You can’t find the ideal, enthusiastic, and romantic temperament in the herding class in the Cannes Palme d’Or film last year. It is more a documentary to show the real ecology of French junior high school classrooms, although this is A drama based on a novel.
Director Laurent Conte said: "Sometimes fiction is more real than documentary." He believes that in documentaries, the characters are not sincere. When facing the camera, people will unconsciously adjust and cover up. On the contrary, under the protection of fictional characters, people are the most honest because of the excuse that it has nothing to do with them. This film can probably be called a "documentary with the mask of a feature film". The non-professional actors are used in the film. The classroom is full of unscrupulous dialogues and impromptu reactions. ·Pan Da praised the magic of the performance.
Of course, this film can win Palme d'Or, mainly because it chose important social issues as the subject matter. The Cannes Awards have always preferred films that reflect reality. "Between the Walls" shows the multi-ethnic population and multi-cultural status of France. The many debates and conflicts in the classroom all carry deep social realities.
For example, the teacher made a sentence and wrote Bill as the subject, but he was immediately protested by black students: Why did you choose only these common names of white people as examples? Why can't you consider other races and change this even unconscious habit? Another example is the children of African descent who regard Zidane as their most idol and Materazzi as their most annoying person, yet they refuse to recognize the French team as their own national team, thinking that their home country Mali or Morocco can be Cannot enter the Africa Cup.
Some people are fortunate that they have arrived in Paris. There is no obvious racial prejudice in the continental United States. People seem to care less about skin color and only care about the philosophical propositions of life; some people cannot integrate into the surrounding society, such as the Chinese students in the film, who introduce themselves When I say it’s okay, I just like to play computer games, and feel alienated everywhere in a strange environment.
All kinds of problems and conflicts are revealed in the simple classroom scene. At the same time, it shows the democratic and inclusive side of European education methods vividly. Students can interrupt the lecture and ask questions at any time, and they can also refuse the teacher's request; the end of the semester is not an exam, but everyone talks about what they have learned during the semester; the assessment for students is led by the principal to discuss and make decisions together with all teachers. Student representatives attend, etc.
Of course, the French will never forget their most passionate deconstruction. Two places in the film dispelled the discussion of serious issues. One was at a teacher’s meeting to discuss student rewards and punishments. When there was no final conclusion, the principal said that everyone should hurry up, because we have another equally important topic-office coffee price increase. Question: The second time was to discuss donating money to the parents of Chinese students who may be sent back to the country. A teacher suddenly announced that he was pregnant, so everyone opened champagne to celebrate.
Speaking of which, I can’t think of "Vote Me" by Chinese documentary director Chen Weijun. The same is the classroom, the same is the discussion of the topic of democracy, and it is also an attempt to truly show the ecology of the two societies. "Please" is a propositional composition on a global scale. The directors participating in the project must answer "why democracy" based on their own national conditions. Chen Weijun selected a third-grade student in a Wuhan elementary school for the entire process of democratically campaigning for monitors, and tracked the campaign efforts of the three candidate children.
The children followed normal democratic procedures, introducing themselves, debating, lobbying, and voting. Unexpectedly, various tricks such as wooing votes, attacking each other, creating rumors, bribing voters, etc. appeared endlessly. But unlike the campus democracy of "Between the Walls", Chinese children never raise objections to the teacher’s decision, do not take the opportunity to make requests to the school on behalf of the students, and voters only regard this as a game. . Everything is under the control of the teacher, which is so different from the campus democracy of their peers.
Some people say that the campus is like a microcosm of society, and they can also see the future of a society, which is embarrassing. "Vote for Me" is a heavy documentary, but this difference is obviously not caused by the difference between documentaries and feature films.
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