——from The history boys: introduction, Alan Bennet
's words in this introduction confirm his own opinion about the play. The emotional conjecture, at that time I really found that through the book, I could touch the author's hand, and found that he was looking at you with a smile between the lines.
more quotations as his tiny emotion, the author said that when he was preparing for the exam, he really fell into a hopeless and unrequited crush like Posner had for Dakin:
" As it is, Posner is the heir to the character I never quite wrote a boy who is young for hs age and whose physical immaturiry engenders a premature disillusion. Watching Sam Barnett playing the part,
Don't want to write a movie review as an essay on modernity, but it really is.
Hector's traditional teaching method, which guides students to fully engage with literature and poetry by feeling rather than exam-oriented education, is a comprehensive and idealistic teaching method. And the teacher is not just a joke, he seriously said that transmission of knowledge in itself is erotic thing. He does not think that sexual harassment is harassment, but a natural gift in the way teachers and students teach. All this is so similar to the mentor-student relationship before the Renaissance.
Irwin represents the spiritual thought of modern Protestants. The purpose of teaching is utilitarian, the goal is clear, and he is good at calculating and doing what he likes. The content of learning is not for enjoyment but for exam-taking. And in his personal life, he is extremely conservative and hesitant, for fear of ruining the reputation he has worked hard to maintain - even for the sake of his reputation he lied that he read Oxford.
If the film is frozen in that all eight boys got offers and the teachers went home and waited for the next semester, it would be a beautiful and lovely campus story. But the final ending took a sharp turn, more British and more tragic. When Hector laughed and said he would see him again next year, the accident happened. In the end, Irwin said that Hector's teaching style was outdated. Yes, they will be overwhelmed by the times, but his spirit, as the last sentence said, will always be passed on, passed on, passed on to the little Jewish boy who also loves Darvin. Although this spirit will become more and more bleak with the changes of the times, until it disappears, but it has existed so weakly in this raging west wind.
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellation reign
His stars eternally.
PS: I want to see this one more play
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