Return to Dust

From my point of view, I think Return to Dust(隐入尘烟) is the best movie to watch this year. I’d recommend it not only worth seeing but also reflects real life which we hard to see or experience. Of course, some people say: I’d never see it, I don’t think it’s true. After all, it’s just a literary film. But I think everyone has their reason and evidence to stand their opinion and view after watching the file.

summary of the story

Before I recommend the movie, we should take a quick look at what kind of story the movie tells. The story describes the ordinary life of two marginalized people who get married and then stick to each other. At first glance, this story does not have the dramatic conflict of traditional commercial movies, just put a bowl of boiled water in front of you. Therefore, the performance at the box office can be imagined: there are not many people, but everyone who watched it thought it is very good.

In the process of watching the movie, it reminded me of two books: one is “Ordinary World”(《平凡的世界》因为网上没找到官方英文译名，就参考谷歌给的翻译) by Lu Yao, and the other is “Alive” by Yu Hua. What the two books and films have in common is that they focus on the too mundane life in remote rural areas.
The status quo reflected in the film

As a movie released in major theaters, it is generally very difficult for no one to watch it, especially the literary and artistic ones. This is the choice of the audience and the reaction of the market. But once the creator starts to cater to the market, he becomes a slave to the market and the audience, creating for the audience, losing his style and the soul of the filmmaker.
personal feelings

As I said before, the whole movie is actually very bland after watching it, and people who don’t even have relevant feelings will find it more boring and boring. But isn’t our real life just like that? Most of the time, it is ordinary and boring, and it may shine at a certain moment or stage, like a shooting star across the sky in our hearts.

Some people say that we should not overplay suffering, and they are right. But it is precisely because there are many sufferings in reality that we dare not look at directly, and there are many movies and other works that tell us what’s suffering and how to face it.