The title of this film is particularly good. The blackboard is the main medium for transmitting knowledge in schools, symbolizing education. Education often represents "love and hope". ”, this film tells exactly such a story with intense conflict and opposition. I like this film very much. The bad thing about it may be the lack of details and the transformation of key characters. For example, the characters Miller and Head in the Hat could have several shots of the family background. So I think 105 minutes is not enough for this film, it would be better to make 120 minutes or 140 minutes.
Filmed in 1955, these students are of the post-war generation. Their fathers may have just returned from the battlefield, their mothers work in a military factory, and the teacher played by Glenn Ford is also a veteran of the Navy. From the educational problems of this part of the children presented in the film, we can see the social problems that arose after the war in the United States.
Students who grow up in such a social environment, they are like a pack of beasts, smoking, fighting, and robbing. Opposed to the teacher in the classroom, designed to beat the teacher, and deliberately smashed the precious records collected by the teacher. In the face of these beasts, all the teachers in this school are disheartened, they only seek psychological comfort in their work, and they are perfunctory. They don't care if the students are studying or not, they just work to keep their jobs. Therefore, there is such a phenomenon that teachers don't care about students' learning, students don't care about their own studies, parents feel that their children can't read anyway, and they don't care about their children's studies. Therefore, the energy of these students has shifted from their studies to things unrelated to their studies, and they have committed all kinds of illegal things. Some students even raped their female teachers at school.
The teacher Dadye in the movie is a teacher with enthusiasm for education. When facing this group of beasts, he is also very depressed, and the feeling of hot face and cold butt constantly hits him. However, unlike other teachers, Mr. Dadye showed incomparable patience and love instead of competing with them or walking away in the face of making things difficult and mischievous by the students. Although the students kept knocking him down, he never considered himself defeated, on the contrary he actively looked for ways to integrate with them and understand them. Finally, the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" stimulated the students' interest in learning. This change was not sudden, but a reflection of Mr. Dadye's long-term efforts. During the fight in the classroom at the end of the film, many students stood by Mr. Dadye and helped him send the two delinquent teenagers to the principal's office. This school is precisely because of people like Mr. Dadeye, some students will gradually improve. There are also students who can only be disciplined by the State Violence Department, tamed with whips.
There is one episode in the movie that I am particularly impressed with, and the appearance of this episode makes the movie flesh and blood. The wife gave birth prematurely because of the malicious alienation of the bad students and the emotional fluctuations caused by suspicion of her husband. Because of the premature birth, the child may not be able to be saved, so Mr. Dadye doubted his behavior. Are these students really worth his efforts? Even if the teacher abandoned them, these little kids wouldn't care, and neither would their parents. What's more, teachers' wages are only $2 an hour, which is lower than most workers' wages. When the educator is fussing about money, it is also the time when his enthusiasm for work is lost. If Mr. Dadye's children didn't survive, I think he would have abandoned them because the world is so cruel, full of hatred and indifference. However, the film also shows a very warm side. When Mr. Dadye was about to give up, his colleagues and his wife began to understand him and agree with his behavior. These children are also human beings, not beasts. They also need patience like normal people. , understanding and love.
Like Mr. Dadeje, I have a great passion for education. I do this job not just to support my family, or to be good at it, but more because teaching is a creative job like painting and writing. , I get great fun and sense of achievement in the process of getting along with students. However, I don't have the broad-mindedness of his. I hope that in the future, I can also become a teacher with great love like him. In the battle between good and evil, the good side will always prevail.
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