The vast north

She lost three husbands.

At the beginning of the film, there was a mist in the air. Secondly, she walked through the jungle in the distance. She was paralyzed and full of stories from her childhood. Then I saw a little fox.

The fox is a mass of white, and there is no trace in the snow.

Sparse dwarf trees covered with snow in the dead of winter, simple villages and a few faces that deliberately avoid the camera are the beginning of this film's ignorant temperament.

Number two is not good at all, not even at all. Her three husbands died of unknown causes. She was regarded as unlucky and rejected by the whole village. She even had her house confiscated, so she had to spend the night with her deaf brother-in-law in the van.

Second, her life is bad, but she looks good. There are many people in the village who covet her.

She was defiled by her neighbor's old tofu.

She was coveted by the village chief.

Robbed by an old classmate

Be spurned by women in the same village.

If this film only tells the tragic life of a widow, it is a vulgar story, and the screenwriter is very original, and the fox in the snow is a protagonist.

Second, the death of three husbands is an ominous waste. She was homeless and bullied by her fellow villagers. Maybe she should return to the dust. But when she saw a fox become a child, she practiced deification and became a fairy in the catastrophe.

The absurd story begins. Second, what a good mouth says must be true, and it can even kill people and predict the future.

The barren land in the north, the isolated barren land, and the looming shaman ghosts and gods constitute the surprising grotesque plot in this film.

The heroine starring Wang Erhao is Tian Tian, a native of Jinan, Shandong Province, who just graduated from Beijing Film Academy. The Wide North is her first film, and the other roles are not played by professional actors.

Director Cai is also a novice. He studied advertising in college, worked as a director in the legal column of CCTV for a period of time, and later resigned from CCTV for his movie dream. According to him, the extremely realistic description of rural life in the north comes from his memories of growing up, and he has a special liking for absurdity.

The story of "North" is unbridled. Under the shadow of the pale light in the north, there are left-behind children, sexual assault, selling girls, poaching wild animals, and gray stories of frying mountains and panning for gold.

There is no moving lens, they are all shot from a fixed angle of view, and basically all black and white lenses are used.

Occasionally use color lenses to highlight the mysterious atmosphere.

No.2 is a fairy, at least that's what the deaf grandpa four of the village chief said. He said that No.2 was a fairy who came to earth for nine days, and he also gave No.2 an aunt's shaman costume.

Number two put it on and danced in the snow. Maybe this is the brightest shot in the movie.

After becoming an immortal, Wang Erhao sat in the middle of the kang. Behind her is a circle of colored light, like a stained glass window in a church. The rest are surrounded by black and white tones, which is quite a pilgrimage.

The 4:3 freeze frame makes the film look like a frame-by-frame photographic work.

Her niece Zhao Di was abused by her parents. She was unfair to Zhao Di, so she told her mother that if Zhao Di was treated well, she could give her a new baby. She boiled water and let her man put it on the beam for 7749 days.

She also saved her old classmates who coveted her. She told the debt collector to go west 1500 steps and not to look back, saying that this would save his life.

She also knows a well in the village. There are two ghosts in the well. One is her man. Another junior high school student was sexually assaulted and pregnant.

In the Volga River basin, East Siberia and West Siberia. Nuzhen, the ancestor of Manchu, created the Shaman God and worshipped the northern land with animism.

Shamanism has been lurking in the cultures of Russia, Oroqen and Jurchen until now.

The shaman who dances to the sky, with the drums and dance steps, melts into nature and gets God's guidance on the past and the future from the root of all souls.

God is the master of mankind, and nature is the incarnation of God. People fear the God of nature, so that the trinity of God, nature and man is an ideal world. Shaman is the coordinator of the three. A balanced priest.

This balance actually comes from faith, and faith comes from people's hearts. In fact, it is a fragile thing.

Second, good magic can reach the sky, but it has nothing to do with this village.

Zhao Di's mother gave birth to a boy, but Zhao Di was sold to an unknown place. The village chief's uncle was paralyzed by her, but he fell to his death under the room because he couldn't spare his hands and feet. His old classmates gave up the dream of getting rich, but he accidentally found gold nuggets underground, and then the whole village became red-eyed and crazy.

In the van, every message in her pager is an urgent message to Daxian for help.

She is still trying to maintain, counting Sunday, and trying to protect a life in all her ways.

However, providence is hard to violate, and divine power is useless. The fox was killed by poachers. The impatient villagers didn't listen to her advice and went up the mountain to blow up the mine. As a result, everyone was trapped in the collapsed mine. Even her brother-in-law's stone was killed by poachers.

She is a fairy, but fairies can't stop people's evil thoughts. Shaman Daxian is also desperate.

On the van, No.2 ate hot pot with his old classmate, who cried like a child. He cried for his life.

No.2 said disdainfully, why are you crying? Your life is worthy of this life, and you are worthy of this life when you are alive!

Back to the beginning of the film, the second good thing is that I also said my words in the vastness.

The road ahead is boundless.

Daxian is incredible, and has long predicted the real fate of all people in the world in that piece of white water in Montenegro.

You can win or lose, you can't win freedom, you can jump into reincarnation, you can't jump out of life.

This is a desperate story.