Everyone has personal experience of how much a good teacher affects students. Dreyfus interprets the image of a flesh-and-blood teacher with superb acting skills. He has encountered many misfortunes in his family life, but is still loyal to his duties and conveys his love for music to students through education. A large part of the film focuses on how Holland teaches students in accordance with their aptitude and persuades them. In expressing the sense of the passage of time, precious documentary shots from various historical periods have been added to smoothly complete the alternate process of different eras. The warmth in the film is as turbulent as the ocean under the warm sun. The affection between parents and children, the affection between teachers and students, without exaggeration, impacts our lack of warmth. It expresses the nobleness of teachers and at the same time delicately depicts the twists and turns of family life. And happiness. The story in the whole film does not have much novelty. The narrative is traditional and conservative in thinking. It also praises the common good qualities, but it is handled properly and very restrained, so it is touching and not sensational (
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Mr. Holland's Opus evaluation action
2022-01-08 08:02
Extended Reading
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[Glenn and Iris are discussing the possibility of sending Cole to a special school]
Glenn Holland: The doctor said that gestures meant...
Iris Holland: It's way more than gestures.
Glenn Holland: That gestures meant that Cole would never learn how to lip read or to talk!
Iris Holland: He can barely talk now, he can't say two or three words!
Glenn Holland: The guy is a specialist, Iris!
Iris Holland: Ohhh, he's a specialist who thinks that deaf people are retarded and he is not retarded, he is...
[Cole is screaming, asking for something and Iris doesn't know what it is]
Iris Holland: Cole!
Glenn Holland: What does he...? Give him what he wants!
Iris Holland: I don't know what he wants, I don't understand what he's trying to say. Don't you get it? You walk to school every day with all these children who are normal. I can't talk to my son! I don't know what he wants or what he thinks or what he feels. I can't tell him that I love him, I can't tell him who I am. I want to talk to my son! I don't care what it costs, I don't care what the stupid doctor says it's right or wrong. I want to talk to my son!
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Adult Gertrude Lang: Mr. Holland had a profound influence on my life and on a lot of lives I know. But I have a feeling that he considers a great part of his own life misspent. Rumor had it he was always working on this symphony of his. And this was going to make him famous, rich, probably both. But Mr. Holland isn't rich and he isn't famous, at least not outside of our little town. So it might be easy for him to think himself a failure. But he would be wrong, because I think that he's achieved a success far beyond riches and fame. Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life.