Beyond yourself in uselessness

Beyond yourself in uselessness

Text / animal husbandry

The internationally acclaimed Chinese director, Ang Lee, has won two Oscars, two Golden Film Awards at the Venice Film Festival and two Golden Bear Awards at the Berlin Film Festival. Zhang Yimou once commented on him at the 64th Venice Film Festival: "Like the filming of Chinese and English movies like Li An, the director who walks in the East and West worlds, I am afraid that there is only one person in the Chinese film."

Who knows that this is a well-known international director who was highly praised by Zhang Yimou. After graduating from New York University in 1984, he worked as a “family woman” for six years. A big man has to think about what to eat and eat every day, then buy food and choose vegetables to wash vegetables. When changing the knife, he has to be a chef... At the same time, he has to wash and wash the baby, look after the children... complicated, trivial, day One day, year after year, the patience of people is tested all the time. As a person engaged in artistic creation, doing housework can be a big bogey, because complexity and triviality will drive away your creative desires and inspirations. Ann insisted on more than 2,000 days and nights. After doing the housework, he watched the video, studied the script structure and production mode of Hollywood movies, and had time to conceive the script. The trivial housework did not prevent Li An from approaching his dreams. On the contrary, He has a deeper awareness of the meaning of the family. Unemployment has made him "forced" to go deep into life with great intensity. So after 6 years, he has the blueprint of "Pushing Hands" and "The Wedding Banquet", so he has "Diet Men and Women" Among the unforgettable foods and the plots surrounding the food, he has his artistic style of organically blending Chinese and American cultures into film.

There is a famous saying in "Zhuangzi": "Useless is for big use." People can't stop moving to the dream. Li An said: "Everyone will have a dream, but the point is whether you can practice it. Let us bravely chase dreams and change the world." If you are a dreamer, then no matter where you are, you must bravely pursue your dreams. Sometimes you have to "read some useless books and do something useless." "Things," but as long as there is a dream in your heart, you will surpass yourself in uselessness, and like Li An will eventually become a positive result.