editorial comment/note
The large-scale documentary film "Awesome, My Country" jointly produced by CCTV and China Film Co., Ltd. was released on March 2, which triggered a nationwide movie-watching craze and won a double harvest at the box office. Up to now, the national box office of this film has exceeded 300 million yuan, setting a new box office record for China Documentary films. Many viewers spontaneously entered the cinema, and a family of three generations watched the movie together, and the feeling of review became a hot topic between generations.
With magnificent songs, music and inspiring commentary, this film shows China’s remarkable achievements in the past five years, such as exploring space, developing the deep sea, building a world-class super project, connecting the world with 5G technology, working hard to help the poor, and caring for compatriots to evacuate overseas Chinese, on the big screen, and draws a masterpiece of the new era. In the magnificent scenes, people from all walks of life can find their own figure, deeply feel the great achievements brought by hard work, and personally appreciate the growing vitality of the motherland. Guangming Daily published five articles today, showing the heartfelt voices of audiences from different industries and fields after watching the movie "Awesome, My Country".
Feeding back parents’ cultural feast
Author: Tang Xianwen (Unit: Propaganda Department of Xizang Autonomous Region Party Committee)
"In the year of parents, you must know. One is happy, and the other is afraid. " After the Spring Festival, my parents are already in their hometown, while my parents-in-law are over 70 years old and have entered an ancient age. How to use culture to feed back parents who are getting old is a family matter that my wife and I often discuss and care about in recent years.
On the evening of March 5th, my colleagues and I watched the movie "Awesome, My Country" in Lhasa, Tibet. The magnificent and vivid pictures, inspiring shots and touching stories immediately shocked me both visually and spiritually. I was deeply moved when I saw the picture of Nan Rendong, the chief scientist of FAST, talking with a faint spirit before his death. When I saw the majestic military parade and Yemen’s evacuation of overseas Chinese, I couldn’t help but send a WeChat to my lover. "I am watching" Amazing, My Country ".I suggest taking my parents to have a look, which can inspire confidence, broaden my mind and love life." My wife wrote back, "OK, I was going to watch it with my parents on Saturday."
岳父母都是退休教师，岳父还是一名老党员，他们每天必看央视新闻联播。国际局势的风云变幻，他们都会关注。我想，让老人家看看强军尖兵的热血风貌、装备精良的国防实力、保家卫国的威武之师，一定会让他们心花怒放、信心满满。
岳父母出生于上世纪40年代初，兵荒马乱、民不聊生的苦难岁月给他们幼年留下难以磨灭的痛苦印记。看完《厉害了，我的国》，两位老人抚今追昔，感慨万千：现在真是太平盛世，领袖有魄力，国家有力量，我们安享晚年生活，不仅有获得感、幸福感，更有安全感！
晚上看完电影，我又打电话给湖南老家的妹妹，请她带老爸老妈去看《厉害了，我的国》。3月8日下午，妹妹利用半天休息带母亲观看影片，并发来微信，“妈妈说，影片让她觉得当个中国人十分自豪！”晚上，我给母亲打电话，母亲告诉我，电影好看，路也修得好，桥也建得好，有些变化想都想不到。习主席话也讲得好，稳，听了蛮舒服、蛮喜欢。这几年习主席搞得好。母亲也问我，在南京时开的船有没有电影里的这么大，认不认识电影里那个驻村干部。
My sister’s two children went to college last year and "ran away" from their parents. Although my mother is still used to getting up at dawn, there is no "main battlefield" at home, and my mother may have a lot of discomfort. My father is also an old party member. He still has a career to take care of, and his schedule is full. Relatives say that he is "too busy to win all day", and he still doesn’t know that his old age is coming. How to make my mother’s life full, her heart full, her mind open, and her spirit happy, made me think it over and over again.
