Chapter 10 The town is in a hurry

Because of the continuous warming of "Xiaowu", "Platform", "Naruto" and "Peacock", around 2005, there was a short-lived upsurge of small-town movies, most of which were about the decline of small towns and the departure of young people. Going and returning, when it came to "Lichun", this trend stopped abruptly. First, the audience rarely had sustained interest in the overly sad images, and secondly, because of the disharmony, it was more or less like an accusation against the big city. However, the decline of traditional small towns is the general trend, even in countries like the United States that used to be proud of small towns.And these small towns were really beautiful back then.In García Márquez's "The Innocence of Erendira and the Cruel Grandmother", the grandmother takes Erendira to set up tents for prostitution wherever he goes, gradually there are camel caravans, markets, and even the postman.Of course, this is an exaggeration of the novel, but I am afraid that the earliest small towns were born like this. As long as there is a reason, as long as there is a person who is interested in building a house in a place with water and intersections and raising a few cows, it will gradually become a town. After entering a small town, submit an application to the governor, obtain the "statutes", and have a legal status. Most of the small towns in "Little House on the Prairie", "Unforgiven" and a large number of western films are formed in this way.

Small towns ease the oppression of the country, block the direct intervention of more powerful powers, and give humble individuals a place to shelter and breathe. They are the most dull but warmest hometowns in American memory.Therefore, to this day, half of the total population of the United States still lives in small towns or rural areas with a population of less than 10,000.But this "reason" for establishing a small town gradually became irresistible to a more reasonable, scientific and attractive urban setting. Coupled with the depletion of resources over time (such as the small mining town that made Kurt Cobain leave), young people flocked to big cities Looking for opportunities, the population of small towns will drop sharply, and even become ghost towns.Small towns are declining, and new urban areas are also thriving, but most of them are residential satellite cities extending from big cities, which are different from the small towns of the past. The young people in "Cape No. 7" yelled at Taipei, probably based on this kind of indignation of being suppressed and eliminated.

In order to preserve the remaining splendor of such small traditional towns, delay their declining fate, and delay the coming of the giant wheel of the times, they have to spend all their treasures.Towns with unexhausted tourism, forests, and mineral resources are better off. Those who have no resources and do not have geographical advantages have to work hard to create characteristics, or sell antiques, or build houses in a weird style, or fabricate a festival, residents Go crazy and play tricks, or hire economic development consultants to lobby, attract investment, and let bigger companies set up camp.But in the end, it was still unstoppable.

Stephen King is best at writing this kind of small town, and he loves and hates this kind of small town. His novel "Salem Town" is a vampire theme, and he provides a set of statistics. People, after a few years, the number has decreased sharply, how many people have become, the same is true for such and such a small town, and so on.According to the explanation in his book, these missing persons were all killed by vampires, but against such a background, his intentions are really obvious. The whole world is in the same heat, the expansion of big cities and the decline of small towns have not stopped because of the loss of the performance of movies. The small town of my hometown is becoming a satellite city. I always have a little envy for those who "go home" and "homecoming".