This is the director's autobiographical work. The work represents a period of children's life in a boarding school, it's not even realistic, but it embodies poetic thought.
On the surface, it looks like a group of mischievous children, but its deep background is the suppression of human nature in boarding schools.
In this film, the dwarf provost symbolizes the unreasonable and abnormal education system that should be denied.
The film uses the reality of economic depression as the basis for action and plot, making children ignore and laugh at the shame of adults.
Depressed and unhappy children resent their childhoods in shady dorms, and eventually they rebel. They're going to beat the adults - schoolboys (angels) in white shirts, throwing pillows in the air, feathers flying.
This passage is incisively and vividly cathartic, releasing the grievances in the children's hearts.
This pillow fight, brilliantly handled by high-speed photography, highlights the children's psychology and strong movements, resulting in a rare formal beauty and a poetic beauty that pushes the film's mood to a climax.
Because of the extremely strong artistic appeal created by this passage, it has become a classic passage in the history of world cinema.
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