Chapter one. Review of the Three Sisters Because of my work, what I have been doing in the past two years is related to a social group: left-behind children. After filming for one day, I chatted with the director. She said that some left-behind children talked about their parents, some cried, some were expressionless and numb. So I thought of Bing Wang's documentary "Three Sisters".
In recent years, the living conditions of left-behind children have become the focus of social attention. In 20xx, Shandong Education Television and 56 online media in the United Nations jointly launched the public welfare activity "Warm 20 12" focusing on special groups such as left-behind children. The organizer found the film director Bird, and together with several documentary directors, * * * filmed five documentaries focusing on the living conditions of special children groups, namely: Linlin and Rare (Bai Budan), Dear Children, Little Jacob, Vacation and Fifth Grade.
Prior to this, documentary director Bing Wang filmed the documentary "Three Sisters" focusing on left-behind children, and won the Venice Film Festival Horizon Unit Award on 20 12. In this film, the director aimed at a family in the mountainous area of Yunnan: the mother ran away from home, the father worked outside, and only three children were left, living together at home. They accepted everything given by fate and lived in peace. Cooking together, raising pigs together, playing together ... When my father comes back from work, he peels fruit for the children, holds the youngest child and enjoys the rare warmth. Later, my father took two children to work outside, leaving only the eldest daughter at home, cooking, herding sheep, working and going to school alone, without fear, only numbness. But the mutual care and frolicking between the three sisters still makes people feel a pure warmth.
Second, the comment on Three Sisters, please allow me to quote a short comment by teacher Jiu Cang (nine flies hit the wall) to start this comment-Three Sisters has "the first third surpassed all previous works of Bing Wang". The reason why I quoted this is not that I believe teacher Jiu Cang's intuition, but that I personally have a similar impression: the first few games of the three sisters are really amazing. If you really want to find a word to describe it, "unprecedented" is probably the most appropriate.
Why is this happening? It should be said that in a complete work, there should be no front-back fracture. This is especially true for director Rainbow Bing, who always finishes his works in the same way. It seems that the problem is not the director (or filming). We must find the reason from other aspects.
At the beginning of Three Sisters, only three sisters appeared in the camera. Later, other roles were gradually added: the aunt who took care of them, the elderly grandfather, the father who came back from work, and the aunt who brought them back ... all these roles were adults. Here, we may have found the key to the problem. Perhaps the change happened because adults entered the camera (first, the appearance of aunts).
Children and adults represent two different ways of perception. If adults represent a universal, experienced and well-developed way of perception, then children represent a weak and still developing way of perception. They are less influenced by experience and more open to the outside world. We can say that it is the accumulated experience of "time" that has a weaker influence on children than adults.
But how will people's perception affect their image? When you simply think of an image as being recorded by a camera lens, you will naturally think so. Yes, but the mistake is to forget that images have to affect the perception of the audience in order to be effective. Therefore, any change in image composition is actually hampering the audience's perception all the time.
When there are only children in the picture, the audience will encounter perceptual failure. They found that children did not perceive the world in a similar way to them (that is, using experience). This contrast is even worse for children in the deep mountains of Yunnan. The isolated living environment makes their perception look weaker and more natural than that of children raised in ordinary families. In other words, it is less influenced by acquired culture.
This is probably why we feel natural in the scene at the beginning of the three sisters. In fact, the unmanned perspective outside the camera is integrated with the little girl's perception, and the camera perceives the people and environment in front of the camera in a similar way. It should also not be forgotten that Bing Wang himself can make the camera "superb" so that he can record the real situation of real life without intervention.
Later, adults entered the camera, and the way of perception they carried with them overwhelmed the way of perception of children. The whole work is not much different from other similar documentaries. This may have been said by the nine-year-old teacher, but the last two-thirds of the film actually fell into a cliche. What is worth extending is that Bing Wang has been filming such people with abnormal perception: the autotroph in Anonymous and the mental patient in Crazy Love ... This may be the best gesture of "non-interference" in politics.
The third part. Comments on Three Sisters This time, Bing Wang brought the same documentary, Three Sisters. The film tells the story of the young "three sisters" living in a poor village called Xiyangtang in Yunnan, calmly bearing the burden of life. This kind of burden makes people have to question the reality, and the calmness of children gives people a simple touch.
According to Wang Bing, the actual shooting time of the film was about one month, but it lasted about four months because it was shot three times. Bing Wang's chance to shoot this documentary is that Wang Bing has a friend who is a writer. It's been a long time since he died. In 2009, Bing Wang should visit his mother and burn some paper for his grave. Then he passed by the village, saw the three children playing by the roadside, chatted with them, and then went to their home. Their family is really poor. They only stayed for an hour and left the mountain soon. The three children were so impressed that they could make a documentary in a short time. So I filmed it.
Chapter Four: Review of the Three Sisters: I went to 798 UCCA to watch the premiere of the three sisters and meet with director Bing Wang, and felt the shock of the documentary. I like feature films, but I don't like documentaries very much. I saw "Three Sisters" by chance, with a scene of 153 minutes, a simple picture and a true reflection, but it made me feel that this is the meaning of the documentary.
Three sisters are in the mountains. What they do every day is to herd sheep, pigs and pick some pine nuts. Besides potatoes and cabbage, they also eat potatoes and cabbage. Elder sister Ying Ying bears more weight than Marat safin and Jane. Under hard conditions, I slept in a wet quilt, and my shoes scratched my feet.
Probably if I hadn't seen this movie, I couldn't imagine such a countryside.
Probably if I hadn't seen this movie, I wouldn't have imagined such a girl.
The three sisters don't talk much, but their eyes can tell a lot.
Probably without TV, they will live more easily and cannot see the outside world. Will it make them feel that everyone is like this and make them feel happier?
Will the wind be gentle when picking up dung on those hillsides?