As we all know, hawthorn trees have white flowers, which is a natural law. But the hawthorn tree in the movie, the characters all say it is a red flower, which has become an important clue and metaphor of the movie. For this phenomenon that violates the laws of nature, the heroine's teacher explained at the beginning of the film: "The blood of the martyrs dyed it red."
This explanation is lyrical, and no one will take it as a serious answer, just as we will not seriously care about the color and blood type of the national flag.
But from the movie, no matter the teacher, the village head or the third child, everyone is talking about this hawthorn tree with red flowers, so this hawthorn tree is not endowed with poetry, but with red flowers.
Why is this hawthorn tree the only one that blooms red flowers every year?
Let's put this clue down first and then look at another detail.
After the third child got leukemia, Jingqiu ran to the village geological team camp to find him. The geological team said something to her, and there are several very important messages:
First, in addition to the third child, some people in the second team got leukemia; Second, it is the minerals explored by the geological team that cause leukemia; Third, Lao San was afraid that the second team would continue to get sick, so he took several samples to the city for testing.
As we all know, the third child got leukemia and eventually died.
The original novel only mentioned that the illness of the third child may be related to exploring the environment, which was briefly mentioned. This dialogue is an original film. We can't help but suspect that the director has been deliberately controlling the length of the film, and many places even use subtitles to explain the scene. Time is so precious, why add such an original scene that seems unnecessary?
There is a saying in the theory of drama creation that if a gun is hung in the set of the stage, it should at least ring, otherwise it should not be hung-meaning not to put irrelevant things in the drama.
According to this theory, the play is obviously meaningful.
The most important implication of this scene is that the leukemia of the third child has a lot to do with the stones he excavated in the second team.
An important cause of leukemia is radiation. The third child stays in the geological exploration team all the year round and should be exposed to minerals with strong radiation, such as uranium mines.
But this did not solve the problem.
Geological exploration teams are all professionals, and it is their specialty to find out the minerals. If it is uranium, it will be identified at the first time. How can the second team be so chaotic? Many people in the team have leukemia. Remember to ask the third team to take the stone to the city for examination?
Moreover, if the second team digs a national strategic material uranium mine and blocks it for the first time, the protagonist will never go out for three days without dating a woman, not to mention the second team working overtime.
It can be seen that this mineral is mysterious, so mysterious that the second team can't judge its nature; But it didn't have too strong radiation, so the second team didn't pay attention to it at first and didn't take protective measures, which led to the tragedy of the third team.
Let's call this mysterious mineral Amy Mine in memory of the original author of the novel.
Next, let's re-examine the timeline of the movie.
Omit the part before Jingqiu returns to the city. After Jingqiu returned to the city, Lao San went to the second team to work overtime in exchange for a rest and ran to the city to find her to play. Two people also went swimming in the river, and Jingqiu's mother found them. The third child is hospitalized in the county hospital for physical examination. Jingqiu secretly went to see him, and they took a group photo for the last time. Then the third child left without saying goodbye. Jingqiu went to the geological team to ask about the whereabouts of the third child. Finally, she learned in class that her lover had passed away.
Comparing this timeline with the direction of the third child, we can clearly guess the exploration progress of the second team.
First of all, when Jingqiu and Lao San first met, the second team came into contact with a vein near Xiping Village. The nature of this vein is very strange. It is not uranium, but it has radiation, but it is not very strong.
The second team couldn't judge the nature of Amy mine at the moment, but it didn't care too much. It just transferred a group of personnel from other exploration teams to continue the exploration of the vein. It was at this time that the third began to join the second team and freely traveled between the county seat and Xiping Village. I'm afraid the third child was infected by Amy Mine during this period.
When the third child was swimming with Jingqiu, his body was abnormal, and he not only showed drowsiness, but also took out a knife to cut off his arm when Jingqiu refused to go to the hospital because of a foot injury. Of course, this is a sign of love, but it also reflects that the third child is impatient and prone to violence.
This symptom also appears in other people in the second team who have been exposed to Amy Mine. The second team had no choice but to send these players to the county hospital and lied about the physical examination. In fact, they were hospitalized for in-depth examination.
In the scene in the ward, Jing Qiu asked Lao San why he was hospitalized for a general examination, and Lao San prevaricated and covered up the past. In fact, Lao San and Jing Qiu have the same question, and they have already doubted the arrangement of the second team. A detail is expressed in the film. Jing Qiu was reading a book on pathology when he visited the sick, which showed that he had doubts and planned to find out the truth himself.
At that time, he hadn't thought about the problem of Amy mine. He thought it was leukemia and told Jingqiu.
Unfortunately, he was wrong. In the movie, we can see that the ward is crowded with people, which shows that the radiation infection range of Amy Mine is quite large, but it will not spread through people.
