A quick cut of footage, one hand cut open the bruised mouse, took out the internal organs, and put it in the pot. The camera switched, the rat meat was cooked, and Li Xuejian gave half of it to the blind dog. The blind dog wouldn't eat it, so he broke open its mouth and stuffed a rat's head and three rat leg bones into it. Li Xuejian held the remaining cooked meat in his hand and stood in front of the ears of corn and chewed carefully.

Li Xuejian said to the blind dog: "I am seventy-two, and I am the longevity of the mountain range." There was a great drought in the world, and the cooking grain was exhausted, not only did he live for another half a year, but he also raised a maize tree, which is worth it!"

At this time, something like a snowflake fluttered on Li Xuejian's face. He looked up and saw that the corn silk had turned from yellow-white to red-black overnight, and the small chaff-like hairs on the top had begun to fall. The corn is pollinating and is about to start bearing fruit. Li Xuejian had a rare smile on his face, and said excitedly: "Blind, the autumn ripening period has arrived, and the maize has knotted!"

The blind dog whined, looking particularly happy.

Li Xuejian lay on the ground, looked at the blue sky overhead, and said with a smile: "I'm going to get up until the time, autumn is ripe!"

After waking up and looking at the ears of corn carefully, the excitement on Li Xuejian's face disappeared. He found that the dark green of the maize leaves was not as thick as before, revealing a thin layer of yellow. This yellow color is not only found in the lower leaves, but also in the newly grown leaves at the top. He had grown crops all his life and knew that it was a lack of fertilizer. Now is the critical period for corn to knot, and sufficient fertilizer can be full. The best fertilizer is human manure. But all the latrines in the village were dry and smoky, and the dung was so dry that it was no longer fertile. He and the blind dog have not eaten all the time, and there is no intention of feces.

Li Xuejian remembered the leftover rat skin, and went to the ditch to look for it, but there was not even one, it should have been eaten by the blind dog. He had no choice but to go back to the village to find fertilizer. But after looking around, I couldn't find anything.

When Li Xuejian came back, he was holding a bamboo stick, and he had to stop and rest for a while every three steps, and he had no strength at all. When he returned to the shed, he saw that the blind dog was still lying there, the bowl of boiled meat water in the pot was still the same, and the oil flower was still eleven o'clock. Li Xuejian asked the blind dog: "You didn't drink?" The blind dog moved weakly and did not speak. He scooped and drank half a bowl with a spoon, and drank five o'clock at eleven o'clock, and said to the blind dog, "The rest is yours." ”

When Li Xuejian woke up the next day, he found that the green of a few corn leaves had almost faded, the yellow was like paper on the leaves, and even the red tassels on the ears had dried up. The problem is serious, and without enough fertilizer, the corn will not only fail to bear fruit, but will also die. He muttered, "What can I do about this?"

The audience's heartstrings tensed again. This movie is really tormenting, the ancestor and the blind dog have fallen into a desperate situation again and again, and they have turned the danger into a disaster again and again, can they still save the day this time? Many viewers comfort themselves in their hearts, there must be a way!

Camera switch, night scene, Li Xuejian digging the ground with a shovel. He dug a long pit, five feet wide, three feet deep, and five feet long, so that a man could lie down. This is the grave pit. The grave pit was next to the corn, and several corn roots had emerged from the pit wall.

The audience at the scene was stunned, some people desperately covered their mouths to prevent themselves from screaming, and tears blurred the eyes of countless people. They knew what the ancestor wanted to do, he wanted to bury himself next to the corn and let himself be fertilizer for the corn.

After the grave was dug up, Li Xuejian took out a pair of scissors and drilled a hole in the bottom of the tank. When the water seeped out, he glued the little hole with a handful of earth. The camera switched to a subjective lens, Li Xuejian was lying on the ground, looking at the sky overhead, slowly closing his eyes, and the picture was pitch black.

After a few seconds, the screen lit up again, and the picture was illusory, hazy, swaying, and even a little out of focus, giving people a feeling of trance and vertigo. The audience knows that this shot is still a subjective shot, simulating the state of the ancestor who has just woken up and is a little confused.

There was a rumbling sound, and the stomach was growling. Li Xue Jianqi walked to the stove and looked at the half bowl of soup still in the pot, and at six o'clock, the oil star was still moored against the edge of the pot. He scooped it up with a spoon and put it down again. This half bowl of oily soup is for a blind dog. He looked at the blind dog and said, "Three days have passed, why don't you drink it?"

