Songs, castles, flowers blooming in summer, quiet and depressing boarding school. The female teacher is a beautiful, modern, maverick young woman. She was well educated and dressed in a style quite similar to Coco Chanel. She smoked elegantly, kept herself at ease amid scandals and rumors, and took girls to swim naked in the lake on a summer night with a bright moon. The girls call her Miss.G, they love her, adore her, have a crush on her, and do everything to get her favor. Especially Di, because of the existence of the female teacher, firmly believes that she will "stay in the boarding school for the rest of her life" and be with her Miss G for the rest of her life.
However, reality is always boring. Just like the slutty girl in "American Beauty" who seduced her peers' father while lying in a rose bathtub is actually just an "inferior virgin", Miss G is actually just an imprisoned lonely soul. She had never been to the foreign countries she described vividly all day long, and all her dignity and pride came from those same lonely and ignorant schoolgirls. Her fashionable clothes are her cage, not her armor, because she can't even go to the town to buy a piece of bread, and when the young men in the town cast her fascinated eyes, she doesn't even dare to pick up the scattered The coins ran away.
One day, the arrival of Fiamma, a girl who is said to be from a Spanish aristocracy, broke the perfect microcosm built by the female teacher. This beautiful but melancholy, mature, mysterious exotic girl makes the girls in the school quite jealous and therefore full of hostility. And when this girl, who seemed a little weak due to frequent asthma attacks, jumped from the high platform and slipped into the water gracefully, the girls, together with Miss G, couldn't help being attracted to her. She has traveled thousands of miles and read thousands of volumes. She has insight into what schools have yet to teach. Fiamma has traveled to far-flung foreign countries when the girls "have not yet begun". And the girls' hazy longing has become history behind her for her. She is an outlier in this small world, a beacon that is out of their reach. She still unwittingly glows in the oppressive, gloomy air of boarding school, eclipsing the empty incitement of Miss G's tirade.
Female teachers can't help but be attracted to her. She longed for her experience more than her beauty. She couldn't help, condescendingly to please her, begging for her favor. She longed to be close, but feared the other's penetrating eyes. In the eyes of the young girl, the pride on which the female teacher lives has become completely ridiculous, despicable and pitiful. The existence of the girl illuminates the insurmountable imprisonment and emptiness of the female teacher.
She wants to know her and be close to her. So Miss G hid Fiamma's letters, intoxicated herself with a cookie from her, and even surreptitiously flipped through her files. When she finally finds out that Fiamma is a girl abandoned at a boarding school by her family because of an "unreportable scandal" in her hometown, when she sees her hidden vulnerability and loneliness, she feels entitled to The girl shares her mysterious experiences and her own humble secrets. What she didn't expect was Fiamma's pride with "aristocratic blood". Fiamma is weak but not lacking in courage - her travels and mystical life circumstances allow her to stay true to herself, unafraid of loneliness and new challenges, even in the face of adversity. She doesn't care about the pranks directed by her peers out of jealousy, but instead uses her own experience to lead them to a little adventure that stumbles in the ignorant period. She even gave a bottle of exotic high-end perfume to Di, who had driven her away. Fiamma deservedly won the adoration and friendship of the girls, and she began to share with them all the little joys she could create in her life.
Miss G can only be a bystander from a distance. Still holding her cigarette gracefully, she cowered at the corner of the silent staircase at night, guarding the unreachable group of girls full of inferiority and anger. They used to be her "my girls", they used to adore her so much. And for one of them, after practicing thousands of times, she finally plucked up the courage to go to that dilapidated terrible town outside, just to buy her some blueberry bread. At one point she begged the proud maiden to keep her humble secret, begging her to tell her what the "outside" she had longed for so many times was like. And she refused, preferring to share happiness with those ignorant and cruel peers. The female teacher resisted unconsciously, but her courage was only enough for her to vent her pent-up inferiority and anger on the old woman who managed the dormitory.
