During the American Civil War, a wounded colonel named John, who had accidentally lost his way in the dense forest because of the dim light.
The wound worsened and he was unable to get up, and Amy, who was picking mushrooms, stumbled upon him, a student at a nearby girls' school, and out of kindness, she saved John.
And Amy did not return for a long time on the school side, and when she returned, she brought a blood-stained man, like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, and all the people gathered around him and whispered.
The man looked like a soldier from the north, and it was not a good idea to take him in under the tense situation, so the headmaster ordered Amy to quickly tie a blue cloth strip to the school gate and inform the southern army to come and take him away.
However, the female students disagreed, because it was a human life anyway.
After much deliberation, the headmaster finally decided to take John in for the time being, and when he was well, he would let him leave on his own.
Several men carried him into the room, and they hid John in the music classroom, busy running for him.
At this time, they would never have thought that this man who suddenly broke into everyone's life would cause them disputes in the back.
Soon, the principal and teacher drove the girls out of the room, and they brought a basin of water to wipe John's body.
After wiping away the blood stains, John's handsome face was hidden in his sexy beard.
At the same time, the muscles under the hands that belonged only to men also contained explosive power, and it had to be admitted that John was a very strong and handsome man.
Even the teacher who had no waves in her heart could not contain the feeling of heartbeat, and after hurriedly packing up, she shyly and hastily exited the room, and then told the students to keep secrets and not to come to this room when they were fine.
It wasn't long before soldiers from the South came to ask if they had seen a wounded man, who was probably looking for John.
The headmaster covered up for John without thinking, and asked the soldiers for a few bullets to defend themselves.
The girls hid by the window, worried, and after coaxing the soldiers away, everyone put their minds at ease.
John has since settled down here, because John is a soldier of the enemy army, and the principal has told the girls not to go near him, and some of the scrubbing work on weekdays is also done by himself and the female teacher.
The little girls at the bottom were fine, only Amy, who found John, was closer to him, but Ellie, an adult schoolgirl, looked at John at a glance.
The same was true not only of her, but also of the only female teacher in the school.
Thus, a secret contest quietly unfolded between the three women.
On the headmaster's side, since that day, she seemed to be fascinated by ghosts, often taking the opportunity to change the medicine to talk to John, and the movements under her hands were extremely gentle.
John was also a flowery intestine, and enjoyed her pursuit, but at this time the headmaster began to put up the shelf again, perhaps because of John's identity, perhaps to deliberately attract John's attention, she began to be cold to him again, and ordered John to leave as soon as the wound was healed.
However, at this time, Ellie pushed the door in, deliberately asking if she needed her help, but in fact, she used the excuse to seduce, and gave John a vague look before closing the door.
Soon, because of John's arrival, the girls had new conversations, and everyone discussed everything about John and took care of each other as much as they could.
John also gradually realized that he seemed to be very popular here, so he couldn't help but feel a little fluttery, and he began to slip his tongue when he was with the girls, and sometimes even directly started.
However, compared to the stodgy headmaster and the frivolous Ellie, John preferred the female teacher. She has a quiet and introverted personality, which is the style he likes.
So John used words to provoke her, and the female teacher had secretly promised him, and where he could not help but pluck, he soon fell into his tenderness.
Meanwhile, Ellie is still interested in John, and in order to make the other person notice her, she even sneaks out at night while everyone is praying and runs to his room to see him.
John knew all this, and the headmaster seemed to sense something, so jealous of her, she announced in public that she would leave as soon as John's wounds healed.
Not only that, but in order to prevent Ellie from sneaking to find John again, the principal also invited John to join everyone in the evening prayer, who knew that there was an emergency on this night.
The man was singing a hymn, but there was a sharp knock at the door outside, and John quickly hid. A few Southern soldiers came, and they almost found John, but in the end they only begged for some food and quickly left.
Such a thrilling thing happened, and the headmaster felt that he could not continue to keep John, and sooner or later it would affect them.
But the girls still disagree, especially Ellie and the female teacher, who are already in love with John.
So things were once again shelved.
In the evening, the headmaster and John were alone in the living room, the two talked, and John kissed each other, which completely destroyed the headmaster's psychological defenses.
She had to admit that she was interested in John. So she changed her mind and finally decided to let John stay for a long time.