Parents who are in their twilight years are getting weaker and weaker, and their spirits are getting worse. Sometimes they are lonely, often nostalgic and easily sad. I think, letting parents watch more movies and TV works full of positive energy like "Awesome, My Country" will definitely make them feel refreshed, confident, proud and happy, and enjoy their body and mind in aesthetic judgment, which can reduce their sadness and pessimism. Let them know more about the new changes, progress and achievements in all aspects of the motherland, and walk with the great motherland and keep pace with the new era, which can relieve loneliness. Let them see the beautiful picture of happiness and people’s livelihood, the rapid development of science and technology, and the magnificent course of the motherland’s prosperity, which is "enough for audio-visual entertainment", will definitely make their eyes shine and their hearts open-minded, and can prevent decadence and depression. I hope that if my parents have spare capacity, they will learn literature, get in touch with new things and learn more new knowledge, and still regard learning as the red line of life, leading and enriching their lives.
Home is the smallest country, and there are thousands of countries. Parents are self-disciplined, patriotic and dedicated, "supporting the family with one hand and filling the country with one heart." I can see my parents’ figures and faces from the film. It is the root of parents’ lofty beauty and deep happiness that they pay equal attention to the feelings of home and country, neither of them can be less, and they pay no regrets for their children and are satisfied with their dedication to the motherland. "Dedicating this body and mind to the motherland" can not only guide the heart, but also cultivate the family style, so that the feelings of the family and the tradition of loyalty and filial piety can be carried forward from generation to generation.
I expect that the cinema can broadcast more good films that infect, please and influence people, so that the main theme full of positive energy can enrich the spiritual world of parents and enhance their spiritual realm.
My dream: even in old age, a person can still shine and still have a chance to make life enter a new good situation! Let the ancient saying that "Sang Yu is late, and the sky is full of rosy clouds" truly become a reality in the new era of the motherland.
I wish: the motherland will become stronger day by day and the people will be happy day by day. Just as a song says, "My country is amazing, I love you and my motherland. The Belt and Road and five continents are holding hands, and the dragon takes off a miracle on earth. Your country is changing with each passing day. Why are you afraid of the wind and rain? Your smile is brilliant. party flag holds high the peace and tranquility of the army. Dear motherland, I love you wholeheartedly."
I pray that my parents can live to be 100 years old. At that time, the four old people can not only witness the great rejuvenation of the nation and the dream of the motherland come true, but also I may be able to do my bit for the cultural cause of the motherland. I think my mother named me at that time, the most direct and simple original intention and idea was not to make me a cultural person who contributed to the motherland. I will live up to my mother and Do not forget your initiative mind, and I will be diligent and diligent. If my mother’s dream and mine can be realized together with my motherland’s dream, isn’t it a new era of "loyalty and filial piety"?
The memory of a railway man crying
Author: Tan Xiaojian (Unit: China Railway Corporation)
I have seen many documentaries, but this is an "unexpected" viewing experience. When the melody of the theme song "New World" sounded at the end of the film, and the audience stood up and applauded "Awesome, My Country", there was a long-lost and boiling emotion surging in the chest for a long time.
This is a work that conforms to the voice of the times. It comprehensively presents the great achievements that China has made in the past five years under the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing. In the past five years, China has changed from "catching up" to "leading" in many fields, leaving a touch of "China Red" on the international stage that runs through time and space.
As a railway man, seeing the shining posture of the Mercedes-Benz high-speed train "Fuxing" and the winding dragon of the Central European train in the movie, I was sometimes excited, and sometimes tears filled my eyes. My heart, which has been honed and dulled over the years, was ignited by "Awesome, My Country", which caused a lot of thoughts. That was 20 years ago. I was a diesel locomotive train driver. At that time, the speed of freight trains did not exceed 60 kilometers. Once I drove a freight train of nearly 4,000 tons on the Guangzhou-Shaoguan section of the Beijing-Guangzhou line, and the train was running at a speed of less than 15 kilometers per hour near the top of the slope! It’s raining outside, the wheels keep idling and slipping, and the locomotive sanding device fails again, so the train is in danger of stopping on the slope. Once stopped, there is not only the danger of slipping back, but also the operation order of the following trains and even the whole Beijing-Guangzhou line will be affected. In desperation, my co-driver jumped off the locomotive, used his lunch box to load sand from the locomotive sand box, and then ran to the front of the rail to carry out artificial sanding … … Thought of here, I wet my skirt with tears, which are embarrassing tears!
