[Reproduced] "ancestral cereal" film review

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"Ancestral Cereal" is the work of young Japanese director Tsuta Geo Jilang, the 30-year-old young man walked to the last secret of Japan's Tokushima County Ancestral Valley region, to shoot a documentary on the way to tell an old story-the mountain farmers adopted by the spring vegetables from childhood followed by Grandpa farming life, And city dwellers from Tokyo to Iya, the middle interspersed with environmentalists against the construction of tunnels in the mountains, spring food friends determined to get out of the valley and finally back home to marry; Spring food has always wanted to stay with Grandpa to take care of him but eventually to work in the city ... In the process of environmental protection and modernization, Japan has gone farther than we, Tsuta Geo Jilang insisted on film filming, probably also reflects his inner inclination to the problem.
But probably the director is too young, how to resolve the conflict did not get a good answer in the film. The people of Tokyo could not live in the Iya, the winter soon came, the vegetables could not be planted, he could only find something to eat in the town's coin-fed food vending machine, and the foreigner who wanted to establish an agrarian model in the ancestral valley dissolved his own village back in the winter-he proved that the road could not go through, he eventually returned to the city And at the end of the film, spring vegetables back to the ancestral valley, saw the still in the farming of the people of Tokyo, he seems to have adapted to the country's life, and finally survived in nature-this ambiguous ending, more like the director of the good wishes, the people of Tokyo found the method, as to what kind of method, because there is no answer, so
But even if the city moved to the countryside, not only to solve the problem of survival, what is the value of the city to achieve? If you do not want to understand this problem, I am afraid that it is difficult to live in the countryside with a lasting aids.
People around have already realized the pattern seems to be in the city to earn money, living in the country, this model is not really out of the city, they must rely on the city to survive, once the city model problems, the country will also collapse, into the desperate.
"Veco" editor, my former boss sold the house in Beijing, to the village at the foot of Huangshan to buy the local people's house, the old mansion to adapt to the pattern of modern people-must have a toilet, there is a fireplace, heating, water, and express-he has to travel at least one or two times a month to big cities, to foreign curatorial, Do art activities, make money, and then return to the country life. In this way, life in the countryside looks too good, low prices, clean water and organic vegetables, waking up every day in the flowers, the PM2.5 index is always single digit. After he went to the countryside, he quickly started a massive rural campaign to promote the model-organizing local residents to see movies, opening bookstores, and moving the city's lifestyle to the countryside. Those activities seemed more or less comical to me, and in the photographs, the villagers gathered in his big country house, bewildered by the environmental concepts they preached, and're same page at different levels of understanding, and questioned the significance of such exchanges. Villagers are naturally in the village cadres decentralized indicators called, they are not interested in what the city people do here, the life circle of the two sides will never intersect.
In fact, there are more and more such models. The boss in Huangshan's residence every day a large number of international visitors to visit, just as a model. Where we met American A, who lived in New York, owned a mansion, but didn't want to live so easily. She is a reporter who came to China in the late 80 and speaks fluent Beijing dialect. She made an international village in a village in Anhui Province, and wanted to bring modern civilization to the local, persuade the peasants not to go to town, to leave to transform their houses, to build the country well. But then Gu Yu specifically went to her village to visit, the local villagers reflect, there are foreigners here to rent the house, but they come and go, some houses because they live up to a lot of rent, and villagers knock off their old house built some structure look similar to the house, attracted some tourists, But soon because of the facilities are not perfect, everyone gobbled and go, leaving some transformation to half of the house.
These are obviously not the solution.
Society has progressed to such a degree, if it is to return to nature, how to retreat from the law? This is a big issue in how the balance of the middle is mastered. I took these questions to see the "ancestral cereal", but the film did not give an answer, but it was careful to reproduce the conflict again. There is no point in this rendition, but in the same level of repetition-which is no different from the fact that these things happen in Japan or Europe or China.
Expect to have some better topics or books to explore this issue.

[Reproduced] "ancestral cereal" film review