What do you think of when you put together an endless mountain, a loyal dog, a lonely man with a mission?
I believe that many people have not seen this 1999 Chinese feature film, starring Liu Ye, Chen Hao, Teng Rujun and others, directed by Huo Jianqi, adapted from Peng Jianming's novel.
This movie tells a story about a postman in China in the 80s, involving father-son love, human and dog love...
One. The story of the Chinese postman
China in that era, although it experienced reform and opening up. But the other side of the mountain is still a mountain, poor or poor. Mountains, rough roads, sparsely populated and blocked. People can only communicate with each other by faith. If letters are a tool for people to communicate, then the messenger is a bridge for communication. The postman's job is to be responsible for wading through mountains and rivers, keeping the letters in good condition and delivering them to the recipient intact. Sometimes you have to walk away from home for months to deliver letters, sometimes you have to cross the stream and fall into trouble, sometimes you have to walk on a steep and rough stone road to risk rolling down the hill, and sometimes you have to endure a lonely journey. The mission of the postman was exchanged for the respect and admiration of countless fathers and fellow villagers at that time, because they worked tirelessly to deliver the heavy letter on their hands safely. Now very few people have written letters, and few people have seen the faces of postmen who have waded through mountains and rivers, and they rarely understand and support the job of postmen. Times have changed, most of us have lost the pen holder and stationery, picked up the phone to edit a text message or make a phone call. The postman is one of the marks of our time, but it is also one of the marks of our time that is gradually disappearing.
Two. Wonderful paternity
My father had been a postman for more than twenty years, often running outside the house and unable to accompany his wife and children often. The number of times the son saw his father from childhood to adulthood was very small, and every time he met was estranged and embarrassed. They don't know each other, and the relationship is naturally unfamiliar. The son and his father had nothing to say, and the two people got along very quietly. Until this day, the father and son washed away the invisible barrier and truly understood each other.
The son inherited his father's job and delivered letters to people as postmen. The father was old, and the leader told him to rest well, retire, and let the son take over. The first time the son was ready to leave home and go up the mountain to deliver the letter, the father was not at ease, so he followed the son. At first, the two had nothing to say on the journey, and the son walked as fast as a race walk, the son was in front, and the father was following with a bamboo pole in the back. Walking to the road, the son saw that there was no trace of his father behind him, and he was a little worried, so he returned to his father, it turned out that the father had gone to relieve his hands, but from the way the son was worried, in fact, he was very concerned about his father in his heart.
The two continued on their way, first to a village, handed the letter to the deputy secretary to prepare for the journey, and as soon as they went out, a bunch of villagers and fathers greeted them with smiling faces. This scene touched the son who was a postman for the first time, he actually could not understand his father's hard work for more than twenty years, but he did not get anything, but seeing this scene, he knew his father a little more than before.
Moving on, they delivered the letter to an invisible fifth wife, who contained a piece of money. The fifth wife listened to the words on the letter of the two fathers and sons taking turns to read, and could not help but leave tears, and the two fathers and sons also had some intolerance and sympathy. The letter was written by the grandson of the fifth mother-in-law, and as a person who was admitted to a key university in the mountains and went to Shenzhen to develop, he went out and never came back.
After sending the letter to the fifth wife, the son was very angry, and he did not have any good feelings for the college student, so he could not understand why the father did not tell the truth to the fifth wife, why he had to send such a meaningless letter so bitterly, the father just asked him to leave so much alone, and send the letter to do his duty. This time, the son's way of doing things contradicted his father.
Walking forward, I saw a beautiful Dong girl. The Dong girls let them rest in the village and spent a day together, and the son and the Dong girls fell in love. However, the two did not break the relationship, and the next day the son and father continued to rush. His father asked him if he wanted to marry the girl? The son said he didn't want to. Father asked why? The son said it was because he didn't want the girl to leave the mountain like her mother, and she would never go back for the rest of her life. This time, the father was lost in thought by his son's answer.
The two fathers and sons walked to the rugged hillside, this road needs to be climbed by rope, the son's first climb is inevitably a little unaccustomed, dangerous and laborious a road, so that the son can't help but worry about the father who has walked for so many years. The little child on the hillside came to meet them, and the child told his son that he didn't want your father to roll down the hill again. This means that my father once rolled down here, so why didn't my father say that? This time it was another change in the son's attitude toward his father. As the child left, he shared with them the good news that a teacher was willing to provide him with tuition. The son was happy for him after hearing it, but the father said a word that made the son feel sorry and sad: Next time, I will not see it.
They crossed into a small stream, and in order not to let his father touch the cold water again, the son carried his father on his back. This back reminds the father of the picture of his son being carried before, and now the two have changed, and the father carefully approaches the son and inadvertently sees the son's scars. The father asked his son how the scars were made? The son simply replied lightly. At this moment, my father felt heartache and regret. It was also at this moment that the son called out
The final big turn is that the father and the son sleep in the same bed, and the son sleeps soundly and sticks to the father to sleep, and the father looks at the son with relief and emotion. In this scene, the father deeply felt that he and his son finally had a precious closeness.
I don't know if you have ever felt this way, sometimes you feel that getting along with your father is more awkward and awkward than getting along with your mother. I felt that way, lack of communication, lack of understanding, lack of a conversation of mutual understanding. But in reality, we both aspire to cross this invisible barrier and become the best paternity. So don't lose the opportunity to understand each other and care about each other again and again because of the barrier of time and space. The longer the time drags on, the father will gradually grow older, as a child, we must take the initiative to break this situation, otherwise we will leave each other with scars that cannot be healed.
Three. Parental love and human-dog friendship
The father and mother in the movie met on the mail road, but due to the father's special work, at the end of the year, the two did not spend much time together, the mother would often worry about the father on the road, and the father often worried about the mother who was waiting for the adoptive child at home, although they were separated in space, but in time, they were more concerned about understanding each other. The mother understands the father's work, the father thanks the mother for the perfection, and it is precisely because of the mother's protection that the father can send more letters to the villagers.
Father will deliver the letter will be accompanied by a dog, it is very cute, will also recognize the way, loyal, smart, perseverance, it is a pet, is a traveler, but also a relative. Without its company, its guidance, its help, my father may be in trouble delivering letters in the mountains and it will be difficult to ask for help. This dog, spiritual, will know the gratitude, understand the father's work, and will also be a good companion for the son of the new postman.
Four. The beauty of the mountains and the seduction of the city
It is difficult for everyone in the mountains to live there for a long time, except for the native locals, otherwise people who live in big cities, going to the mountains for a long time is equivalent to suffering, as if isolated from the world. There are also many young people who can't stand the isolated poverty in the mountains, read books, go to college, choose to work and live in big cities, and have never returned to their hometown in the mountains. There are many temptations in the city, there are many things that are not in the mountains, but there may not be cities in the mountains. Every inch of land in the mountains once nurtured generations of children born in the mountains until they left the mountains. But when you're out and rooting, don't forget your roots!
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