Under the Olive TreesEnglish titleUnder the Olive TreesMore
Chinese titleCrossing the olive groveFilm
genreDramatic
length103 minutesCountry
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RegionFranceIran Director Abbas Kiarostami
Screenwriter Abbas Ki Yarostami
producer Abbas Kiarostami
rushes towards the sun, at least you can land on the moon.
Maybe it's influenced by "Jasmine Fragrant", in my opinion, watching "The Lover Under the Olive Tree" ”, you should make a cup of tea, because the film is like tea, it is astringent at first, then bitter, and finally sweet. In the play, the tea is exhausted, the tea cup may still have a little residual temperature, and the mouth will be stained with a little tea fragrance. Here, you will taste a little love and a trace of the true meaning of life. In today's world full of coffee, cola, Sprite, action, sci-fi, and funny, "The Lover Under the Olive Tree" is as rare and precious as the fragrance of tea.
In the film, the actor plays the role of the director, and the opening is a role-picking action. A group of girls with black headscarves waited to be selected, and Taheli was the lucky one. The actor's stuttering fulfilled Hussein, who was doing errands in the crew. In the play, he was able to play a couple with Taheli, a newlywed couple who had just been married for five days after the earthquake. However, outside the play, Hussein pursues Tahli hard, and he firmly believes that the smart and beautiful Tahli should be his wife. However, the lack of housing and culture has become an insurmountable chasm for Hussein's pursuit of Taheri. He kept confessing, but she didn't respond.
"The Lover Under the Olive Tree" delicately arranges the relationship between life and film. A pale yellow two-story building with mottled deeds, with movies below and life above. Hussain would rant about Taheri over trivial matters in the play, endlessly. But off-screen, he says, "I'm smart enough to put my socks, my clothes, everything I have." He's a naive man. What he pursues is simply a simple and happy married life. He was also a romantic man who, he said, would open a window so that his beloved Taheri would wake up every morning and see the mountains.
The director of the film "The Lover" Jean-Jacques Arnault said pessimistically: "Today, no one in the world can make a so-called 'national film', except for the United States." Because American culture has gradually become a global culture. "The Lover Under the Olive Tree" may not be regarded as a national film in the true sense, but this quiet, fresh and simple film presents a strong national flavor, which is undeniable. Women in long dresses, headscarves, honest and determined men, dirt walls with dirt, potholes, dry air, and so on. Perhaps the film only captured a corner of Iran, but it left a deep impression of Iran in the hearts of the audience. It is different from the luxury of the United States, the romance of France, and the beauty of Japan and South Korea. The love story described in "The Lover under the Olive Tree" is like a mirror, so natural and so close to life.
The film focuses on depicting characters through details, depicting a unique thinking, simple, simple, and persevering Hussein. The director of the film often talks to Hussein in the car on his way to the filming location. For example, once, they were talking about marriage. Hussein has a unique thinking. He believes that the scholar should marry the illiterate, the rich should be with the poor, and the landlord should be with those who have no homes; there is a line in the play: "I lost 65 relatives in the earthquake. "Hussain said it repeatedly because he only lost 25 relatives in real life, which shows his simplicity; Hussein thinks that life is sometimes I pour tea, sometimes you pour water, he thinks whether to own a house and culture Not the most important, clever, kind, and upright are enough reasons to marry a person, Hussein is the simplicity of separation from the world; Hussein kept confessing to Taheri, but Taheri never responded, but He not only did not give up, but pursued it with hot hope, he used courage and faith to cross the zigzag road, through the olive grove to love Taheri, he believed that everyone should try to change their lives, Hou Saiin knows how to persevere.
Director Abbas designed an open ending for the film. Hussein followed Tahli through the olive groves and then returned alone. Did Taheri promise him, or did he reject him? The audience has no way of knowing. But the music seems to float from another world, mixed with subtle joy, and seems to reveal the last secret. Guessing about the final outcome is like finding flowers in a fog, it is not clear, but it is worth pondering constantly.
Hussein always reminded me of Ali in "Little Shoes", and he made me read the simple insistence of the Iranians again. Their eyes often reveal pain, helplessness and helplessness in the face of reality, but they never give up their persistence in their dreams. Ali fights for the chance to participate in the running competition in order to give his sister a pair of sneakers; Hussein uses a simple man's "flattering words" to chatter to the girl he loves in order to win the ideal love and marriage. At the end of "The Lover Under the Olive Tree", the Z-shaped road followed by Hussein in pursuit of Tahli represents the road of life. Although it is tortuous and long, as long as you persevere with hot hope, the end will be reached. Not out of reach. As an English proverb goes: "Rush towards the sun, at least you can land on the moon."
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