Today, I watched The Hawthorn Tree Love. At first, I was moved by this clean love, but later I felt something was wrong, and I couldn't say what was wrong. I was thinking all the way home, and then I thought-it was the hawthorn tree.

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 that it is red flowers, 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 don't seriously care about what kind of blood type is the color 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 and look at another detail.

After the third child got leukemia, Jingqiu ran to the village geological team camp to find him. The people of the geological team said something to her, and there were several very important messages:

First, in addition to the third child, some people in the second team got leukemia; Second, what causes leukemia is minerals explored by geological teams; Third, Lao San was afraid that the second team would continue to get sick, so he took a few samples to the city for testing.

As we all know, the third child had leukemia and eventually died.

The original novel only mentioned that the illness of the third child may be related to the exploration environment, which was briefly mentioned. This dialogue is an original film. We can't help but doubt that the director has been deliberately controlling the length of the film, and many places even use subtitles to explain the scene. So precious is time, 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 hint in this scene is that the leukemia of the third child has a great relationship with the stones he explored in the second team.

An important cause of leukemia is radiation. The third child stayed in the geological exploration team all the year round, and what he came into contact with should be minerals with strong radiation, such as uranium mines.

But this does not solve the question.

Geological exploration teams are all professionals, and it is their specialty to find out the types of minerals. If it is uranium, it will be identified at the first time. How could the second team be so confused that many people in the team got leukemia that they remembered to let the third one take the stone to the city for examination?

Moreover, if the second team digs uranium ore, which is a national strategic material, it will be sealed off at the first time, and the protagonist will never go out to date a woman for three days, and the overtime work of the second team will be mentioned.

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 the beginning, and didn't take protective measures, which led to the tragedy of the third.

Let's call this mysterious mineral Amy Mine to commemorate the original author of the novel.

Next, let's re-examine the timeline of the movie.

Leave out 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 were discovered by Jingqiu's mother. The third child was hospitalized in the county hospital for physical examination. Jingqiu secretly went to see him, and the two 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 time line with the trend 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, it has radiation, but it is not too strong.

The second team couldn't judge the nature of Aimi Mine at the moment, but it didn't pay much attention to it. 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 child began to join the second team and was free to travel back and forth between the county seat and Xiping Village. I'm afraid it was during this period that the third child was infected by Amy Mine.

When old three swam with Jingqiu, his body was abnormal, which not only showed drowsiness, but also when Jingqiu refused to go to the hospital because of a foot injury, he actually took out a knife to cut his arm. This is certainly a sign of love, but it also reflects that old three is emotionally irritable and prone to violence.

This symptom also appeared in other people in the second team who came into contact with 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 why Lao San was hospitalized for a general physical examination, and Lao San prevaricated and covered up the past. In fact, Lao San has the same questions as Jing Qiu, and has already doubted the arrangement of the second team. A detail is expressed in the movie. When Jing Qiu visited the sick, he was reading a book Pathology, which showed that he was suspicious and planned to find out the truth by himself.

At that time, he hadn't thought of the problem of Amy mine, and he thought it was leukemia, so he told Jingqiu.

Unfortunately, he is wrong. In the movie, we can see that the ward is full of people, which shows that the scope of radiation infection in Amy Mine is quite large, but it will not be transmitted through interpersonal communication.

At this stage, the exploration team still didn't pay attention to the anomaly, the hospital was not blocked, and it was still possible to sneak in at night in Jingqiu. During the period of accompanying 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 crossed 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 shoot with a lover, not a Halloween party! Moreover, it was during the Cultural Revolution, not today in the 21st century. Taking photos is a serious matter, and even young people with lively nature can't have such an open mind.

Unless he doesn't want to, but 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 and hurriedly continued to make faces to cover up his gaffes. This detail tells us that the third child's condition at this time has shown new signs.

That night, two people slept in a bed. When Jingqiu decided to give her body to Lao San, Lao San simply touched it and gave up. After a sweet talk, both of them fell asleep.

Lonely men and few women, living together in one room, the third son rubbed for a while, but he didn't go any further. If this young man is not reincarnated by Liu Xiahui, it only means that he is afraid.

There is a detail in the movie: when the third child touches Jing Qiu's lower body, he hesitates, and panic appears on his face, so he immediately wants to pull his hand away. Finally, Jing Qiu grabbed his hand and pressed him down.

What is he afraid of?

Jingqiu has no common sense of sex, but the third child must have it. Jingqiu is a virgin, and when they are happy, they will bleed.

Is the third child dizzy?

No way. Recalling the time when the third child cut his arm and blood came out, his expression was cheerful.

This shows that the third child likes to see blood, but his reaction after seeing blood may hurt people around him. That night, the third child resolutely stopped acting, fearing that he would do something terrible and hurt his lover after seeing the red in the quiet autumn.

In addition, there is no explanation why he abruptly stopped his hand in the right place at the right time.

This does not damage the atmosphere of the whole film, but proves the protagonist's determination to sacrifice for love.

This further explains why Lao San asked Jing Qiu to choose a red dress, and also bought a washbasin with a red bottom, and even the diary he sent before was all red.

Of course, these actions come from the old three's love for Jingqiu, but the old three may not know it himself. From a 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 tendency to red.

For this detail, the director made a subtle hint at the back. After Jingqiu's friend miscarried, the two men had a conversation about "success", in which the details of sex were awkward, which was the echo of the previous plot.

When Jingqiu went to the ward again to find the third child, all the other patients in the ward were there, but the third child disappeared, leaving only a washbasin and even no time to write a note.

