synopsis
A city-bound Kazakh man returns to his long-lost hometown and recovers the warmth he has long lost with his family in the winter pasture.
Winter Pastures
创作阐述
Winter Ranch is a genre film with an authorial attitude that I hope to make, a family drama with a warmth. A good dramatic conflict is a natural formation, and as a director, you only need to present the layers of ripples stirred up by the conflict, i.e. a lot of details of life with texture, to help the audience think about the hidden secrets underneath the simplicity. The minority character is not a curiosity, it is only because the idea is inspired by the examples of friends around us. The winter pasture is a highly symbolic metaphor; in reality it is a symbol of the waning culture of the shepherds; in the play, it is the spiritual home of the protagonist's community, and, I hope, of the audience as well. The film differs from the usual traditional realism in that there are several surreal episodes intertwined with reality to show the complex inner feelings of the characters. The audio-visual devices in this movie are no small test for the creators; ordinary is not bland, and concise is not simple.
故事大纲
Wendik stayed in the city after graduation and did not return to his hometown of Altay. His father, a stubborn and traditional herdsman, had always insisted on a nomadic life and refused to move to a settlement. One day, his mother called and asked her son to come back to help his stubborn and elderly father to move to the winter pasture, and his father decided that this was the last time he would move to the pasture, and that he would take his mother and sister to stay in the herder's settlement in the spring, and put an end to the family's nomadic life. Wendik had to embark on the road back to his hometown to face the past that he did not want to mention. The unexpected death of his brother, Kwan Dik, has kept the relationship between his father and Wendyk icy, and Wendyk has always had a deep sense of guilt inside. The departure of his ex-girlfriend makes him reluctant to face this native land. Wendyk's return to the winter pasture is his final farewell to the youth and love that once plagued him, and at the same time, Wendyk has to prove to his father, who doesn't believe in him, that he's a real Kazakh and can make his family's smooth migration to the winter pasture in the Kazakh way. In the cold and harsh wind and snow to see to see is desolate and barren, lonely and helpless, but Wendyk and his family in the slow migration on the way back to the once most precious warmth.
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typology：
Drama｜Family -
director (film etc)：
Song Kunru (1913-1989), Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
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cinematographer：
Song Kunru (1913-1989), Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate -
moviemaker：
Huang Wei (1982-), Chinese footballer