The story is extremely simple. In a community high school in France, the kind-hearted French teacher was smashed by a bunch of unorganized and undisciplined students. That's actually the point.
The film cannot be said to have a plot, but it has a huge amount of information. On the surface, children of various races, including whites, blacks, and yellow races, gather in a classroom to freely express their opinions and take care of mischief. It seems to have the tolerance and beauty of an international village. In reality, there are hidden incompatibility after the collision of multiculturalism. The direct manifestation of this incompatibility is the general despair of black students (reading is useless), the general selfishness of white students (self-centered game-telling of right and wrong), and the general shyness and autism of Chinese students (difficulty in communication). From this perspective, it is not difficult to understand why the title is called "Between the Walls", which directly points to the unbreakable barriers in the context of blending.
When we look back at this poster, it is actually an ordinary and typical scene in the movie. Both the white girl and the black girl raised their hands to express their opinions. The black boy behind showed dissatisfaction with his fingers upright. The black-haired white girl held her cheeks on her own. Every student in the class had her own attitude and stand. This is why there are always quarrels in class.
On the surface, most of the movie is the struggle, control and anti-control between teachers and students. But in fact the movie is not about this. At the end of the movie, the teachers and their classmates playing football together happily proves that the essence of the problem is not the contradiction between teachers and students. So, what does the film tell us? Let's look at the ending-the most naughty student was expelled because he used violent means to openly challenge the order of the classroom. And the others still live together. ——This is France in the eyes of the director, a country that is helpless against chaos and can only rely on coercive measures to maintain order.
And my favorite character is the black girl who chose to drop out of school in the end. When other students showed off that they had learned new knowledge, she found the head teacher and the kind French teacher after class.
"I really didn't learn anything, I don't want to read it anymore"
When the black girl said this, her expression was numb and determined. I seemed to be able to see that the director Laurent Gantai was using the same expression and speaking to the entire French reality in Northeastern dialect: "I really can’t learn from you. What the hell is it!"
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