Recently, the humanities documentaries "The Second Time in Life" and "Where Elephants Haunt" have been broadcast, presenting the stories of ordinary people who feel warm or heartache.
This kind of "small but refined" documentaries that open up humanistic observations from small incisions closely follow the trend, have their own independent perspective and thinking, and are deeply loved by young people.
Reporter Shi Wenjing
The ups and downs of ordinary people
It is easy to empathize with the audience
The previous "First Time in Life" told about ordinary people facing unknown challenges, going to school for the first time, going to work for the first time, entering the military camp for the first time, and the "first time" had more surprises and shining moments.
The just-launched "Second Life" talks about life's turning points, accidents, setbacks, confrontations, etc. "Four groups of opposite keywords present eight life pictures and complex stories of ordinary people.
The first episode of "Second Life", "Circle", tells a touching story of family search.
The children who were abducted by human traffickers 18 years ago were reunited with their biological parents. The documentary tells the story from the perspectives of biological parents, adoptive parents, abducted children, human traffickers, and the police.
One side is the ecstasy of the biological parents finding the child and the selfless affection of giving money and love, the other side is the practical helplessness of the adoptive parents, and the other side is the kidnapped and sold child being involved in the relationship between the two sides. The camera cuts into this story from multiple angles, showing Bring out the real ups and downs of ordinary people.
The film captured many details that made people cry, which made many viewers break their defenses.
The "Na" episode of the documentary tells about a wheelchair trip to Tibet to reconcile with himself; "Rejection" tells about the life of grooming who is unwilling to be influenced by his appearance; "Fei" tells about self-redemption after stepping out of the high wall; Tells the diary of an assembly line worker.
After the documentary was broadcast, the audience told how they were touched by the documentary.
The director of the film said that he hoped that everyone who watched the film could feel the belief in life from their experience.
The documentary's copywriting is amazing, with quotes from philosophers, writers, and sociologists to explain and articulate the choices and emotions of ordinary people.
The ongoing broadcast of "Where Elephants Haunt" is about the impact of children's serious illness on families.
The first episode is about leukemia. The very young child is an old patient in the hospital. The film truly presents the happy life and painful treatment process of a sick boy, and captures the child's delicate life after the illness. Observation, very emotional.
The second episode of the show focuses on childhood depression and other diseases. It is about a sick child and the "sick" family behind it. The pain, loneliness, support, and tenacity of ordinary people often make the audience feel the same.
The documentary "Wonderful Eggs", which sparked audience discussion, focused on the story of women's fertility, objectively recorded the diverse voices who experienced fertility choices, and truly recorded women's choices, dilemmas, and worries when facing fertility.
Different groups of people have different fertility stories. The documentary filmed the old topic of childbirth through themes such as "Creating a Talent Show", "Last Hope", "Recovered from Lost", "New Ideas from Eggs", "Highly Determined Babies" and "Birth in the Future". issue.
The reason why these documentaries that focus on major events in life are given high marks is because the documentaries observe and record ordinary people. From a calm, objective and warm perspective, they show the tenacity and vitality of ordinary people in the face of the waves of life. This kind of touching in life can easily make the audience empathize.
"Small but Beautiful" Documentary
Open a new perspective to see the world
Recently, a batch of humanistic documentaries with feelings, depth and unique perspective have been well received by the audience, such as "My White Coat 2", "Jianghu Restaurant 2", "It's Hard, Eat First", "The Great Mother", "But there are still books" "The Bookstore, Meet You", "Guarding the Liberation West" and so on.
The just-launched six-episode documentary "Bookstore, Meet You" focuses on 5 cities and 6 bookstores, including Wansheng Bookstore in Beijing, Baicaoyuan Bookstore in Wuhan, Fangsuo in Chengdu, and Youhe Bookstore in Wuhan Wait, in the accompanying interviews and documentary filming, I met all kinds of scholars, shared their different life stories, and talked about some stories that may not be so solemn but must be interesting.
The food documentary program "It's Hard, Eat First" focuses on ordinary infrastructure builders, but the format is more fun.
Sports athlete Jeremy Lin and others made a "surprise meal" for the hard-working front-line practitioners, while road workers, excavator drivers, construction brothers, and maintenance masters told stories of their struggles.
The 12 mothers in the documentary "The Great Mother" come from many countries. The mothers have different ages, occupations, growth environments, educational backgrounds, and survival pressures. The concepts and choices of educating children are also very different.
There are both typical cases of "chicken baby" and typical cases of relaxation education in the film. The comparison of different mothers and different education methods has caused a lot of thinking.
The third season of "Guardian Jiefang West", which has just been broadcasted, is a documentary, but it has a full sense of online variety show. In a serious and interesting atmosphere, it presents a strange story that happened in a police station.
Dramatic stories such as "beaten by his girlfriend's fiance", "smashed his car angrily after drinking", and "the suspect was caught on the spot while watching the fun" satisfied the audience's "eating melon" mentality.
The documentary shows the complexities of life, and also has the effect of popularizing the law and propaganda.
These documentaries, which record people and the world from various perspectives, have attracted the attention of young people because the documentaries present the stories of ordinary people in the ever-changing world, and the audience can experience the various states of life from seeing the microscopic works.