History Boys

Jennie 2022-04-21 09:03:50

Watching a movie is a personal thing, it started before I watched a movie, maybe I had an irrational affection for BE first? Isn't the previous yardstick equal to Hollywood's movies? All in all, I really really like this movie, it has nothing to do with pictures or techniques, but I still feel very humorous and inspiring. . . Of course, I also found that humor is actually a very personal thing, and the key is that you understand the humor of some people, so you will have a knowing smile, so finding the right film and watching the right person is very important, I think I always understand this. Kind of humorous, not superficial, very contrived~~ such as "quote", such as "pun", satirical intangible~~
But the movie still gave me many other inspirations:
1. What is history? When I was a freshman, a teacher I admired also asked us the same question. At that time, we also discussed the question of whether history is true or false. In the film, the answer given by rudge was that history is just one thing followed by another, which means that it happened by accident. ? Or doomed? Is it beyond our control? big question;
2. The ability to think (haha, I like this the most): not everything in the book is correct, dare to challenge authority, there are problems from time to time, N goes too many, but the premise of personal feeling is to have an open mind and mind, Don't be bound by the fixed pattern; just like Dakin finally surpassed, he will think that if someone doesn't go to the dentist, maybe Churchill will not be president, so good student, apply what you have learned, of course, everything is still based on N Read the above, not breaking or standing, quantitative change - qualitative change~~
3.pass the parcel: Sad, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, really nothing will last forever, Irwin replaced hector, just because he is new, he is good Yes, that is to say it is destined, Irwin only appears at the right time, so maybe it will be replaced one day, this is the wheel of history that cannot be changed no matter how good you are or how hard you study, so feel it, touch it, then pass it
4. They always knew: One of the interesting things about the film is that the students are the teachers' judges to some extent, they know everything, they have their own criteria for judging, and they can even control the life and death of the teachers, so dont be silly, thinking that no one else is. I know, it's nothing more than deceiving myself.

Anyway, it's a very inspiring movie for me. It's worth recommending. Of course, it's also a good textbook for learning BE.

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The History Boys quotes

  • [talking about Tom Irwin]

    Headmaster: He comes highly-recommended.

    Mrs. Lintott: So did Anne of Cleves.

    Headmaster: Who? He's up-to-the-minute, more "now".

    Mrs. Lintott: [dryly] Now? I thought history was "then".

  • [Dakin is groping Fiona, using World War I as a metaphor for his "assault" on her body. He moves his hand up her thighs but she pushes it away]

    Dakin: What's the matter?

    Fiona: No-man's land.

    Dakin: Ah, fuck. What do I do with this?

    [he points to his erection]

    Fiona: Carry out a controlled explosion?