How to evaluate the film Four Springs

Some movies, you will sit quietly in the cinema and watch them, showing great concern for the characters and being deeply attracted by their daily life. Four Springs is such a film.

This is a film made by one person. Lu Qingyi, a graphic photographer, did not study movies systematically. He took photos, recorded, scripted and edited by hanging watercress, but the emotional power contained in the film can make people completely forget the technical flaws. At present, the film Douban scored 9.2 points. Recently, it broke through from 1309 and was selected as the competition unit of the first youth film festival on 20 12, with 438+08.

This is the age of five people. The director aimed the camera at his hometown and town, at his parents who never blushed when they sang all the year round, and at the nature and customs in the mountains.

If you take out four spring clips separately, it looks not much different from other home videos. However, these pure and simple records, after time superposition and rendering, convey profound and true meaning of life. This is the same as the touching truth of the drama Youth shot by 12.

Where did the four springs originate? Lu Qingyi said that he published a blog named "My Mom" on the Internet on 20 12, and wrote "My Dad" a year later. Two articles with sincere feelings have become online explosions: "At that time, I thought, why don't I make some videos?" Later, he was moved by a sentence directed by Hou Xiaoxian: "He said, if you want to make a movie, just do it, and you will have experience after filming. I made up my mind at that time. "

From then on, Lu Qingyi, who worked as a football player, singer, advertising company and photographer, began to teach herself how to make movies. During the four years from 20 13 to 20 16, Lu Qingyi, a director working in Beijing, insisted on doing one thing every year when he came home from vacation, that is, holding a camera and recording everything about his parents with video. Year after year, the cumulative duration of materials exceeds 250 hours.

In Lu Qingyi's lens, an ordinary old couple in a remote mountainous county in Guizhou province, trivial but poetic life fragments leap to the screen: cooking, sewing clothes, going up the mountain to collect medicine and taking blood pressure, just like the daily life of ordinary old people in China.