During the stay-at-home period, watch the documentary recharge!
In 2020, the first season of the documentary "China" came out with the cultural question of "why Huaxia, why China", surprising the audience with a unique aesthetic style, with a Douban score of 8.3. Recently, the second season, which continues the creative ideas of the first season, ended on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV, once again opening up a broader and deeper Chinese historical time and space for the audience with a novel perspective.
The documentary restores one important historical node after another with pioneering, turning point or landmark, vividly tracing how China has come all the way today, including Mo Yan, Li Jingze, Yi Zhongtian, Lu Tianming and other nearly 40 cultural masters and cross-border scholars have recommended "China". Writer Mo Yan commented that the film "constructs the text structure of the general history of images, allowing us to glimpse China's past and think about the future." Writer and screenwriter Lu Tianming marveled at the grandeur and depth of "China", "I dare not imagine using the form of a TV special film to present a China spanning a thousand years." However, it appeared. It's China. ”
Why do cultural masters praise "China"?
Constantly breaking the shackles of aesthetics and breaking through the boundaries of ideas is the most significant feature of the two seasons of "China". From the mutual confirmation of cultural connotations, the continuous breakthrough in image processing, to the continuous innovation of dramatic expression, "China" has spent 22 episodes to present a vivid "China" to the audience. As producer Li Dongyan said, the documentary depicts China according to the trajectory of human growth: he established the Three Views during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, gradually perfected his physique during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and formed a unified national management system of military ranks; in the chaotic Wei and Jin Dynasties, he began to grow; and later, he integrated the ideas of outsiders and became a vigorous youth. Of course, in the objective historical cycle, he also experienced different changes.
In terms of visual presentation, "China" is considered to be "a documentary that rises from words on paper, a visual audio-visual feast of sound and painting, and the words flowed from thousands of years of poetry, which are integrated into symmetrical and full composition, with a subtle and blank artistic conception, and strive to highlight the pure classical Chinese aesthetics everywhere." ”
At the same time, the commentary is the finishing touch of the second season of "China", and the unhurried way of telling is quiet and calm, and the perspective of historical bystanders uses sound to lead contemporary people into Chinese history. The narrator Zhou Tao's interpretation is full of affection, making the documentary more warm; the narrator He Jiong's voice is thick and kind, fully narrowing the distance with the audience. The two narrators completed the re-understanding and re-creation of history with their voices alone, entering the audience's hearts with sound and color emotions, combing the ups and downs of the veins, and conveying historical feelings.
In the narrative space of 22 episodes in two seasons, "China" has carried out a new attempt at documentary imaging and dramatic expression, constructing a grand historical proposition with vivid and detailed historical materials, adhering to the creative principle of "big things are not vain, small things are not informal", inserting imaginative wings for rigorous documentaries, so that the history presented in the images has temperature, attitude and depth, guiding the audience to think about the present from a broad perspective of history, and feeling the "Chinese spirit" with positive practical significance.
At present, the first and second seasons of the documentary "China" can be fully watched on Mango TV.