Movie Hawthorn Tree Love Review

Love Song in Memory--Review of the movie "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" is like the red hawthorn, which is hot, nice and sour. He brings us a song of first love, attempting to awaken that once scattered in the folk, simple, true, such as poetry love story. Like Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days", "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" is also a love song of the youth in the 50's. The difference is that the former shows the wildness of youth and the commotion of love in that era, while the love in "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" is more simple and sincere, and it is more like a platonic spiritual love. First, the film's "love" theme analysis Everyone has his or her own "hawthorn tree love" in his or her heart, and that is the song of first love in our memory, which is green and astringent, but real and touching. Any work is the crystallization of the author's heart and soul, which may contain the author's own life experience, and may contain the author's own complex and rich emotions. Milan 6.1 Kundera once said, "All novels of any age are concerned with the mystery of the self." Zhang Yimou, a third-generation director who grew up in the 1950s, has his own emotional story in his heart in addition to the imprints of that era, and he tries to awaken the so-called "pure love" in people's hearts through such a narration, with no "bedtime drama" or hot scenes, which is a very important part of the movie. There is no "bed scene" in the movie, no hot scene, which is not the first time to show male and female love in Zhang Yimou's movie. It can be said that Love at the Hawthorn Tree is another version of My Father and Mother, but the difference is that the ending of Love at the Hawthorn Tree is sad. The movie tries hard to use "simple" and "beautiful" to touch people, so it turns into a tragedy, the hero and heroine can't get together, and the story ends cruelly with Lao San dying of leukemia. At the opening ceremony of the movie, Zhang Yimou told the audience a bizarre and true love story: a boy has been very much in love with a girl, but he has not dared to tell each other, and finally one day he could not help but pluck up the courage to go up and kiss the girl, but the girl ran home to her mother and said, "Mom, I'm pregnant". The theme of "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" expresses the first love complex of human beings, and tells the story of the simplicity of the human heart in those days, and the conservative but romantic treatment of men and women. Perhaps there was once an image of an innocent girl dressed in white in the hearts of young boys, but the image of the girl in Lao San's heart in "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" is a girl dressed in red, and under the reflection of the hawthorn tree, the white color turns into red. The movie endeavors to show the story of Lao San, a child of a high-level intellectual family, and Jing Qiu, a child from a rightist family, falling in love. Their romance does not have the passionate bed scenes of modern love stories, or even kisses or embraces. But the main character Lao San interprets the image of a good man in the way of his time, and the birth of this love story still has his profound background of the times. The movie tries to recall the red era when the intellectual youth went to the mountains and went to the countryside, an era of idealism. The young intellectuals, full of revolutionary enthusiasm, devoted their youth to the construction of the countryside, and their arrival brought a touch of color to the boring rural life. The people of that era were simple and enthusiastic, full of the teachings of Chairman Mao, and under the harsh political propaganda, people sang, "The heavens and the earth are not as big as the Party's favor, and the father and the mother are not as dear as Chairman Mao". The movie is filled with a lot of "fragments" of memories of that era, such as the revolutionary story of the hawthorn tree, the white flowers watered by the blood of the martyrs, and the heartwarming scene of the young intellectuals settling down in the production leader's house. Against this background, the meeting of the main characters Jingqiu and Laosan provides an opportunity, and at the same time creates an atmosphere for such a simple love affair, with "revolution and transformation" being the mission of the intellectual youth of the time. In the movie, Jingqiu, a descendant of rightists, is on a mission to reform herself so that she can stay in school, while Lao-san is a hot-blooded young man in a geological survey team. Unlike the modern consumer society, the youth of that era had a sense of mission, they were more inspired by the times, they talked about "Chairman Mao teaches us", and it seemed that Chairman Mao's teachings would become the program of action for their love, and they didn't dare to make any transgression between them. The youth of modern society tend to lack a sense of mission and pursue more excitement and entertainment, with desire dominating their souls and bodies. The touching thing about Lao-San is that he is compassionate, and what he gives to Jing-Qiu is more of a primitive love from the depths of his heart. Jing Qiu, on the other hand, is a silly girl, driven by the ignorant love of a young girl, she is more like a little bird being pampered. The love between them was born so quietly that it was too late to recall it and then it was gone with the wind, and the vain prince became a story. Second, the narrative analysis of the film The narrative of the film is simple and plain, describing Jingqiu's and Lao San's meeting, meeting and falling in love through some small detailed fragments. During their encounter at the production leader's house, they fall in love at first sight, planting the seed of love. Lao San exchanges a new fountain pen for an old one in Jing Qiu's hand, and also exchanges Jing Qiu's heart. The movie uses subtitles for the story transitions. First subtitle: Lao San makes a promise to Jing Qiu that he will pick him up in the county town when he returns. They begin their first real date, and the movie uses a special scene to show how they hold hands for the first time, at first holding a wooden stick across the river, and finally the two hands slowly come together. Second subtitle: Near the end of the study, Jingqiu overhears that Lao San has a date in town. Hearing this news makes Jing Qiu misunderstand Lao San and brings a small ripple to the two people's emotions. It is only when her best friend who came from the countryside tells her the truth that she realizes Lao San's