends.