Story about 1428 / Sichuan earthquake / 1428/四川大地震
May 12, 2008, 14: 28, the Sichuan earthquake. Part I: 10 days after the earthquake. Public grief, an...
May 12, 2008, 14: 28, the Sichuan earthquake. Part I: 10 days after the earthquake. Public grief, and relief Urgent among the avalanche of reports and rescue, "survival" as the most important word: struggling to find and rescue their loved ones personal, family broke our hearts, rescued the mountains affected pig farms livestock to collect the meager value of scrap metal from the rubble of collapsed ... ruins, ragged tramps wandering, like a "fool" in the Tarot, sit on the sidelines absurd misfortune of a sudden come Les Miserables; a Place a monk and a Taoist priest summed up the earthquake: "The Perfect Storm, because the temple land God long time no one seriously altar." Part II: 210 days after the earthquake. Sichuan this harsh midwinter, the villagers are preparing for the Lunar New Year celebration. Redevelopment projects and disaster relief funds to implement the vagabonds and his family are quite dissatisfied. In order to meet the visit of the central leadership, thorough village clean-up and tent refugee resettlement is in progress (obviously everyone will be admitted to before the arrival of winter the new resettlement promise not completely fulfilled). Easy placement of housing areas, the poor quality of the transformer caused power outages, disrupting everyone's dinner. New Year's morning, overlooking Beichuan - the worst affected areas of the county: the visitors a constant stream of come, from time to time to bargain with the vendors selling the most tragic scenes DVD disc to commemorate the album means to take pictures before the ruins of 7 million people were killed instantly with a sightseeing .... Director's notes May 12, 2008 8.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China, nearly one hundred thousand live the life of the sudden interruption of the contact with the world, countless buildings, bridges, highways and instantly order to ruins. The whole of China and people around the world with compassion and kindness love and feel sorry for these innocent lives, and have extended assistance to help those people in the disaster. After all, to help people experiencing disaster is our human instinct, out of conscience and humanitarian spirit. Meanwhile, the disaster has also become an opportunity to test the depths of which associated with each individual in the face of disaster to show the behavior of the motives behind. These actions and motives in the day-to-day state in the ordinary ordinary day and turn a blind eye, in a special event, it is invisible to the amplification in front of us. The disaster is a special background, in the unusual context of human nature, the bright and dark highlights at a glance. From all causes in the crumbling ruins of the aftershocks, the absurd spectacle staged at any time, and increasingly people enlightening. I do not want to see reality, but I can not be avoided, the record is the only way. Eventually there will be seeds of destruction of land issued shoots, collapsed homes can be rebuilt, deceased people will have a new life to replace, but if we have the courage to face our hearts, to reflect on our past, constraints, both behavior our limitations will lead to a new disaster. Photographed the film, pay homage to the victims of the people.