At this stage, the exploration team still didn't notice the abnormality, and the hospital was not blocked. It is still possible to sneak into the quiet hill at night. During the bed, Lao San and Jing Qiu were free to go in and out, and they took a group photo together sweetly.
Note that before taking a group photo, Lao San made a very strange move, and he even rolled his eyes.
When I was cross-eyed, my third child's expression was ferocious. When I saw this passage in the cinema, my hair stood on end.
This is a photo with my lover, not a Halloween party! And it was during the Cultural Revolution, not today in 2 1 century. Taking pictures is a serious matter, and even young people with lively nature can't have such an open mind.
Unless he doesn't want to, he can't control his muscles ...
In the movie, Jingqiu saw the third child's cross-eye, thought he was funny, and began to cross-eye. Old three paused, hurriedly continued to make faces to hide his gaffes. This detail tells us that there are new signs of the third child's condition at this time.
That night, two people slept in the same bed. When Jingqiu decided to give her body to Lao San, Lao San simply touched it and gave up. After sweet talk, both of them fell asleep.
Lonely men and few women, living in the same room, the third son rubbed for a while and didn't go any further. If this young man is not reincarnated by Liu Xiahui, it only shows that he is afraid.
There is a detail in the movie: when the third child touched Jingqiu's lower body, he hesitated and panicked on his face, so he immediately wanted to take his hand away. Finally, Jingqiu grabbed his hand and pressed him down.
What is he afraid of?
Jingqiu has no sexual knowledge, but the third child must have it. Jingqiu is a virgin. They bleed when they are happy.
Is the third child dizzy?
No Recalling the third child's cut arm and bleeding, his expression was cheerful.
This shows that Lao San likes to see blood, but his reaction after seeing blood may hurt people around him. That night, Lao San resolutely gave up acting, fearing that he would do something terrible to hurt his lover after seeing red in the quiet autumn.
In addition, there is no explanation why he stopped abruptly at the right time and in the right place.
This did not destroy the atmosphere of the whole movie, but proved the protagonist's determination to sacrifice for love.
This further explains why Lao San asked Jing Qiu to choose a red dress and bought a washbasin with a red bottom, even the diaries he sent before were red.
Of course, all these actions come from Yu Laosan's love for Jingqiu, but the third child may not know it himself. From the psychological point of view, these actions also show that the bloodthirsty impulse has quietly controlled his thinking at the subconscious level, which has made him have a strong red tendency.
For this detail, the director made a subtle hint at the back. After Jing Qiu's friend miscarried, they had a conversation about "success", in which the details of sex were awkward, which echoed the previous plot.
When Jingqiu went to the ward to find the third child again, all the other patients in the ward were there, but the third child was gone, leaving only a washbasin and even no time to write a note.
Jingqiu asked about the doctor's condition, and the female nurse denied that it was leukemia and said that the third child was fine. This led her to misunderstand the third child.
Judging from the following plot, there is no doubt that the third child was diagnosed with a serious disease in the county hospital. Then the female nurse said so, so why lie?
There is a scene about a female nurse driving Jingqiu out of the hospital in the middle of the night. It is obvious that she is a serious and responsible person. Such a person must have her reasons for lying to patients for no reason.
This reason is not difficult to guess. This shows that the infection of the third child is much deeper than others, and it has reached the point where the county hospital can't handle it, so it can only be transferred overnight. This accident alarmed the second team and superiors, and the leaders finally began to face up to this abnormality and began to block the news.
The transfer was made in extreme secrecy, and all insiders were told not to disclose it. So, the female nurse cheated Jingqiu.
The people in the geological prospecting team said that it was not accurate enough for Lao San to take the stone to the city for inspection. It should be that the third child was sent to the city for inspection with the stone. By this time, the abnormal nature of Amy's veins should have been notified to the country. As the first wave of infected people, the third child was sent to take Amy's ore samples for examination.
Finally, Jingqiu said goodbye to the third child. The third child was lying in the hospital bed, his face was leaden and his body was covered with large blue spots. He can't talk any more, his eyelids are still swollen.
When patients with advanced leukemia receive injection therapy, because the coagulation function has been lost, special hemostasis measures should be taken, and the skin will indeed leave black and blue spots.
At this point, the makeup of the movie is in line with the facts, but ... the spots on the third child cover the whole body, a little too much and a little too big. Dialysis and injection are all around blood vessels, and leukemia patients don't have pinholes all over their bodies-it is obvious in the lens that many muscle parts without blood vessels are also covered with black and purple spots, which is not the sequelae of treatment, but more like ulceration, and some parts are like bruises, as if they have experienced fierce fighting.
The posture of the third child in the hospital bed and many details of the surrounding furnishings show that his body is not simply lying flat, but under control.
On the whole, can it be said that he had been violently suppressed before, so that doctors were afraid to let go before he died?
