Analysis of character development in "Hello, Mr. Tree"

The film "Hello, Mr. Tree" directed by Han Jie and produced by Jia Zhangke won four awards including the Shanghai International Film Festival as soon as it was released. The film takes the renewal of old rural areas as the background and tells the story of The life of Mr. Shu, a low-level figure in rural society, truly makes people feel the cruelty of social reality and the oppression of life.

At the beginning of the film, the director used a panoramic shot to show Mr. Shu, played by Wang Baoqiang, covering his head with his hands and squatting on the tree. On the one hand, the picture echoes the title of the movie. Mr. Tree is called Mr. Tree because he is in a tree; on the other hand, it evokes the sadness of the character Mr. Tree.

The character Mr. Shu embodies the bitterness of the lower class people in the countryside. Although everyone calls him "Brother Shu", in fact he is just a joke in people's after-dinner chat. He has lived in the shadow of his father accidentally killing his "idol" brother since he was a child. He has lived in an environment where everyone regards him as a joke. He has lived in a rural society where he is bullied and despised. Everything created his "half-human, half-sick" spirit.

In the film, Mr. Shu gets out of the car and scolds the children who are fighting and causing trouble, which reflects Shu’s sense of self-esteem that can only be expressed in front of children. In such a rural area, even children yelled at Mr. Shu, completely ignoring Mr. Shu's persuasion and loudly refuting him, further proving his low status and humble status.

In the film, when Mr. Shu’s mother said that she dreamed about his father and his brother, Mr. Shu held a cigarette in his hand and looked dreamily ahead, as if he was looking at his brother being hanged in front of him. tree, he seemed to have entered his own imaginary world at this time. It can be said that from here on, it seems to be an invisible sign.

Before Mr. Shu had problems with his eyes, the last shot he saw from his subjective point of view was: "On the plains in the distance, a man was burning a tree by a fire." Burning the tree, burning the tree , it seems to be a kind of burning of Mr. Shu. In the fire of rural life, Mr. Shu seems to have been burned and destroyed in the dark.

When Mr. Shu looked back and saw Xiaomei in the car, his eyes seemed to reveal a kind of scream in his soul, the same feeling of a person at the bottom of society. This Shi Xiaomei's appearance became a ray of light in his dark days.

When Mr. Shu was cruelly dismissed due to an eye injury, he insisted on looking at it for a while, and then suddenly grabbed the nurse's hand. At this time, his expression was full of bitterness and sadness. It seems that from here on, he was really stimulated by reality and became "crazy."

But the "crazy" attitude that Mr. Shu really showed in front of the audience should be what Xiao Gao said. Line: "Why is your personality so unstable?" In this sentence, the audience can clearly know that Mr. Shu is a semi-"crazy" person. This sentence, which appears for the first time in the film, makes Mr. Shu even more unstable. This paved the way for the development.

In the film, Mr. Shu stepped on Er Zhu at the wedding banquet. Because of Mr. Shu’s blunt words, the scene where Er Zhu asked Mr. Shu to kneel down was really shocking. It is sad that Mr. Shu, who lives at the bottom, must kneel down between power and high-level status. Likewise, this kneeling became the trigger for his "madness"

When he was at the wedding banquet. After being drunk, he grabbed Yi Xin and said a line that life is meaningless. His tone was low and disappointed, full of endless despair for life. This was also the reason why he was telling him that he was crazy and that life was meaningless, so he chose to escape. , chose to give up his life, so he became "crazy"

When Mr. Shu's brother failed to borrow the Crown Car, Mr. Shu took action and was severely beaten, and became a man. It was only after he became a real "madman" that his personality disorder began to become apparent. It was precisely because of this beating that he became a real walking corpse, an empty body.

When he fell into his own fantasy world after being beaten, he saw his father burning a tree. This burning not only burned his longing and admiration for his brother, but also burned All his life has led to him living in the shadow of his brother being accidentally killed by his father, which also reveals the fundamental reason for Mr. Shu's madness.

In Mr. Shu's own world, he has become a respected "divine fortune teller". Even the arrogant and domineering Er Zhu willingly knelt down to him, which is the same as the real Mr. Shu mentioned above. Kneeling down to Erzhu creates a strong contrast and further tells the audience the reality that Mr. Shu has gone "crazy".

When Mr. Tree woke up from the tree again and walked on the flat ground with his strange gestures, he walked dreamily and looked into the distance. At this time, the panoramic view showed In his lonely state, a crazy person at the bottom of society can only go on alone, or in other words, he can only fend for himself.

As he walked, the entire scene was dyed red. He still maintained strange movements and his eyes were still looking at the big tree that he had just touched and hung his brother to death. The large red color of the tree also implies that his life is dark and lackluster. Everyone is moving forward, but he is still crazy about living in his dream and his own world.

At the end of the film, Mr. Shu imagined that the pregnant Xiaomei was back. He led Xiaomei step by step towards the new house, but this was just an illusion after all. Xiaomei had already left him, and his brother He has died long ago, Xiaozhuang has also died long ago, and even his mother and younger brother have left. After surviving this life, he just walked away lightly. At the end of the film, the director uses a panoramic view to show the audience the contrast between the old and new housing areas, and also hints at the sadness of the lower class people living in the countryside under the changing circumstances of the times.

Perhaps Mr. Shu has been crazy from the beginning, and it is only under the changes of the times, environmental pressure, and the oppression of characters that the barriers between personalities have become more prominent. What the director really wants to express with the character of Mr. Borisuki is just the "miserable world" reflected by a small person.