A Review of the 400 Complete Works of Old Farmer's TV Series

The Old Farmer focuses on a village on the bank of the Yellow River and writes a history of rural changes caused by land reform for more than half a century with magnificent handwriting. This is an epic created by tears and suffering. It is also a work that speaks for farmers and highly restores the rural areas of China. It is truly grounded, only because the characters it depicts love our land deeply.

What impressed me most about the old farmers was their persistence. This is a groundbreaking story for a drama that spans the times. In this process, there is no doubt that the pain and suffering experienced in social change runs through the whole play, but these are obviously not the focus of the play. The most rare thing is that through suffering, we have seen the older generation's persistence in the land and their yearning for and pursuit of a better life.

The play depicts a number of distinct images, not a single-dimensional presentation, but a rather three-dimensional way, so that the audience can see a flesh-and-blood peasant image. Different from the way farmers are often misinterpreted or teased on the screen, the old farmer clearly presents this group of amiable and respectable people in an affectionate way, and even occasionally there are some "disgusting" groups. In this large group, we can see Niu Dan's image of diligent and honest government, a calculating, unwilling and resigned horse. Even we can see that this lamp is quite a fairy tale.

The drama focuses on many epoch-making nodes, whether it is land reform, three-year natural disasters, or even the later construction of new countryside, the drama has a clear context. At the same time, the director reflects the changes of these great times on individuals, from great changes to the basic life of farmers, and also gives the audience a more comprehensive understanding of the psychological growth and changes of farmers in China. It can be said that in the climax of every story, farmers also keep pace with the times, and farmers are no longer the past.

On the screen, China's 800 million farmers (940 million agricultural population), a huge group, has been ignored by society. The old farmer made a sound for them. It can be said that this drama is also a monument to 800 million farmers to some extent. To a great extent, it shows the vibrant side of the countryside and the lovely side of farmers. For the current audience, this is an opportunity to re-examine the peasants, and the stories about the struggles of generations of peasants are also inspiring to the younger generation.

As the finale of the trilogy of "Workers, Peasants and Merchants" written by the gold medal screenwriter, The Old Farmer has reached the ultimate quality of the script, and the outstanding performance of the actors in the play is also commendable: Chen, who is mostly an intellectual, plays a native farmer without any sense of disobedience, and his natural grounding gas is even more convincing, and he has created a completely different picture with the two actresses.

"The Old Farmer" shows the audience the power of silence and persistence of generations with the joys and sorrows of farmers, and at the same time creates this indelible epic with suffering and frustration.

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