The Spanish apartment begins with the protagonist Xavier, a man who planned to be a writer since he was a child, but studied economics under the arrangement of his father. In order to get a good job in the Ministry of Finance in the future, he had to go to Spain to learn Spanish and Spanish economic situation. The Erasmus project that helped him cross the Pyrenees from France to Spain for a year-long master's study was the Erasmus. The Erasmus project is named after the Dutch philosopher and famous scholar Desidrius Erasmus of the Renaissance. He has traveled to European countries to continuously learn to improve himself. The Erasmus project is a cooperative student exchange project in the field of European higher education. Each of its courses is jointly operated by several European universities. Subsequently, in 2004, the European Union developed the Erasmus Project into the Erasmus World Project to support student exchanges between Europe and other countries in the world, aiming to attract global talents to study in Europe.
The first thing the Erasmus project needs is a large amount of complex supporting materials. Xavier in the film, in order to apply for the project, hastily turned around in the major offices of the school. Faced with the large number of documents that need to be processed every day, office workers also showed obvious impatience. The agreement of the deans of the two universities, the agreement of the two universities, the insurance card, the resume, the motivation letter... In the end, the person in charge behaved so naturally that I couldn't help but think of the domestic study abroad program. What's interesting is that, despite the different cultural backgrounds of different countries, they are the same in dealing with cumbersome learning materials.
Subsequently, the Erasmus Project showed its great cultural tolerance. Xavier, a foreigner in Barcelona, got to know more foreigners through this program. Among them, there are Germans, Italians, British, Spanish... and foreigners stay with foreigners. In the end, he became a close companion. Just like Erasmus himself who travels to Europe to continuously learn and improve himself, every student in this project is a miniature of him, and continues his academic journey.
There are several interesting plots in the film: the appearance of Erasmus himself, once when he went for a walk in the park in Xavier, saw Erasmus walking towards him, and once was the fantasy of his appearance in Xavier's brainwaves. Every appearance of Erasmus has a common feature, that is, he appears when the protagonist feels confused, helpless, bumpy and confused. And Erasmus himself represents the Erasmus plan, which brought Xavier to the land of Barcelona. It is also in this remote place that he realized his adolescence’s pursuit of freedom, his desire for friendship, and his love for sex. The breakthrough of taboos and the love of different cultures. The plan also pulled him out when he was about to fall into the abyss of helplessness, as Erasmus himself once said: Human will and personality should develop freely, only freedom and happiness, knowledge and reason. Can constitute an important element of morality and conscience. It was also because of it that Xavier could muster the courage to ran out of the high-rise prisons and ran to his small but happy room. He began to recall this unique experience in Spain, began to pick up his pen, and began to tell his story.
I think that the purpose of the Erasmus project is not to achieve high academic results, but to let us understand our own consciousness and explore our true desires and passions. It cuts open the brains of learning young people like a pudding, so that we can be clear about our life plan, and then achieve success.
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