It's pointless to behave, so why not score zero

It's pointless to behave, so why not score zero

——A brief analysis of the movie "Practice Zero"

As a French realist director who pays more attention to the lives of the people at the bottom, Jean Viggo describes the children who oppose control and dare to challenge authority in this film, expressing their preference for youthful vitality and their longing and pursuit of freedom. .

The film tells the story of a boarding school in France, where teachers disciplined students severely, suppressed their nature, curbed their thoughts, and even gave them disrespectful abuse. Just like the sentence that often appears in the film, "Your conduct is zero today," the school education system tries to suppress students by giving them grades for their performance, so as to encourage them to study hard and be obedient. In addition to education, the film also shows the filth of these educators, the small self-serving principal, and the dean who steals the students' chocolates while the students are not in the classroom. Under this oppression day after day, year after year, the students finally broke out, disrupting the ceremony and starting a rebellious rave party.

In this film, the very obvious sound that appears is the noise and screams of the students. The film begins and ends here. When the film is subtitled at the beginning, the noise of the students is used as the background to indicate the beginning of the new semester. At the end, the school ceremony is disrupted by the noise of the students. The students climbed to the roof and started a carnival party on the roof. It marks the liberation of students' nature and the victory of the movement against control.

I was impressed by several characters created in the film. When the headmaster appeared, I always suspected that some naughty student stole the adult's clothes and pretended to be the headmaster. That principal's voice was too immature, and his stature was too short! The way he struggled to put his hat on his toes and put his hat on the table made people laugh out loud. Here, the hat was enshrined in a glass cover, a metaphor for his high regard for power. The height of the dean of education is relatively normal. He appeared as a serious and rigid gentleman, but no one would have thought that he would secretly eat the snacks after finding out the students' drawers and schoolbags with snacks one by one. The worst thing is that even the students knew about his special hobby, so after the students lost their snacks, they said without hesitation, "Hmph, it must be the dean!" The appearance of these teachers is a subversion of the traditional image of teachers, which makes us feel Jean Viggo's critical attitude towards those in power, but isn't this the epitome of the various teachers' roles in life?

At the end of the film, director Jean Viggo showed us the scene of feathers flying down like snow. The children cheered in groups in the slowly flying goose feathers, using slow motion like sleepwalking to show us come out.

The 1933 42-minute film "Practice Zero" was an anarchist and rebellious comedy film directed by Jean Viggo at the age of 28. It shows us that children are lively, simple, and full of youthful and energetic nature. The film also exposes to a certain extent the inhumane and unsound education system. At the end of the film, the camera freezes at a panoramic view, marking the children's victory, proclaiming their freedom and high spirits, and letting us understand that even zero points of conduct can't stop the children's natural yearning for freedom.