[Watch] Four Springs

During the Spring Festival, a group of friends and I brushed the "Four Springs" one after another. Watching it with my husband at night, he suddenly looked back at me and said, are you crying? ! The movie happened in my sister's last days. Movies related to relatives and family members often bring tears that they can't say. Tears gush from the depths of one's heart and are projected on the deceased relatives or people who will leave one day. For me, this is a great move and extraordinary skill.

"Four Springs" is a short video of parents' life filmed by director Lu Qingyi for many years. The book of the same name, Four Springs, completely explains a wanderer's exploration of his hometown, his relatives, his youth and his future from another angle. This is a collection of essays, which reminds me of Wu Nianzhen's books in recent years and those things many years ago.

A partner left me a message saying: I dare not watch this kind of film now. I really didn't think I would escape from it. ...

Why do we avoid in-depth observation of our parents and hometown, and why do we avoid understanding our parents' experiences and contradictions when they were young?

The film Four Springs, starring the parents of director Lu Qingyi, tells a family story that spans four springs. There are talented fathers playing and singing, hardworking mothers cooking sausages, parents picking wild vegetables in the mountains, a family of swallows who arrived before their sister died, a family who set off firecrackers in the New Year, and a family who stayed up all night on the sofa in rainy days?

In the prose collection of the same name, director Lu writes beautifully, and the pictures and details of his hometown are vividly presented. What impressed him deeply was that he recalled the experience that when he was a child, his parents were cheated to raise rabbits, lost money and had a hard life. However, his parents' kindness, courage and harmonious feelings are shining in the trough. Parents' personalities are so beautiful in adversity. Lu Dao wrote about accompanying his parents to pick wild vegetables in the mountains in spring. Looking at the parents in the camera, I couldn't help turning around and crying. I think the scenery in that camera is much simpler than that in the mountains. After many memories, the feeling is so heavy. No wonder we young people "dare not look".

Because I didn't dare to look, I unconsciously avoided it, and it was too late to chase it back, and then I regretted it. This is the consistent route of many people. Life is fleeting, not just dozens of springs. People who think they can stay with them all the time will eventually leave, just like their hometown, which they thought could remain unchanged in childhood, becomes bizarre after a few years. The memories and personalities left by our parents naturally wear on us, just like an armor that was not fashionable at first, but eventually became our struggle against the world.

Lu Dao is full of the power of mindfulness in the whole film and novel, paying attention to daily life itself, the journey, the filming and editing, and the seemingly unreachable dreams. It will take some time to meditate, and then towards the distant will settle down. This is my favorite part.

The title of the last part of the text is "Do what you want". This sentence seems to be the brave words of a teenager in his twenties when he left school. In fact, it was the beginning of a senior North drift who began to learn editing in his forties and determined to become the best director in China. I used to be a football player, a bar singer, a publishing editor, a photographer and a miner. Nowadays, the director who is mainly a photographer is extremely rebellious in his childhood. The book describes a king's version of Xiong Haizi. Such a king felt that at some point he had "returned home" spiritually, and now he has four springs.

During the Spring Festival, I spent more time sorting out my past letters. I have a lot of letters and postcards, all of which are packed in boxes, except those pasted with large picture frames. A "bad habit" is to immerse yourself in a letter all day and not think about it. Compared with my friends who left home bravely in spring, I can hardly throw things. Postcards may also have extra things, because I found some "unexpected treasures" in the corner, such as train tickets, scenic spots tickets, movie tickets, maps ... Years ago, my grandmother threw out an old box of mahjong, which I think was used by my grandfather before (a little funny, because I don't play mahjong), but I didn't sort things out.

In the film, the director's father likes to shoot short films of life and then dub and edit them himself. So there are countless old videos of their family, and some of them have been inserted into the movie "Four Springs". In my opinion, it is warm, interesting, but also a little sad for my old father to sit in front of the computer with glasses and indulge in old videos. In fact, in this shot, I also seem to see the old things in my pants that I can't control. Although it doesn't meet the meaning of breaking up, I also feel that my future is very tired, but ... in the words of the director's old father, it is fun.

In spring, some people use old things, old videos and old photos to "accumulate strength". Only when the mind is stable and practical can we go further. What about you?