The Director of Music Department

In front of the window sill, she began to count, carefully scratched in the notebook, and solemnly wrote: "2ooo-5=1995"...

I don't know why, looking at Nini's immature notes, the viewers can't help but feel a little sad. Why is it 2000?

The movie didn't give an explanation, but everyone can guess what the little girl is thinking at the moment. Probably in the little girl's little mind, two thousand is a big number. In her heart, two thousand is probably a big number. Can you cure my mother's illness with just one piece?

The screen changed again, and the little girl's mother appeared again. She was still lying weakly on the bed, coughing painfully from time to time.

Correspondingly, with the sound of coughing, under the noon sun, a little girl used branches to dig through the garbage, looking for mineral water bottles, tirelessly, every time she picked one up, she smiled, she was picking up bottles Ah, clearly picking up one hope after another, one happiness after another...

Even when she was digging through the garbage, she was almost bitten by a wild dog who mistakenly thought it was a predator, and was chased away...

Passing by the canteen at the entrance of the village, she also stared at the drinks that cost a few yuan a bottle, but in the end she turned and left resolutely.

There was one time when she happened to pick up an unfinished bottle of drink, she unscrewed the lid ecstatically, and drank it all up, but later regretted that she drank too fast, but she could only watch Licking the empty bottle, I licked my lips for aftertaste, as if this was the sweetest taste in the world.

The movie is silent, and most of the time it is silent, just like a little girl, silently doing what she thinks she should do, working hard towards her goal.

Seeing a group of children of the same age playing games, and watching a child coquettishly wanting to eat this and that with her mother, her eyes were full of envy, but it was a pity that she was greeted with contempt and ridicule, because her habit of constantly digging through trash Dirty.

This scene makes people feel extremely sad and distressed. What a good child, what a well-behaved child, what a distressed director's child. At her age, she should be acting like a baby at her parents' knees , was doted on in every possible way, but she could only dig through the dirty garbage dumps every day, fight wits with wild dogs, and pick up the water bottles that cost a few cents each.

When other children were playing, she could only watch from a distance, and when other children were eating something that cost a few dollars or even tens of dollars, she could only swallow her saliva and envy.

Then there is another set of shots of the little girl's bookkeeping:

1995-3=1992

1992-8=1984

1984-13=1971

1971-15=? 1956

Once she made a mistake on it, crossed it out, and wrote it again...

It seems that she earns more and more money every day, but it is still short of 1956...

1956-9=1947...

It seems that the number on the ledger is decreasing bit by bit... But the people who read it feel extremely sad. The number seems to be an insurmountable gap, a happy shore that can never be reached.

2000, in the eyes of many people, it may be the cost of a few meals, a bag or a piece of clothing, but here, in Nini's place, it is an astronomical figure, a She has been working hard for it but no matter what, she can't reach the number.

"Cough cough! Cough cough!" Mom's illness didn't improve, it seemed to be getting worse.

But......

When it was getting dark, she was in the open field, crying helplessly, "Mom..." She was so wronged and desperate. She worked so hard, but why couldn't she still earn the money to treat her mother?

She sensiblely knew that she couldn't let her mother see and hear...

Even, after she finished crying, she ran to the faucet to wash her red and swollen eyes desperately, and then pretended to be happy. If her mother asked, she would lie to her and say that the wind and sand had blinded her eyes...

The camera moves, the sun sets, and night falls. Nini returns home in the dark, cooks and eats as usual, and puts her mother to bed. Although she is very tired, she lies happily beside her mother.

As long as I am with my mother, I am very happy. The fly in the ointment is probably hearing my mother coughing again, right?

All along, when she heard the sound of coughing, she would sensibly beat her mother's back, talk to her, and comfort her, but at this moment, she felt uneasy and didn't dare to breathe, so she secretly looked at the account book: 18o9-9=18oo!

18oo! It may be a very ordinary number, but here, it is an extremely dazzling number.

The audience doesn't know how many days have passed, and they don't know how many times she has suffered, how many grievances, how many times she has experienced sadness, how many times she has been sad, how many times she has cried secretly... 1800 is a scary The number, an astronomical number for a child of her age!

The third story is different from the previous two, there is not even a few words of dialogue, it is so silent, but the people watching it are extremely sad, and what is even more sad is that even if the 2,000 little girls are hard-working She earned it, but she didn't know it, it was still far from enough.

People's hearts are fleshy, no matter how hard-hearted a person is, at this moment, they can't help but have red eyes.

It was another morning when the morning sun was shining, Nini stood in front of the faucet, set up the mirror that hadn’t been taken out for a long time, and washed her face seriously for the first time in so many days. She carefully looked at herself in the mirror, carefully Use small hands to smooth the scattered bangs in front of the forehead. Looking at her beautiful self in the mirror, the girl's love for beauty must make her very happy, but this kind of happiness must also be fleeting - she cannot be as proud as children of the same age. I just don't know, at this moment, will she feel pity for herself?

After washing herself, she wiped the face of her mother who was resting on the hospital bed, and straightened her bangs...

Mom didn't open her eyes, she was exhausted by the pain, she was too tired to open her eyes! Nini looked at her mother's young face that had been tortured by the disease, and looked at the new wrinkles. That face was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar. Through it, the little girl seemed to see another self. The little girl pursed her lips, got up and stopped, stared at it for a while, then gently pushed the door and left...

Where is she going?

This is the question that the few moviegoers are guessing and asking in their hearts at this moment.

At this moment, they were not the heads of the operation department of some theater chain, but ordinary audiences.

Suddenly, many people recalled the old lady’s exhortation, “The human traffickers at the west end of the village have just been released, don’t go there to play if you have nothing to do!”

The hearts of all the audience were suddenly tugged. Could it be that she was going to...

In the movie hall, a needle could be heard, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the big screen. He (she) couldn't bear to continue looking down.

But what is she looking for with traffickers? This is another question on everyone's mind.

Even if there is a vague guess in my heart, I still can't believe it, or I don't want to believe it.