infatuation with her. So the two quietly began to date, Lao San often secretly watch Jing Qiu play volleyball, and also bought Jing Qiu sportswear. Lao San speaks his heart to Jing Qiu in his own words, "You probably haven't loved yet, so you don't believe there is everlasting love in this world. When you fall in love with someone, you will know that there is that one person in the world who would rather die himself than go back on his word to her." The two embraced for the first time, and Lao-san said emotionally, "I will wait for you for the rest of my life." He seems to be trying to awaken Jing Qiu's ignorant heart and make her realize how he feels about her love. Third subtitle: From then on, Lao San often worked overtime in the second team in exchange for a break to meet with Jing Qiu, and this kind of quiet dating lasted until the following summer. It shows the special way of love between men and women belonging to that era. Lao San invites Jing Qiu to go swimming in the river, the two of them play water fights, and when they get on the shore, they sit quietly together without the slightest profanity. Jingqiu's feet were hurt by lime when she was working at the school during the summer vacation in order to stay in school and perform well. Lao San felt very sorry for Jingqiu and bought her rubber shoes. Lao San wants to take Jing Qiu to see her injured foot, but Jing Qiu insists on not going, so Lao San pulls out a fruit knife and cuts himself on the hand, and Jing Qiu has no choice but to agree to go to the hospital to see her foot. The movie then recreates the romance of Lao San riding a bicycle with Jing Qiu running all over the street, but was accidentally seen by her mother who was very strict in her discipline. Her mother was afraid that there would be problems with Jing Qiu's transition and asked Lao San not to interact with Jing Qiu for the time being. Fourth subtitle: Lao San really did not come back until one day Jing Qiu heard that he was sick. Four more touching scenes are used next. In the first scene the hospital can't keep people overnight, so Jing Qiu has to sit at the hospital's front door for the night. In the second scene, Lao San fights for Jing Qiu to stay overnight, and the two finally lie down together, with Lao San saying "I'll look at you like this for the rest of my life." Although Lao San attempts to make out with Jing Qiu, in the end he cannot bear to do so. In the third scene, Lao San washes Jing Qiu's feet with a washbasin with a hawthorn flower design that he bought from a kiosk. Jing Qiu emotionally says, "It's good to know you. In the fourth scene, when they part by the river, they stand on opposite sides of the river and make a gesture of hugging each other. This is unbelievable in the eyes of modern people, but in those days, when people were reserved and emotionally repressed, it was reasonable for such a thing to happen between a man and a woman. Near the end of the movie, a negative example is inserted, a pregnant girl who was abandoned by a boy, she lamented "this man ah, can't let him get his hands on ......" by this girl also made Jing Qiu doubt whether she was cheated by Lao San, ran to the hospital and found that Lao San left without saying goodbye, and ran to the hospital and found that Lao San was cheated. When she runs to the hospital and finds Lao San leaving without saying goodbye, Jing Qiu angrily smears the hawthorn basin Lao San gave her with paste. The movie ends with Jing Qiu wearing a red dress as bright as the hawthorn berries, appearing at the bedside of the dying Lao San, "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu", "I am Jing Qiu". "I am Jing Qiu"...... a call, Jing Qiu sobbed. "Didn't you promise me that you would come back as soon as you heard my name?" "I am Jing Qiu." "Look, didn't you say I look good in red? I came in it, I came to see you in it." ...... When the dying Lao San heard Jing Qiu's call, he could no longer speak, and tears flowed from the corners of his closed eyes. Jing Qiu slowly raised his head to look at the ceiling of Lao San's hospital bed, there are Jing Qiu and Lao San in the photo studio to take that smiling "friendship photo", the original Lao San in the hospital bed, every day "looking up" at Jing Qiu. Third, the actors and actresses "Hawthorn Tree Love" to enable the newcomers, the heroine Jing Qiu's role is Shijiazhuang Twelfth High School high school girls, named Zhou Dongyu, majoring in dance. With a pure smile and shy shyness, seems to be very suitable for the role of Jingqiu, if from the point of view of acting is more colorful performance. The male lead, Dou Snap, is a junior at the Beijing Film Academy, and has a relatively fresh appearance with a long, thin face and a mouthful of white teeth, which also seems to fit the role of Lao San very well. Love at the Hawthorn Tree is also their screen debut, and for a movie with this subject matter it seems to require more of the character's temperament and vernacular than the actor's acting skills. This is the same as Zhang Yimou's choice of Wei Minzhi, the protagonist of Not Even One Less, where Zhang Yimou again tapped into a new star from among the many ordinary actors. In this movie, Zhang Yimou reverted to the filming technique of "One Cannot Be Less", abandoning the use of digital technology and not showing the aesthetics of the picture very prominently, trying to show the simplicity and touchingness of this love story with a simple and plain tone. Love at the Hawthorn Tree" has been boasted as "the cleanest love story in history". This is a bit too much, in fact, everyone has had a pure song of first love, but such a love story with a great color of the memory of the times, because only the love soil of that era, only the people of that era will have such feelings. Lao San's touching point is the traditional Chinese virtue of "compassion for jade", the more sad is that he ultimately did not enjoy the cup of love, tragedy makes his love for Jing Qiu seem tragic and poignant. Zhou Dongyu, on the other hand, is a silly girl who is ignorant of love, and his ignorance of "love" evokes a world of innocence for male viewers. Some people criticize "don't take ignorance as innocence", but nevertheless, this performance of a "pure love story" still evokes a similar simplicity and sincerity that was once hidden in people's hearts. There are many ways to love, and modern love is mixed with too many impurities, which creates a lot of flavor, but has lost its original clarity and brightness. After all, in this era full of temptation and desire, we much deep sigh of pure love out of reach. I believe that anyone born in that era in the heart, are hiding a memory of the love song.