The next day, John began to work in the garden, like a peony gardener or housekeeper.
The girls were also watching his hard work, and it seemed that everything was complete.
But this is only a superficial tranquility, and the three women's open and secret struggle for John continues.
One day, John confessed his heart to the female teacher, who also decided to be with John desperately, and the two agreed to spend a wonderful night together.
The female teacher waited in her room sexily, thinking that John would come, but she was robbed by Ellie, and when she realized that something was wrong and got up to look for it, she accidentally bumped into Ellie and John who were kissing.
The angry and jealous female teacher pushed John down the steps as soon as she reached out, and the noise alarmed the principal.
In order to cover up what had just happened, Ellie lied that John was going to plot against herself, only to be bumped into by the female teacher who rushed in, which accidentally pushed John downstairs.
At such a critical time, the two women's calibers were surprisingly consistent. It was just that neither of them expected that the headmaster was the real cruel person, and she would rather destroy what she couldn't get.
So she claimed that John's leg was not cured, and only amputation could save him. So several women took advantage of John's coma to saw off one of John's injured legs.
John, who woke up after a long time, naturally could not accept all this, and he thought that he was walking between three women, the most popular and proud, but he did not expect to be planted in the hands of several weak women.
From then on, John became very violent, yelling that he could not accept reality, causing the girls to feel a little fear and boredom, and the headmaster simply locked him up.
One day, Ellie felt guilty and went to John's bed to gently comfort him, but John asked Ellie to steal the key for him, and the latter did so.
Soon John escaped and stole the Headmaster's gun for self-defense, and he broke into the kitchen with the gun, and the girls trembled with fright.
Taking advantage of John's lack of attention, the principal asks Amy to go to the school gate and tie a blue cloth strip for help, but john soon finds him.
When he returned, he shattered the chandelier in the living room and threatened the girls with a gun, and now the situation was reversed, and John had become an enemy with a gun ready to threaten the safety of everyone.
The headmaster and the girls secretly discuss how to get rid of him, but the female teacher is still obsessively in love with John, and she even takes the initiative to come to John's room to dedicate herself.
But the rest didn't have such a beautiful idea, and in their eyes John had become a demon.
At this time, a younger girl mentioned that there is a poisonous mushroom in the back mountain, and people will be poisoned if they eat it.
So everyone began to prepare, Amy was responsible for picking poisonous mushrooms, and everyone was sitting down to prepare a rich dinner for John.
An inconspicuous murder unfolds unhurriedly in a relaxed atmosphere. Soon, John, who had eaten the poisonous mushroom, suddenly collapsed, and soon lost his breath.
But these delicate flower-like girls did not show their faces, because everyone knew it, and only the female teacher was very surprised.
But at this point, everyone understood each other's current situation, and the female teacher quickly accepted this fact.
So they re-tied the blue cloth strip on the gate, informed the soldiers, and soon removed John's body.
A storm subsided, and the quiet campus remained the same, as if nothing had happened...
The film "Under the Peony Blossom" was released in 2017 and co-starred famous movie stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kerstin Dunst and Ellie Fanning.
It is said that the peony flowers are also ghosts under the death, and the dead John may not have thought of it, he thought he could swim between the flowers, but he had not yet taken off the delicate roses, and he had been pierced with blood, and even took his life.
The film's previous subtle satires, which take a sharp turn after Dunst pushes Farrell down the stairs, contrast farrell's madness with the previous image of the lover, while the director's treatment—skipping the saw-legged scene directly (the scene in which the wound is stitched up in the first act is realistic)—creates a very sudden comedic effect, including the last dinner after that (in contrast to the previous dinner) is also quite comedic.
Here I also want to praise the acting skills of the female teacher played by Dunst, probably worth an Oscar female nomination, and the details of desire, repression, forbearance, and transformation are all very well performed.
Can also be capitalized close-up is the film's pictorial lighting, restoring the indoor scene of candle lighting, and has a fine capture of the beautiful light outside, the light effect, clothing and composition must refer to the oil paintings of the same period, watching on the big screen is indeed a good experience.
However, the play is still not good enough... Because the beginning and the end are routines, and this piece is still too decent, that little feminist attempt can make a breakthrough, and the result is still unable to grasp it and directly go to an indoor drama-style classical sketch, the pattern is slightly smaller.