This is my first time writing a film review without adding background/music, so please play John Lennon's Imagine in your head.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
The first time I watched this movie, I couldn't remember how old I was. Now I'm watching it for the third time. It's almost a year since I graduated with a master's degree. Fortunately, I haven't had time to take away my naivety and unrealistic nature, and I still found that my eyes were wet again at the end of B's speech at the hearing. Seeing that I'm about to run for the third time, but I'm still fascinated by these teenagers' obsession with their dreams and their resistance to the mainstream. My adolescence may have been a little long.
I read online that the prototype of this movie is Chapman University in Orange County, California. I googled all the Chinese and English materials that I could find and the historical introduction of the school's official website. I couldn't find any relevant content. Later, I went to IMBD to check the film. The background found that Chapman University was just one filming location, one. Let me correct one of the countless rumors and fallacies caused by information isolation on the Chinese Internet.
If this movie is based on the reasonable and self-consistency of the plot and logic, it may really not be able to get into the eyes of all the majors. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is bad. For example, if you click on the application on the website, you will be admitted, and the parents are actually fucking Believe in this kind of plot... The setting required is not the first time for everyone as a youth campus-themed movie. The idea of making this film stand out under the same theme is what I want to explain and discuss more, education.
When I was in the second grade of junior high school and most literally the second grade, part of the motivation of not wanting to do homework, I had the idea of wanting to change the entire Chinese education system, so I had several fierce arguments with my parents (actually, it was talking back), At that time, I firmly believed that the problem-solving skills and routines in the repeated practice mode were not beneficial to the improvement of the substantive level of thinking. At that time, I did not hand in homework 26 times in one semester. In this way, I euphemistically express my dissatisfaction with too much homework, and I will only complain to my father that the education system is very problematic. The specific performance is to copy a lot of meaningless and boring ancient texts. However, ten years later, I began to regret that I didn't understand the preface to the Tengwang Pavilion or the Fu of the Epang Palace. Five seconds for a question in the summit meeting is not enough for Baidu!
In fact, I knew that the meaning of Feng Ya Song was far deeper than winning a million dollars, but I didn't realize it at the time. All I can realize is the pleasure of solving other people's scratching math problems, the pleasure of getting a higher score than the same table in the exam, the pleasure of giving people a condescending topic, and the pleasure of being treated as a good student. Yes, China's basic education is based on peer competition. What brings you pleasure is not that you have another direction in your understanding of the world, but that you have gained more than your classmates under a certain rule. score, and the status and superiority it brings. Or more often, it is a last resort, it is desperate, it is carrying the expectation of the whole family to jump over the dragon gate, and there is only a rampage on the single-plank bridge. The American education system in the film does not mention rankings or competition, and shows more cruel college choices. "The quality of a school is determined by its pass rate. The lower the pass rate, the better." After 5 times of GRE, I finally liked to mention 10 rejection letters. I really want to give you a piece of advice: whenever the composition has 3. 5, don't find an intermediary. It's really better to write it yourself if you work hard for PS or something. It doesn't count if you spend 300,000 to repackage it from head to toe. In fact, I mainly want to say that I really understand the feeling of being rejected for 8 consecutive times in the movie. In this zero-sum game competition, sometimes being pushed off the bridge is not a matter of your strength or ability, just like a female student who has been preparing to apply to Yale since she first entered the school, it is very likely that she was screened because There are too many related households or rich second generation in this session, and there are already no places. The strength competition of the previous generation has nothing to do with how many extracurricular activities or grade points you have volunteered in the past three years. Or more of the situation is like the football boy who flew with the scholarship, and his future was shattered with a knee. It was almost the same as acute enteritis on the day of the college entrance examination. What can be done? Just bad luck. However, even if your backstage is hard enough and lucky enough to finally get what you want, the background of the male protagonist's sister who is exhausted for credits in college is also a little lonely. You change classroom after classroom just to pass, for a good-looking report card, or simply you are not used to this educational system at all. The schools in the mortal world will not teach you how to appreciate the dome or murals of the Tiangong. There is also no soil for learning meditation or mind power in an educational system where it is its duty to cultivate excellent stable screws. And at South Harmon Institute of Technology, there's no script, there's no ranking of heroes, there's only people who want to excel in what they love, and there's real learning that happens when you sew a big bag from your panties. The one-dollar bills saved in the school were used as tuition for the former club dance worker who took the hand of the male protagonist and took the hand of the cloth and the school uniform design. The light and words in his eyes were incoherent. It happened when the football boy who could hear the whispering of the trees was in Trash rummaging through the scorching sun to find every drop of concentration that dripped down when carving in the scorching sun. The real learning happens in the happy knowledge, and it happens in SHIT.
Needless to say, both South Harmon Institute and this self-taught education model are nothing but a utopian fantasy. In fact, if you want to learn woodcarving, there are also special art schools or masters, and if you want to learn rock, there is also a midi music school ( If you want to learn fashion design, there are countless vocational colleges and even college courses. In contrast, South Harmon Institute is more like an abstract concept or excuse, a dose of morphine. You can jump out of the so-called formal education system without being accepted by the mainstream. However, no matter how unique your hobbies are, you will never be alone enough to go to a school where you can only teach yourself to cultivate your hobbies. You can always find specific organizations and trainings Agency, if you really love it. It’s just that in reality, such a path is often more narrow and narrow, and it often requires more effort and effort to gain the recognition and attention of the mainstream society. After all, the demand is smaller and the resources are more limited. This sounds really unfair, but the people who were hungry during the war would not have the heart to appreciate or buy woodcarving artworks. A consumerist society is all about money. Otherwise, where would Columbia's financial engineering graduates come from? full of Hanyu Pinyin? The reality is that China's single-standard education is the most fair in a certain context, treating them equally, and even poor families can produce noble children.
When the Neanderthals were not extinct, the purpose of education was to master hunting skills and trap setting. Everyone was a scholar, and the scumbags were eaten by saber-toothed tigers. If you score higher in the test than your tablemate, and run faster than the person next to you, the saber-toothed tiger will eat your companion first, and the sense of superiority brought by studying well will begin to penetrate into the bone marrow from this time. At that time, no one talked about quality education, and physical quality was the best education. In the eyes of Neanderthals, today we are not learning some knowledge that seems useless to them for the purpose of survival, and weeping all day long about this cruel inhumanity and not teaching according to our aptitude, quite a bit. Why not eat minced meat. The fault is not that we are not Neanderthals, the purpose of education is still to survive, but the meaning of survival in the current context has changed. The center of education has naturally shifted to how to make you realize the freedom of Hey Tea (meaning that you can buy milk tea regardless of the price, just buy a large cup, and it doesn’t matter if you have a scalper), so the financial code farmer is the most valuable. Majors that offer the possibility of a steady and sizable income are all the rage these days. The purpose of education seems to have never changed since Homo sapiens first passed the fire on to the next generation. The only thing that has changed is the mortality rate of human beings. In the past, children who didn’t learn to hunt well and only wanted to paint murals all day should have been fed to saber-toothed tigers, but they have survived in today’s society. They are not understood by mortals, they are regarded as freaks, they are Van Gogh, they are Bruno, they are Newton who never married in his life. The purpose of education may have remained the same, but human beings have. The right answer to education exists and never changes, but not everyone wants to follow the right answer.
You can say that choice c is wrong, but I'm not the only one.
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