Consumption of "migrant workers" every day, have the guts to shoot it! (Someone really shot it early.)

The main character of Sir's article today is migrant workers.

right.

I don't know how to get on fire.

Word meaning: Young people who have just stepped into the workplace, with a tone that looks like chicken blood, pour out their social and animal voices.

Making emoticons: @ Chase Goose, @ Chef Jolyne Kujo

Someone will complain when they hear this:

This is too melodramatic.

Who hasn't been poor, who hasn't suffered, and who hasn't come this way? After all, your generation is "prosperous in science and technology, prosperous in culture and prosperous in cities, and the fruits of modern civilization are opened for you layer by layer" ...

But have you really thought about:

What subversive changes have taken place in the attitude of the world towards poverty (toil)?

if the past display of poverty was more or less mixed with compassion for the grassroots, today's imitation of poverty is either self-proclaimed affectation or indifference without illness.

The former is "My True Friend", and the salary of the hostess in Shanghai is less than 2, after tax, and she owes 5, in her credit card.

But our hostess, "shabby", squeezed into a one-bedroom apartment in Shanghai.

the latter is Nothing But Thirty.

standing in the wife circle, Gu Jia couldn't help hiding her Chanel bag worth 5, when taking a group photo.

because others carry hundreds of thousands of Hermes.

is this poverty or "pretending to be poor"? Is this "pretending to be poor" or "showing off wealth by being poor"?

at this moment, Sir misses someone very much.

He and his disappearing "worker universe".

today, we might as well make it clear.

1

The working emperor

is the Hong Kong star with the highest mass base in the mainland.

it must be Jackie Stephen Chow.

they are the spokesmen of little people.

but you may not realize it.

Jackie Chan's role, after all, is full of stunts, and Stephen Chow's movies often can't help but produce a miraculous Tathagata palm.

On the contrary, there is one person who always stands on the side of the poor.

most of his characters, from the beginning to the end, are poor.

He always tells the secrets of urban migrant workers with the story of "fancy brother abuse".

He can't afford to rent a house, can't take a vacation, is suppressed and insulted ... He has photographed all the hardships of social animals today.

His name is Xu Guanwen.

The word "part-time job" actually originated in Southeast Asia in the 197s and 198s (Hong Kong is a typical example).

since the 196s, Hong Kong has made full use of its port advantages to develop labor-intensive industries such as textiles and clothing, and become a pillar of the economy.

but economic development cannot be separated from people.

to be more straightforward, it is inseparable from people's blood and sweat.

in the 197s, Hong Kong's economy began to transform, and industries such as finance and real estate developed rapidly.

in the 198s, Hong Kong became a trade and financial center in Asia and even the whole world.

On the contrary, the demand for labor drops, the unemployment rate rises, the house price rises and the gap between the rich and the poor widens.

in today's words, it was a big era with surging clouds.

but.

Xu Guanwen is fond of being small.

instead of praising the grandeur of the times, he extended the tentacles of the camera into the most common life.

The first shots of "Half a catty and 82 liang" can be seen.

first, the space is squeezed; Then hold the camera and shake it slightly; Finally, under the fisheye lens, high-rise buildings are deformed and distorted.

the imagery is very direct.

the oppressive feeling of the times.

not enough?

look at the crowd again.

shoot down.

vendors, commuters in rush hours and people who can't get on the bus come and go, becoming one of the huge and vague ones.

The contrast is obvious-

In Hong Kong, a rapidly expanding metropolis (monster), people are just trivial ants (food).

Xu Guanwen certainly knows the bottom.

he understands the embarrassment at the bottom.

this embarrassing daily conversation is belittled.

The employee suffered a neck injury and wore a neck brace.

The boss stepped on it as soon as he saw it:

You look like a turtle with a big head and a thick neck.

the essence of being degraded is to destroy your personality.

employees complain that their beds are not as good as coffins.

Boss:

Nice try! Of course, coffins are easier to sleep. There are thousands of pieces in a coffin.

To put it bluntly, today, the workplace scams suffered by migrant workers and the ordinary workplace ecology have already been shown in movies, showing Xu Guanwen's accurate insight.

for example, drawing cakes.

for example, fishing.

another example is installment payment.

(A user, have you been connoted?)

Don't think this is conceptual sympathy.

A pair of worn-out cloth shoes was shot with a two-minute close-up at the beginning of "Half a catty and 82 liang".

it's not just about shoes.

It is a poor man's mentality-

Love takes advantage of petty gain.

a poor man, even wearing a worn cloth shoe, has the cheek to extend it to the shoeshine.

The other party had no choice but to put a piece of adhesive tape on him.

This bullying mentality is followed by the next scene.

He stepped on the bowl of a beggar, a poor man poorer than himself. Instead of feeling guilty, he blamed the bowl for stabbing himself in the foot.

and kicked it in a rage.

Xu Guanwen is too familiar with the face and logic of the bottom.

Born in an intellectual family, Xu Guanwen moved to Hong Kong from Guangzhou at the age of ten in the forties.

As a child, Xu Guanwen always lived in the log cabin area of Diamond Hill, where there was no water or electricity.

At that time, the Xu family had to support five children (there was a little sister in addition to the four brothers "Wenwu Yingjie"), and the economic pressure was quite great. As the eldest, Xu Guanwen had to take classes as a part-time teacher and do programs on weekends.

there is no time to fall in love.

In No Defense Tonight, Xu Guanwen told such a joke.

his girlfriend picked him up at the TV station gate and sent him to school.

Sometimes, reluctant to part, Xu Guanwen and his girlfriend sent them around. When they passed a cemetery, it was already dark, and his girlfriend had long white hair, which frightened many taxi drivers.