The blind dog looked up at Li Xuejian, and without answering, he hung his head on his front legs again.

Li Xuejian looked at the sky, the sun was fierce, and it was a sunny day. He came to the water tank, drank a few sips of water on the tank, carried the blind dog to the grave, and said softly: "Blind, either you die or I die, whoever lives will bury the dead in this pit." ”

The blind dog didn't answer, just burst into tears. Li Xuejian put his hand on the dog's back and combed its hair, wiped a handful of tears from the corners of its eyes, and then took out a copper coin from his pocket, put the side with the word up, picked up the dog's right front paw and touched the word, and said: "Life and death, I threw this copper coin into the sky, and when it falls, the astringent side with the word is up, and you will bury me in this pit to make fertilizer, and the astringent side with the word will be downward, and I will bury you in this pit to make fertilizer." ”

The blind dog stared at the copper coin in Li Xuejian's hand and did not move, and muddy tears flowed out, ticking and falling on the newly dug grave soil.

Li Xuejian comforted: "Don't cry, when I die, I will become an animal, and I will be born as you, and if you die, you will become a human being, and you will be born as my child, and we can still live according to each other." ”

The blind dog did not cry anymore, and tried to stand up, and tried to stand up, but it lay down on the grave again.

Li Xuejian knew that the blind dog hadn't eaten for several days, so he said, "You go and drink half a bowl of oil star soup in the pot." The blind dog shook his head at Li Xuejian. Li Xuejian sighed and said, "Let's throw the copper coin now, and bury anyone in the pit while they still have some strength." With that, he tossed the copper coin into the air.

The blind dog got up from the mound and listened to the sound of the copper coins. The copper coin flew into the air and fell to the ground with a snap. Li Xuejian walked towards the copper coin, and the blind dog followed behind.

Li Xuejian walked to the front of the soil, his waist was not completely bent, he straightened up, sighed deeply, turned around and said calmly: "Blind, go and drink that half bowl of oil soup, only after drinking it will you have the strength to dig up the soil and bury me." "The blind dog stood still. Li Xuejian persuaded: "Go, be obedient, you should bury me after drinking." ”

The blind dog remained still, bent his front legs, and knelt down to him again.

Li Xuejian sighed and said: "Don't kneel, blind, this is God's will, I should be the fertilizer for maize." He picked up the copper coin, touched the dog's head, and said: "If you don't want to go, then I will throw the copper coin twice, twice with the back facing the sky and I will die, and twice with the face facing the sky you will die." ”

The blind dog got up from the ground, looked at the copper coin, and listened. Li Xuejian threw another copper coin. The copper coin fell in front of the blind dog. Li Xuejian glanced at it and said calmly: "Don't throw it anymore." ”

The blind dog looked for the sound of falling money, touched the money with his front paws, and licked the money with his tongue, and then lay down, tears flowed for a long time.

The audience also cried, sobbing sounded, and sadness and despair soaked the hearts of the audience. Someone muttered, "Why, why is this happening?"

Li Xuejian touched the dog's back and said softly: "I went to drink the half bowl of oil soup, and after drinking it, I will dig up the soil and bury me." ”

After saying this, Li Xuejian got up and went to the bottom of the scaffolding, and pulled out a thin bamboo pole, more than two feet long, and the bamboo partition in the middle was poked through, and he blew it with his mouth, which was very smooth. He stuffed the bamboo pole into the small hole under the tank, put rubber around the small hole, so that the edge of the hole could not seep a little water, and then pressed the head of the thin bamboo pole, and the water fell exactly one drop after another on the roots of the corn. In order to prevent the water from flowing into the distance, Li Xuejian used broken soil to build a small soil circle around the corn.

After doing these delicate tasks, Li Xuejian patted the soil on his hands and turned his head to look at the sun overhead. He took off the whip, stood in the open space, whipped more than ten horse whips at the sun, then hung up the horse whip, and shouted at the sun: "Master, I can still plant this maize and mature it, what can you do with my master?"

Li Xuejian walked towards the grave and said to the blind dog lying on the edge of the grave: "Bury me, you follow the path I told you to the north, to the spring ditch, where there is water, and the bones left over from the yellow wolf, where you can live until the drought, and wait until the rake mountain people escape from the outside world." He brushed the earth on his head with his hand, and then lay down against the wall of a tomb with maize roots, and covered his body with the reed mat from head to toe, and said, "Dig up the earth, blind man, and when I am buried, I will go north." ”

After speaking, Li Xuejian closed his eyes, and the screen was dark. But there were sounds, the whining of the blind dog, and the sound of the dog's paws picking at the dirt. It's just that the voice is getting quieter. After about a minute, the sound died down completely.

