"Classroom Love" is a Swedish film released in 1995. It is also the last work of the well-known Swedish director Bo Widberg during his lifetime, which won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. The film tells about the love-hate entanglement between a 14-year-old male student and a 37-year-old female teacher. Not only is the topic full of controversy, but the bold and naked presentation in the film also made many viewers blush and heartbeat.
"Classroom Love" and "Piano Teacher" released by Austrian director Michael Haneke in 2001 are often compared. Both works are based on the abnormal love between male students and female teachers, and both use more realistic and naked Expressive techniques, but "Piano Teacher" mainly discusses and analyzes the mentality behind female teachers' erotic desires, while "Classroom Love" is intended to explore the physical and psychological growth experience of male students.
The protagonist Sidi of "Teacher Do Not Love" is a very ordinary 14-year-old boy. In addition to his parents, he also has an older brother who is good at boxing and is currently serving as a soldier. Sidi has a very good relationship with his mother, but he is far away from his taciturn, stern-character father. As for Sidi's brother, it can be said that he is the pride of all his family members. Not only is he serving in the navy and defending his country, he also defeated strong opponents with excellent boxing and won the respect of everyone.
Although it was during World War II and the flames of war were spreading all over Europe, the young Sidi did not feel too strong the shadow of war. Instead, like most boys in adolescence, he was filled with longings and fantasies about sex. During the break time, I talked about private matters between men and women. At the beginning of the new semester, when the female teacher Viola came to the class and announced that she would lead the entire new semester, Sidi's heart fluttered with imagination and began to find ways to approach her.
The female teacher Viola is 37 years old this year. She has a good-looking appearance. She wears a silk shirt and a long and narrow skirt with exquisite curves and elegant temperament. The hair that she always pulls up highlights the slenderness and fairness of the skin on her neck. Although Viola is married, she is a lonely woman. Her husband, who works as a pantyhose salesperson, not only travels frequently, but occasionally indulges in classical music and drinking at home. The husband and wife have long been strangers. Therefore, in the face of Sidi's upright appearance and crazy obsession, Viola did not hesitate to cross the boundaries with him and develop an indecent erotic relationship.
From the point of view of men and women, it is not surprising that Stie and Viola will walk together, one is a teenager with arousing sexual desire, and the other is a lonely young woman. And the addiction to lust after the two are together is also expected. Apart from staying at home while Viola's husband was on a business trip, Stie sometimes sneaked out of the house at night and climbed onto Viola's bed. The two of them often dazzled in class, and Sdie even skipped class from time to time, just to stay in Viola's bed and wait for her to come back and continue to make affection during the break between classes. After all, Viola is his class instructor, with special convenience.
Sdie went in and out of Viola's house so frequently, after all, it was inevitable to be bumped into by her unstable husband. Viola's husband thought at first that Stie was coming to receive after-school tutoring at home, and not only did not suspect that he was there, he also offered encouragement. Although he has nothing to say with Viola, he is very kind to Sidi. He played his beloved Beethoven 13th String Quartet in B-flat major for Stie, patiently explaining the beauty of it. When the radio broadcast Hitler's speech, he played Beethoven's B-flat major string quartet Grand Fugue dedicated to Archduke Rudolph for Stie, and couldn't help crying over the contrast and irony.
From the point of view of being a husband and a man, Viola's husband is not a success. As a pantyhose salesperson, he does not see that nylon pantyhose will become a trend. He emotionally hates all unnatural deformities, so he stubbornly believes that pantyhose made of wool and silk will be the eternal mainstream. He was suffering from war and the real environment, but he could only escape through classical music and alcohol. And when he finally broke through the ambiguous relationship between Stie and Viola, he was not even angry, but he reluctantly accepted the facts, and then continued to talk about music and work with Stie.
Although Viola's husband is similar to her father, who are men who do nothing, but Sidi understands him and likes him. He opened his heart to Sidi, and talked about Sidi like an adult about his love for music and his pursuit of nature. In him, Sidi not only felt the kindness that a father should have, but also felt the helplessness and hardship of being a man. And the more Stie agrees with Viola's husband, the more naturally he is disgusted with Viola, especially when her husband suffers from a failure in his career, but she only wants to make love to Stie, Stie’s inner disgust Reached the extreme.
