First Intention to Build a Heart to Heart Bridge
The bridge is a very cultural existence in the world we live in.
On the one hand, bridges are buildings that connect traffic, on the other hand, bridges also communicate the relationship between people. Therefore, bridges first symbolize people or things that play the role of communication or connection. As Mr. Zhou Xing said in his book Bridge and Folk Custom, bridge is a medium connecting two different spaces, realms or worlds in almost all cultures.
In Chinese and foreign films, we have seen many films with bridges as their titles, such as Waterloo Bridge, Bridge, Gui River Bridge, Cassandra Bridge, St. Louis Bridge, Warm Stream under Red Bridge, Under the Bridge, etc. However, unlike the concrete, three-dimensional and realistic bridge shown in these films, this popular film is produced in Chengdu, supervised by Wei Lian, directed by Liu Yichuan, and written by Liu Holly, In the excellent domestic film "Warm Bridge", starring Yue Hong, Wei Lu, Liu Huiyi, Ren Jie, Chen Jiafu and so on, which was elaborately produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, what was created and displayed was an abstract, symbolic, cultural, warm, flowing bridge of love and warmth - the connecting bridge between the community party and the masses.
Its title implies that the community service workers represented by Secretary Zhou Mingxiu are trying to build a warm bridge between the party and the masses. The film shows the deep connotation of the party's view of people's hearts, view of the masses and close and beautiful party masses relationship in the new era of promoting socialist core values. What makes people surprised is that in this small and medium-sized film, which shows a small residential community and a common female secretary of the community in Longquanyi District, Chengdu, it has attracted the attention and devotion of six outstanding creative teams, including planners, who have won the Golden Rooster Award and Huabiao Award.
In reality, Chongde Community in Longquanyi District is a newly built community, which has resettled 6861 households and more than 20000 residents from 8 towns, townships and 61 natural villages in Longquanyi District. Since the establishment of the community, under the leadership of Zeng Mingxiu, the secretary of the community party branch, all work has been effectively promoted. Through five years of hard work, the community has submitted a wonderful answer to "people's satisfaction" - successfully created a national "comprehensive disaster reduction demonstration community", won the provincial "advanced grass-roots party organization" Honors such as the municipal "double strong and six good grass-roots demonstration party organization", "Chengdu legal demonstration community", "emergency capacity building community", "public cultural service system standardization construction demonstration site", "governance and construction demonstration community by law", and "Chengdu civilized community".
We think that the reason why these excellent film creators focus on and favor this subject matter may be that they are attracted by the beautiful community environment, harmonious interpersonal relationships, rich cultural life of the community, especially the personality charm of Zeng Mingxiu, the community secretary who is the prototype of the film, and the "great feelings" of "small people" in the new era, which stimulate the creative passion. The creation of the film "Warm Bridge" has its temperature, height and difficulty, because the stories and characters it represents resonate with the times and pulse with the prototype characters at the same frequency. The film adopts the narrative style of combination of documentary and drama, the structural mode of scattered perspective, the line drawing narration and the immersive experience. It portrays and restores the vivid and three-dimensional artistic image of Zhou Mingxiu, the community secretary based on real people, in a down-to-earth, down-to-earth and true way.
Community work is trivial and commonplace. However, community work is a bridge for the Party to connect with the masses, serve the masses, and convey the Party's concern and care for the masses. The community secretary is the bridge builder and engineer of this heart bridge between the Party and the masses. Community cadres, represented by community secretaries, care for and care for the people. They are eager for what the people want, what the people want, what the people want, and what they do for the people. They take the responsibility of serving the people wholeheartedly and build bridges of warmth and care between the party and the masses. The working state of Secretary Zhou Mingxiu shown in the film is mostly ordinary and ordinary, such as holding a small speaker and tirelessly preaching the nucleic acid detection program, patiently telling the elderly about the use of the health code on their mobile phones;
In the film, the community cadres and the masses are like a family. They have understanding and confusion, estrangement and contradiction, and help each other. It vividly shows the community secretary Zhou Mingxiu's community governance model of building a heart to heart bridge between the party and the masses by "sending warmth and connecting hearts" and her cohesion with the people and the masses, taking the construction of humanistic communities as the work orientation, being close to the community masses and focusing on humanistic care. She is an ordinary and great woman. In her work, Zhou Mingxiu, as an excellent representative of community cadres, wholeheartedly handles urgent and difficult things for the masses, and has made extraordinary achievements in ordinary jobs. She has done practical things in the hearts of the masses, which fully reflects the responsibility and responsibility of a communist party member and the original intention of the Communist Party of China to serve the people wholeheartedly. The community also experienced from Secretary Zhou Mingxiu's silent dedication and sincere care that there is a bridge between the party and the masses that is concentric, warm and full of humanistic care.