But the cries of the audience in the Lumière Hall rang out one after another, and some female audience members were simply crying.

The directors were also completely shocked, and this subjective long shot of more than 20 minutes stunned them. The whole subjective long shot from the grandfather opening his eyes in the morning to being buried in the soil is done in one go, perfectly portraying the psychological and physiological state of the grandfather, giving people a strong sense of substitution and impact.

Sofia Coppola lamented: "More than 20 minutes of subjective long shots, still in 3D, this guy is not crazy who is crazy!"

Jia Zhangke shook his head lightly and said: "This scene is really unimaginable, the audience follows Li Xuejian, from waking up in the morning, to throwing copper coins to determine life and death, to releasing water in the water tank, to pumping the sun with a whip, and finally calmly closing his eyes and dying, which really made the audience enter the last moment of the ancestor's life." This long shot is a great one, and it will be mentioned again and again in future history!"

Godard also nodded slightly: "There are many directors present today, and there are many who make good use of long shots, but in terms of the completion and expressiveness of long shots, none of them can compare to Zhang Ran." This subjective long shot is for Yang Suo to shoot, and I'm afraid it won't be able to shoot at this level. This is the best expression of Vertov's theory of the cinematic eye!"

Thirty seconds later, the screen suddenly lit up. Large panorama, vast mountains and blue sky overhead.

The composition of the film is a little different from the opening scene, where the mountains make up the majority of the picture, and the sky is only a slip at the top, less than a quarter. But at this time, the mountains only occupy one-third of the picture, and the sky occupies two-thirds, which is particularly empty. The contrast between the front and back pictures gives people a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

The directors present all knew that Zhang Ran was telling everyone that although the ancestor was dead, his spirit had opened up the world.

The sky was turning overcast, and the clouds were thick. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, and then a torrential downpour of rain followed. After the heavy rain, the sun came out again, the mountains gradually turned green, and soon there were voices. The camera slowly panned down, and the people who fled the famine came back, carrying covers, dishes and chopsticks, and holding a one-year-old child in their hands, and walked back to the village.

Wang Luodan and his family cleaned up the house, and suddenly remembered the ancestor and remembered that he had stayed in the mountain range for a corn seedling, so he walked towards the ancestral master's land. Far away she saw a lone shed in the field, and the grass in the field was as full as it was planted. In the green grass there was a dry corn plant, the top of which had been broken, but in the stalk like a small tree, there was a corn cob the size of a laundry mallet, which swayed calmly in the wind.

Wang Luodan came to the scaffolding and saw the reed mat on the water tank being blown to the stove by the wind. There was not a drop of water in the tank, there was a thick layer of soil. A thin bamboo inserted under the water tank has many cracks. Throw a few bowls and spoons on the east side of the water tank. A whip hangs from the trellis post above the bowl. Five feet southwest of the water tank, on the meadow close to the corn, there was a pile of grass, convex and concave above the ground, and in the middle of it a piece of grass sunk into the ground, showing a groove half a foot wide, five feet long, and three feet deep.

At the very end of the pit lay a dog in the deep grass, with many moth-eaten holes in its thin, craggy fur, and its two wells on its head were dark and deep, and its whole body was dried by the sun.

Wang Luodan found a copper coin on the ground, picked it up and saw that there were astringent noodles with words on both sides of the copper coin. It was the first time she had seen a copper coin that was the same on both sides, and she thought it was strange, so she put it in her pocket and walked towards the corn.

Wang Luodan broke the corn cob, peeled off the dry skin on the outside, and found that most of the corn kernels on it were half gray and half yellow, and only seven of them had grown, the size of a fingernail shell, and the jade grains were as translucent. The seven grains of corn were scattered in a gray shriveled space, like the only seven blue stars in the black night sky.

The faint music sounded, the camera switched, the big vista, and it was still the land of the ancestors. But the fields were cleared of weeds. In the open field, seven corns more than one person tall stood proudly in the fierce sun.

The camera cuts to the slope, the camera is shot upwards from a low position, and the seven corns are as tall as seven towering giant trees, supporting this world. A fresh breeze blows, pollen flies in the air, and it is a wave of hope......