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The "Donkey Gets Water" shown at the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival was not the sample film edited by Pei Xiaonan, but the final version carefully edited by Xu Cun and Pei Xiaonan.

The reason why "Donkey Gets Water" can become the opening film of the Venice Film Festival is not all because of his artistry, but to a large extent because of its sense of picture - because Li Qing used a lot of later shooting techniques in the filming of "Donkey Gets Water", the picture texture of "Donkey Gets Water" is much stronger than that of films of this era, including Hollywood films known for their face painting.

Therefore, as soon as the film was played, the picture of "Donkey Gets Water" was ahead of the times and made people who like movies fall into a very surprising feeling.

Therefore, before "Donkey Gets Water" was officially broadcast, it made many people look forward to it.

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The first half of "Donkey Gets Water" is hilarious, especially Shakespeare's monologue, which makes many people lean forward and back together.

But the second half took a sharp turn, piercing people's hearts, and people couldn't let go for a long time.

People can't help but wonder, can there be another world, another ending?

Perhaps, Principal Sun will have enough funds to organize classrooms, buy teaching aids, and issue scholarships, and he will be able to have enough students to truly realize his ambitions. In another world, Principal Sun's school is full of students, reading loudly, and there are really students who have changed their destiny because of knowledge, becoming teachers and doctors. Perhaps, in President Sun's imagination, he could single-handedly transform the local environment, realize the dream of education, transform the backward and ignorant countryside they thought was backward, and let China achieve rejuvenation. - Don't forget why we're here in the first place!

Perhaps, in the imaginary world of Pei Kuishan, after his sincere confession, Zhang Yiman would be moved to tears, and then the little bird snuggled up to him, no longer, and the two went to the Southwest Associated University together. In that world, Pei Kuishan would write his own poetry collection for Zhang Yiman, and Zhang Yiman would sing for the poetry collection and become a couple. It is talked about by future generations. - I said I like you, I want to marry you, I want to live with you for the rest of my life!

Perhaps, in another world, no one will shoot at Zhou Tienan, Zhou Tienan can always stick to his principles and always hold his backbone. - Who dares to pass from me!

Perhaps, in another world, Zhang Yiman can be tolerated by the people around him and gain his own freedom. - I'm just, I like it, I do. I just want to live my life better.

Perhaps, in another world, the coppersmith gained knowledge and was able to change his life, go to the town, go to the city, change his life, so that his next generation could get an education and no longer be oppressed by others. - I remember the first day I came here, the principal told me that there is no class to teach.

However, everyone has gone to the opposite of their own imagination, there is no imagination at all, there is no other world, everyone is compromising with themselves step by step, and finally going to the abyss of no return, from best friends who work together to murderers of their companions.

As an idealist, Principal Sun lost his dream of education, he slipped farther and farther, he acquiesced to Zhang Yiman's behavior of trading with his body, he acquiesced to Pei Kuishan's abuse, he cut off Zhang Yiman's short hair with his own hands, and he forced his daughter to lie by kneeling. - Those who do big things are not informal!

Pei Kuishan lost his love, and his beautiful expectations were shattered, turning into a possessiveness that would be destroyed if he couldn't get it. He watched Zhang Yiman sleep with the coppersmith, and his heart was dripping blood. In the end, he pointed at Zhang Yiman's nose and humiliated him in every way. - You're a bitch!

Zhou Tienan lost his principles and lost his blood. Power can bend the spine and reverse right and wrong. Zhou Tienan really understood power, understood that the crosses of fists could not compete with the crosses of death, and he bowed his head to power. Do you know what it's like for a bullet to fly in your face? I used to be better than you, Jiajia, is it useful? Let me tell you, when someone holds a gun to the head, you know what to do.

Zhang Yiman lost her freedom, she was once again reduced to the original environment, no one tolerated her, no freedom, she was arbitrarily humiliated, trampled on, and no one cared about her flowers. - Don't step on my flowers!

Everyone who used to be a maverick has abandoned who he once was.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the coppersmith's wife.

At the end of the wedding, the coppersmith's wife appeared.

Unlike the previous appearance, this time, no one could laugh at the ugly face of the coppersmith's wife.

At the end of the film, all the people who can laugh are the audience who float outside the story.

The coppersmith's wife is ugly, fierce and dirty, but she is the most consistent person, she is the one who has never hurt others.

Even Sun Jia was forced to lie in the end.

In the face of the coppersmith's betrayal, she still chooses to defend - you are the cattle!

Faced with the muzzle of the gun at the wedding, she chose to grab the gun, and she is the only person in the whole movie who is not afraid of force.

She sabotages the wedding and eventually reveals the farce.

But so what? Still no one likes her. The Ministry of Education lost Ross' funding, the school reduced its sponsorship, and the coppersmith would not return.

But the Ministry of Education still exists, the school still exists, and Principal Sun still exists. Before, it was like a joke. The few who stayed behind could even selectively forget about it, after all, it didn't change anything substantially.

Pity!

Zhang Yiman used the way of ending her own life to remind others that all this has not happened, you are all executioners!

At the end of the film, Sun Jia went to Yan'an.

It's just that, in reality, where is Yan'an?

(In 1942, Yan'an was in the midst of a period of rectification, and most of the intellectuals were brutalized. ）

Transform the greed, ignorance, weakness, and selfishness of the Chinese peasants.

Several protagonists can't escape the inferior nature of the people.

For a good purpose, keep doing the wrong things, and use good wishes as an excuse for yourself to break through the bottom line.

The intellectuals' rescue of China from a desperate situation ended in failure, but the peasant uprising finally succeeded.

In response to a sentence in the film: the most uneducated people in China may not be the peasants......

It was a long, long time before the film ended, and there was applause.

The applause wakes up those who are still immersed in thought, and then these awake people remember that they have to applaud when they see a good movie, and then they join in the applause.

The applause was like a tide, and it did not subside for a long time......

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