It should be noted that at that time, in the ward, in addition to Jingqiu, there were a third father and a third crying relative (probably a grandmother, which was not explained in the film, so it is difficult to speculate) and many onlookers. These onlookers are all dressed in military uniforms and have serious expressions. Everyone stood quietly except one woman who had a few lines.
There is no explanation of their origin in the movie, and they are not relatives, friends or subordinates of Third Dad. They suddenly appeared and disappeared, leaving no trace.
As I said at the beginning, Hawthorn Tree is a film that cherishes time like gold, and there will be no useless idle pen. The unusual crowding in the ward is to express some information.
The existence of Amy Mine has alarmed the country, so the third child, as the first infected person, will certainly receive special attention, and someone will monitor or protect him.
Then I thought of the control marks on the third hospital bed and the strange bruises on him. We can even speculate that the third child had been almost out of control before, and his strength became greater and his desire for destruction was very strong. No three or five people can't subdue him at all. Therefore, those who wear uniforms in the ward are not friends or relatives of the third child, nor subordinates of the third child's father, but guards sent by the state to monitor the third child.
These military guards are very competent. Even if the third child sees his relatives before he dies, they will not leave the ward and dare not relax. From the number of guards, we can see how violent the old people were before.
When everyone around her, including her father, couldn't arouse the reaction of the third child, Jingqiu appeared-note that she was wearing a red dress at this time, blood red-calling the third child affectionately, and tears flowed out of her eyes. We believe that tears are true feelings, but I'm afraid it's more likely that the red dress aroused his consciousness.
As can be seen from this order, at this time, the bloodthirsty nature of the third child has been so strong that it has overwhelmed rationality, so it will instinctively strike first.
Red clothes wake up, then judge your lover rationally, and then shed tears. Unfortunately, at that time, he was speechless.
Therefore, we can summarize the symptoms of Amy's mineral infection from the performance of the third child in different periods in the film:
The first symptom, lethargy, is that the infected person has a bad temper and a tendency to violence.
The second symptom, fatigue, facial muscles began to get out of control.
The third stage symptoms, began to appear strong bloodthirsty.
In the fourth stage, the whole body skin began to fester in a large area, and the infected person gradually lost his mind, and his bloodthirsty nature was further strengthened.
Stage 5 symptoms (? ) The physique is abnormally improved, and the aggressiveness and destructive power are multiplied, but the mind will be greatly reduced.
Do these symptoms look familiar to you? Is it like a species that often appears in games, movies and novels?
Now, let's go back to the theme of the movie, the red hawthorn tree.
Liu Su, a popular science writer, told us in the article "Are there any hawthorn trees with red flowers" that "most hawthorn trees only have white flowers, because a gene called AHS (Anthocyanin Synthase) can't play a role in their petals and can't turn colorless anthocyanin precursors into colored anthocyanins ... but some wild hawthorn trees can also have light pink flowers ... Presumably, this should be because these plants have mutated, which makes AHS.
In other words, hawthorn trees with red flowers can have them, provided that their genes have mutated.
We know that one of the reasons for gene mutation is the influence of radiation.
Hawthorn trees with red flowers grow not far from Xiping Village. Team two found Amy Mine. It must be nearby.
Amy minerals changed the genes of hawthorn trees, which made the hawthorn trees with white flowers bloom with red flowers. Since we can change the genes of plants, we can also change the genes of human beings. The members of the third and second teams near Amy Mine were infected by radiation, and the radiation intensity was not enough to change the biological genes, which made them look different.
They are hawthorn trees with red flowers among human beings.
Here's a problem. Since it is close to Amy Mine, it will be changed by its radiation. Then, how can people in Xiping Village be all right after living for so many years?
In the movie, the same explanation is given.
It is mentioned in the movie that Jingqiu's mother is ill and needs to eat walnut rock sugar. So, the second son of Xiping village head was inspired by the third son and specially sent a big bag of walnuts.
It shows that walnut is a specialty of Xiping Village.
Walnut is rich in polyphenols and lipopolysaccharide, which is the best food for radiation protection. Because astronauts want to live in outer space and the radiation is strong, walnuts are an essential ingredient in space food.
Therefore, villagers in Xiping, who are used to eating walnuts, have lived a very stable life for so many years, while the geological exploration teams from other places have changed a lot.
Speaking of which, the real theme of the movie "Hawthorn Tree Love" has come out.
The hawthorn tree with red flowers symbolizes the tragic fate of the third child. He is as unfortunate as the hawthorn tree, even more so. Similarly, the gene was changed, and the hawthorn tree produced red flowers, which was hailed as a symbol of revolution, while the third child could only watch himself lose his mind step by step and finally become an alien, controlled by the army until his death. His unfortunate encounter with the Second Exploration Team is another hidden clue under the main line of this film.
Jing Qiu, who knows nothing about all this, still misses the lover in the mutant hawthorn tree.
The name of this movie should not be Love of Hawthorn Tree, but Change of Hawthorn Tree.