Synopsis

The house field captured in this film is my own hometown. The villagers portrayed in the film are my parents and their fellow villagers. The film is divided into three aspects: the story of the Yin realm in the House Field of Xi Mao, the story of the Yang realm, and the intermediary that connects the villagers in the Yang realm with the sinister forces in the Yin realm—the Yin-Yang boundary (with the horse's hoof as the medium). The film attempts to analyze the inner layers of the villagers' lives, which are the roots and foundation of their livelihood. As a rice-growing area, the villagers' consciousness is shaped by the perspective of rice cultivation, as if they have established a clear pattern over thousands of years. The villagers, our "small-scale farmers," are always confined to a self-sufficient, survival-oriented, opportunistic, and profit-seeking existence outside the mainstream of the country. In the Yang realm, the villagers are obsessed and oblivious to the disguised form of gambling through Hong Kong Mark Six lottery, falling into the trap of their own consciousness. Many villagers stake their entire belongings on the lottery, either achieving great wealth and prosperity or being forced to flee to distant places or even taking their own lives. Incidents of families being destroyed and lives lost are not uncommon. The speculative behavior of the villagers purely expresses their fundamental consciousness as weeds rather than virtuous plants. This may be the fundamental consciousness of the villagers.