In December last year, Uncle Niu recommended a documentary - "Face, Village".
After watching this movie, I found that this old lady is so cute !
Her name is Agnès Varda . People call her "the grandmother of the new wave", the director from France.
Grandma Varda was also cool when she was young and was a photographer.
It was also her documentary "Me and the Gleaners" , which was filmed in 2000 and won 30 awards in 30 months.
Putting aside Varda's fame and the many awards it has won, this is indeed a movie worth thinking about.
Now, thinking is a luxury, and there are too many videos and entertainment without thinking.
Varda was inspired by the nineteenth-century French painter Miller's "The Gleaners" for the documentary.
"The Gleaners" is the representative of realism in the nineteenth century, a revolution caused by painting peasants, which seems a bit ridiculous now. At that time, it was a very funny thing if the image of peasants appeared in the painting , because "noble paintings must represent noble people", the peasants are obviously not noble people.
In Miller's painting, three sturdy peasant women are leisurely picking up the fallen wheat ears on the sunny plain.
"Wandering" in Paris' city and countryside, Varda documented all manner of modern Parisian scavengers.
People who pick up potatoes and apples in the countryside, people who pick up oysters washed away by the waves at the beach, homeless people who rummage through garbage for food, artists who pick up garbage in search of creative materials...
They repeat the common action of "bending down" to pick up what they need.
Varda divides scavengers into three categories: some scavenge because life forces them, some scavenge because they are artists, and some scavenge because they like to scavenge.
Life is hard, it's that simple
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This long-haired man, who was originally a truck driver, repeated his 21-hour work hours every day until one day, he was caught by the police for drunk driving.
His wife took away 3 children. He misses them very much, but because he doesn't have a driver's license, he can't see them even if he is only 500 miles away.
Now he lives in a trailer, picking up trash for a living.
"It's better for us to pick up potatoes in the field than to shop and steal," he said.
Life is full of difficulties, for him, it is more open-minded after helplessness.
They have the past, they have the life
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The bearded man is a painter who likes to ride his bike at night to collect material for his creations.
He put these collected wastes in a room as a cave for his spiritual sustenance in the real world."
They don't understand me at all
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He was a university teaching assistant with a master's degree and now sells newspapers and magazines at the station. I come to Paris every day to pick up food waste for a living.
I live in a shelter at night, where there are 50% illiterate people, teach them to read and write at 6:30 every day, without any pay, for 6 years.
Someone in the barrage said: "I may never be able to live like them in the face of suffering, and be so optimistic, even if I pick up things, I can't see the humbleness at all."
Varda said that knowing that person was the most impressive thing for her, and it was also the person I was most impressed by watching this film.
The people in the film are scavenging, and Varda, who is behind the camera, is also picking up those forgotten people and things.
Like "City, Face", Varda's tender care for the suffering people.
Friends who want to watch this movie directly search "Me and the Gleaners" on Bilibili
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