Melinda is like a lonely tree, hiding its own secrets, keeping silent regardless of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, or withering. I remember what Wong Kar-wai said in the movie, "In the past, when a person had a secret he didn't want others to know, he would go to the deep mountain, find a tree, dig a hole in the tree, tell the secret to the hole, and then Seal it up with dirt, and the secret will never be known...". The difference is that Melinda has turned herself into an unspeakable plant, a nightmare of old things, like slowly accumulating dirt, constantly covering it up. Until the dark storage room in the school was filled with the trees she painted, and the trees formed a forest. The encouragement of the art teacher and the kindness and courage of the lab partner slowly affected her like sunshine.
Kristen Stewart is beautiful, she was 15 when she played Melinda. Melinda, who was young and depressed and finally became brave.
That night, I dreamed of my youth again. The secrets hidden under the white-flowered phoenix trees in the playground behind the school have been rotten after ten years. Who put a dark and smooth stone in the desk drawer in the last row of the classroom by the window? Who wrote on the stone "Ten years of life and death"? Who scattered the white sycamore petals on the book? The light fragrance in the depths of the sycamore flowers, like those secrets, drifts away. There are a lot of words that are not said now, but will never have the opportunity to speak again in the future.
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