has already passed the age of worrying about exams, scores, and rankings,
despite the lapse of many years, I still occasionally have a few dreams about "the college entrance examination",
dreaming that the test papers are not After writing, the sense of tension, urgency and tension before the college entrance examination clearly emerged in the dream,
vividly in my mind.
Those who have gone through college may gradually feel less about the college entrance examination,
but the college entrance examination is still one of the few important events in our life.
Today's "Graduation Exam" is related to the college entrance examination.
Although it is a Romanian film, people who have seen it all say "very Chinese"!
Because there are bribes, entanglements, backdoors, parents' excessive attention to their children's grades, and even deliberately paving the way for their children's future,
these "routines" are all too familiar to Chinese people!
The setting of the story is very thought-provoking. The heroine is a
top student with excellent grades. My father started to let her go abroad many years ago
. The certificate,
the day before the exam, it was a coincidence that I encountered a rape in broad daylight!
As the story progresses step by step, the "series of secrets" hidden behind the family also come out with the director's camera...
The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes International Film Festival, and director Christian Mongy won the Best Director Award for this film.
94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes,
"Graduation Exam" is directed and written by Christian Mongi, a famous director who has won the Romanian National Highest Medal of Honor "Romania Star".
In 2007, he won the Palme d'Or at the 60th Cannes Film Festival with "Three Weeks and Two Days in April".
In 2012, he was shortlisted for the Cannes main competition film "Beyond the Mountain" and won the Best Actress and Best Screenplay Awards
. , Christian Mongy joins the feature-length film jury chaired by Steven Spielberg.
Different from the previous two works of Mungi, which focused on depicting the fate of Romanian women,
"Graduation Exam" uses a simple line drawing technique, starting from daily life, and capturing the brokenness in family life very delicately. The
film lives up to its mission and is shortlisted. After its Cannes premiere, it received critical acclaim.
The story begins one morning when a flying brick shatters the glass of the protagonist's house, indicating that the seemingly peaceful but precarious life of the family is about to be broken.
Father Romeo is a well-respected doctor in the small town. On
this day, he sent his daughter to school as usual and said goodbye to her.
After that, Romeo came to his mistress's house with ease and was planning a love affair.
Although Romeo is a little middle-aged and fat, his appearance is no longer handsome, and his demeanor is not elegant enough. It
may be that the atmosphere of his wife is cold and silent, Romeo can be more crazy and more energetic in his lover's house
... At that time, a hurried phone call disturbed the prelude to a turbulent storm. It
was a call from the police station! Because my daughter was raped just now!
OMG! Such an excellent daughter! The daughter who has already received a scholarship from a British university and can go abroad as long as she passes another exam! Going abroad is something this family has been working on for more than ten years!
"Sending their daughter abroad", in addition to being the wish of the parents, has even become the whole life hope of the two parents!
Because middle-class parents feel that the UK is a more civilized and rule-abiding place, and
studying abroad is the best chance for their daughter to leave in her life. If she
goes to the UK, her daughter will fly higher and farther, and
she is looking forward to her daughter . The day of Chengfeng is also an important reason why the couple whose relationship has long been broken are still guarding their marriage!
(Look, how much like the parents around us who say "we can't divorce for the sake of our children" and "we will divorce when our children go to college!"
Oh, but fortunately, the perpetrators did not fully succeed,
But at the same time, the father received another unacceptable fact: the daughter is no longer a virgin!
There is no doubt that this is difficult for a father of a high school student.
But there is no room for so much consideration. At this juncture, any mistake may ruin the future of his daughter. As a father, Romeo must take action!
So, a network of relationships begins to unfold!
From the police station to the government, from the government to the education bureau, Romeo took advantage of his position to deliberately pave a way for his daughter: as long as her daughter makes a mark on the exam paper, her exam will be green all the way!
What should I do? This father, who has always been a role model in his daughter's mind since childhood, had to become a "hero who made mistakes" for the sake of his daughter's future because of an attack that could not catch the murderer and didn't know who to blame.
All this could not escape the eyes of the police, but his daughter covered him up!
And what this "conscientious" father did for his daughter, in
addition to "persuading her to cheat", also included eradicating the boyfriend beside her daughter who seemed to support her daughter's hind legs,
You see, parents, we just can't let go of our hands and let us find the life we want and the love we want!
Seeing this, you will already be aware that the daughter's graduation exam is only a cross-section of this middle-aged man's life. The
director used a technique of "seeing thunder in subtleties" to brutally expose the corruption and corruption of the mid-life crisis. Helpless,
as well as the cruel fact that many middle-aged people will face the collapse of marriage!
Romeo, a 49-year-old surgeon, has long disappeared without a trace,
but his old age is far from here.
Although he has a stable job, he has already reached the ceiling of his career due to geographical limitations
. His elderly mother is plagued by illness
. The marriage life has left him and his wife relatively silent. In the
original dull days, he only hoped to get a little pleasure from his lover, but the lover demands more and more of himself, and the desire and dissatisfaction intensify. The
middle-aged man even seems to be cheating. Alexander!
His daughter, who is in his youth, is the pride of him and his wife. The
daughter's ability to go abroad with the transcript of the exam is an important factor in maintaining the stability of the family!
My daughter must go abroad, because that was the unfulfilled dream of her parents during the Romanian Revolution in 1989!
Parents have unfulfilled but unfulfilled life dreams, and they impose them on us.
This situation is not unfamiliar to you and me!
From small to report those interest classes that parents hobby, but missed because of conditions when I was a child (piano, Go, dancing, swimming),
to large to study literature or science, what major to apply for, whether to take the civil service exam, whether to study abroad or not Continuing the postgraduate entrance examination,
these should be our own choices, from small to large, from simple to complex,
inseparable from the forced intervention of our parents or even single-handedly!
Even in matters such as love and marriage, parents will use words like "You are still young, you don't understand!" "We are all for your own good" to push us hastily on the path of life that cannot be easily turned back.
"Don't repeat our mistakes, it's all for your own good" they always say,
but you can't choose the life you want to choose, you can't love the people you love,
even if you live what you think is "absolutely right" In the days, I always feel that "it seems like something is missing" and "life is not enough!"
Besides, we don't understand, even in the play, it is said,
It's just that our parents always think that we are still young, that's all!
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