could meet a mentor or spiritual leader, of any people is worth something to celebrate. For artists, they are undoubtedly the source of inspiration and motivation for creation; for ordinary people, they are the pebbles on the road of growth, bringing warmth to guide the direction in the fog. The Italian director Bertolucci used Godard as the standard to classify his works. What he has always remembered is a note that Godard once gave him expressing his dissatisfaction with his work. Speaking again a few decades later, the arrogant resentment back then has become a regret today. Bertolucci wanted too much to get Godard's affirmation, but he ignored the most sincere advice, which didn't sound so good. Kant's influence on Beethoven is a purely spiritual inspiration. Studying Kant's treatises in college allowed him to form his own view of art and the world. When he suffered from ear problems in his middle age, he learned to forget misfortune due to Kant's philosophy and worked hard. After he was deaf, Beethoven used a pen to talk to friends, and once wrote "The moral law in our hearts, the starry sky above our heads. Kant!" The limit that the body can reach is always certain, while art is the spirit that surpasses ordinary people time and time again. The best proof of the flesh. It is the pain of the flesh that makes their works penetrate the power of life. These are good stories that can be written into books.
For most people, the "life mentors" they can meet are mostly good mentors and helpful friends. They are not necessarily perfect, but they also have human weaknesses, but over his shoulders, you can see a brand new path. Just like Duoduo met Alfredo, a cinema projectionist, Charlie met Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade-Duoduo fell in love with the paradise cinema, and continued to study with Alfredo’s encouragement, and returned to Rome. Only twenty years later, as a director, Duoduo returned to his hometown and recalled the past; Frank is a desperate man who is blind and immersed in alcohol and memories, but it is also he who supports Charlie to take the correct one. The road of life. Everyone hopes that when encountering difficulties, someone can stand up and put aside the sinister illusion, telling themselves that going down this road is heaven. Like Perseus in mythology, with the shield and advice of Athena, the invisibility hat of Hades, and the flying shoes of Hermes, he can successfully cut off Medusa's head and escape successfully. , Built a legend. However, life is different from movies after all, as Alfredo told Duoduo: "The reality is much harder."
If you haven't met these people, the legends, the books, and the mentors and friends in life, how can you face the difficulties, take a decisive step, and go on with confidence?
Eric Ponti in the Swedish movie "Evil Deeds" (Ondskan 2003) is such a person who is struggling to grow up in life by his own strength. When the naughty, rebellious, and innocent childhood was long gone, unfinished studies prevented him from gaining a place in society by his strength. In a home with a very patriarchal society, no one can stop the stepfather from beating their mother and son. It seems that this kind of thing has been commonplace for hundreds of years. If some fathers can still call this method “education of love”, then Eric’s stepfather is purely a vent of power and violence, and the cutlery that falls on the table without paying attention can become one. The introduction to the bitterness of the flesh and the flesh, and the next step is the painful beating that the stepfather uses to digest and soothe the muscles and bones every day after the meal. Youth is more than simply "rebellious" for Eric. He lives in violence and depression, and his fist is the only weapon he knows. The power the stepfather hits on him, he hits out little by little, which allows him to balance between normality and madness. However, unlike his stepfather’s unquestionable authority at home, Eric is not the power center of the school, at most an ordinary student. The beating of classmates is completely included in the ranks of bad conduct. The principal uses the term "evil behavior". Ci expelled him from the school, and threatened that no public school would want him. As a result, his mother sold his finances to collect money to allow him to study in a private school, giving him the last chance to go to university and choose his own life. The price is that he can no longer fight, he must be strict with himself and graduate safely.
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each school has its own traditions and styles. For example, someone once wrote that in Cambridge, England, every time they have a meal, students have to stand and wait for the teacher to be seated before they can be seated. This is a kind of etiquette, and it contains the brand of hierarchy.
Eric's private school is located in the suburbs far away from Stockholm, with an elegant and quiet environment. Everyone who passes through here will feel that the students here are gentle and get along well with each other. The enthusiastic introduction by the president of the Student Union, Ottosh Hann, left a good impression on Eric, who had just arrived. At dinner, when all the students gathered together, Eric came into contact with the real side of the school: When eating, students sit together regardless of grade, and what really divides them is the strict class relationship. Nobles are the highest class students, and the others are classified according to the wealth of the family. As for those who have no money, they simply can't afford it here. Teachers generally do not intervene in the management of students’ meal discipline. They are managed by a table leader and a deputy table leader. The punishment may be a hard knock on the head with any kind of tableware, or a penalty station, or the cancellation of the weekend. Come to clean the school during the holidays. The president of the Student Union Shi Han and his deputies usually manage the order of the students. Not only the students have a strict hierarchy, but even the history teacher is in the classroom, teaching students how to judge a person's high or low based on his appearance. In this way, it doesn’t seem to be that surprising to learn that the school prohibits students from talking to the waiter in the restaurant. In private, what students like to discuss is not current affairs and anecdotes, but the political tendencies of other students’ parents and even teachers.
