Into the Dust Movie Analysis

The film "Into the Dust and Smoke" is analyzed as follows:

"Into the Dust and Smoke" continues director Li Rui_'s long-standing profound humanistic care, starting from the emotional life of the hero and heroine, and based on the real rural areas The current situation serves as the background to start a new trend of regaining the interest of the land. The film has a unique perspective and rich details. In its comprehensive depiction of rural life in northwest China, the film calls for the solid and determined power from the people at the bottom.

Li Rui's stories often choose a very small entry point, quietly watching the protagonist with a fixed lens, adding some tiny variables, and waiting for fate to happen.

The film shows a large number of scenes of Cao Guiying and Ma Youtie working in the fields. Under the warm light, careful composition, and naturally captured sound track, the sweat and suffering of the busy farming scenes are eliminated. Instead, it turns into frames of photography full of romantic beauty. From its title to its aesthetics, "Into the Dust" has a cinematic aesthetic that adheres to certain film school dogma.

Plot summary:

Cao Guiying (played by Hai Qing) has lived a despised life in the house of her brother and sister-in-law all year round. She lives in a wooden shed that is exposed to wind and rain, and is weak and cold. One leg is still lame and I cannot do heavy physical work. She suffers from urinary tract disease and becomes incontinent regardless of time or place. Because she is infertile, she is at the bottom of the food chain in the rural marriage market. Through the "arrangement" of her brother and sister-in-law, Guiying was introduced to Ma Youtie (played by Wu Renlin), an older bachelor from a neighboring village.

Ma Youtie is the fourth eldest brother. His elder brothers, Ma Youjin and Ma Youyin, have both passed away. Although the third brother, Ma Youtong, is living a good life, he can only live in an abandoned empty house in the village. , living a life guarding a donkey, and was laughed at by the villagers as "no one is poorer than you." After marrying Guiying, Ma Youtie's life was suddenly filled with hope.

He did not dislike Guiying's illness and disability. He farmed diligently and even raised a brood of chickens, hoping to save money to treat Guiying's illness. The boss of the village's grain collector got a strange disease and needed a lot of blood transfusions. But among the villagers with "panda blood type", only horses have iron. In order to help his boss recover from his illness and pay back the food money owed to the whole village, the kind-hearted Ma Youtie began to donate blood to his boss for free. He has to donate blood and farm the land, and it's a very hard life with horses and iron.