Alcohol finally gave Miss G a chance. She spoke her longing and anger to Fiamma, who was drugged with alcohol. In the candlelight and talk, she was finally able to untie Fiamma's white nightgown and kiss the delicate body like a bud in her dream. And all of this made Di, who had followed inadvertently and hid outside the door, stunned, and his heart was surging.
Fiamma's sober anger begins to jeopardize the schoolgirl's chances of staying at the boarding school, her only place in the world. In the great literary tradition of the Victorian era, love and infatuation breed envy, and envy eventually leads to conspiracy. The evil of human nature reaches its peak in this scene: the female teachers again exploit the ignorance, impulsiveness and cruelty of the young girls, who chase and beat Fiamma, who is "walking rumors and slanders" because the female teachers "have to leave". In the end, the female teacher watched with satisfaction as this "beautiful child", the child "who should not exist in this world" died in her arms.
Di's conscience and reason finally made her grow. She led her mates to abandon Miss G, who was once infatuated with, and decided "we don't ask for forgiveness" in the pale and vile excuses and threats of the female teacher. She even revealed Miss G to the principal. The principal hints that the female teacher has "temporarily left the school", telling Di that this is the end of the matter. The crying Di couldn't see it, and the headmaster's eyes were cast far away to a black and white photo hanging on the wall - on it, Miss G was also the headmaster's Fiamma.
The female teacher was finally expelled, and she finally had the opportunity to leave the school and go to the "Silk Road of Xi'an" and "the plateau of Tibet" that Fiamma had told her. The girls picked up a letter on the bed, and they read, missed, and envied the brave man who finally walked "outside the world" until at the end of the letter, they saw Di's signature. Di was already on the ferry, holding the perfume bottle Fiamma had given her, unfolding a map to Madrid, to what the female teacher called "the terrifying expanse of waters". Her face was serene and firm, like another fearless Fiamma. The female teacher's journey "hit the road" in a small hotel in the small town. She took out her "elephant" and "rhinoceros" from the suitcase and placed them gently on the bedside table. Subconsciously, she raised her hand and counted—because the boarding school rule is that “no more than 5 items” are placed on the bedside table.
The reason why I went to such great lengths to write spoilers is because the friend who recommended me to watch the film described it as a "lesbian movie with a super-beautiful protagonist". After reading it, I feel that there is a need for a reversal.
This is actually a movie about growing up. It taught me that growing up is all about courage, not age. The only one who can confine you is yourself. In the film, the female teacher often warns the students to "face up to their desires", why isn't that what she wants to say to herself? In the end, Di finally grew up and traveled far, while Miss G was still trapped in his own cage and unable to move. Her youth, beauty, fantasies and desires were ultimately no match for the "broad water" on the ferry terminal. The sophistication of British films lies in their ability to create thrilling ups and downs in seemingly delicate and dull situations, which in turn lead to dazzling and dazzling hope.
The fall of Miss G and the growth of Di show that the ups and downs of "Crack" are actually very dramatic.
In addition, the use of the lens of the film is also very sharp, creating an extremely beautiful picture in the ordinary life. For example, most of the diving slow motion shots, the shots of girls swimming in the moonlit night from underwater, and even the shots of Miss G seducing (in fact, it should be seducing) Fiamma, etc., are very MTV-like, and the pictures are full of texture.
Finally, the costumes and the soundtrack are also very sophisticated. Clothing like Miss G is definitely the "simple elegance" that once made Coco Chanel famous. The blue and white shirts and red silk belts of the female students. Do you still remember the French team's dress at the Beijing Olympics? ——The white, blue and red style with the same purpose, elegant and full of vitality.
In short, the overall feeling of this film is delicate and mellow, like a glass of whisky, which triggers the audience's indescribable thoughts and emotions. It is definitely worthy of the last "long aftertaste" evaluation. It is highly recommended for students who have experience and have time to calm down. !
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