Many students, especially freshmen, are very angry at the school's practice of enjoying the supreme authority by a small group of people. But he couldn't do any resistance, so he could only be punished obediently. Family social status is inherited by parents from birth, and cannot be changed through ordinary efforts. They can only grit their teeth and survive the rebirth period. Maybe after two years, they will be just like everyone else, gloating at the punishment for the rebirth.
The arena in front of the school is the only place where new students can fight back against senior students, but the people who are called there usually end up being beaten by multiple people. There is no fairness at all. The most disheartening thing is that all the students onlookers cheered and cheered for the hitters. Inside and outside this small circle, they are in different positions, and they also change their identities and mentalities. When they were beaten, they were always full of anger, hoping to end it all quickly; when they were watching, they all participated in the role of beating people, hoping that they would hit harder and shed more blood. They fear authority from the bottom of their hearts, but enjoy the pleasure of conquering that authority brings. Including the president of the student union, they were all newly grown up who were bullied. They endure the humiliation, just to one day stand in the position of bravado and vent all their anger on others. Speaking of it, this is a contemptuous mentality of revenge. The act of a villain runs counter to the ancient Chinese saying "Do not do to others what you do not want to do". But in the unique environment created by the school, this has become their way of survival. The most fundamental reason is that the school encourages them to do so. This kind of education allows them to deeply appreciate the power of authority and hierarchy from an early age, because they are just another larger circle of hierarchy in society. You have to keep climbing to avoid being trampled underfoot.
With Eric's personality, he is destined to be incompatible with the school environment. Although he had understood the school rules as quickly as possible and followed the rules, he still violated the authoritative center of the student circle time and time again-the student union headed by the president of the student union, Otto Shihan. Most people are scared just seeing Shihan, but Eric doesn't take him seriously, insists on not apologizing, disobeying, and even ignoring their unreasonable demands. His unruly personality and youthful vigor put himself into an unpredictable and dangerous contest between himself and the student union. Eric's fearlessness made Shihan and the others deeply threatened, and they hiding behind the authority's fig leaf of taking off their identity, they were just a few courageous brats. When identity cannot deter a person, Shihan must do everything possible to make Eric learn to be afraid. So, he called him a timid "mouse", increased the length of the ban, let him do futile work, and entered the bedroom to attack him early in the morning. Eric has been ignoring him and doing what he can, but he will never be convinced by it and let them dominate, but instead seizes the opportunity to counterattack skillfully.
The first peak of the contradiction between the two was after Eric successfully fought back against Shihan for the first time, and laughed at him unwillingly at the dinner table. His unscrupulous threats seriously threatened Shihan’s authority and pushed him to a dead end. At this time, violence became the most direct means of consolidating authority-Shihan fought Eric in front of all his classmates, Eric With his hands behind his back, he waved his fists, and the blood flew. All the students stopped and watched quietly, no one applauded. In the rules they are familiar with, violence is an entertainment show that exists in the arena. The more pain, the more exciting it is. When this kind of violence stepped onto the dining table in an imposing manner, it broke a rule invisibly and also shattered their mentality of watching fire from the other side. The rain of fists seemed to hit everyone in the face, making them realize that they were just people who had survived such violence. The battlefield is not a place for them to seek fairness, but a stage for authority to show off their strength. The essence of all violence is the same, regardless of time and place. In the end, it was a shout from the restaurant waiter Maria. She is from Finland, where there is no room for such a powerful bully. However, everything is not over yet, the climax of the incident is the appearance of the principal. He walked out of the corner of the restaurant and looked at Shihan with red eyes and Eric, who was almost delirious, with a calm look on his faces. He seemed to be familiar with this kind of scene, and he just gave a brief command: "Enough Let's go." This puts a complete end to the accidental violent bloodshed, no one needs to think about it anymore, and there is no need to discuss it. The principal’s attitude conveyed a message: you can beat people with the door closed, but you should be restrained in public. After all, we are a school that pays attention to etiquette. This is very similar in essence to Eric's stepfather's method of beating. Every time he beats Eric, he goes into the bedroom and closes the door. It seems that once the door is closed, it becomes a private matter that should not allow outsiders to interfere. In spite of this, etiquette still needs to be exquisite, gentlemen still have to be made, but in the personal realm, they still have the power of life and death. In that world, etiquette has nothing to do with morality.
