A good live-action short film is like a fable. Compared with the ups and downs of the plot, it cherishes the profound meaning of the theme. The story of the school choir is a vivid lesson that children give to adults about education and friendship, fairness and justice, success and integrity. The role of Erica, the instructor of the choir, is convincing. She is different from the "witch" who is extremely evil in traditional children's dramas. Her image shaping and her words and deeds are closer to real life. The spiritual image of an adult—considerate, be good at making choices, talk about himself, and be informal in order to achieve great things. However, this so-called mature thinking mode, which is naturally established in the complex world, is deliberately and prematurely transmitted to children in the process of education, but it is tantamount to promoting the growth of the seedlings. Erika believes that a child's innate talent determines the inequality of development, and her so-called fairness can still be achieved artificially through rule design. This view seems to reveal the secrets of cruel world, but it completely confuses fairness with Just boundaries, the expectation of the ideal state crudely evolves into a kind of hypocrisy. As the old saying goes, "if the skin does not exist, the hair will follow." True fairness must be based on a fair scale. And Erica's proud image of "anyone can join the school choir" is a false mirror image of deprivation and control. This fallacy, along with the strong deterrence of successful school education acquiesced by the school and parents, and the attendance rewards of chocolates and candies after each chorus training, all factors combine to build a joint in front of the children.” It is extremely sad that the restraining barrier of "truth-goal-temptation" blocks the vocal appeal of most children's inner voices in real life. However, what is gratifying is that the short film "Secrets of the School Choir" pinned the hope of protecting children's voices on the innocent friendship between children. At the moment of the group silent singing performance in the final, Sophie and Lisa firmly interlocked their fingers. Friends and choir mates no longer hide complicated secrets. They both sing silently and speak at the same time under the lead of Lisa. We just felt the spiritual baptism and conceptual tremors that we had not experienced for a long time.
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