How to evaluate the doctor-patient documentary Human Life?

Last year, a documentary about the doctor-patient relationship in China, Human Life, premiered in China, which immediately attracted widespread attention. The number of related news hits on the whole network exceeded 55 million, and the score was as high as 9.6/ 10 on the authoritative film review website Douban.

Seen "the world on earth", the audience's evaluation of it is mostly like this:

Now, this sensational medical documentary, which is different from the traditional routine, will soon land on American Chinese TV and be broadcast in two versions on our Chinese and English channels. The English version was first published.

Broadcast time:

English channel: from April 14, broadcast at 9: 00 every Friday night.

Chinese channel: from April 16, broadcast at 9: 00 pm every Sunday.

Unlike the "invincible angel in white" depicted in most film and television works, "Life on Earth" is not a story of a doctor "rejuvenating" and saving patients' lives again and again.

In human life, doctors show the same struggle and powerlessness as ordinary people in the face of death.

At the beginning, this documentary nakedly put a failed medical case before our eyes:

Just like the rescue process on the battlefield,

Two fresh lives have not been saved after their best efforts,

A young doctor who fought on the operating table for 48 hours was finally strangled by the patient's family and was questioned.

However, when I first thought that facing a "death" was the worst situation, the lens of "human life" gave me a real "blow"-

Zhang Lijun, a 26-year-old newlywed mother who was pregnant for five months, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

When the scene of "abandoning adults to protect children" that we have only seen in film and television dramas is actually staged in the real life of a newly married couple, Zhang Lijun and her family let us see how an "unlucky" family finally chose to face up to it after a painful struggle, and the helplessness behind it.

Seeing this, you may ask, how did such a documentary full of "imperfection" and depression cause a "phenomenal" movie-watching craze and get such great praise?

Some people may say that it may be because of "mass production, large-scale, large-scale promotion"?

In fact, there are only 50 creative teams in the world, divided into 8 groups. Taking the hospital as the shooting origin, through documentary tracking shooting, the real scene that the general audience can't see in the hospital is captured.

Photographers need to really enter, but don't interfere with the photographer's life, and such shooting requirements are very difficult for shooting "unknown real scenes in hospitals".

When there is an emergency, the photographer should not only get in the way, but also accurately capture what happened at the first time. For example, before entering the operating room, photographers need to clean the machine first.

Disinfect the machine so as not to hinder the progress and effect of the operation.

Keep shooting even if there is blood all over the operation.

So, what's so good about such a documentary with a small production scale and no preset characters and storylines? Why do you want to watch Life on Earth?

Perhaps the success of "Life on Earth" lies in bravely presenting the "imperfection" of medicine and human nature-through the true record restoration of the lens of "Life on Earth", we can see the warmth and coldness of human feelings behind medical events and various states in the world. In the face of illness and death, people's anxiety, anxiety, forbearance, disappointment, unwillingness, grief, prayer and joy are the most real emotional expressions.

Through the "bloody" healing process on the operating table, what we see is actually a flesh-and-blood story about people outside the operating room, so we have more understanding and less blame for the "omnipotent" medical staff.

The story of every little person in the world on earth is actually a portrayal of our real life-imperfect but true.