Three, conduct zero points
The movie is cold and depressing from beginning to end. As the story climaxes and peaks, the mood of the audience also fluctuates. The director used the contest between Eric and Shihan to promote the development of the plot, but it was Eric's own struggle that touched everyone deeply. What should he do? In order to protect themselves, protect their dignity, and protect their friends and lovers without fighting or being expelled. He has tried confrontation and compromise, and he has also used clever tricks to make them unable to tell. He even withstood the pressure to win the swimming competition. It's a pity that his efforts can't be reflected in the performance score, and the performance score always hangs on the edge of the passing line. Changing schools, following the rules, is still regarded as bad conduct and bad conduct.
Conduct was originally a yardstick to evaluate a student's conduct. However, it is difficult to have specific textual standards for the quality of character. After all, the complexity of a person is far from being judged by a few scores. This school directly links conduct with the degree of obedience to seniors, which is in line with the school’s usual style of evaluating a person from his family background and other backgrounds. Just like Eric’s good friend Pierre Tange, he is the smartest student in the school. He is also honest and humble, but he is ridiculed by his classmates. He is even regarded as a typical inferior race by the history teacher.
Regarding the school's assessment of student conduct, many directors expressed their attitudes through the camera. French director Jean Vigo obviously advocates the love of children's naughty and playful nature, and should not restrict and criticize too much to hinder their creativity and normal growth. In his work Zéro de conduite (zero points for conduct) (Zéro de conduite 1933), the children living in the elementary boarding school are controlled by the school supervisor. The energetic children played around. The only thing he can do is to sentence them to zero points for conduct, cancel vacations, and use punishment as the only means of education. The children were reluctant to fail well, and took advantage of the school day to get on the roof and occupy the school. From the beginning to the end, the movie exudes a lively, witty childishness, infinite vitality, and infinite creativity. Nothing is impossible with them. From this film, it can be seen that the director intends to break through the traditional and conservative education system and build a better paradise from the perspective of children.
If "zero points of conduct" let us see the conflict between youth and the decadent system in a relaxed way, then the British director Lindsay Anderson angrily criticized the school's unreasonable education system in "If" (If 1968) . The principal said that he wanted to cultivate a new generation of young talents, but he still followed the education method of cultivating British gentlemen of traditional standards. This makes the stodgy, dull, and flattering people dominate, and new students and weak students will always be bullied. Traditions are everywhere here, and even the supervisors have a special way of flogging students. They wear neat suits and gracefully whips to the freshmen without mercy. The coldness of the heart is in sharp contrast with the hypocrisy on the outside. Several students headed by Chavey also occupied the school like the children in "Zero Conduct", except that instead of climbing on the roof, they took up machine guns and fired at the crowd. The final shot is fixed on Chavey's angry face in the gunfire. Who made the face that should have been happily seeking knowledge be full of hatred? Should be grateful but point to death? The story is fabricated, the movie is fictitious, everything becomes a well-written farce under the premise of the name "If". But that anger is real, and the accusation is conclusive. The situation cannot wait until it is irreversible.
In the "Evil Deeds", everyone can see that Shi Han, who behaves well, is actually a cowardly and cowardly villain. Although Eric is not talkative and good at fighting, he never bullies the weak, but loves to bring others to justice. The standard of school conduct is exactly the opposite of the standard of morality in society. It can be said that it was the school's deformed education that obliterated people like Eric and created countless powerful and cold people like Shihan. The teacher who taught the nature course did not understand the inside story of the school. He also accused Eric of failing to protect his friends and forced Piet to drop out. In other words, even in the smoky atmosphere of this school, there are people who have the sense of morality and judgment that ordinary people should have, but they don't know the situation. Just like many people in society don't know this phenomenon. Therefore, it is impossible not to insist on the right choice of the minority because of the mistakes of the majority. Eric used silent confrontation, violent counterattack, and tried various ways to persist. After repeated failures and trials, he finally understood how to give the opponent a powerful blow without being injured. How to no longer live in the shadow of stepfather. He found those who were hiding behind the power, their fear, their cowardice. He went from a boy who loves to fight to a young man who knows how to control himself, who can walk his own way with his chest raised up. Those eyes that were once full of anger were finally bathed in the sun.
Jack Kerouac once wrote in his book: "What is your path, buddy?-the path of a good boy, the path of a lunatic, a colorful path, the path of a wanderer, any path. Place, any path for anyone to take. Where, for whom, and how?" The
so-called conquering the world is not to stand on the roof of the world and shout loudly, but to find a better way here. Go on that road that is not very smooth and you will not get lost.
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