Remember the Wenchuan earthquake that broke out in 2008?
In just a few seconds, everything in sight was instantly reduced to ruins, and countless lives and deaths were staged at once.
And today, twelve years later, after the coronavirus ravaged, Xiaomei wants to share this movie with everyone:
After the natural disaster, there will always be a flower of hope blooming on the ruins, and this time it will be accompanied by the fragrance of olives and the freshness and sadness of love——
Lover Under the Olive Tree
In movies, trees are often used to depict romance.
Sometimes you don't have to understand the plot at all, and you can grasp the sentiment conveyed by the film with just one frame, just like the poster of "Heartbeat" below.
The things that appear in posters often have implicit metaphors.
And in fact, most of the romance happens in the tree, and as for what happens under the tree—
Especially in the case that only the heroine appears in the film introduced today, it can only be linked to loneliness.
But obviously, this film is different.
First of all, the emotional carrier is different, neither a crooked neck tree, nor a hawthorn tree, nor a dead tree, but a large and vibrant olive grove.
Scratch the point! The olive tree symbolizes peace, victory, hope, and is extremely vigorous, able to adapt to a variety of different living environments, symbolizing the tenacious fighting spirit.
And this is in perfect harmony with the film's shooting background: director Abbas and the film crew came to a small village that had just experienced an earthquake to shoot the movie "Life and Growth Stream".
The reputation of this film must not need to be repeated too much by the little sister, because everyone casually searches and follows a long list of comments.
It is no exaggeration to say that the "Country Trilogy" can kill 97% of the disaster films in a second.
Second: the olive tree is a symbol of strength and life, representing eternity.
The word forever is easily reminiscent of romantic love, and the last of the trilogy, Lover Under an Olive Tree, is the only film that focuses on love.
Love movies will always have lovers dating under a tree, but if there is only one person, it is largely creating loneliness.
However, because the male protagonist of the film is hiding somewhere in the olive grove, what does he want to do?
Sigh, think crooked, take your thoughts back, no dog blood, no triangle, this is just a story of a poor boy firmly pursuing love.
There is no thrilling plot, no heart-wrenching touching scenes, and the story is as clean as a mountain spring.
Under Abbas's lens, this remote village has a picturesque scenery, a unique worldly feeling, and the love of the male and female protagonists is slowly unfolding here.
The story shows such a faint distance, but there is always a trace of indescribable sadness under the warmth in the bones.
The characters and ruins along the way record the strong resilience of people after the earthquake, and also show the most essential tenacity of life after suffering.
The male protagonist Hussein and the female protagonist Tahli play the newlywed couple in the film, but the two are not related by drama, but reunited after a long absence, and Hussein has long been devoted to Tahli.
Long before, when Hussein was a poor boy and Tahli was a rich woman, Hussein had already confided in Tahli.
But before the little spark of love could bounce twice in front of Tahli, she was strangled in the cradle by Tahili's family.
After the earthquake, Tahli lost her parents and house and lived with her elderly grandmother.
It is also a drama, but this unfortunate thing makes Hussein feel the possibility of equality between the two from the other side.
So Hussein had no more worries and launched another rapid attack on Tahli.
Looking at the whole film, "Lover Under the Olive Tree" is not only a love movie, its content is multi-faceted, the theme and symbol are also multi-layered, desperate and new life, marriage and love...
After the two of them played against each other again and again on the set, Hussein finally couldn't help but start to analyze the reasons why Tahli did not accept him.
Illiterate, no house, grandmother disagree...
The emergence of these options also shows us the general perception of marriage in the whole society in a certain sense.
As the main force of society, men not only need to have the ability to support their families, but also need to have a house for women to entrust for life, and they also need to have knowledge to pass on the culture of the next generation.
In addition, through Hussein's aggrieved and sullen tone, it tells a love misunderstanding -
Qualities such as kindness, humility, and respect for women are less important than material conditions.
In the film, when the director privately mediates the emotions of Hussein and Tahli, what Hussein said to the director makes the little sister remember very deeply -
"I don't think it should always be the rich marrying the rich, the illiterate marrying the illiterate, if the literate marry the illiterate, the rich marry the poor, it would be better, the homeless and the landlord married, everyone can help each other, I think it is better." 」
Naïve? Naïve, but when you think about it carefully, it really makes sense, but unfortunately, there are too few people who can resist temptation and keep their hearts.
In the current society, the sincere and pure feelings of youth are even more precious.
Hussey gave up the carpentry job he thought would make money because of Tahli, even if the road encountered obstacles, and did not give in when filming forced cement props.
But Ken regained his skills for the sake of the two people's hut and went to renovate the house. When the teenager looked up at the girl, his eyes were full of hope for his future life.
Speaking of which, it must be mentioned that In the whole film, Hussein and Tahri have never said a word except for filming.
The only dialogue takes place when the two play the newlyweds, and as for the NG several scenes, it can be boldly guessed that it is to give each other more time to spend together.
Perhaps there have been the shadow of disaster and death, and only then will we understand the preciousness of life.
After the shooting, Hussein chased after the girl holding the flowers in front of him with a bucket of water, without the determination of moths to put out the fire, nor the annoyance of stalking.
Hussein followed Tahli all the way, nagging and letting the other party know his intentions.
It's really good, impetuous at the moment, and such a delicate and long flow of love process, but it really makes the little sister taste a kind of poetry of "a lady, a gentleman".
Tahri, the spoiled daughter of the original rich and noble family, has a stubborn heart under her calm and beautiful appearance, and once she is determined, she will never regret it.
So she would clash with the person in charge for a dress and a "sir" on the set, just because the local custom is that only the wife will call the husband Mr.
She doesn't say it easily, because once she does, it's a lifetime.
The shy and shy boy on set transforms into a man who strives to pursue the love of his heart in the course of the field pursuit, and he expects the girl's response.
The two of them walked back and forth on the sheep gut trail in the countryside, Hussein never wanted to stop the way, and Tahli never turned back or stopped, but she never accelerated her pace.
The two get along enough to be simple and poetic, and these small details also make people's moods rise and fall with the plot during the movie.
With the figure of Hussein finally running back, the film ends here, this story told in the plain, how the ending is, it is unknown.
Fortunately, the road of life is still long, whether Tahri agrees or not, they are sketching a future with a sincere heart, and the sincerity is the golden stone.
The little sister is willing to believe that the two people who have experienced life and death will not fail to live up to this encounter under the olive tree.
Spring has arrived, the world is rejuvenating, hope is coming, under the haze, all the beauty of the world will bloom here.