Karl Jaspers, a German philosopher, once said: "The essence of education is: one tree shakes another tree, one cloud pushes another cloud, and one soul wakes another soul." In fact, this classic maxim about education also reflects the work characteristics of community workers to some extent. Undoubtedly, in reality and in the film, the secretary Mingxiu, who is molded according to the prototype, has great personality charm and emotional appeal. The film does not avoid the conflicts in real life. While vividly and meticulously showing the family relationship between Zhou Mingxiu and his daughter Song Zhihuan, who is a nurse, it does not avoid the generation gap between mother and daughter, the collision of different ideas and values. Finally, inspired by her mother's dedication, her daughter chose a positive attitude towards life and dedication.
The power of role models is endless. In the film, Grandma Wu, who was sober and confused at that time and often "harassed" Zhou Mingxiu, Teacher Mei, a retired primary school teacher who lived frugally to a little frugal, the community tea house owner who was psychologically distorted by being called a nickname for a long time, "Chuo Paotian", the long-distance truck driver Fang Erge, who lost hope of life because his daughter was addicted to drugs, and his daughter Fang Xiaohong, who was arrested in the drug rehabilitation center, Under the guidance of Secretary Zhou Mingxiu's sincere help, charisma and dedication, they returned to a healthy life track and became participants and enthusiasts in the construction of community spiritual civilization.
In fact, in addition to the characteristics of shaking, promoting and awakening other "one tree", "one cloud" and "one soul", the community masses have more vivid, fashionable, grounded and poetic expressions about the "one" inherent in the community secretary, whether in real life or in screen shaping:
The community secretary is like a solid and reliable crutch, helping the people in difficulty to wade through the mud, through the thorns, and into the sunshine of life
The community secretary is just like an engineer building a bridge. He works hard to build a bridge connecting the party and the masses
If the Party's concern is a flame, the community secretary is a torchbearer who conveys warmth
Standing in Longquan, look at the motherland. It is the emergence of millions of solid crutches, bridge building engineers and warm torchbearers like Secretary Zeng Mingxiu in our great country that has enabled our community to become a creative cell in the healthy body of the motherland and a dynamic energy to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and realize the Chinese Dream.
In the film, what runs through the whole film is Yingshan Hong, which is sung by the community aged choir. It sets off with Yingshan Hong, which appears repeatedly in the film and is shot against the light on the windowsill of Grandma Wu's family as a specific modeling symbol of the film, becoming a metaphor and interpretation of the red blood of our party and never forget our original intention. However, what floats in our hearts is the beautiful and popular Xingguo folk song that flows in the classic red memory in the long history of China's red revolution:
Alas Mao——
Soviet cadres have a good style of work,
Bring your own dry food to the office,
The revolution was carried out with straw sandals in the sun,
Visit the poor peasants with lanterns at night.
Perhaps, this "Good Style of Soviet Cadres" can also be seen as a true reflection of the spirit and code of conduct of Mingxiu secretaries who "never forget their original intention, remember their mission, and contribute to the people".
It is reported that "Warm Bridge" is the first part of the "Warm Narrative Trilogy" created by the main creative team. It has been included in the excellent film exhibition and broadcast in Chengdu to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and won the excellent script of Sichuan Provincial Publicity Department and the excellent literary and artistic work award of Chengdu Municipal Publicity Department in 2020 as a provincial and municipal key recommended film. The success of the creation of Warm Bridge makes us believe that the future Warm Road and Warm Home will show a more sincere, broad and profound connotation of the party masses relationship in the new era with a warmer, higher and wider warm narrative.
(The author is a professor of the School of Humanities of Southwest Jiaotong University, a film critic and playwright)