Ten years ago, I stood on the locomotive of Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed train, and saw the spacious and bright cab, modern operation platform, my train driver brother with tie and white gloves, driving the high-speed train with skill and confidence. When the train test speed reaches 350 kilometers, my heart will jump out of my throat, which is the highest speed of ground transportation I have experienced in my life … … Tears welled up in my eyes. This is the speed created by Chinese! This time it is tears of joy and excitement!
Three years ago, I stood at the construction site of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway. Rows of modern large-scale construction machines were displayed like mighty soldiers, and bright flags fluttered in the wind. I think of the humiliation that Zhan Tianyou endured in 1905 to build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. At that time, the Americans said, "Chinese who can build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway has not yet been born!" Today, more than 100 years later, in the same place and on the same line, we will build the world’s most advanced intelligent high-speed railway and create a "quality project, intelligent Beijing-Zhangjiakou"! Looking back on the past, the vicissitudes of life have changed dramatically, and once again my tears are running. This is a tear that pays tribute to the railway sages and is determined to struggle!
Two years ago, I was standing in the driver’s cab of Zhengzhou-Xuzhou high-speed train. When two Chinese standard EMUs, "golden phoenix" and "Blue Dolphin", completed the first reconnection test of operating high-speed trains in the world with the impressive results that the error of meeting place was not more than 200 meters and the error of meeting time was not more than 2 seconds, I wrote: You are "Blue Dolphin"/I am "golden phoenix"/You and I meet on Zhengzhou-Xuzhou high-speed train/You have you. After writing, I stopped writing and couldn’t speak, only tears flowed. This time, it is a proud and proud tear!
In recent years, I saw people of different nationalities, different colors and different languages stroking Chinese standard EMUs at China high-speed rail exhibitions in Berlin, Yekaterinburg, Addis Ababa, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and even when politicians from various countries such as Medvedev, Zoco and liow tiong lai personally experienced the simulated driving of high-speed rail and praised China Railway, I could not help but weep again. This is a young man from a peasant village, grateful to the people of the motherland and cheering the tears of the great era!
Less than 90 minutes after the movie ended, my tears as a railway man had soaked my clothes. I shouted from the burning bottom of my heart: "I am fortunate to meet the new era and have no regrets in this life!"
Real and touching national movies
Author: Deng Jianyang (Unit: Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture)
Before the winter vacation of my freshman year ended, I went into the cinema to watch the movie Awesome, My Country. More than half of the audience in the cinema at the weekend morning show have been seated, which is an attendance rate that Hollywood blockbusters can’t match in the past.
Under the attention of the audience, the film opened beautifully. A series of "super projects" symbolizing the rapid development of China jumped into my eyes with the launch of "Dragon", "Mozi", "Revival" and "Heavenly Palace". From time to time, there were exclamations in the screening room. Everyone was deeply impressed by the film’s great country style and great country weather, and they felt how proud they were to be a Chinese. After completing the macro narration of these "super projects", the picture turned to Zhaxigang village in Tibet. A poverty alleviation cadre named Luocuo is struggling to walk on the muddy road to the home of the poverty alleviation object. Like dozens of times before, Luocuo’s poverty alleviation proposal was flatly rejected. Facing the camera, she hid her face and wept helplessly. However, Lotso didn’t give up. She chose to keep trying, because it was her duty and mission. The rapid progress of the policy of "precise poverty alleviation" is precisely because of the persistent efforts and no regrets of these grassroots cadres.
There are many such characters and stories in the film. The creativity of China people generate is creating one miracle after another. It is precisely because of countless Chinese’s hard work in all walks of life that it has achieved remarkable miracles as a great country. On the "Fuxing", a conductor’s kind smile makes you feel the intimacy and comfort of high-speed rail service; When the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is about to open to traffic, a skilled worker is making the final debugging of the instrument, which makes you proud of China manufacturing. At the construction site of "West-to-East Gas Transmission", a worker attentively controls the crane laying the pipeline, which makes you feel the inner charm of the craftsman spirit.
