ABSTRACT
Director Zhang Yimou’s movie “Under the Hawthorn Tree” adapted from a documentary novel. With the documentary style, film tells the love story between girl who named “Jing Chiu” and the boy with nickname of “The Third” in 1970 years. Although the film story is plain, but bring the audience mind moved by the pure, selfless love. These pure and beautiful loves raise a sympathetic response in different ages. At the impetuous era, the film has a very profound practical significance. “In fact, the story itself is very common, same as the text of the novel and the writing, be not at all surprising. But we can find that the story of pure love and eternal love something far more important than it symbolizes. The love, the need of the real life, that’s why this story is so shocked.” [1]
The content of the film comes fully from a real story, even the hero and heroine’s name are true. From the point of the image authenticity, it can be said that this is almost an entire image real work. But the fact is, the most impression on the audiences is not the film authenticity, but the “purest love story of all”. “It restores the real life state of the educated youth, to a certain extent, has presented a rich and vivid history for us, giving them space to imagine a strong emotional impact with the history.” [2] So, the emotional experience and empathy effect is the film’s flash point.
