Starring: Zhou Dongyu, Shawn Dou
Film genre: plot, love
Release date: 20 10 September 16.
Content of the film: In the early 1970s, Jingqiu was a high school graduate in the city. She followed the educational revolution practice group to a place called Xiping Village, collecting revolutionary stories and compiling teaching materials. The third child is waiting for Jingqiu to graduate, work and become a regular. When all Jingqiu's wishes were realized, they met again under the hawthorn tree.
20 1 1 The film was nominated for the best Asian film in the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards.
20 18, 18 On August 7th, at the 40th anniversary of the first China Shuangtashan Love Movie Week, it was rated as one of the top ten excellent love movies in China.
Car: The car is an image that runs through the film and appears in the film about five times. This paper analyzes the image of the bus from the perspective of function. Buses are the means of transportation for passengers. This means of transportation has the following characteristics: starting on time and stopping at the corresponding station. Passengers on the bus must abide by the same regulations, that is to say, as long as they get on the bus, where to go, when to arrive and where to stop, these are not decided by passengers, but must follow the bus.
It means that what the film reveals may be such a state of depression and vitality that is imprisoned by rigid norms from outside. As the story unfolds, we really see how this stereotype from society suppresses people's fresh personality, which eventually leads to the love tragedy of the protagonist Jingqiu and the third brother. This is the cruel reality that the writers and directors want to tell us (the opening introduction of the film: this is a true story that happened during the Cultural Revolution).
Hawthorn Tree: There was a popular love song Hawthorn Tree in the Soviet Union in 1950s. This song was also widely sung among young people in China at that time. People sing that it is devoted to life and construction in full swing, and at the same time it is as pure as a hawthorn tree with white flowers. Its melody almost represents the feelings of love and happiness in that era. Later, with the tension between China and the Soviet Union, especially during the Cultural Revolution, all Soviet songs were banned from singing, especially songs expressing love were included in the ranks of decadent voices.
At this time, the hawthorn tree changed from a "love tree" to a "hero tree" and from a white flower to a red flower. The hawthorn tree, which symbolizes love, has become a "hero tree" and a "revolutionary tree" in such preaching, and has been written into teaching materials and passed down from generation to generation. When you zoom out from the hawthorn tree, you will find that the hawthorn tree grows beside a hillside. It's like a grave, and then at this time, the theme of the movie will appear. This is a film that describes how love goes to death step by step, and this death is the inevitable result of dogmatic preaching.
The film reflects the love story of Jingqiu and his third brother, but the director put the song about love triangle in the film here. Whether there is some inevitability in this phenomenon.
If there is inevitability, who is the protagonist Jingqiu and the third brother talking about a love triangle? Or is there a conflict in Jingqiu's heart similar to the triangle relationship, and it is precisely this conflict that explains the tragedy of this love?
Conflict between Two Versions of Hawthorn Tree in Jingqiu's Heart
If the hawthorn tree symbolizes quiet autumn, the bus symbolizes the rigidity that suppresses vitality (represented by the teacher), and the third brother who sings symbolizes the medium that evokes the vitality of quiet autumn. Then the movie "Hawthorn Tree Love" is a dream that the protagonist Jing Qiu subconsciously weaves.
At the beginning of the film, everyone came under the hawthorn tree, and the teacher began to explain the story of the hawthorn tree: many martyrs died under this hawthorn tree. At this time, Jingqiu's heart was also dyed "revolutionary red". What is presented to us here is that all kinds of patterned knowledge are implanted into the hero's mind bit by bit and become a part of the hero himself. Under the hawthorn tree, the teacher told the story of martyrs and hawthorn tree with relish. The students listened and recorded with reverence. The village chief said, "Everyone says so." Jing Qiu looked at the hawthorn tree with reverence ... The "revolutionary hawthorn tree" symbolizing "correctness", that is, the revolutionary Jing Qiu, was implanted in her heart, so she danced the "revolutionary" dance and did the "revolutionary" work, hurting her feet and watching her mother "revolution". Her feelings are suppressed by this rigid pattern.
Later, Jingqiu heard the song of hawthorn tree from the tent, and heard another version of hawthorn tree-love version for the first time. It was also at this time that her surging emotions were activated, which was an irresistible surge of life from the bottom of her heart. She doesn't concentrate on writing articles as before, and her heart has been touched by her third brother. This is a common throb of adolescent girls.
