I think this movie will definitely make all domestic students feel the same way. From elementary school to university, the education we have experienced for more than ten years is probably like this. Although some people may enjoy it, they have to admit that it has great problems. . Especially recently, I heard about all kinds of disgusting and filthy things in a key 985 college in our city, such as the ugly face of the instructor, which is appalling, even worse than in the movie. These guides shouldn't and don't want to do education, what they want most is butchers in slaughterhouses. But this film also comforts us that we are not alone, and France treated students the same way a hundred years ago.
Film director Jean Vigo (1905-1934), who made only four films in his life, died of tuberculosis at the age of 29. However, his films have become a must-have in the history of French cinema, and his works have also profoundly influenced the image style of the French New Wave in the 1940s and 1950s. Many famous masters of the New Wave period have admitted to being influenced by Jean Viggo, such as François Truffaut, who also admitted that his film "The Four Hundred Blows" was influenced by "Practice Zero".
Jean Vigo's father, an anarchist, was imprisoned for political reasons and murdered in prison. As for why he died in prison and by whom, it is unknown. The young Jean Vigo had to change his surname to enroll in order to hide his identity as the son of an anarchist. Jean Viggo went to the same boarding school in the movie. Undoubtedly, the film also bears shadows from his own childhood, and many of the characters are also based on some of Jean Viggo's childhood friends. For the French, the film was so close to reality that it seemed to show the raucous self in a school uniform on the playground.
Another importance of this film is that it exposed the inhumane and unsound education system to a certain extent. However, it was also for this reason that it was banned by the French government for 13 years at that time (the ban is somewhat similar to that of some countries). similarities). What's more valuable about this movie is that it presents this reality in a comically cute and positive way, with some imaginative and memorable moments, like the magic pillow fight, which should be This plot first appeared in the film here, and it has been used in subsequent films as a result.
The film tells the story of a boarding school in France, where teachers disciplined students harshly, suppressed their natural instincts, and even gave them disrespectful abuse. Just like the sentence "Your conduct today is zero", the school education system tries to suppress students by giving them points for their performance. 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 day-to-day oppression, the students finally broke out, disrupting the ceremony and revolting.
Voices in movies are vocal and word-centric, first and foremost because of human behavior. In any given environment, you always listen to the human voice first, those sounds will grab your attention faster than other sounds (wind, music, traffic). In the film "Being Zero Points", the noise and screams of the students are very obvious. The film begins and ends here. At the beginning of the film, the noise of the students was used as the background to indicate the beginning of the new semester, and at the end, the school ceremonies were disrupted by the noise of the students, and the students climbed the roof, marking the liberation and victory of the students' nature.
At the beginning of the film, the loud noise and the lively chorus of children's voices are followed by subtitles to indicate the start of the new semester. Then there is the scene on the train. The train is blowing steam. The little boy and the new teacher are sitting opposite each other. The teacher fell asleep. Extremely boring. Then the little boy's friend got on the bus at the next stop, and the plot turned to a cheerful rhythm, and the two began to fight, a typical play between students. The notable feature of the sound here is that there are no vocals, and everything is covered with music. The speed of the music is closely related to the plot, and the video has no particularly fragmented shots. The soundtrack starts out dull, and after the second little boy gets into the car, it quickly turns to a lively and lively melody, which complements the video and enhances this lively sound. Ambience. Along the way, the basic rhythm of the soundtrack is the drum sound that imitates the sound of the train moving forward. The sound of the drum beat is consistent with the rhythm of people shaking with the train, and other orchestral instruments are continuously added on this basis. The shot of the boy playing the trumpet did not cut into the real sound, but perfectly integrated the trumpet sound into the music.
However, the shadow of the silent film era can also be seen from the soundtrack in the film, such as the instrumental music immediately after the character speaks to remind and shock, or the drumbeat that the character clearly and deliberately gives before the character appears. All of this music revolves tightly around the image. The music of the whole film is closely linked with the plot of the film, and there is no soundtrack that has nothing to do with the plot. We seem to hear the corresponding sound from the image we see, and from the sound we hear the same image. It seems that the music is all subordinate to the image and cannot be taken out as a completely independent creation.
It may be because the recording technology at that time was not developed enough. In many cases, the sound appeared very stiff and unnatural, the sound was rough, and the connection of the sound was not smooth and soft. In particular, the noise of the students who appeared many times in the film is very obvious. It was absolutely quiet before, and then suddenly broke into the noise and screams without any foundation.
However, there are many interesting shots and ideas in this 41-minute film, which are constantly imitated by later generations. I want to say one last sentence, long live freedom.
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