The Director Of "My Four Grandpas" Explained

At the current juncture,China’s population is still the largest in the world.The population is classified by age group,among which the number of the elderly is increasing.The number of the elderly population is rising,proportion is increasing,the resulting new situation and cause new social problems to attract the attention of the government and all sectors of society.In the new situation above and in the new problem,that is,the problem of providing for the aged.The old-age care issue involves multiple subjects,which requires multiple layers of security and joint efforts.In short,it is a big social issue.In the vast rural areas of China,due to the low level of education,inconvenient transportation,simple and low-level livelihood skills and other reasons,the backward development,especially the insufficient economic development,has led to the lack of effective attention in the pension,the low level of pension outstanding problems,the relevant problems need to be paid attention to and implemented to solve.The author from the point of rural old-age,uses a "real movie" documentary production mode,trying to from point and line,from line to plane,the plane to the three-dimensional way presents the elegantly real and touch people heart of rural landscape,hope to be able to show a stage of all-round,multi-level rural endowment as far as possible the real situation.The author has made a lot of preparations and conducted many field visits to explore the truth in the process of combining theory with practice.In the early stage,through a large number of investigations,visits and field visits;mid-term shooting,interview,screening and editing;continuous modification and improvement in the later period.Two story lines are drawn by the way of parallel narration.The bright line shows the pain of the rural old people’s "life",while the dark line highlights the sweetness of "my heart can live for a long time".Behind the daily trivialities of pain and joy,what they yearn for is what kind of spiritual home.The four protagonists in this film are the brothers of a mother and the four grandfathers of the author.They start from the similar life starting point,but along the different life path,towards the different life end.Four grandfathers,four circumstances,four lives,four visions.My four grandfathers span more than 20 years,a longer period.Two-handed narrative logic is adopted in the processing of narrative time.Combine the continuous linear time and the continuous time existing in ideology in the narrative time period with the unit of "year".The linearity of physical time and the continuity of continuous time together construct the objective real life and subjective inner activity of this film.In the expression of continuous linear time,the four seasons of "spring,summer,autumn and winter" are taken as the connecting points,supplemented by the seasonal changes of images in linear time.The seasonal changes of imagesalso correspond to the life time of the protagonist,making the narrative structure more rigorous.In addition,the application of time separation makes the different life stages of the hero of this film correspond to each other in fact.The life of different subjects is a cycle from generation to generation in the long river of time.