随着中国城市化进程的发展,我们年轻人常常会选择来到大城市生活。在每日的奔波当中又常会问自⼰,这里真的是最适合我⽣活的地⽅吗?如果选择去⼀个小地⽅,日⼦会是怎样的?我最初遇到阿嘎日的时候,他看起来充满自信,在这样每个⼈都想要去⼤城市拼搏的时代,这个29岁的自信“牛仔”却选择辞职回来,来到这片并不富饶的牧场,试图通过互联网,做一个新时代的牧民。
互联网和智能手机的普及,又带给最偏远地区的人们许多新的可能性。身边的朋友嘲笑他是“吹牛哥”,阿嘎日为了证明自己,很快开始了他野心勃勃的计划。他联系周围几个区域的牧场,免费给他们安装摄像头和Wifi,同时拓展大城市客户,试图建立“空中牧场”。
20年1月阿嘎日举办了他蒙古族的婚礼,婚后他太太也辞职来到这里,不久便怀孕了。作为家里唯一的男劳力,身上责任越来越重,他常常思念父亲。
影片想要观察阿嘎日这样⼀个,面临许多选择、迈出了脚步的⼈,回来之后会面对怎样的⽣活,是否能在而立之年“立”起来,保持自信和乐观。这部纪录电影将从阿嘎日与这片⼟地的关系为切⼊点,核⼼讲述的将是“⼈与自然的关系”和“⼀个⼈的成长 和改变”。
Today, most young people yearn for big city life, because we believe that there are more resources and broader space for future development, we think that the day-to-day struggle, living in a small and remote rental studio, pushing and squeezing onto the bus and metro every day, that someday a great future will be realized. For Agaar, it seems he can go anywhere he likes, he could settle into a new life in the US, he could find a job in Beijing or Shanghai or at least in Erdos. But instead he decide to come back and be a cowboy in the middle of a dusty nowhere. This "cowboy", 29 years old and full of optimism and confidence, tries to build up a modern herdsman’s life grazing his herd on his 4,000 acres of grassland.
Friends around laughed at him as a "bull pushing brother". Agaar contacted several city bosses and wanted to build his own company, supplying beef and mutton to all parts of the country via internet.
On January 2020 Agaar had his Mongolian marriage, his wife will quit her English teaching job in another small town several hundred kms away. Now she is pregnant, Agaar will soon become a father, being the only male labor on this vast pasture.
Agaar often misses his father, he hopes there’d be one more manpower to help him to carry the load. In the real PK, how much can he blow? Will he feel confused and subvert his choice?
The beautiful homecoming dream is now filled with difficulties and trouble. The 4000 acres of land that had made him full of hope and enthusiasm became a rope that binds him. Will this "cowboy" be ground down by life? Like his barren land, like his father?