Review "I am a doctor" and "Yuan Longping" and express your grief with light and shadow!

1905 movie network news On May 22nd, it rained heavily at night in Beijing. The weather in every city seems to be not very good, either rainy or stormy.


On May 22nd, 2021, Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", died at the age of 91.On May 22nd, 2021, Wu Mengchao, the "father of hepatobiliary surgery in China", died at the age of 99.


On May 22, the Republic lost two academicians in one day, and we lost two shining stars engraved in textbooks from childhood to adulthood in one day. For a time, the whole country mourned, and it seemed that even the weather was whispering or crying for the departure of the two academicians.


It’s a long life for two academicians to leave at the age of two, but people seem to cry even when they think about it. Everyone knows that people’s life will end in death, but they may never realize that Grandpa Yuan Longping and Grandpa Wu Mengchao will also face these problems. They are like the guardians of life and health, guarding us for a long time, so that we forget that they will leave.



Their contribution is so great, but they are so approachable.


Although we have never met, we picked up a bowl of rice and saw the smell of rice and flowers blowing in the wind. It seemed that Grandpa Yuan Longping was standing in the rice field and waving to us.


Before May 22nd, there was not a medical student who didn’t know Wu Mengchao, but from that day on, others who didn’t study medicine also knew that there was an academician named Wu Mengchao, who led the exploration of hepatobiliary surgery in China from scratch to perfection. He said: "children, there is no shortage of experts and authority in this world. What is lacking is a’ person’, a person who is willing to give himself out."


On May 22 and May 23, the film channel "Classic Frequent Transmission and Online Film Screening Activity" broadcasted movies five times in succession to commemorate the two academicians. This issue of "Today’s Film Review" will also combine these two films, and together with Li Zhen, a researcher at the China Film Archive, once again cherish the memory of the two guoshi.



After watching the movie Yuan Longping, Li Zhen said: "This film can be said to recognize all kinds of frustrations that Yuan Lao has experienced on the road of scientific research and all that he has paid in the process of pursuing his dreams from the perspective of sensibility."


This film, in which Yuan Lao himself participated, tells the story of Yuan Longping’s scientific research from the 1950s to the present. "This film has selected several important moments that are very representative. On his scientific research road, in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to today, he faced different situations and had great difficulties. But we can see that for a person who really pursues science and truth, once he has a goal in his heart, all difficulties are floating clouds and nothing can stop him. "



Yuan Longping has fed more than thousands of people with his hybrid rice technology. He made the 1.4 billion people in China know what it was like to have enough food and clothing, and countless foreign media also remembered him and praised him for "helping to feed the whole world". And such a great man is serious about his major, but not about life. On the contrary, he is very romantic.


"People who may not know him will know that he is a scientist and an agricultural scientist, but those who have read his information will find that Yuan Lao’s life is particularly colorful. For example, when he was in high school, he was already a good sportsman. He participated in the provincial sports meeting in Hubei province that year, and he was the second in self-swimming. Of course, everyone knows that he plays the violin very well. When he plays the violin, I think it may be helpful to relieve his depression or get this scientific research inspiration. "



At the end of the film, Yuan Lao tells his dream to a foreign friend in English. Romantic dreams are romantic, too. Yuan Lao’s dream of enjoying the cool under the grass may be just a dream now, but who can be sure that there will be no successor to fulfill his prosperous wish?


On May 22nd, another academician left us five minutes earlier than Academician Yuan Longping. He is Academician Wu Mengchao, the "father of hepatobiliary surgery in China".


With his research on hepatobiliary surgery, Wu Mengchao has created countless firsts in the field of hepatobiliary surgery in China and even in the world. He reduced the mortality rate of hepatobiliary surgery to 0.3%, and treated about 16 thousand patients in 78 years. His name was printed on the cover of the book Surgery, which trained and guided countless medical students studying hepatobiliary surgery. I am a doctor is a biographical film based on Academician Wu Mengchao.


Wu Mengchao in the film, who is over 90 years old, still sticks to the operating table. In reality, on August 31st, 2018, 96-year-old Wu Mengchao still picked up a scalpel on his birthday. The word "the benevolent heart of the doctor" has been vividly reflected in him.


In the movie, Wu Mengchao said, "What kind of people are we doctors — — People who never give up. " In reality, it is obvious that he is old enough to retire, but he sticks to the patient’s bed. Been a doctor for 78 yearsWu Mengchao’s fingers were obviously deformed because he held the scalpel for a long time. His fingers were no longer similar to others, but they became the most suitable shape for the scalpel.



Dong Qing mentioned in "The Reader": "Between the square inches of the liver, he seems to be an old horse, carrying patients across the river."Li Zhen, a guest in this issue, lamented: "A real scientist does not mean that he has scientific research ability, but that he has morality and heart for the world, and then he has his philosophy."



Grandpa Yuan Longping left, but the seeds he left will take root and continue to feed this land; Academician Wu Mengchao has passed away, but his kindness and benevolence will illuminate the way forward for every later person.


The stars that guided our generation have fallen, but some people in our generation who have been guided by them will eventually grow into new stars. The sun rises and sets in the west, and the stars light up slowly. No one will always illuminate us, but someone will always illuminate us, for the motherland, for the people and for us.


"The great man of chivalry is for the country and the people". We cherish their memory with movies, but I believe what they want to see more is the realization of the dream of enjoying the cool under the grass, and the death rate of hepatobiliary surgery can be reduced to 0%. Academicians have taken a big step for us, and the rest of the road still needs to be taken by ourselves, but the spirit they left behind will always inspire us and strive to be like them.


On May 22nd, the two statesmen left together, and the whole country mourned. In the days to come, the Republic will not forget, the people will not forget, and we will not forget that the spirit that belongs to the backbone of the two academician countries will never die.