Umbrella
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Release Year:
2007
Story:
Pay attention to the five-part documentary about the current farmers trying to break free from the land. Each paragraph is preceded by the director’s introduction, which is connected with the clues of the umbrella. The first paragraph: In the umbrella factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong, migrant workers of different ages and accents are working hard. Some people write "persistence is failure" on the sewing machine. The salary adjustment notice posted in the factory shows that their remuneration is not high. Second paragraph: In the large-scale small commodity market in Zhejiang, the fate of umbrella sellers and shoe-shining women who were born in farmers began to have different directions. The third paragraph: Shanghai, a job fair for college students was crowded with people. Some students were preparing for graduation in the classroom. The rain was rainy outside the window, and they were hurried under their umbrellas. The fourth paragraph: In a certain army, new students train and study in an orderly manner. The scenery around the station looks a bit desolate. Section 5: The wheat in a certain place in Henan has matured, but young people are rarely seen in the village. Land used to be the foundation for farmers to settle down, but now the younger generation only wants to leave her
Pay attention to the five-part documentary about the current farmers trying to break free from the land. Each paragraph is preceded by the director’s introduction, which is connected with the clues of the umbrella. The first paragraph: In the umbrella factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong, migrant workers of different ages and accents are working hard. Some people write "persistence is failure" on the sewing machine. The salary adjustment notice posted in the factory shows that their remuneration is not high. Second paragraph: In the large-scale small commodity market in Zhejiang, the fate of umbrella sellers and shoe-shining women who were born in farmers began to have different directions. The third paragraph: Shanghai, a job fair for college students was crowded with people. Some students were preparing for graduation in the classroom. The rain was rainy outside the window, and they were hurried under their umbrellas. The fourth paragraph: In a certain army, new students train and study in an orderly manner. The scenery around the station looks a bit desolate. Section 5: The wheat in a certain place in Henan has matured, but young people are rarely seen in the village. Land used to be the foundation for farmers to settle down, but now the younger generation only wants to leave her
Casts & Crews:
Du Haibin
Directors
Runtime:
93
minutes
Language:
Director‘s Statement:
Set up a home, accumulate wealth, and pass on to the descendants. This is the wealth concept based on the agricultural society of the Chinese for thousands of years. This concept has undergone unprecedented changes in the past fifty years, and this change is still going on. Owning wealth has changed from a normal manifestation of life value to a life stain that people can't wait to draw a clear line with. After more than 30 years after the realization of a new round of wealth-equal society through the revolution, money seems to have unknowingly and suddenly received a huge and almost unprecedented attention, and quickly surpassed everything else and jumped to the top of the list.
During these three decades of great changes, we clearly feel the impetuousness and superficial prosperity of urban construction, but we rarely see the anxiety and embarrassment of the agricultural society in this transformation, and a large number of rural people seem to be at a loss or follow the trend. Working, studying, doing business, etc. have become various ways for many young people from rural areas to redeem themselves. In summary, we have selected labor-intensive factories in Shenzhen, Guangdong, a small commodity distribution center in Yiwu, Zhejiang, university towns in Shanghai, and rural areas in Anhui and Henan, which are representative areas at the moment, and strive to make an effort to present the living conditions of ordinary people in this area. Cut across the board to highlight the real status quo of people under the economic boom.
Umbrella - as a film title, there is a certain contingency and it is inevitable. We are fortunate to have photographed people who make umbrellas, those who sell umbrellas, and those who hold umbrellas. Whether this constitutes a metaphor is something the film itself cannot carry. But the status of the umbrella as an image symbol in the film is needless to say. We strive to make the umbrella rise from a specific object and eventually surpass itself to metaphysical thinking. This may be my interpretation of this film.
During these three decades of great changes, we clearly feel the impetuousness and superficial prosperity of urban construction, but we rarely see the anxiety and embarrassment of the agricultural society in this transformation, and a large number of rural people seem to be at a loss or follow the trend. Working, studying, doing business, etc. have become various ways for many young people from rural areas to redeem themselves. In summary, we have selected labor-intensive factories in Shenzhen, Guangdong, a small commodity distribution center in Yiwu, Zhejiang, university towns in Shanghai, and rural areas in Anhui and Henan, which are representative areas at the moment, and strive to make an effort to present the living conditions of ordinary people in this area. Cut across the board to highlight the real status quo of people under the economic boom.
Umbrella - as a film title, there is a certain contingency and it is inevitable. We are fortunate to have photographed people who make umbrellas, those who sell umbrellas, and those who hold umbrellas. Whether this constitutes a metaphor is something the film itself cannot carry. But the status of the umbrella as an image symbol in the film is needless to say. We strive to make the umbrella rise from a specific object and eventually surpass itself to metaphysical thinking. This may be my interpretation of this film.
Casts & Crews
Du Haibin
Director
