The mystery was finally solved...
One night he saw a big monster with a tree-shaped voice. Why did the monster come? Does this monster really exist? ——The day before he watched the old movie "King Kong" (1933 version), and note that this King Kong is the reason why his mind monster appeared. Monsters are his heart. Day thinking, night dreaming.
The details of when the monster appeared is that he was painting in his studio at night, painting a yew tree. So the tree monster appeared. The tree monster asked him: "Why didn't you leave? Why didn't you go to your mother?" (It seems that Connor is not afraid of monsters, he summoned the tree monster in his heart)
The tree monster promised to tell him three stories, and asked Connor to tell him three stories. Talk about your dream and say that there is a hidden truth in the dream. Connor refused.
Why are there three stories? What is the connection between the three stories? How does the story relate to Connor's story?
In the first story, the king’s grandfather remarried, and the queen was suspected of being a witch. added to the queen. The king then launched a war against the queen, and the queen was rescued by the purple tree and took her to a far away place. It turned out that Wang Sun killed his lover. There are not always good people, nor are there always bad people. The theme of good and evil.
The second story, one hundred and fifty years ago, the technology was developed, the environment was polluted, green, a man used the ancient method to make medicine, a young priest preached against the pharmacist's method, the pharmacist's business was gone, the purple shirt could To cure all diseases, and the priest did not allow him to cut down trees, the priest's two daughters were seriously ill and had to ask a pharmacist. And willing to do anything, willing to give up any belief. So the pharmacist rejected him, and the yew tree overturned the priest's house, because he was a man of faith who had lost his faith. "Belief is half of the cure, believe in healing, believe in the future that awaits you, your beliefs are priceless, you must be careful about your beliefs." - The theme is belief.
Then Connor asked, "What do you want me to destroy?" So they did the same, destroying the grandmother's house. What does destroy stand for here? angry. But why mention faith?
You will understand when you see the next episode. Connor said this to her mother before she died: Faith is half the cure, believe in healing, believe in the future that awaits you. "Connor was very skeptical that his mother's illness could be cured, and that was his inner demon. Now he was changed by the story of the tree monster and believed in the cure. What my
mother said at this time was very important: 'Now you know The tree that my mother always talked about, this medicine is made from that kind of tree. But we can't cut that tree (in front of the house), that's our friend. "(Confirming that all the stories come from what Connor saw and heard during the day. The yew tree came from the one on the doorstep.)
When we hear the third story, we can be sure that the monster is really Connor calling. And it's a product of negative emotions. When he's out of control, the monster comes.
Like. Once, the monster said, why did you call me? But the monster said, "This is not the time to tell the third story. "
So when will the third story be told?
Connor yells" this is not the truth, this is just a nightmare. "It can be seen that Connor is not ready to tell the truth at this moment. - This time the call is different from the past, this time it is urgent to let the tree to save the mother, not destructive negative emotions, (so) the tree did not tell the third story.
Now Connor is full of confidence that his mother can be cured. Connor's little heart carries the weight, doubts, and doubts that he cannot bear at his age—belief, confidence, full of confidence from the hopeless places in life, what a big change, the source of its energy is... Mother. Everything his mother said to him was not to deceive the child, but to believe in everything. "I believe everything I say." The mother said to her son with certainty. On the contrary, Dad was unbelieving. He believes in reality.
The introduction of the third story is that the boy in the school will completely ignore Connor. So he got angry. "Once upon a time, there was a transparent man, in fact, he was not transparent, but he was habitually ignored by others. One day he couldn't bear it any more. He thought that if people couldn't see him, then he existed? So he summoned a monster. "In reality, he injured the boys and sent them to the hospital. won't you punish me? The previous time, he also said that to his grandmother. In his mind, punishment is also a concern.
Before my mother died, the new therapy didn't work, the yew method didn't work.
Connor said: What's the next therapy?
Mom said: I am very sorry. I understand your anger, and one day, if you look back, you didn't speak to me because you were angry, and you regretted it so much, it's okay for you to be that way, I understand. One by one (note: the point is that it doesn't matter. How empathetic my mother is, she empathizes with Connor's current anger, and she also empathizes with Connor's future self-blame, telling him everything is 0k, to accept everything from himself, his fault , negative emotions) because you don't have to say it, I know everything you want to tell me. If you're going to drop something, drop it, and I'll be with you. "
Connor's biggest pain is that his mother's life is about to disappear, but he can't do anything. Mom used to say that her mother can be cured, but she gets thinner and weaker day by day, so Connor no longer believes in her mother and loses her cure. He regained his confidence, but he encountered a tree monster, the tree monster gave him back his confidence, but he was wrong, he thought the tree monster was here to heal his mother, but it wasn't!
Before the fourth story, Yew said: "I'm not To heal her (mom), I'm here to heal you. "One point at a time, the story of a boy's psychological healing. But Connor never thought he was the one in need of treatment.
The dream reappeared, he pulled his mother, who was looking like a young girl at the moment,
since the monster knew the content of the nightmare, why did he want him to tell it? Because narrative is therapy.
"I'll die if I say it." (Connor can't accept who he is)
"You won't die if you don't say it." (Only by reconciling with self can Connor be healthy.)
"I can't stand knowing her . Going to go, I want it to end, I let her fall, I let her go. Why not kill me? I should be punished. I knew from the beginning that she wouldn't survive, how much I wanted to end sooner." The tree then Curse him: "You just want to end your suffering. That's what most people want. How can a prince be both murderer and beloved? How can a pharmacist be both evil and upright? A transparent person can be How can it make him lonelier when he sees it? Because man is a complex animal, the painful truth will make those lies seem necessary. It doesn't matter what you think, what matters is what you do." How does the
fourth story end?
He reconciled with his grandmother. Grandma said: We don't get along well and we have to accommodate each other. We have one thing in common: your mom. They died with their mother, Connor was still scared, Yew asked him to tell the truth, Connor held her mother's hand and said, "I don't want you to go. I don't want you to go." The ending of the fourth story is , the boy hugged his mother tightly, and through this, he finally let her go.
The three stories of the tree monster correspond to three of Connor's troubles: self-blame and guilt about his own morals, loss of confidence in his mother's illness, and being a transparent person who doesn't get noticed at school. The last story is the hidden truth of his heart. Like a meticulous thin line, the story and the heart are tightly connected.
It is through four different dark fables that the film confronts the heavy and profound topic of growth and death that everyone will experience. It is the spiritual growth and healing of self, but what makes this film subtly touching is that it uses magical techniques to unfold through the poetic fairy tale of ink wash, which gives people a glimpse of the true meaning of growth, and explains how we should face it. A life that will eventually have to be faced by oneself. There is no black and white morality, there must be faith (belief) in despair, and you must find your own sense of existence.
The subtitles light up, and each ink painting unfolds: the picture album of
Connor and his grandmother Mom has a yew tree in her heart since she was a child. So the healing tree in Connor's heart was planted by her mother. The best connection between him and his mother is art (Mom loves to draw, Connor loves to draw) His tree of healing is Mom
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