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麦收
麦收
Wheat Harvest
2008 ｜ 99 minutes |
Languages: Mandarin, Hebei Dialect | Subtitles:
导演：徐童 ｜ Director：Xu Tong
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“田家少闲月，五月人倍忙。”麦收，中国劳动人民亘古以来最基本的习俗之一。2008年初夏，正值麦收时节，牛洪苗急匆匆的从北京回到了河北老家，看望她卧病在床的父亲，再加上她的母亲年事已高，因此家里的经济来源都要靠女儿苗苗在北京打工。殊不知，苗苗在北京是一位性工作者。一边是北京不足10平方米，狭小阴暗的发廊；一边是河北老家急待收割，一望无际的麦田。苗苗该何去何从......
In June the wheat tips are beginning to turn yellow. She comes back from Beijing to her hometown in Hebei, to find her father lying in bed with an IV and her mother out at the market. It appears that this is the way life always is; this is normal; nothing is out of the ordinary. Going back a few months, we see a filthy and chaotic side street in Beijing’s eastern suburbs called GaoXiDian. In a nameless, unlit ‘beauty parlor’, this country girl of barely 20 years old shows us a corner of her life as a prostitute. She says she can’t get involved with individual clients, but then we meet a customer named Xu… She looks down on the boss of the salon, because she is “too greedy”… She can’t forget the man who brought her to Beijing, her former boss Brother Chen, who unfortunately got into some trouble last year… She gives all of her money to her family to pay for her father’s medical costs, keeping only 100RMB to get back to Beijing… Time flies by, and soon her family’s wheat is ready to harvest, but it has been raining for days on end, making it impossible to begin… The film revolves around the time of the harvest, documenting one person’s dual lives and struggles, how one person copes on her own in the face of everything. Here we see the complex depths of human nature.
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In June the wheat tips are beginning to turn yellow. She comes back from Beijing to her hometown in Hebei, to find her father lying in bed with an IV and her mother out at the market. It appears that this is the way life always is; this is normal; nothing is out of the ordinary. Going back a few months, we see a filthy and chaotic side street in Beijing’s eastern suburbs called GaoXiDian. In a nameless, unlit ‘beauty parlor’, this country girl of barely 20 years old shows us a corner of her life as a prostitute. She says she can’t get involved with individual clients, but then we meet a customer named Xu… She looks down on the boss of the salon, because she is “too greedy”… She can’t forget the man who brought her to Beijing, her former boss Brother Chen, who unfortunately got into some trouble last year… She gives all of her money to her family to pay for her father’s medical costs, keeping only 100RMB to get back to Beijing… Time flies by, and soon her family’s wheat is ready to harvest, but it has been raining for days on end, making it impossible to begin… The film revolves around the time of the harvest, documenting one person’s dual lives and struggles, how one person copes on her own in the face of everything. Here we see the complex depths of human nature.
