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Return to Dust (2022) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
隐入尘烟
8.0 (872 ratings) director: 李睿珺 actor: 武仁林 / 海清
other title: 隐入尘烟 / 隱入塵煙
2022 film directed by Li Ruijun
Sept. 14, 2022 watched
這怎麼就不是《二舅》?很納悶,這些個文藝工作者對這種由非專業演員被鏡頭震懾出來的木納、緩慢、沉默、平和、慷慨等等“美德”是為什麼有這麼大的癮呢。體現農村任何形式的美好,全方位美好也好,苦難之中殘喘的美也好,就必須由一個老實巴交的沉默農民來呈現不可。好像覺得農村的苦還不是很得勁兒,得用一個甚至兩個半殘疾的人來烘托才行。動作和語言緩慢到1.5倍速快進才終於覺得這是平常人在呈現他的生活,不是一個導演情懷在提線的木偶。
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狮子山下:日出日落 (1975) Douban
獅子山下:日出日落
director: 张敏仪 actor: 夏雨 / 江毅
other title: 獅子山下:日出日落 / Sunise Sunset
七十年代初,一群屈居在鐵皮木板下的安置區居民,正苦候著政府徙置的安排。擠逼侷促的生活空間,基本設施的嚴重缺乏和惡劣嘈吵的居住環境引致居民間的爭拗埋怨,甚至抱著「各家自掃門前雪」的冷漠態度。直至一名老翁的猝死和一場大火,居民終於領悟到互助互愛的重要性,而他們最後亦得到徙置,離開這非人生活的地方。
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Goodreads
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
author: Barbara Ehrenreich publishing house: Owl Books (Henry Holt) 2002 - 5
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor. ISBN: 9781449888848
Dec. 18, 2021 read
以親身體驗寫出窮人是如何在每一步都在設法應對這個不公平的社會給他們製造的艱難。誰再說出窮人爬不起來是因為他們不努力的,就用這本書扇他們的嘴巴。
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