Up until now, the story on the screen, or the reality, the relationship between hometown and the city is full of opposition, but with the development of economy, technology, 5G, etc., this opposition is also gradually being reduced. Although "My Hometown and Me" appears as the main theme film, it also allows more people to talk and laugh in hip hop, paying attention to their relationship with their hometown.
As I have said before, Deng Chao’s "The Road Home" is the closest story to the present in this film, and it is also the story that connects "hometown" and other places most closely. Moreover, although the film tells the story of the Mao Us Desert in Shaanxi Province, as a middle-aged man born in the 1980s from rural Hebei Province, he really saw too much empathy in it – Deng Chao caught the most impressive memory point of the era.
The first is the memory of childhood. Although there was no wind and sand in the sky, a heavy rain in 1989 collapsed all the classrooms in the village school, and they were also faced with the dilemma of how to go to school. In this story, Deng Chao asked the old principal to issue earnest teachings in the turbulent yellow sand classroom, eagerly hoping that every child could go out of their hometown to change their own destiny. This situation is very similar to the situation of that year.
Then there is the memory of the moment, if 2020 is the most popular? There is no doubt – E-commerce LIVE brings goods. So seeing Yan Feiyan take her assistant to the school celebration, it is like seeing countless e-commerce armies returning to their hometowns. Indeed, from the memory of 89 years to the present, it has been 30 years since the whole era took off. In "The Road Back Home", the changes in my hometown can be described as earth-shaking. The desert has become a fruit country, and what everyone has seen, heard and experienced personally is like spanning centuries. Deng Chao also used many contrasting scenes to illustrate this great change. Movies are an art, and Deng Chao has obviously done his homework to keep pace with the times this time.
There is also the memory of people. In the film, Qiao Shulin, played by Deng Chao, looks like an unscrupulous liar as soon as he appears on the scene, looking frivolous and perverse, without the appearance of a "successful person". On the contrary, Yan Feiyan exudes a powerful aura everywhere, not only wary of the people around him, but even makes unreasonable demands at the airport. Finally, we find that Qiao Shulin is the one who really contributes to his hometown. In this way, it is not a real scene from reality – people living in the city are always high and wary, but those who contribute to their hometown are bragging.
From running away to returning home, everyone takes a different path, but in "The Road Back Home", Deng Chao walks from beginning to end, letting people in the city see the changes in their hometown, and also pays tribute to the sand control people in their hometown with simple and sincere feelings. In fact, every hometown that has undergone great changes has countless "sand control people" who have paid silently, and Deng Chao’s subtext is to pay tribute to these people who have changed their hometown.
Moreover, his "Road Home" is not just for his own return, but to let more people have the idea of returning home, so that more people can see our "hometown", so that our hometown will hopefully become better, and the more people who come back from their studies, the faster the hometown will become. "Road Home" is Deng Chao’s recall love letter to every wanderer who leaves his hometown through stories, just read him.