movie uses the humanistic expression of modern movies to interpret this story. The protagonist’s name is "Tree", and a certain tree is also involved in the movie many times. This tree represents hypocrisy and backwardness, unable to give people satisfactory answers to their lives, but deeply corrupts people and makes people unable to bypass things, such as feudal traditions, evil forces, unfaithful and selfish people, everything develops in accordance with established traditions, The desperate reality. The protagonist is called "tree", which shows that he is also expected to become a "tree" and is forced to become a "tree". In the
film, Mr. Tree is a typical low-level figure, powerless and bullied. There are many such people in real life, and the special thing about Mr. Tree lies in his special childhood experience-witnessing his brother being strangled to death by his father. The violent incident of father and son mutilation left a lingering shadow on the young Mr. Tree. The plot of Mr. Tree writing a love poem to Xiaomei in the movie is impressive. Although the love story is quite naive and straightforward, this scene actually implies that his seemingly sloppy appearance actually hides a literary heart. This also explains why Mr. Tree never forgets his elder brother who has been dead for many years. It is precisely because his elder brother symbolizes fashion, trend and openness. He is a fashionable young man singing "A Fire in Winter" and dancing in a disco.
This is undoubtedly a bright light for a tree growing up in a closed and conservative countryside, and the two brothers have reached a tacit understanding of spiritual isomorphism. But when his spiritual idol was strangled to death by his father himself, this also virtually killed Mr. Tree's dream. The image of a stern father here represents authority, violence, and conservativeness, and any unruly behavior will be strictly prohibited.
This is undoubtedly an undeniable and authoritative image for Mr. Tree, who yearns for freedom and pursues liberation. Therefore, whenever the tree wants to release his nature in the film, his father’s soul will immediately appear to express warning and prohibition. The reason why Mr. Shu chose Xiaomei as his marriage partner was not purely the love of men and women to some extent, but because of her fashionable appearance, the identity of the city people and the modern atmosphere of her independent personality. These elements coincide with the spiritual traits that Mr. Tree had in mind that his brother had.
In other words, Xiaomei actually exists as a spiritual substitute for her brother. Although Xiaomei is physically flawed, she is open and civilized both in appearance and personality. At the end of the film, there is a blood-red background, completely depressed and breathless. The inner state of the tree is perfectly presented.
Due to the unique style of the film, one of the hot topics of discussion is which part of the tree starts from the fantasy. Some people think that it is from the beginning of the film, and some people think that it is after kneeling to Erzhu. Personally, I tend to think that the period started after the tree got married. All plots need to serve the theme. What the movie shows is the process of the tree going crazy step by step. After getting married, the tree goes completely crazy, and then starts to have fantasy. This is a reasonable arrangement. The influence of Lu Xun can be seen in the film from the spiritual core to the performance techniques. We can also see the shadows of Kong Yiji and others from the tree. All in all, this is a good movie not to be missed.
