Under the packaging of poetic lens, gorgeous costumes, and vague lily love, Cracks is actually a story about cowardice and courage.
It all started with Miss G's daydream about courage.
Miss G is actually such a person.
She has little knowledge and has never left school and stepped into society.
She was afraid of men, and when she heard men in the bakery talking about her, she dropped her wallet in fright.
She is extremely obedient, until she is an adult, she dare not put more than 5 items on the bedside cabinet. (The school stipulates that each student is only allowed to place 5 items)
She is extremely afraid of the world outside the school, and even before she goes shopping in the city, she silently rehearses Four sugared rolls, three jam tarts many times in her heart...
Her weakness may be due to the misfortune of experience, she was sent to a boarding school for girls as a little girl. Perhaps, from that time her mind stopped growing.
Extreme depression and cowardice made her yearn for the adventurous life of going out of school and traveling around the world as if she had been addicted to spiritual opium.
Facing the miserable life of boarding school, she forced herself into a fantasy world in her heart, and created a new self full of courage and charm with legendary adventures - the so-called Miss G.
She doesn't dare to break the rules, she looks maverick,
always lies, she is fearless and frank,
fearful of men, she makes handsome students' parents fascinated by her, she
has never left boarding school, she has a number of Unexplained adventure stories, ready to travel the world at any time.
And those little girls "still waiting for their lives to begin" are Miss G's best audience.
Miss G radiantly showed these little girls her fantasy world. The little girls also immersed themselves in it.
In such a closed and dark world, who does not long for the wonderful life outside.
Miss G loves her own fantasy world, and at the same time she resolutely defends the fantasy world of others. So when the girls violated the school rules and played wildly in the middle of the night, she scared away the dorm aunt who came to obstruct—the only time Miss G showed courage in this film.
Until the appearance of Fiamma broke their fantasy world.
For Fiamma, who came from a noble family, Miss G's imaginary charm is not very attractive. Her outfits aren't all that chic, her adventure stories are full of holes, and her diving training is nothing short of nonsense.
Miss G felt threatened by Fiamma, but with her habitual ostrich style, she turned a blind eye to the possibility that Fiamma could expose her lies. On the contrary, she is madly infatuated with Fiamma, who, to Miss G, is a living person from her fantasy world. Fiamma is of noble birth, mysterious and beautiful, and has traveled many parts of the world. These qualities made Miss G obsessed with it. She secretly hid Fiamma's postcards with Spanish landscapes, secretly ate the Spanish desserts Fiamma received, and even incorporated Fiamma into her own fantasy world. The former story of Miss G's travels around the world has become a more romantic story of Miss G traveling the world with a Spanish princess.
Miss G is so blind, she never thought that Fiamma would resist, she indulged her fantasies and desires, but never thought about the consequences.
When she clearly realized that Fiamma was going to tear off her mask and break her dreams. She fought against it with all the survival wisdom she had learned at the girls' boarding school - lies, blame, gossip, indifference. And these ultimately led to Fiamma's death. And this poor Miss G even fantasized about the fact that she killed Fiamma - Fiamma died of her perfection, she should never have come into this world. What a cowardly man he is.
Another thought-provoking aspect of this story is about the transmission of courage. Miss G has no courage, but she has a dream about courage. Miss G's dream inspired Di, so that when she faced the difficult boarding life, she could clearly realize that it was impossible for her to return home before other girls, and actively integrated into the collective life. In the conflict-filled contact between Di and Fiamma, Di passed on the courage to face life to Fiamma, so that Fiamma could no longer escape the fact that he was abandoned by his family, and had the courage to show his favor to Di first.
If Miss G wasn't so ill, these girls might have a bright future. But Miss G's cowardice strangled her own future and took Fiamma's life.
In fact, each of us has a Miss G in our hearts. When we were young, we thought we had unlimited potential. After working, we always felt that we were underappreciated. I always feel that this imperfect self is not the real self, and the real self is suppressed and neglected because of "it's not my fault". The story of Cracks tells us that only when you face your true self can you take the first step towards your dreams. That's why at the end of the film, after Di smashed through Miss G's true face, he had the courage to escape the boarding school and embark on a real adventure.
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