The most interesting thing is about the choice of space.
When education is treated as the subject of a movie, the roles that appear are no more than teachers, students, parents, and other teachers of the school. Therefore, the space must be composed of classrooms, campuses, students' homes, and places where students frequent. The choice of space for such a theme is really limited to one, and many screenwriters have to work hard to pull in more possibilities and enrich the changes in the picture and plot. But the reverse operation of "My Little Ghosts and Me" is the only thing "My Little Ghosts and Me" wants to talk about within the campus, and there are no scenes outside the campus.
Ninety percent of this film, which is completely confined to the campus, takes place in indoor spaces, and another ninety percent takes place in classrooms. Since the space is limited to a small classroom, the plot naturally focuses on the interaction between teachers and students in the classroom. Because of this focus, there is a chance to talk more deeply about the interaction between teachers and students. Directors, screenwriters, photographers, and actors have also successfully deepened the tension and various possibilities of interaction between teachers and students.
In the discussion after watching the movie, the director specifically explained the special features of the film's editing and directing methods. Although this film has the same name as the French award-winning book "Between the Wall and the Wall" (the French title is literally translated as: Between the Wall and the Wall), the author of the book also named the screenwriter of the film. And play the role of the teacher, but "My Little Ghosts" is not a film presentation of "Between Wall and Wall", but in the form of an impromptu performance workshop, a group of young actors with no acting experience starred as students through the teacher The interaction with the students gradually developed again and again, and finally the film was completed after the director’s decontamination.
The plot of this movie was developed by the director, screenwriter, and actors, but I believe it was because of the name of the book "Between Wall and Wall" that made the director choose to let the story of the movie take place entirely within the school, especially Inside the classroom. Although the director said that it only wanted to make the focus of the film more focused, and he believed that the wall in the title not only refers to the cubicle of the classroom, but also refers to the teacher itself as the wall and the students as the wall, and the communication between teachers and students is breaking The wall and the wall also hint at things in the classroom and in the school. Only students and teachers know about it. People outside the wall cannot know. Parents can only come inside when they are invited. Students and teachers must also be willing to talk. Wall Only when things inside can be known to the outside world, the word "wall" has expanded explanations and more important implications.
In this film, because the students’ backgrounds are diverse and the teacher is a French teacher rather than a math or other science teacher, in addition to teaching French in class, the teacher also has to face the problem of background differences: different Race, religion, as small as the choice of commonly used names, as large as the definition of the scope of morality, and even the commonly used French words and sentences in daily life conversations are different. A lot of cultural differences are discussed, which is what makes this educational film different from other campus films.
Many people believe that the 21st century is a century of globalization and global villages. Big cities have become a gathering place for people of different races, nationalities, and ethnicities. The challenges that everyone has to face are not just from domestic and similar races. Or just a certain regional cultural circle, the future challenges will come from all over the world. From this point of view, how to get along with people of different ethnicities and backgrounds is a must-have content for education now, and "My Little Ghosts and Me" is obviously rich in this part, which is why this film is different from other campuses. The film seems to be farsighted and forward-looking.
Incidentally: Many campus stories follow the students, but this story follows the teacher. This is also the reason why the Taiwanese translation is "Me and My Little Ghosts", suggesting that the main axis of this film is based on the teacher's perspective.
However, about this point, I think it is the cause of the film's shortcomings.
In the film, we see the students forming into small groups, the small groups ebb and flow over time, and the alliances and conflicts during the interaction of the small groups. Only when the teacher really did something inappropriate, the children finally agreed The students are united against the teacher. We also see all kinds of parents. Some parents treat their children violently and arbitrarily, some parents are illegal immigrants, and some parents only care about their children's homework. But there is only one kind of teacher in the film-a good teacher. The teachers in the film may be emotional because the students are too unbehaved, but most of them are rational and gentle, especially when discussing business matters, they always think about the students, and the teacher-teacher relationship Getting along is also harmonious. Such a setting not only makes the teacher seem single, dull, and obtrusive compared to the students and parents, but it is also unreasonable. In reality, some teachers do not care about the rights of students at all, and some teachers do illegal things. There are also small groups among teachers. There are also many power conflicts and secret struggles among teachers. But none of these exist in this film.
When this happens, I personally feel that it is somewhat related to this film from the perspective of a teacher. In particular, it has a high correlation with the performance of the teacher’s actor who is the author of "Between the Wall and the Wall", who is named the screenwriter of the film, and is also a middle school teacher outside the play. The named screenwriter should check the rationality of the plot, but he himself is a middle school teacher, so he can see that the students have problems, the parents have problems, but he can’t see the teachers have problems, or try to ignore them. The way of refusal to face the teacher’s problems, and self-comfort on the grounds that it should focus on teacher-student communication and should not emphasize teacher conflicts makes the teachers in this film seem too idealistic.
Although most of the teachers in this film are fake and flat, the interaction between teachers and students in the film is absolutely amazing.
The original text is excerpted from: http://sacrificial-lamb.blogspot.com/2008/11/081129.html
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