How to evaluate Xu Tong's tramp trilogy?

Xu Tong's Wheat Harvest, Fortune Telling and Soup-stock Head are called "Wandering Trilogy", which are three documentaries focusing on the people at the bottom of society. Tramp is different from the general concepts of "bottom" and "grassroots". In contrast, they are more difficult to survive, so they are more energetic and energetic. They are out of order, exiled by order, folded in the third dimension of China.

Regarding "vagrants", scholar Wang Xuetai explained in his book "Vagrant Culture and China Society": "Anyone who wanders between cities and towns, has no fixed means of subsistence, is forced to make a living, mainly sells physical or mental strength, and also obtains means of subsistence by improper means can be regarded as vagrants. The tramp is at the bottom of society. "

During the filming of The Wanderer trilogy, Xu Tong lived with the subjects and even became close friends with some people. What Xu Tong recorded with the lens is the truest and most tenacious life of these people, and it also reveals the truest life state of people in this corner for us.

Among the tramp trilogy, fortune telling has the highest score. The main character of this film is Li Baicheng, a fortune teller who was born lame. He lived alone for half his life and married at the age of 42. Because of his lame leg, every time he meets the urban management police, he runs the slowest in a hundred miles and is often caught.

As the first part of the homeless trilogy, Wheat Harvest is also the pioneering work directed by Xu Tong, but it is also the most controversial one in the trilogy. Director Xu Tong's strength lies in that he can use the most vivid lens to record, observe from the most equal perspective and look up from the lowest perspective, but he only forgets the secular desires. The people in his lens are material, actors and figures, not real people who need secular eyes to examine.