Therefore, the teacher said that in American movies, black protagonists are unlikely to be paired with white protagonists (I later observed it and found that at least in larger productions this is the golden rule), and the issue of race is always a sensitive one. And the issues worth discussing, of course, are homosexuality.
In French movies, such plots rarely appear. Because in French society, these are not contradictions, at least not the main contradiction. After many years of living in Paris, I saw that the teacher’s interpretation was not wrong.
Throughout Europe, France is not the country with the most black Afghans, but only their national team looks like a North African mercenary (I have also heard people from Africa say that their national team is the French team. Hahaha), and homosexuality can not only get married generously, but also stand outside the closet and become the mayor of Paris. Since French people don’t care about color and sexuality, of course their movies will not take this as the theme. Deneuve naturally shrugged when referring to "Brokeback Mountain" and said, "Americans are too rare and weird."
French filmmakers care more about the life and thoughts of a life than the earth. This society seems to be built on humanities. Over the years, I have seen more than a hundred French movies with simple backgrounds like indoor sitcoms, actors who can be counted by one hand, repeat. The repetitions are often propositions about life... No wonder people who define movies as "some kind of relaxing entertainment" generally find it harder to tolerate French movies.
But truth is also a kind of charm. And this kind of charm can only be experienced when you are in it. When we have lived, experienced, tasted, been misunderstood, and worked hard in it, those lines, backgrounds, and propositions are no longer a silhouette outside the paper window.
At this time, even Xiao Tang, who loves Zhou Xingchi the most, and who has been in "Evil and West Poison" for several years, will also enjoy French movies with lines as the main content.
I have always been amazed by the realism of French movies, the life-like performance of the actors, and everything naturally seems to happen around me. Yesterday, in the class we sat in many years ago, the students who set foot on a foreign land with pride and self-esteem , And the teachers who want to pass on the French culture to the students with the same proud self-esteem.
Cultural conflict-this is the second time I have seen a film with this as an entry point in France. The last one was Mauvaise Foi starring Roschdy Zem, but that one mainly talked about the conflict between the two families and the final mutual understanding between a French Arab and a French Jew who were about to get married. Entre les murs Be more sensitive and straightforward.
Although France has a lot of immigrants, Paris and Marseille are especially big cities of immigrants. Our classmates often joke that there are no purebred French in Paris, but France has never been a country of immigrants. The reason is that its stubbornness to its own culture has reached an end. Kind of horrible. It is a kind of arrogance that puts the nose on the forehead, confident that no one can invade their culture, confident that French is the most beautiful language in the world (anyway, I admit that it is in the same position as Chinese), confident that we outsiders will Being branded with the mark of France, staying is to observe and inherit their culture, and to go back is to carry forward the spirit of France.
Because of this almost arrogant self-confidence, the French can afford to make jokes, even when they are self-deprecating. A lofty expression-just like Superman facing Point 38, Ya never thought you would criticize them for eating frogs, laugh at their poor English, or point to their noses and say that they are standing still, little chicken belly. Can hurt them. They sat down and confessed their shortcomings generously, discussed with you calmly, and gave you two compliments at the end, and turned around still with a complacent expression.
This deja vu hypocritical attitude once made me very hateful inexplicably.
So when they picked up the camera, there was nothing they wanted to hide, there was nothing to be embarrassed about, and they didn't care what others thought of them, so they shot and acted directly, showing their arrogance and prejudice together generously. They condensed the impression of other cultures on the country and region represented by each student, letting them collide with each other. Among them, the Chinese representative is a boy named "Wei". If I don't know about other African countries and Arab countries, so I don't have the right to speak, this "Wei" is really like a Xiaoyang jumping in line.
The play about Yu Wei was concentrated in three scenes. One time, he said that he was ashamed of his classmates because they did not observe discipline in class, spoke rudely to the teacher, etc. (Are these the main characteristics of "bad kids" in China) , And then Mr. Francois’ answer was very interesting. He said that what you meant was that they did not follow the order as you did. This has nothing to do with shame. On another occasion, when each classmate was asked to write a self-introduction, he said that he likes to play computer games very much. There are always a few hours a day playing computer games. Francois nodded and said, “Now we finally understand a little bit better” (Chinese students don’t Do you love to take the initiative to speak in class?). Another time was during a parent meeting. Francois told his parents about Wei's situation that the child was very obedient, disciplined, very good at math, and was familiar with computers (this is the world's unanimous evaluation of Chinese people).
Generally speaking, it is a good direction for the influence of national culture on the personality and values of individual students. Of course, the French have not forgotten the hypocrisy. That is, because Wei’s mother was caught by the police because she was escorted back to China, a newly pregnant female teacher made two wishes. One of them was "I hope Wei’s mother can stay. "Next" (This setting is very interesting, a mother has just been born, but another mother will leave her child). I am very grateful for this hypocrisy...because it has given me so many tender moments. I always thought that French people, especially Parisians, would take care of foreign students or immigrants, and their enthusiasm and concern were no less than that of Chinese people greeting foreign students. The difference is that the Chinese will also distinguish each other's skin color and country of origin, and they must be better to rich countries than to African brothers.
There are three large-scale cultural rift displays in the film. One time was the self-introduction section, one time was a conflict between comba (I don't know if I spelled the name correctly) and Francois. The last climax was about the expulsion of a black boy (I really can't spell the name).
These three incidents will not happen in the classrooms of ordinary public or private schools. This is a unique phenomenon when there is cultural error. When we first arrived in France, we also asked to write our names on paper and stand on the desks-because the French teachers could not remember these strange names all of a sudden, we were asked to repeat our names over and over again until they could imitate similarities. So far. We were also asked to write and read our self-introductions, and then they would open their eyes and ask, "Are you no brothers or sisters?" or "Are all Chinese hairs black?" In our opinion, things like "are all black?" The second question.
After Comba was forced to apologize to Francois (because F asked her to read the last paragraph of Anne Frank's diary, she refused to read), he wrote a letter to Francois saying "respect is mutual", this is every one who has left his own culture , And children who have to integrate into another society are bound to be vulnerable (the movie hints-Francois said they got along well last school year, why comba got cramped as soon as school started this year). She said vigorously, "I will never talk to you again." Of course, this vow did not last long. It seems that the director is very optimistic about the past of this rift period.
In fact, the national conflict in France is far more than so tender. It was very clear when the northern riots happened. Of course, it is the iron-fisted suppression carried out by the Minister of the Interior at the time and the current French President Sarkozy at that time. One of the oaths taken when joining French nationality is to respect French culture. In this socialist country that protects extreme poverty, the biggest contradiction does not come from the stomach, but from the mind.
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