Ordinary Corner
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2022
Release Year: 2022
Publish Date: 21 April 2023 00:00:00 UTC
Story:
In Pujiao Village, Jinping County, Yunnan Province, on the China-Vietnam border, there is a mountain village primary school. On one side of the school is the police station, on the other side is the border defense company. Below the school is the village committee, surrounded by villages. The People's Liberation Army, the police, villagers, teaching teachers from other provinces, and representatives of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China gather here. They live parallel lives in seemingly the same space, but they intersect in the joys, sorrows and sorrows of being "mobilized" in the epidemic era. The intersection creates a sense of wonder and etherealness.
In Pujiao Village, Jinping County, Yunnan Province, on the China-Vietnam border, there is a mountain village primary school. On one side of the school is the police station, on the other side is the border defense company. Below the school is the village committee, surrounded by villages. The People's Liberation Army, the police, villagers, teaching teachers from other provinces, and representatives of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China gather here. They live parallel lives in seemingly the same space, but they intersect in the joys, sorrows and sorrows of being "mobilized" in the epidemic era. The intersection creates a sense of wonder and etherealness.
Casts & Crews:
XIAO Hu
Directors
Runtime:
129
minutes
Language:
Mandarin, Hani, Yao
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Festivals & Awards:
2022 Korean International Ethnographic Film Festival, South Korea
2022 Korean International Ethnographic Film Festival, South Korea
Tags:
#Sino-Vietnamese Border, #Covid-19, #Left-behind Children
Director‘s Statement:
Regarding the Sino-Vietnamese border, we often label it "closed", "backward", "primitive", etc., but we rarely think about whether people living on the border have the same emotions and loneliness as us , the same is mobilized,
Those teenagers are like birds trapped in a predicament, constrained by the local community's narrow understanding of education and disrespect for children's original ideas, as well as the distance and functional separation between home and school, it is difficult to break free from the cage and rush to the outside world . They stretched lazily, sniffing the free air, the real life and the hesitation of their youth. At this moment, these teenagers are like birds flying freely, across the sky, into the woods, and reach the distance.
In fact, no matter where the frontier teenagers or adults are, they cannot escape the arrangement of fate. The joy and pain, forgetfulness and deep-rootedness of the past will eventually turn into the past and dissipate in the wind. A disciplinary society establishes a very clear set of norms and disciplines, and if you deviate from the norm, you will be punished, and if you follow through, you will be rewarded. The more you believe that reality limits you, the more you will do what reality requires, and the more you will do what reality requires, the less you will know what is beyond these limitations in the world. Without knowing how big the world is, the so-called reality is everything to you, which is a vicious circle.
The way to mobilize the characters in the film is to let them spend all their time and all their energy on things that are very small for human civilization. For border teenagers and even young people, they have a great time and are constantly growing, but they are restricted, they can only accept it, and consume themselves within a very limited range, which relatively forms the greatest depression.
Those teenagers are like birds trapped in a predicament, constrained by the local community's narrow understanding of education and disrespect for children's original ideas, as well as the distance and functional separation between home and school, it is difficult to break free from the cage and rush to the outside world . They stretched lazily, sniffing the free air, the real life and the hesitation of their youth. At this moment, these teenagers are like birds flying freely, across the sky, into the woods, and reach the distance.
In fact, no matter where the frontier teenagers or adults are, they cannot escape the arrangement of fate. The joy and pain, forgetfulness and deep-rootedness of the past will eventually turn into the past and dissipate in the wind. A disciplinary society establishes a very clear set of norms and disciplines, and if you deviate from the norm, you will be punished, and if you follow through, you will be rewarded. The more you believe that reality limits you, the more you will do what reality requires, and the more you will do what reality requires, the less you will know what is beyond these limitations in the world. Without knowing how big the world is, the so-called reality is everything to you, which is a vicious circle.
The way to mobilize the characters in the film is to let them spend all their time and all their energy on things that are very small for human civilization. For border teenagers and even young people, they have a great time and are constantly growing, but they are restricted, they can only accept it, and consume themselves within a very limited range, which relatively forms the greatest depression.
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XIAO Hu
Director
