Students at a boarding school in France are returning to campus after the holidays. However, the school they faced welcomed them like a prison. Life here is monotonous and repetitive. Students are often reprimanded and corporally punished by teachers. If they resist, they will be severely punished with zero points for conduct. Teachers are like cold-blooded animals, allowing students to live and learn like walking dead. This depressing atmosphere made the lively and thoughtful children finally unbearable. They began to plot a major event. The school ushered in the anniversary of the school, and various important leaders were invited to visit the well-organized educational achievements. When important guests gathered on the playground, angry students threw books, shoes, cans and other sundries from the roof, and hung a flag with a painted skull on the top floor of the teaching building. They unleashed their passion and revolted and revelled in various places of the school, making those important people surprised. Although they were surprised and angry, they had nothing to do. Angry students eventually took over the harsh boarding school. 1. Background (1) Jean Viggo: "Atlanta" is more passionate about freedom, rebellious subject matter, the combination of subjectivity and objectivity, vision and perception (2) Viggo let these children run away, showing his resistance to adults, hypocrites and Bad people's imagination and innovation. However, the film does not convey the dualism of good and evil, because these children are definitely not saints: they are both sinister and evil. "Doing Zero Points" has a strong color of absolute liberalism. Rebellion is necessary when freedom and happiness are entangled. Viggo presents the image of the supporters of the establishment, such as the state, the cult and the puppet soldiers who should be brought down in the Holocaust. A student named Dabar said "trash" to a greasy professor who was rubbing his hand. The student was called to the principal's office and asked to explain the reason. His answer was still: "Mr. Teacher, I said you are trash!" The government said: "I said you are trash!" 2. The structure and audio-visual narration are relatively loose, and it is difficult to find a clear story line from it. More focus is on portraying the images and contradictions of the two protagonists. As a work in the early sound era, the matching of sound and picture is a big problem. At the end, the upgraded camera is used, which is combined with the feather scene fluttering in the sky, full of romantic metaphors. In the character setting, several teachers have different personalities, but they are all ironic. The most prominent one is the image of the dwarf principal, which expresses a kind of absurdity and disdain for authority. There is also the image of a teacher playing with the children, but it is also a stupid follower in nature. The style is lively and relaxed, and the performance is exaggerated. In the process of chasing with the teacher, it reflects the traditional slapstick characteristics. 3. Influence has influenced the New Wave movement, such as Truffaut who shot "The Four Hundred Blows".
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