Starring: Zhou Dongyu, Shawn Dou

Film genre: plot, love

Release time: 20 10/September 016th.

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 to collect revolutionary stories and compile teaching materials. The third child is waiting for Jingqiu to graduate, to work, and to become a full member. When all Jingqiu's wishes come true, they meet again under the hawthorn tree.

20 1 1 year, the film was nominated for the best Asian film at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards.

August 20th18th17th, 2008, was named as one of the top ten excellent love movies in China on the 40th anniversary of the first China Shuangtashan Love Movie Week.

Car: The car is an image throughout the film, which appears about five times in the film. The image of the bus is analyzed from the functional point of view. The bus is a means of transportation for passengers. This kind of transportation has the following characteristics: it starts on time and stops at the corresponding station, and the 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 park, all these are not decided by the passengers, but must be in accordance with the bus.

It means that what the film reveals may be such a state of repression and extinction of vitality imprisoned by rigid norms from the outside world. As the story unfolds, we do see how this stereotype from society suppresses people's fresh personality, and eventually leads to the love tragedy of the protagonist Jingqiu and the third brother. This is a cruel reality that the writers and directors want to tell us (the film begins with the introduction: 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 the 1950s. This song was also widely sung among the young people in China at that time. People sang that it was devoted to the life and construction in full swing, and at the same time it was as pure as a hawthorn tree with white flowers. Its melody almost represented 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 forbidden to be sung, 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, a symbol of love, became a "hero tree" and a "revolutionary tree" in such preaching, and it was written into teaching materials and passed down from generation to generation. When the camera zooms out from the hawthorn tree, you will find that the hawthorn tree grows next to a hillside. It's like a grave Then at this time, the theme of the film 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 between Jingqiu and the 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, then who is the protagonist Jingqiu or the third brother talking about a love triangle? Or is there a conflict similar to the triangle relationship in Jingqiu's heart, and is it precisely this conflict that interprets the tragedy of this love?

The conflict between two versions of hawthorn tree in Jingqiu's heart

If the hawthorn tree symbolizes quiet autumn, the bus symbolizes the stereotype 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 film "Hawthorn Tree Love" is a dream woven by the protagonist Jing Qiu's subconscious mind.

At the beginning of the film, when everyone came under the hawthorn tree, 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 little by little 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, "All say so." Jingqiu looked at the hawthorn tree with reverence ... The "revolutionary hawthorn tree" symbolizing "correctness", that is, Jingqiu of revolution, was implanted in her heart, so she danced "revolutionary" dance, did "revolutionary" work, hurt her feet and watched her mother be "revolutionary". Her feelings were suppressed by this stereotyped stereotype.

Later, when Jingqiu heard the song of Hawthorn Tree from the tent, she heard another version of Hawthorn Tree-Love Edition for the first time. It was also at this time that her inner surging emotion was activated, which was an irresistible surge of life from the deep heart. She is no longer as absorbed in writing articles as before, and her heart has been touched by her third brother. This is a common throb in adolescent girls.

But at the same time, the conflict between the two versions began in her heart. In the image of the hawthorn tree, she is the hawthorn tree, but there are two versions of the interpretation of the hawthorn tree: the revolutionary version and the love version. At this time, there are "two" quiet autumn. He has two sets of value systems, and she has to choose between them. As a "revolution", Jingqiu should abandon all kinds of lingering "petty bourgeoisie sentiment" and give full play to the spirit of daring to sacrifice and not being afraid of hardship, so as not to 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 beside the hawthorn tree ... "

This relationship can be seen as a "social stereotyped 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 stereotyped model chooses "revolution", and the two inner forces have to make a choice.

Jingqiu's father has always existed as 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", thus leaving "deep pain". As the saying goes, "Men are afraid of getting into the wrong business, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong husband", and these two items are all occupied by parents. Dad was beaten to the right when he was young, and his political and career career was completely lost, and his mother was also implicated. So my mother said sadly, "One step is wrong and one step is wrong."

The reason for the absence of father in the film is attributed to social reasons, but from the perspective of psychodynamics, a strong mother drove her father away, 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 a connection with her father, so that it will affect her choice of love object and her married life later. 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 bivalent personality: one is the mother's request and the other is the self's need. In this conflict of bivalent personality, the mother often plays a dominant role and occupies a dominant position.

In order to prevent her daughter from making mistakes, the mother kept strict control over her daughter, and never allowed her daughter to make the same mistakes as her father at work or herself emotionally. This control suppressed Jingqiu's fresh vitality.

Under the control of her mother, "two can't" was deeply implanted in Jingqiu's heart and played a role at the critical moment she chose. For example, after she and her third brother secretly started a secret love affair, they never hugged or kissed each other.

What does this "two noes" mean?

Not being like a father means denying his father and not being able to establish a deep connection with his father. The deep psychological confusion brought to my daughter is: What kind of father should I find? What kind of man should I love? There is no answer.

Can't be carried away by emotions like mom, which means you can't have emotions and be emotional.

If father's love is the source of reason and mother's love is the source of emotion, then this "two can't" actually deprives her daughter of her right to be a human being. This is reflected in the film: the teacher said that the hawthorn tree blooms with red flowers, and it is believed in Jingqiu, and there is no strong idea to verify it (rational deprivation); Retreat (emotional repression) in communication with my third brother. Then you can only be a machine, doing things you don't know every day. The result of father's absence is to be replaced by another transitional object, which is social norms, represented by teachers in the film. The teacher was very concerned about Jingqiu's ideological changes and told 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 her holiday to participate in the playground construction, so that her feet were burned by lime. Jingqiu's father exists in an absent way and in a deformed way.

The appearance of the third brother opened another inner world of Jingqiu, namely the emotional world. Actually, the third brother is the representative of her biological father subconsciously, where there is a set of value system that is "out of place" with the social norms represented by the teacher. The third brother can sing forbidden songs, boldly pursue love, swim with Jingqiu in a swimsuit, let Jingqiu sit in front of a bicycle 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 Jingqiu's internalized mother's "two noes" and the "revolutionary version" of the hawthorn tree is too strong. The third brother died of leukemia, the "love version" of the hawthorn tree died, and Jingqiu's dream was finished.

After waking up, Jingqiu came to the hawthorn tree again, but the dense hawthorn tree was full of white bloom branches.

The third brother said, whether it has white flowers or red flowers,

Its fruit is red!

Then we already know who is the bravest and cutest one!

? The combination of these three shots shows the process of ideological struggle between the two people, and finally abandoned the stick and held hands.