Poetic counterattack

Annabell 2022-12-05 23:12:04

"Practice Zero" (French, Jean Viggo), a classic of children's films, a representative work of the French poetic realism period. With the rebellion of the students who were imprisoned in the feudal campus, they directly attacked the darkness of reality. What the film shows is a reality between poetry and nature, with rich metaphors and refractions inside. At the beginning of the film, two boys play magically on the train, which fully reflects the children's "play-loving" nature, and there is an insurmountable gap between the feudal school and the feudal school. The dwarf headmaster and the top hat placed in a glass hood symbolizing power and order are all satires by Vigo. In slow motion, the children are marching among the slowly flying feathers, with a sacred and poetic sleepwalking color. Films such as "The Four Hundred Strikes" and "Dead Poets Society" have their shadows, and the scene of flying feathers is even more common.

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  • Tabard: War is declared! Down with monitors and punishment! Long live rebellion! Liberty or death! Hoist our flag on the school roof! Stand firm with us tomorrow! We'll bombard them with rotten old books, dirty tin cans, smelly boots and all the ammo piled up in the attic! We'll fight those old goats on commemoration day! Onward!