I am a farmer focuses on young people who come to cities from rural areas. I don't want to give them prescriptions. They are part of the tens of millions of marginalized people who enter the city every year. Their lives are full of drama, so there is no need to make anything up. "Dare to say this because Wu Fei himself is a peasant. In order to give young actors a perceptual knowledge, he even took several actors to "farm in the countryside" to experience life.

Wu Fei thinks this is also part of sincerity. "Our creative perspective is head-up, or friends, not condescending. We want to write about this group of people. They come from the countryside and want to take root in the city. They have friends and equal care. "

Several young people have neither the adventure of becoming bosses in the end, nor the bitterness and tears of being bullied in the city, but a very realistic "simple life." In the words of director Wu Fei, it is different from the images of individual successful farmers such as Liu Laogen and Ma Dashuai: "The difficulty of farmers' theme lies in authenticity. Zhao Benshan's "Liu Laogen" and "Ma Dashuai" are the images of some successful farmers, but most of them.