Most of the content of the movie "The Hedgehog" was filmed in accordance with the content of the original work, with some details and plot changes. It is easy to put more literary meaning into this character relationship. It can be seen that the original author Zheng Zhi is very

Most of the content in the movie "The Hedgehog" was filmed in accordance with the original content, and some details and plots have been changed. It is easy to put more literary meaning into this character relationship. It can be seen that the original author Zheng Zhi is very good at creating. Two souls who are neither optimistic about each other rely on each other to comfort and warm each other. Under these appearances, the unpredictable personal destiny in the great era is hidden.

王队 (played by Ge You) is somewhat symbolic, and his "abnormality" is a mark of a certain era. Some things that touch people's hearts are passed by, but for individuals, they are the pain buried in their hearts. For example, the girl who left a suicide note to Wang Zhantuan had no choice but to commit suicide because she could not stay together and married the wrong person. Her life was already miserable and she suffered from domestic violence.

The adaptation of the movie allows us to see the various connections between Zhou Zheng (played by Wang Junkai ) and his uncle Wang Zhantuan. The first is to play chess. It is also written in the novel that Wang Zhantuan is reading the newspaper and defeating his opponent absentmindedly. There is even a scene in the movie where he guides Zhou Zheng to play chess. People say Wang Zhantuan is mentally ill, but he is a chess master.

When Wang Zhantuan was playing chess, it was normal. However, once Zhou Zheng was bullied by his classmates and happened to pass by the place where he was playing chess. At first, Wang Zhantuan just stood up to stop him, but in the chaos, the chessboard overturned and the chess pieces rolled to the ground. He chased her wildly, frightening the boy on the bike. As a result, he kept running into the river to find his chess friend Lao He who was actually dead.

This chess game has also become a channel for Zhou to vent his pain and worries. But for a while, Wang Zhantuan was drugged by Zhou Zheng's aunt, and he fell asleep every day, feeling depressed and unintentional to play chess. Zhou Zheng, who had nowhere to vent, attempted to jump off a building due to domestic violence from his father. Zhou Zheng, who was injured in the fall, was believed to have been possessed by the Wang Group.

In Zhou Zheng’s heart, especially as he grows older, he will get closer to Wang Zhantuan, because only this uncle treats him as a normal person. Because of his stuttering, he brought a lot of inconvenience to his life, and his classmates who bullied him also caused discrimination because of this. If he is sick, Zhou Zheng suffers from depression.

Stuttering is one aspect, and there is also poor academic performance and repeated grades. His father will often beat him because of this. That jump from a building was the result of repeated domestic violence. As a parent, instead of looking for the cause on himself, he believed that Zhou Zheng was infected by Wang Zhantuan's madness.

But there is no way. Wang Zhantuan and Zhou Zheng always do some strange things by mistake. Sometimes Zhou Zheng is just a bystander of the incident, and he will be dragged into the water, such as the time when he chased his chess friends into the river. Because no one saw what happened.

Sometimes, Zhou Zheng is indeed a participant, so apart from chess, what connects the two of them is the hedgehog mentioned in the title. Since Wang Zhantuan said that eating hedgehogs could cure his thigh diseases, he took Zhou Zheng and roasted the hedgehogs together.

Zhou Zheng wanted to cure his stuttering, but Wang Zhantuan said that he was not sick at all. At that time, Wang's group was having a dinner with their future son-in-law in the suburbs. They drank too much wine and drinks and said they went to the jungle to urinate with Zhou Zheng. As a result, they bumped into a hedgehog. This may be their destiny with the hedgehog.

It was this kind of passive or active binding that made the family regard Wang Zhantuan and Zhou Zheng as patients, a mental patient, and a stuttering boy possessed by evil spirits. So in their lives, the fortune teller Teacher Zhao (played by Ren Suxi ) appeared again. When this person was looking at the fate of Wang Zhantuan, he did ask about the woman who committed suicide for him. Since then, this crooked way has been recognized by the family.

So, after Zhou Zheng failed to jump off the building, Teacher Zhao also started to take advantage of Zhou Zheng. Because hedgehogs are one of the five immortals, Wang Zhantuan and Zhou Zheng eating hedgehogs are disrespectful to the Lao Bai family and the great immortals. So this time Teacher Zhao was very vicious and beat Zhou Zheng, making him kneel on the ground and admit his mistakes.

This very important scene appears as the ending in the original work, but has been greatly changed in the movie. The added content of the movie is that Zhou Zheng quietly handed the phone to Wang Zhantuan, who understood that he was signaling him to call the police. So when the confrontation between Master Zhao and Zhou Zheng was at its most intense, the police arrived in time.

It is this kind of adaptation that gives the novel and the movie a completely different temperament. Of course, when seeing such a plot happen, viewers who have not read the novel can also understand that this method of treatment is to break the feudal superstition. But in the original novel, Zhou Zheng, who had always been angry with his family and kept quiet, finally spoke up and admitted that he made a mistake in eating the hedgehog. It is this ending that leads to the sentence that was said later, we will not be stuck on anything.

In the movie, Zhou Zheng had the completely opposite attitude. Not only did he not admit his mistakes, he even took eating the hedgehog as a threat and said it viciously to Teacher Zhao as a retaliation. The treatment in the novel is to create and preserve that special atmosphere. As mentioned at the beginning, it is a more literary treatment. Readers will understand the pain in Zhou Zheng's inner world in this released emotion. And such a release implies the role of a great immortal, which will inevitably encounter problems in subject matter review, and may be suspected of promoting feudal superstition.

Of course, the film’s treatment of this clip creates another effect. On the one hand, it shows Zhou Zheng’s long-standing forbearance and stubbornness. He finally found an opportunity to resist the constraints, misunderstandings and suppression around him. Especially when she was kneeling on the ground, it was his mother who tearfully admitted his mistake and confessed for him. So when the police came, Wang Zhantuan and Zhou Zheng, who were standing on the united front, formed a sharp contrast with the family members around them. That is, who is the crazy person?

So from another aspect, including asking the Immortal to see a doctor, including giving medicine to Wang Zhantuan, it actually shows the way people dealt with problems in that ignorant era. Comparing Wang Zhantuan, who is literate and can write poems, is actually a metaphor for the destruction of individuals, especially literate individuals, after the great revolution in Chinese history. In movies, this level of content can only be experienced by the viewers themselves.

When it comes to poetry, Zhou Zheng copied Wang Zhantuan’s love poems, which is another connection between them besides chess and hedgehogs. Let’s regard it as a spiritual connection. After Zhou Zheng returned home after his career was successful, he said he did not want to forgive his parents for their misunderstanding and harm to him. It was also at this time that he emphasized that Wang Zhantuan was the only person who thought he was normal, and even said that he was Wang Zhantuan.

Similarly, we can also see that the person who really thinks that the Wang Group is not crazy is Zhou Zheng. Just like at the end of the movie, two souls wandering in the river, in that special era, could only keep each other warm, and cooperate with each other to gain more goodwill from the unfriendliness of the people around them. In a way, they made each other successful.

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