As a college student, I am glad that I grew up in a new era, and I can have broader resources to explore the mysteries of the world, have a more leisurely attitude to pursue my inner dreams, and have a more vigorous pace to summon a better tomorrow. The people have expectations and the country has a future; The people have to struggle and the country has hope. As the theme song of the movie "A New World" sings: "We are confident, we will move forward and watch the Chinese people move towards a new world!" When everyone’s yearning for a better life will be answered, when every effort will be given meaning and value, happiness and sense of gain will also spread and flow, and the new era will spread like a picture scroll. This is really a touching national film.
Behind the box office of over 300 million
Author: Feng Zongze (Unit: State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television)
Awesome, My Country, as a documentary film rarely seen on the screen, has a unique perspective and novel theme, and has written a gorgeous chapter of China in the new era with images. A large number of spectacular aerial shots in the film record a series of China contributions, such as the largest radio telescope FAST in human history, the world’s largest offshore drilling platform "Blue Whale 2" and Saihanba Forest Farm awarded the "Guardian of the Earth" award by the United Nations Environment Programme. From the dream-realizing project, scientific and technological innovation, green rise and other angles, China’s great power is fully displayed, and a group of rare shocking pictures are presented to the audience with images. The film micro-expresses big events, popularizes big topics, and tells the shocking images of China Super Project and the stories behind them. It is a meticulous meticulous meticulous painting, which truly and objectively presents the earth-shaking changes experienced by the Republic in the past five years, shows the stories of unknown behind-the-scenes strugglers, injects a clean stream into the entertainment-oriented film market, and lets the audience see the strugglers behind the prosperity of the motherland. The film presents the audience with a new look of the great motherland in the new era, which inspires the audience’s deep sense of accomplishment and pride. The audience seems to be at the forefront of the motherland’s construction, passionate and surging, and the film brings the audience an unprecedented peak experience. Such as mountains, continuous ups and downs; Like the sea, magnificent.
For a long time, noise and impetuousness have become the mainstream of the film market, blindly pursuing audio-visual shock and stunt shots. While the audience lamented the gorgeous scene of the film, they lacked emotional identification with the film. In fact, the value of movies depends on the depth of human emotions, which directly comes from the creator’s perception and recognition of all things in nature. Denis Derot said: "Without the quality of emotion, no style can touch people’s hearts." The appeal of artistic works depends to a great extent on whether the contents of the works convey subjective feelings uniquely, clearly and sincerely. The success of Awesome, My Country is full of artistic appeal, because its seemingly calm and objective lens shows the profound cultural connotation of the Chinese nation, the virtue of self-improvement and the way of Kun.
"Amazing, My Country" objectively records the vivid scenes of national construction in the past five years with the lens. While showing the hard power of the country, it uses images to freeze the moments of the strugglers, closely combines artistic creation with the people, and leads the audience to feel the development and changes in the past five years with the unique light and shadow charm of the film, and jointly inspires the audience’s inner value recognition. From the development thinking of "building is better than buying, buying is better than renting" to the advent of domestic large aircraft, and then to the entry of "Xiaolong" into the sea, "EMU" into the WTO and "Tiangong" into orbit, the audience marveled at the development achievements in the past five years, but also feared the prosperity of life.
The film is fixed again and again in the picture of the top leader’s general secretary’s investigation. From encouragement to C919 researchers to condolences to the old red areas; From the mobilization of the front line of motor train production to the inspection of frontier posts; From the on-site command of the launch center to the specific guidance in poor mountainous areas, Awesome, My Country is simple and fair in content and full in information. It reproduces the figure of the Supreme Leader General Secretary struggling in the front line for the audience, presents the audience with the precious image that the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader Comrade as the core is leading the people of all ethnic groups in the country to strive hard with unprecedented spirit and courage, and depicts the prosperous scene of China welcoming a new era. It is an era blockbuster, a cultural blockbuster and a national blockbuster with endless charm.
A happy life is tangible.
Author: Guo Tianbao (Unit: Zhangjiajie Municipal Committee of Hunan Province)
At the beginning of March, Awesome, My Country was born. Zhangjiajie, a small town in the northwest of Hunan Province and a famous tourist resort, undoubtedly triggered a movie-watching craze that swept the city.