Sidi began to alienate Viola and had a relationship with a female classmate who had a crush on him under rebellious emotions. As for Viola, her sudden alienation from Stie first tried to save him with various physical temptations, but when she saw that it was ineffective, she changed to crying and entanglement. Things have developed so far, and they are still stuck in the common see-saws and conflicts when men and women break up, but after women's habitual methods have failed, Viola took up her own power as a teacher to retaliate - she Stie was punishable by repeating the grade because of too many absenteeism and disrespect to herself.
When Sidi suffered a lot of harm for his inconsistent relationship, news of his brother's death also came from the front line. His elder brother has always been Sidi’s idol. Not only did he have first-class boxing skills, he also dreamed of being selected to serve in the Navy's submarine fleet, but he died because of the accidental sinking of the submarine. But after experiencing the matter with Viola, Sidi did not throw himself into the arms of his parents for solace like a child. He did not confess his ignorance and fragility sadly, but faced all with a man's attitude. The problem.
Regarding his mother's question about his repetition from school, Sidi only said indifferently, and I will explain it to you when you can understand. Regarding the death of his elder brother, he first hid alone in the theater where he was dismissed and watched the news rebroadcast over and over again, leaving all the sad tears in the lonely darkness, and then after the funeral, he stood firmly next to his father for He provides a reliable shoulder. As for Viola, he walked into the school hall where everyone gathered, faced her, unbuttoned his pants, took out his genitals, and left proudly. As a teacher and student, Viola can squeeze him at will, but as a man and woman, Stie is fearless and never bows his head.
■ "Classroom Love" is easily reminiscent of "Lolita", which involves the relationship between men and women with different ages. Some people even call "Classroom Love" the male version of "Lolita". However, compared to the issue of age, "Classroom Love" actually discusses more about the relationship between teachers and students.
Although the protagonist Sidi of "Classroom Love" is only 14 years old, not much different from the 12-year-old Lolita described by Kobonaf, but Sedi is Swedish and Lolita is American, which makes the situation possible. It's very different. The legal age of marriage varies from state to state, but the unified marriage law is 18 years old, while in Sweden it is 14 years old. Therefore, legally speaking, Sidi has been able to take responsibility for his sexual behavior, and there is no problem of abducting minors between him and Viola.
In the minds of many Chinese, it is still unacceptable for a 37-year-old woman to have sex with a 14-year-old boy. After all, the legal marriage age for Chinese men is 22 years old and women are 20 years old. However, Sidi in the film is not only in the same physical condition as an ordinary adult male, but he himself also works after school, sharing the financial burden of the family, and has considerable mental maturity. As for whether it is a relationship with a 37-year-old woman or a relationship with a female classmate of the same age, there is not much difference in essence.
Western countries have always been more open to love and sex. As long as there is a difference in family status, appearance, or age within the scope permitted by law, no one should arbitrarily interfere or trespass the freedom of others. However, on the issue of teacher-student love, Western countries rarely hold the same opposition or prohibition attitude as Eastern countries, and what the movie "Classroom Love" shows is the underlying reason behind it.
Although on the surface, teacher-student love is no different from ordinary love, it is also the love of men and women, and it is also the love of you and me, but in fact, the teacher-student has more power over the student Regardless of whether it is love or not, you can use the power in your hand to suppress each other, and equality and freedom do not really exist in it. Even if a teacher can abide by his own duties and not use his power to intimidate each other, the relationship between the two will inevitably affect the other's learning and interpersonal relationship at school, which in turn conflicts with the teacher's responsibilities.
The main soundtrack played repeatedly in "Classroom" is the aria "Let Me Cry" (Lascia ch'io pianga) from Handel's drama "Rinaldo". The lyrics mainly describe the innocent Amirina because of being The witch Amida is under house arrest in the magic garden, and laments fate and crying for freedom to the foreign king, Goverdo. The sweet and innocent voice and helpless lyrics in this song are in harmony with the content of the film, highlighting that Sidi, driven by sex, took the initiative to throw in Viola's side, naively thinking that he was facing a beautiful woman. Only at the end did she discover that she was still an evil teacher who had power and could restrain herself.
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