There is a saying in Cantonese that the poorer you are, the worse you will be.

what do you mean?

it's the damage that poverty brings to people, never the lack of material, but the imbalance of mentality.

it points to a humble meanness, and this meanness can only make you more humble.

It's like the story that happened next in "Half a catty".

soon, the bossy poor man brought it on himself.

When he kicked the bowl arrogantly and swaggered down the road, he stepped on a cigarette butt with bare feet.

this positive and negative are mutually causal.

It's all about the minds and flaws of the poor.

2

Human comedy

Of course.

If Xu Guanwen just pointed a sharp knife at the poor man's chest, he would never be a comedian.

when he laughed at poverty enthusiastically, he also sneered at the rich with the same weight.

In his films, there are usually three kinds of people riding on the heads of migrant workers and dominating others-

One is the wicked.

they represent the law of the jungle without shame.

pry dead gold teeth.

stealing a dead man's platinum kidney.

(There is no such thing, Xu Guanwen made it for fun)

Even.

Robbery is not enough. I have to strip you naked to prevent you from escaping and insult people.

the second is the police.

stands for a jagged power machine.

since the 195s, Hong Kong people's resistance to Hong Kong and Britain has intensified. In 1967, the "June 7th Riot" broke out. In the face of the superior "ghosts", Hong Kong people are always angry with injustice.

In his comedies, Xu Guanwen hides his views on the police.

The policeman played by Richard Ng started to crack down on pornography, but he was caught committing adultery in a hotel.

more ironically, when the police finally awarded the hero a courageous award, the bonus was provided by wealthy businessmen.

and this rich businessman's wife is the police's concubine.

This kind of interest transfer and nepotism between the police and businessmen has been clearly revealed in the film, although it has been brushed aside.

the third kind of person, that is, the boss who is most resentful today.

On behalf of migrant workers, there is no chance to have equal access to the huge and unpredictable capital.

The Deed of Sale in 1978 tells the painful experience of a middle-level manager of a TV station who was roughly assessed by the directors on KPI every month.

when the ratings drop and the board of directors rejects it, he will leave the TV station.

This kind of departure is just like the person who appeared in our news today-a professional who was fired at the age of 35 and jumped off an office building ...

Yes.

jump off a building.

how will these capitalists react when life is at stake?

Xu Guanwen gave an extremely cold absurd expression.

When the manager climbed to the top of the building, the directors gathered in front of the window to bet on the time when he jumped down-

When people landed.

They immediately hung up the prepared photos in the meeting room.

-how many seconds do you guess?

The color of this logo looks like TVB ...

See?

cruelty is not enough.

even more cruel.

This "cruelty" can also be a performance and a bait to attract more participants.

3

Who forgot the migrant workers

This is where Xu Guanwen's films really shine with humanitarian brilliance.

At that time, Xu Shi's comedies were all the rage.

It was he who truly described the anxiety of ordinary citizens who were led by the nose at work, but he did not forget to ask the questions behind them-

What should we pursue and believe in a rapidly changing era.

this is not the opposition between the poor and the rich.

Look at those little people in Xu Guanwen's movies-

stingy, snobbish, saving face, being smart and futile ...

These ugliness are actually sarcasm, and these sarcasm only exist in a certain class?

no.

they are clowns.

most of us are clowns, too.

an unfair society is even uglier.

The Deed of Sale has a very sharp irony.

A mental hospital evaluates whether a patient can leave the hospital, that is, giving him an apple and 1 yuan, and asking the patient which one do you choose?

as everyone knows, choose 1 yuan.

As a result, the patient naturally chose 1 yuan.

is he normal?

no.

He stuffed the money into his mouth and wolfed it down, saying, "Yummy!".

what does this mean?

everyone realized that they were going "crazy".

but so what, do you have the right not to be "crazy"?

In a society where everyone is crazy, when you are "normal", you are just "crazy".

back to "workers".

it's just a group of poor people alienated by society.

Some people say that the society is booming now, and we like to watch more grand narratives-

But isn't Xu Guanwen's box office champion created by grassroots narratives also in an era of rapid progress?

Some people say that Xu Guanwen's comedies are too old-fashioned, and have long been out of date.

Sir even disagreed.

The most successful comedy in the Mainland in recent ten years, the "Crazy" series, many people think that Ning Hao imitated guy ritchie, but there is also a sadness for the bottom.

Big Brother who also likes brainwashing.

-Learn to be a thief even if you don't study history

-You should keep a low profile when you first enter the business. Do you understand

Modern Bodyguard and Crazy Stone? The same stupid thief steals treasures

A fool who is also easily brainwashed.

"Half a catty" and "Crazy Racing" are both frozen into popsicles by refrigerated trucks.

Everything starts from the grassroots.

the difference is.

Xu Guanwen is in an era when grassroots movies are everywhere.

But today's young people, how long have you not seen an ordinary person who understands poverty and doesn't treat the poor as puppets or monsters in Chinese films and dramas?

This vacuum may be the reason why the real "migrant workers" sell themselves on the Internet and amuse themselves.

who forgot the bottom floor?

who forgot to work?

Today, many young people may not know who Xu Guanwen is.

But his story, his care, is always reviving in a form that we have never noticed.

film and television are certainly not the best medicine to save the world.

but.

at least don't be a fig leaf.

It's like "working people", when businessmen play tricks for profit, when bosses start joking to avoid it, and when people at a higher level begin to interpret it as "struggling hard".

What it really dispels is the hatred and truth, love and dreams of a generation.

go back to Xu Guanwen.

His films are humorous and sharp.

but what really touches Sir is actually a kind of warm feelings.

what can I say?