The construction workers of key project sites such as Zhangjiajie Construction Headquarters of Guizhou-Zhangjiakou-Changzhou Railway and Dayong Ancient City have not changed their work clothes and sat in the seats of the cinema. Super projects such as Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), Mozi, Jiaolong, Tiangong-2, C919, China Bridge, China Road, China Port and China Net spread all over the country, reaching the vast sky and the deep seabed. The workers were impressed by the spectacular and exquisite shooting pictures, and were moved by the craftsman spirit of perseverance and Excellence. A worker said excitedly, "I saw myself in the movie and was really proud of myself."
Fifty "Weavers" from Tujia Brocade Company, who just got rid of poverty and made a fortune and presented Tujia Brocade to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, walked into the cinema with excitement, and more than 500 local poor people were invited to the cinema in scenic spots such as Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge … … The film data is tangible and the story is telling. All touch the heart and resonate. The motherland is rich and strong, and its policies are superior. The audience felt: "We have caught up with a good era." The fearless belief of getting rid of poverty and running towards a well-off society together has been activated, amplified and strengthened.
Teachers and students from all primary and secondary schools came to the cinema, 32 descendants of the old Red Army and martyrs from Sangzhi County, an old revolutionary base area, came to the cinema, and troops stationed in Zhang, armed police fire officers and soldiers and public security police came to the cinema … … People from all walks of life, groups and all walks of life in Zhangjiajie, a small mountain city, were touched by each other and spontaneously rushed to a 90-minute screen ceremony, forming a unique "Zhangjiajie phenomenon". Cinema has become people’s "spiritual castle".
All news media in the city found the biggest news hot spot, focus and bright spot highly concentrated overnight, and pointed their cameras and strokes at "Awesome, My Country" in succession. Since the film was released, Zhangjiajie municipal radio and television, newspapers, internet and other media have published and forwarded more than 200 reports on "Awesome, My Country". Six cinemas in the city underestimated the sudden climax of watching movies, so they had to temporarily cancel the staff leave, adjust the screening schedule and open a "green channel" to meet the viewing demand.
In a feast of light and shadow that impacts the vision and washes the soul, every character can touch the prototype around him, every shot can reach the heart irresistibly and resonate, and every achievement writes about the Chinese weather and shows China’s strength. "Amazing, My Country" has inspired the spiritual tension of different classes in all directions, activated the spiritual potential of different groups, and annotated and interpreted the great country spirit of every Chinese descendant who bravely moved forward and persisted in dreaming. In Zhangjiajie, a "green land, red home", 1.7 million cadres and masses have a stronger sense of identity, belonging and pride in Socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era.
"People should have a little spirit." People can’t stand without spirit, and countries can’t stand without spirit. Spirit is the ideological consciousness of firm belief and the greatest force to advance the cause. Long March spirit, Yan ‘an spirit, Nanniwan spirit, Bethune spirit, Lei Feng spirit and flood fighting spirit … … All played an inspiring and cohesive role in the revolutionary period and socialist construction period. The admiration, study and application of spirit is the "ultimate password" to improve self-cultivation, firm will and aggregate strength.
The "China Miracle" and "China Power" displayed in the film are the spiritual source centered on serving the overall situation. The spirit of "working hard", "willing to contribute" and "overcoming difficulties" contained in the film is the spiritual motivation to raise the flag and lead the way. To do a good job of grass-roots propaganda and ideological work in the new era, we should base ourselves on the overall vision, stand at the forefront of the times, and focus on the frontline grass-roots units. The film inspires us to closely follow the pulse of the times to create masterpieces, and to impress, infect and educate people with literary and artistic works that are "sticky, dewy and steaming". It is necessary to combine the needs of grassroots audiences to innovate expression methods, grasp the construction of new media at the grassroots level, tell the truth from a small angle, tell local stories well in mass language, and make the party’s innovation theory and the brilliant achievements of the motherland easy to understand and vivid. It is necessary to accelerate the promotion of culture to benefit the people, integrate and revitalize cultural resources with grassroots characteristics, transform them into cultural products and cultural industries, and continuously promote the construction of a well-off culture. Only in this way can we gain market recognition and become a phenomenal cultural product.
Guangming Daily (12th edition, March 17, 2018)