But at the same time, the conflict between the two versions began to arise in her mind. In the image of hawthorn tree, she is hawthorn tree, but there are two versions of the interpretation of hawthorn tree: revolutionary version and love version. At this time, there are "two" quiet autumn. He has two value systems, and she must choose between them. As a "revolution", Jing Qiu should abandon all kinds of lingering "petty bourgeoisie emotions" and give play to the spirit of daring to sacrifice and not being afraid of suffering, so that he will not be fired without making any mistakes; As "love", Jingqiu should boldly pursue her love and happiness regardless of all kinds of resistance. The conflict between these two versions forms the relationship of Jingqiu's inner love triangle.
"... which one should I choose?
Up to now, the three of us are still wandering around the hawthorn tree ... "
This relationship can be seen as a "social stereotype father" (teacher representative) without emotional connection and a man with emotional connection (symbolizing her biological father). Jingqiu's real inner need is to choose "love", while the implanted rigid model chooses "revolution", so the two inner forces have to make a choice.
Jingqiu's father has always been an important role in the film. Although he didn't appear in the camera, his influence was everywhere. His role is realized through Jingqiu's mother and the representative of social norms-the teacher. Mother chose her father because she was "carried away by emotion" and left "deep pain". As the saying goes, "Men are afraid of getting into the wrong business and women are afraid of marrying the wrong husband", both of which are occupied by parents. When my father was young, he was labeled as a rightist, and his political and official career was completely lost. My mother was also implicated. So my mother said sadly, "One step wrong, one step wrong."
The absence of father in the film is attributed to social reasons, but from the perspective of psychodynamics, a strong mother drives away her father, which is equivalent to a strong single mother raising her daughter. The mother's disapproval of her father will make her daughter lose the possibility of establishing contact with her father, which will affect her choice of love object and her future marriage life. Under the control of a strong mother, a daughter will internalize her mother's views on her father and herself as a part of herself and exist in opposition to herself, thus forming a binary personality: one is the mother's request and the other is the self's need. In this conflict of binary personality, mother often plays a leading role and occupies a dominant position.
In order to prevent her daughter from making mistakes, the mother maintains strict control over her daughter and never allows her daughter to make the same mistakes as her father at work or emotionally. This control suppressed the fresh vitality of Jingqiu.
Under the control of her mother, "two can't" was deeply implanted in Jingqiu's heart and played a role at the critical moment of her choice. For example, after she and her third brother secretly started a secret crush, they never hugged or kissed again.
What does this "two noes" mean?
Unlike his father, he denies his father and cannot establish a deep connection with him. The deep psychological confusion brought to my daughter is: What kind of father should I find? What kind of man should I love? No one answered.
You can't be carried away by emotions like your mother, that is to say, you can't have emotions and you can't be emotional.
If the father's love is the source of reason and the mother's love is the source of emotion, then the "two can't" actually deprives the daughter of the right to be a human being. This is reflected in the film: the teacher said that the hawthorn tree bloomed with red flowers, which was believed to be true in the quiet autumn, and there was no strong idea to verify it (rational deprivation); Retreat in the communication with the third brother (emotional depression). Then you can only be a machine, doing things you don't know every day. The result of father's absence is replaced by another transitional object, which is social norms, and the film is represented by teachers. The teacher is very concerned about Jingqiu's ideological changes and tells her to stand the test, draw a clear line with her parents and exercise herself in the melting pot of revolution. So Jingqiu volunteered to take advantage of the holiday to participate in the playground construction, so that her feet were burnt by lime. Jingqiu's father is absent and deformed.
The appearance of the third brother opened another inner world of Jingqiu, namely the emotional world. In fact, the third brother is the representative of her biological father subconsciously, and there is a set of value system that is "out of place" with the social norms represented by the teacher. Third brother can sing forbidden songs, boldly pursue love, swim with Jingqiu in a bathing suit, let Jingqiu sit in front of her bike and run with her, and wash her feet in front of Jingqiu's mother. All this is what Jingqiu yearns for but has never experienced.
However, the dual strength of the mother's "two noes" and the "revolutionary version" of the hawthorn tree is too strong. The third brother died of leukemia, the hawthorn tree in the "love version" died, and the dream of Jingqiu was over.
After waking up, Jingqiu came to the hawthorn tree again, but the dense hawthorn tree was full of white flowers.
The third said, whether it has white flowers or red flowers,
Its fruit is red!
Then we already know who is the bravest and cutest!
? These three shots are combined to show the process of two people's ideological struggle, and finally give up the stick and hand.