Stories like this typical anti-resistance and anti-rights often have an extremely depressing process. But Jean Viggo tells a lighthearted story full of humor and irony in such a film, and even the riots of the students at the end are simple and lovely, which is very different from Lindsay Anderson's "If". The "Four Hundred Blows" filmed by Truffaut under his influence added family elements, and focused on portraying a main character, and there was no collective resistance. This film can be said to reveal and satirize the power relations in the school, the discipline and punishment in the small world, the hypocrisy and selfishness of those in power, etc. in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, but these elements and phenomena can be amplified. to the whole society and even the country. A zero score for conduct is a punishment as well as a threat. The score obtained by conduct shows whether the student's behavior is normative, and this norm is the standard of control and discipline by those in power. The so-called conduct education in schools is essentially to train live individuals into step-by-step parts of the big social machine, so as to satisfy the interests of those in power. Every corporal punishment and discipline is the power to smooth the edges and corners of life and eliminate individuality. Of course, there will also be some obedient parts that can pass the quality inspection without grinding once, plug and play. In the film, a teacher secretly takes students' snacks for his own enjoyment or steals students' belongings for his own when the students are not in the classroom. Such a shameless and cheap behavior that is spurned by others is actually just a reaction of human nature. A teacher needs to teach and educate people, but this is his job, and it is what people look like in front of others. It is possible to satisfy selfish desires when no one is around. The principal in the film is played by a bearded boy or a dwarf who at first thought it was just a prank, but it turns out that he is really the principal. Jean Viggo satirizes the high-ranking authority by playing the role of a child or a dwarf. And powerful. In addition to these ironic images of teachers and powerful people, there is also an unusual superintendent in the film. He dresses up as Chaplin and imitates Chaplin's walking style and posture at all times. Very funny and cute, he is an outlier among the school rights holders, and in the student riot on the school day, he also happily shouted victory and expressed his support, quite revolutionary.... The student riot at the end of the film The scene, the pillow fight in the dormitory, the feathers flying all over the sky, and the slow motion of the students wearing white pajamas as they walked to the outside of the dormitory in a neat and uniform manner, against the backdrop of the sky full of feathers, it was beautiful. Then they tied the unconscious uncle to the bed and erected the bed...
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