Up there in the sycamore tree, is love and growth
Movie Remark on FLIPPED Flipped is not only a young love story.With ample meanings in it, Flipped tells a story of love and growth, which can softly arouse our warm memory and love for our life.
There’s a sycamore tree in the film, which appeals to me a lot.It witnees the growth of Juli the girl, who is kindhearted, warm and iridescent, and it also stands for the changing of Bryce the boy who is shy and weak under his handsome appearance.
When Juli first climbed up to the tree, she is still in her sweat dream waiting for her first ki from Bryce who actually considers her a sort of trouble.She “flipped” at the first sight of Bryce years ago when she was still a little girl.She loves Bryce’s “dazzling eyes” and she has kept trying to let Bryce notice her for years, until they are both in their junior grades.Juli gets the idea of “the whole being greater than the sum of its parts” from her father and truly understands its meaning when she spends her time on the sycamore, wondering and feeling the beauty of nature.
“I could sit there for hours, just looking out at the world.” The time she enjoys in the sycamore gives her a chance to explore the truth of life as well as her inherent.With the wind breezing, and the sunlight making the sky more like a sweat soft dream, Juli develops deep love for the sycamore tree.So it’s hard to imagine her sadne when she knows the tree has to be cut down.To protect her beloved tree, Juli bravely sits on the trunk, refusing to come down.Yet time comes when she has to leave the sycamore anyway.She weeps, but at the same time she realizes that the sycamore has always been right in her soul, and Juli gradually gets her sunny smiles back, bringing more happine and warmne to the people around her.Now she has grown to be a tougher girl who loves and understands her family deeper and who understands the world better.Juli also starts to judge a person through the whole, not only through some small parts such as his appearance and status.So when she judges Bryce, she finds him actually not that charming deep inside his handsome appearance.It’s wrong for her to love those “dazzling eyes” more than the boy himself.She finds this out, and walks away from the boy she’s always wanted to be in love with.Now the changes begin to take place on Bryce.For years he has been weak and coward.He is like his father, showing the same dislike and disdain towards Juli’s family, yet hiding the weakne and diatisfaction of themselves.It’s his grandpa who guides him through, letting him know that one should not judge a person only by prejudice.And Bryce starts to feel the true beauty inside of Juli— her paionate, her sincerity, and her attitude towards life—and that attracts Bryce for the first time.He finds himself fall in love with Juli.He breaks through, learning to pursue what he truly loves, learning to be a true himself, and throwing away the burdens of being stuck in what the other people say.
At the end of the film, Bryce grows a sycamore tree in Juli’s garden, showing his change and apology.Once again, a sycamore.Now it witnees the love between the girl and the boy.
Actually, the sycamore is not only a tree in reality.It has companioned Juli through the happy time, and it has become part of Juli that can encourage her as she’s growing up and facing difficulties, and finally it signifies the change of Bryce, so the sycamore is more like the spirits of love and growth deep inside the youngsters’ hearts.
