Collapse and reconstruction

Valentina 2021-12-18 08:01:09

There is a kind of film, which I call "mentor film". This kind of film is always very inspirational and heartwarming. There is a generally gratifying ending. At that moment, the teacher almost changed the destiny of many children who saw that they fell into the dark by virtue of their personality charm. It also made you feel that there are more such teachers, and the world will be full of sunshine. From the opening point of view, "Transcendence" is very similar to a "good teacher movie". We see a problematic class in a problematic school. The protagonist Henry, as a substitute teacher, "expelled" a student in the first class to frighten bad habits. To win over a fat girl to express his value orientation, Tai Chi-like dissolves a student’s provocation and shows a strong aura, and the appearance of personality makes people look forward to it. School.

However, wrong, the problem of this school is not that simple, Henry's trouble is not that simple, and the world is not simple enough to be saved with a group of mentors. This school seems to be the epitome of a morbid and blurred society. What we see is an environment filled with anxiety and anxiety, just like the famous novel "The Fall of Usher" by Poe mentioned in this movie. The House of Usher in the middle of the world is generally, and the Madeleines are dying ill in it. We can see that the teachers in this school have also fallen into a deep-seated spiritual crisis. The old man who used sick pubic photos to educate students was irritable, and roared out of control for a young female student "looking forward to" her being fucked. "Future female teachers, cowardly and full of powerless middle-aged teachers who feel like an invisible person who is not noticed by colleagues and wives, and helpless and empty female principals like a zombie shell, the situation of such a teacher gradually appears, making you feel this The hopelessness of the school. Fortunately, there seems to be hope. Even if a female teacher named Sara is humiliated and threatened by students, she still patiently teaches some students, just like the child who threw shells to the sea on the beach in the fable, she has "Save a It’s kindness and persistence, but it seems to be being swallowed by the school’s aura.

Henry and Sara's love match seemed to go with the flow. In terms of temperament and mentality, they were both obviously right people, while Henry continued his short-term duties as a substitute teacher and tried his best to help his students. Unlike ordinary "mentorship movies", Henry did not consciously help students with passion and ideals and transform their environment like those "mentorship". On the contrary, he seemed to just let the flow go, attending the class as if he was doing his duty, a sickly and lazy appearance, and his image was not glorious. And this also makes him appear real, because he is also a person with a story and a mental "patient". His childhood experiences have left him deeply hurt and nightmares, so that he will cry on the bus. He tried to live more freely, just as his dictated hope was just to be a substitute teacher, and he would be drawn after this substitute period, but because of his childhood experience, he always had some empathy for others. . As a result, he often thinks of the nightmare at night, and smiles again during the day to help the children re-recognize the world and learn to read. After hesitating about the girl who stumbled on the street, he took it home to try to help him get on the right track of life. His support in the first class gave a girl with low self-esteem and repeated blows the courage to live. Henry consciously or unconsciously walked into a downward life path for others, giving them some light and upward motivation, but because of this change, he caused unconscious conflicts between him and others and the environment. Henry evoked the enthusiasm of the inferior chubby schoolgirl, but inadvertently hurt her, and then hurt Sara and herself with a misunderstanding; Henry, like the protagonist of "Taxi Driver," tried Rescue a girl who stumbled on the street. The girl looked like a sunny girl again, and could even cook a delicious meal. However, Henry accidentally hurt her again and made herself more painful.

The characters in "Transcendence" are always unable to transcend their lives. They have tried and struggled, always tossing between hope and disappointment. The fat girl in the film, Meredith, seems to me a more symbolic figure in the film. She looks plain but has a sensitive heart. The photos taken by the camera are so dark. However, Her world is a bleak stage. When his father scolded her for taking some horrible photos, he further brought her a desperate life, letting her take a desperate heart and a desperate perspective to shoot desperate Photo. At the end of "The Fall of the House of Usher," the sister Madeleine in the book stood outside the door with blood stains, just as Meredith finally ate the cake and collapsed outside the school door with blood stains. Henry tried to make the people around him live better and influence their lives, but he was unable to change the direction of others’ lives. His influence was not enough to change the family environment of Meredith. The greater influence was not enough to change Iri. The damage caused to her by the history of being stuck on the street as a wandering warbler is not enough to change the environment where this school is on the verge of collapse. He is really an excellent substitute teacher. He has won the love of those rebellious students in a short time, but the mentor does not It cannot change the lives of all the students in a class, let alone change the world. The spiritual world of the entire campus is like the scene of devastating and beautiful collapse that pays tribute to "The Fall of the House of Usher" at the end of the film, fragmented and not involved. Lucky. "Transcendence" is very realistic, cruel, and more real, but the performance of scenes of desperate life makes this film not desperate. After destruction, it needs to be rebuilt. Henry meets Erica again. Let us be concerned about this. The future of the girl who has been hurt is full of confidence, because Henry is still in class, giving students another way to enlighten and view the world.

As a low-production personality director, Tony Kayer's "Transcendence" is like "American X-Files", still giving people a spiritual impact with a very explosive tragic orgasm in reality. In fact, the two films are very spiritually similar. The two protagonists are both men who struggled from their once black and painful spiritual world. Henry tried to make the people around, especially the children, not have his growth stage. Confused; and Derek in "American X-Files" tries to get his brother out of the racial concept that he once went astray. In the end, their attempts all seemed to have results, but they couldn't stop the tragedy from happening in the end. The same sense of powerlessness, but still gave people spiritual strength, made you feel that such efforts are not in vain, but need to be earlier and more. At least, Henry and Derek saved themselves. This is the gratifying reality. Since Adrian Brody won the Oscar, his selection level has dropped dramatically, even going to the screen to smash the predator. Fortunately, he finally selected "Transcendence", a film that was more appropriate to his temperament, and gave a wonderful performance. For viewers who have watched "Mad Men", Christina Hendricks’ performance may be another harvest, from the visually full red "meat bomb" in the TV series to the pitiful loss of the film. Of the female teacher, her style change naturally made me expect more of this actor.

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Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: I am money, I change hands like the dollar bill, that has been rubbed by a lamp; Then a genie appeared and cried loudly, with volume; But the tears were all for myself, and that's where it all went wrong

  • Henry Barthes: [In nursing home] Grampa, you doing any writing in your journal?

    [Thumbs through empty journal]

    Grampa: I don't remember much, I lost the habit. You can't think in this place, you can't make new memories.