What about the confusion of idealism?

In this age of moral and value confusion, fast food is prevalent. Everything is required to be fast and efficient. Documentaries are not immune to this problem. More and more documentaries are becoming quick-fix, curious, and even utilitarian. Ogawa is the father of Asian documentaries. He has always used his actions to prove his love for documentaries. In "The Confusion of Idealism", Peng Xiaolian describes her understanding and understanding of Ogawa from her own point of view, and also raises her own confusions. However, these confusions were not resolved in the end. Perhaps even those who work with Ogawa have a hard time explaining why they persisted so much. When I read this book again, I had a completely different feeling. When I read it for the first time, I was filled with the dedication and utopian communist life that Ogawa showed when making documentaries. So after reading it, I feel like this is what a real documentary should be like. But if you look again, you can notice what Peng Xiaolian feels. A very pragmatic classmate said to me after reading this book: "She thinks Xiaochuan and others are crazy." This is true. Japan at that time was very much like China after the reform and opening up. The whole country was developing its economy, but they, a group of young and middle-aged social backbones, went to the poorest place in Japan: Yamagata. And he stayed there for more than ten years. Ogawa and his colleagues live together, they all make movies together, they work in the fields together, and all their money is managed in a unified way. In such a system, selfish desires cannot be satisfied. Therefore, some people will choose to leave, and the reason for leaving may not only be due to the hard work of life, but perhaps the system is a more important influencing factor. This was the confusion that Peng Xiaolian mentioned first in the book. She said: "When the American director Barbara went to interview the crew members who had worked with Ogawa and filmed the movie with great reverence, she was shocked. Some people gave very sharp criticism to Ogawa, and his pursuit of "communist ideals" was completely denied. "So after Ogawa's death, his work team quickly collapsed, and everyone began to face more problems. Real survival issues, lost youth and energy can no longer be restored. The lives of many people today are probably unsatisfactory. Jian Jiao: The assistant director of Ogawa's crew at the time, and also responsible for the editing of the film. When Peng Xiaolian went to Japan to complete Ogawa's posthumous work "A Mountain Full of Tomatoes", Mikkaku served as her assistant and gave her a lot of help. His current job is to draw patterns on human bodies for tattooing. Even though Ogawa's work is quite controversial, we cannot ignore the dazzling light in their documentaries and Ogawa's huge contribution to Asian documentaries. Wu Wenguang uses the term "presence" to summarize Ogawa's documentaries. "Presence" means witnessing. The recorder and the event are at the same time, or even involved. It is completely different from "spectating". Therefore, he will experience it personally during the filming of every documentary. In the early days, in order to show the struggle between farmers to protect their land and the government, he would go to the scene of the struggle with the farmers without zooming in, and use the camera to closely follow the changes in the event. He was also hurt by this. Later, when filming anthropological documentaries such as "Heart of Rice", he would also conduct practical experiments to study the fertilization and maturation process of rice. In order to study the factors that affect the growth of rice, he also specially produced wind direction cloud maps. Now it seems that these are unimaginable. But Ogawa really did this for 7 or 8 years. Ogawa also spent a lot of time studying technical issues. When filming "Heart of Rice", they replaced the ordinary lens on the camera with a microscope and used it to photograph the internal structure of rice. When photographing people, Ogawa sometimes chooses not to use the lens. As the scene continues to shrink, the shooting after removing the lens is more like the camera leading people into the protagonist's heart or even his mind. Think about it this way, a group of like-minded people can come together. ***Study new photography techniques together, ***shoot your favorite subjects together, you can temporarily stay away from society and reality. Simply doing something for your own ideals is also a very happy and happy thing. Ogawa once said, "Before "overwintering", the camera never stepped out of the door. Because we have not gained everyone's trust. It was not until the winter began that we finally walked out of the door. It is not so easy to open the door of the human heart. TV The short film report has a time limit, which is why it becomes so weird. Because it costs a lot of money, they don't make documentaries. They have to wait and wait. This kind of waiting is very painful, but it has to be done. Wait, because we are talking to people who are burdened with so many burdens in life. Just relying on theory will not work, and some human loveliness is also needed." This is a director who respects the interviewees and a documentary with professional ethics. who. He will not hurt others because of the needs of the film. He will just wait patiently, waiting for others to feel relieved and tell him his story quietly. And this actually has nothing to do with making a movie, it's just a matter of morality. When too many values ??and practices around us are being subverted, we need to know what is right. Just like, it is impossible for us to make a documentary like Ogawa, but at least we have to know that the real master achieved such great achievements after putting in countless energy and life feelings. And such records are valuable and weighty in themselves.