Jingqiu asked about the doctor's illness, but the female nurse denied the leukemia and said that the third child was fine. This caused her to misunderstand the third child.

Judging from the plot behind, it is beyond doubt that the third child was diagnosed with serious illness 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 can be seen that she is a conscientious person. Such a person must have her reasons for lying to the patient for no reason.

This reason is not difficult to guess. This shows that the degree of 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 the higher authorities, and the leaders finally began to face up to this anomaly and began to block the news.

The transfer was carried out in extreme secrecy, and all insiders were told not to disclose it. Therefore, the female nurse lied to Jingqiu.

The people in the geological exploration team said that Lao San took the stone to the city for inspection, which was not accurate enough. It should be that Lao San and the stone were sent to the city for inspection together. At this time, the abnormal nature of Amy's vein should have been notified to the country, and the third child, as the first wave of infected people, was sent to check with Amy's ore samples.

Finally, it is the farewell between Jingqiu and the third child. The third child was lying in the hospital bed, his face was leaden and gray, and he was covered with large chunks of blue spots. He could no longer speak, and his eyelids were still swollen.

When patients with advanced leukemia receive injection therapy, because their blood 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. Both dialysis and injection work around blood vessels, and leukemia patients don't stick needle holes 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 a sequela of treatment, but more like ulceration, and some parts are like bruises, as if they have experienced fierce fighting.

Many details of the posture of the third child in the hospital bed and the surrounding furnishings show that his body is not simply lying flat, but under control.

Taken together, can it be said that he had a violent move before and was forcibly suppressed, so that doctors are afraid to let go before he dies?

It should be noted that at that time, in the ward, there were a lot of onlookers besides Jingqiu, the third father and the third crying relative (probably grandma, who didn't explain it in the film, so it's not easy to speculate). These onlookers were all dressed in military uniforms and looked serious. Except one of the women had a few lines, the others stood in silence.

There is no explanation for their origin in the film, not saying that they are relatives, friends or subordinates of the third father. They suddenly appeared and suddenly 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 extraordinary overcrowding in the ward is to express some information.

The existence of Amy Mine has alarmed the country, so as the first infected person, Lao San will definitely get special attention, and someone will monitor or protect him.

Then think of the control marks on the third hospital bed and the strange bruises on his body. We can even speculate that the third child had been so violent before that the situation was almost out of control, and his strength became greater and his desire for destruction was very strong. No three or five people could not subdue him at all. Therefore, those uniformed personnel 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 powerful the old man's violent behavior was before.

When everyone around her, including her father, couldn't arouse the reaction of the third child, Jingqiu appeared-note that at this time, she was wearing a red dress, blood red-calling the third child affectionately, and tears flowed out of the corner of her eyes. We believe that tears are true feelings, but I'm afraid it's more likely the red dress that arouses his consciousness.

As can be seen from this order, at this time, the third child's bloodthirsty nature has been so strong that it has overwhelmed rationality, so it will be instinctively first.

Red clothes wake up, then rationally judge your lover, and then shed tears. It's a pity that at that time, he was speechless.

So, from the performance of the third child in different periods in the film, we summarized the infection symptoms of Amy minerals to the human body according to the clinic:

The first symptom, lethargy, 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, strong bloodthirsty began to appear.

In the fourth stage, the skin of the whole body began to fester in a large area, and the infected person gradually lost his mind and his bloodthirsty nature was further strengthened.

In the fifth stage, the physique is unusually improved, and the aggressiveness and destructive power are multiplied, but the mind will be greatly reduced.

Do these symptoms look familiar to you? Resident Evil, like a certain kind of horror species that often appears in games, movies and novels?

Now, let's go back to the theme of the film, the red hawthorn tree.

Liu Su, a popular science writer, told us in the article "Are there any hawthorn trees with red flowers?" "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 pale pink flowers ... Presumably, it should be because these plants have mutated, which makes AHS.

That is to say, hawthorn trees with red flowers can have them, provided that their genes have mutated.

As we know, one of the reasons for gene mutation is that it is affected by radiation.

The hawthorn tree with red flowers grows not far from Xiping Village. Team two has discovered the Amy mine, and it must be nearby.

Amy minerals changed the genes of hawthorn trees, making the hawthorn trees with white flowers bloom with red flowers. Since it can change the genes of plants, it can also change the genes of human beings. The members of the third and second teams who were close to Amy Mine were infected by radiation that was not strong enough to change biological genes and became another look.

They are hawthorn trees with red flowers among human beings.

There is a question here. Since it is close to Amy Mine, it will be changed by its radiation. Then, how can the people in Xiping Village be okay 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 sick and needs to eat walnut rock candy. Therefore, the second child of the village head of Xiping Village was inspired by the third child 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, the radiation is intense, so walnuts are an essential ingredient in space food.

Therefore, the villagers in Xiping who are used to eating walnuts have lived safely for so many years, while the geological exploration teams coming from other places have been greatly changed.

Having said that, the real theme of the movie "Love of Hawthorn Trees" has come to the fore.

The hawthorn tree with red flowers is a symbol of the tragic fate of the third child. He is the same as the hawthorn tree, and even more unfortunate than it. Similarly, the gene was changed, and the hawthorn tree produced red flowers, which was praised 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 thread under the main line of this film.

Jing Qiu, who is ignorant of all this, still misses his lover in the mutated hawthorn tree.

Therefore, the name of this movie should not be called Love of Hawthorn Tree, but Change of Hawthorn Tree.