At his workstation, Lian Ming put on headphones and began to review the movie "Hello! Mr. Tree".

The film begins with a desolate scene of the northern countryside as the background.

The protagonist "Mr. Tree" is a middle-aged man who does nothing and is idle. His father beat his eldest brother to death with his own hands, and then his father died early.

The broken family made Mr. Shu's life full of loneliness and confusion. He had a low status in the village and was often ridiculed and ignored.

Seeing this, Lian Ming recalled his own experience.

He is from the north, and his hometown is near a coal mining area, but the mining area had been closed when he was born, so he could not feel how glorious his parents talked about their hometown was. In his impression, the village was as dilapidated and desolate as in the movie, as if it was always shrouded in a gray fog.

He vaguely remembered that when he was a child, there was a person in the village who looked very similar to "Mr. Tree", but he had forgotten his name.

I heard that his parents were both mining workers and both died in a mining accident. After the compensation money they received was defrauded by their relatives, that man went crazy.

He does nothing all day long and just wanders around the village, looking down on everyone he meets.

When the adults in the village educate their children, they always use him as a negative example, threatening them with things like "If you don't listen, someone will catch you"...

In Lian Ming's not very deep impression, the other party was the object of everyone's ridicule and a marginal figure in the village.

Looking at the "tree" in the film now, it is exactly the same as that person, and it immediately brought back his memories.

But as I grew older, my state of mind changed. In the past, I would feel curiosity, contempt, and avoid characters like "trees".

Looking back on it now, I feel more sympathy and a bit of pity.

Because we know the hardships of life, in fact, for most people in today's society, how different is their situation from that of a "tree"?

It’s just that the “tree” has been overwhelmed by life, while we still retain the most basic decency.

With a heavy heart, Lian Ming continued to look down.

Shu hangs out with the young people in the village and tries to fit in with their circle, but is always treated as a laughing stock.

Deep down, he longed to be respected, but reality repeatedly frustrated him. In an accident, his eyesight was damaged, and he lost his only job at a car repair shop that allowed him to retain a little dignity and survive.

Shu became even more idle. Later, he met a deaf-mute girl named Zhang Xiaomei and fell in love with her at first sight, but she didn't like him.

At the same time, the village chief's brother-in-law Erzhu occupied land in the village to open a mine. Mr. Shu's mother asked him to negotiate, but he remained indifferent.

It's not that he doesn't care, but he is subconsciously afraid of Erzhu, who is like a bully in the village, and dares not confront him face to face.

But at a friend's wedding, Mr. Shu took advantage of the crowded and noisy atmosphere to ask Erzhu for an explanation, but even so, he just said, "You occupied our land without even telling us."

As a result, he was forced by the bully Erzhu to kneel down and apologize in public, and was humiliated during the conflict.

Everyone persuaded Shu to go into the room. Erzhu followed him in, pointing at Shu's nose and scolding him relentlessly.

"Get out of the way!"

"You still don't admit it, do you?"

"Are you going to kneel or not?!"

Facing the aggressive Erzhu, Shu Qiang pretended to be calm, put his hands in his pockets, and walked to Erzhu swayingly.

"Brother...Brother..."

"Let him say it!"

"There were a lot of people outside just now..."

"Brother is wrong..."

After saying this, Shu's knees went weak and he knelt down with a plop.

Seeing this, Lian Ming's heart seemed to be blocked by something, and his mood was extremely complicated at the moment.

So far, the film has used an almost absurd approach to portray "Shu", a low-level man who has been squeezed to the point of mental breakdown by reality. His life is like an endless nightmare, full of repression, ridicule and powerlessness.

At the same time, Lian Ming was deeply shocked by the quality of the work itself.

He didn't expect that Ye Zhiqiu would shoot in this nakedly realistic style, and he didn't expect that Wang Qiang's acting skills as the "Tree" were so high that they were simply lifelike.

There was no reversal in the subsequent plot.

In order to pursue Xiaomei, Shu went to the city to live with his good friend Chen Yixin, who ran an Olympiad training class. While in the city, he insisted on sending text messages to Xiaomei to confess his love. The two got together and finally decided to get married.

On the eve of the wedding, Shu was unhappy that his younger brother failed to borrow a Crown car as the wedding car, so the two brothers had a fight and caused a fire.

After experiencing family changes, work setbacks and various blows, Shu's spirit gradually collapsed and his behavior became more and more weird.

On his wedding night, when he was having sex with Xiaomei, the scene of his elder brother being strangled by his father came into his mind;

After the wedding, Mr. Shu began to have the ability to tell fortunes. He kept talking nonsense all day and ignored family affairs. Xiaomei was so angry that she returned to her parents' home.

In the fantasy, Shu is the boss of the mine and plans the opening date. He also proposes absurd suggestions such as building atomic bombs and developing lunar resources.

However, the gap between these fantasies and reality grows larger and larger, and Mr. Shu's mental state becomes increasingly unstable.

At the end of the film, Shu seemed to see his good friend who had died in the mining accident. He also saw Xiaomei returning to the village pregnant and holding his hand to go to their new home in the city.

However, in reality, he is the only one walking alone in the snow, heading towards the desolate spiritual abyss...

After the film ended, Lian Ming sat in the chair for a long time, motionless.

After a long time, he took a deep breath and calmed down his indescribable and extremely complicated emotions.

Regarding this film, he felt depressed and shocked.

There is no doubt that this is a good movie in an absolutely good sense. Today, the image of "Mr. Tree" in the film is still lingering in his mind. The experience and struggle of the tree are like a mirror, reflecting the neglected corners of society.

However, this type of realistic film is also the most likely to cross the censorship red line and must be carefully analyzed.

During the film review process just now, Lian Ming did not watch the film at a fast speed.

After spending half a day carefully comparing the film's plot, character lines, and various metaphors, and confirming that there were no problems, Lian Ming finally clicked the "Agree" submit button.

The consent here does not mean formal approval. According to the review requirements, the submitted film must be reviewed by the reviewer and then approved by the collective decision of the review committee before it is finally completed.

However, in general, the committee will not reject it because everyone uses the same set of standards.

However, three days later, Lian Ming received a notice that the review of "Hello! Mr. Tree" was rejected.

The one who cast the dissenting vote was Du Chengren, one of the members of the review committee who was competing with him for the promotion opportunity.