Change

Hertha 2022-09-11 22:25:30

At the beginning of the story, there is a description of an English teacher, a fixed ordinary life, an old woman who suppresses emotions, just like a line in the play describes "in the quagmire". Paradoxically, the beginning really gave me a crappy place. Insinuation of stepping into the quagmire, 囧one.

And the male protagonist is in the same situation. No one appreciates his beloved graduation work, and the same haze (see the insinuation of the poster, 囧two), his career is not going well, he is mediocre, and he lives in his father's house, but his relationship is bad.

The core of the film's story is "change", whether it's a rush in that classroom; teachers change their usual generous spending; annual repertoire launches this new play instead of "Our Town" twice a year; director admits It is embarrassing, not as glamorous as it was originally described; the male protagonist's father's reflection on the relationship with his son; the most important thing is the revision at the end of the script, which was a success with applause; the innovation of teaching methods is not just to respect the adaptation of the original work. At the end of the warm ending, the teacher changed his behavior, agreed to go to the appointment, changed his evaluation of the male protagonist's father, and gained happiness.

If there is no "one shot", there is no adaptation at the end of the script, there is no series of tried changes, the old woman is still the old woman, the old-fashioned suicide ending like giving up, the script will still be ignored, and everything will be dead silence in the quagmire, gray Yes, there is no light (well, see the chandelier in the poster, 囧three).

Try to make changes with the past, change the way of behavior, the way of thinking, try something new, maybe you don't agree with it, so that you can get in touch with things that were impossible to meet before, because this way of breaking the old rules, you will gain new Formulas, new results, say goodbye to the once lifeless "1+1=2", if you change.

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  • [first lines]

    Narrator: Linda Sinclair had reached her 45th year, an unwed high school English teacher, with no prospect of marriage. Hers appeared to be a rather ordinary life, one of discipline, frugality, small indignities. Modest hopes, and disappointments.