Good Dramas Never Represent
- This is the sentence that left the deepest impression on me from the first time I read the QAF review.
The people of the rotten country are so ingenious, and in this drama with rich themes, just sticking a label will take half a notebook, and a class can also be taught in those corners of the poets and historical events that are quoted. Not to mention the speeches of female teachers in boys' schools about history, further education, education system (whether from the perspective of students or teachers), even sexual harassment, ignorance of youth, etc...
I once thought that "seize the day" in "Dead Poets Society" had already finished this youthful life, but I didn't expect to open this long-famous movie, and after filling the original card scene, I was still shocked by the screenwriter - he put the rich The contradictions are organized together and are far richer than similar works.
But this is not a conflict between educational ideas or models at all (his face wryly smiles) In my understanding, education is just a very superficial opposition. Burying so many treasures in the ground is the fun part. Maybe it has something to do with my own upbringing. Although I was a student who grew up in the exam-oriented education system, the one I admire the most has never taken us to the site or watched the video materials. Including several excellent professors in the university, just with simple lectures, wonderful lectures opened the door to the subject for me. Regardless of the mode, watching this movie/work only read the place of the school, and only read the proposition of education, that is really sad and ridiculous.
The conflict between history and literature:
There is a bug in the sentence "literature and history are not separated", especially when you want to learn a subject in depth, the way of thinking caused by the barriers of the subject will make it difficult for you to change your studies. Without empathy when studying literature, it is nothing to read—not to mention the obscurity of poetry. If we can't get away from the outside world when studying history, how can we explore the laws of the development of events, and how can we predict the future?
Conversely, in a scenario where two teachers teach together—if the study of history lacks empathy, then the brutal Holocaust is nothing but cold "etc", which is contrary to the premise of learning the humanities; How to pay attention to the reproduction of reality and even the “appearance” beyond reality? These contradictory original works do not give answers, they are intertwined, and it is wonderful for the viewer to think and explore by himself.
The opposition of disciplines brings us to life. In modern society, the beauty of the emptiness cannot make people survive. When the excitement in the classroom dissipates, it sends batches of students to the society, even if it is just a university. We're going to sing "bye bye black bird", build houses, lie, and make a living.
Only Posner—while he was still in that moment, living his life as a student—would go through breakdown after breakdown. Until he accepted the hug that day and never came back, the singing was beautiful, but it was nothing but singing.
Male-female conflict:
I am very happy to see that in a film like this, the screenwriter does not ignore the role of women in the male field, obliterates what women do, and even implicitly mocks the foundation of the work. In the male dialogue, the female teacher laid the foundation, but was abandoned at the end, and it was up to fresher blood to raise these boys. Is there something wrong? No one seems to have a problem.
Until the female teacher came forward to raise her own doubts by judging the history in the mock interview? Why are there no female historians? You know my breakdown after teaching for so long a history of incompetent male dominance?
All the historical issues that you take for granted, seriously thought about, must seem so boring and annoying from a certain point of view - so Rudge sat in his seat and laughed at it all. Everyone sees the world from a different perspective, and no one can repeat it. Even as a woman, Fiona's refusal attitude is always different from Dorothy's uncooperative attitude.
Irwin's Conflict
After writing this, I realized that Irwin, as the protagonist, has become the weakest character (laughs).
But the wonderful thing is that his cowardice and panic turned into a surprise until the end of the whole play. What is the mindset that audiences are accustomed to? An evil person always has good intentions, and the world is beautiful under ugliness, but very few people are willing to accept the small flaws under "perfection", because we need perfection too much. Irwin was the most mind-blowing type of teacher in his school days—knowledgeable, romantic, unscrupulous, and willing to help his students cover their cigarettes. Who wouldn't want to be a student of such a teacher? So Dakin, with his arrogance, pushed the front to him. He smiled and said that Posner's feelings about himself were phase. Haha, in fact, he didn't fall into the trap of youth, thinking he could control everything.
After all, Crush is just adding one more to his medal wall, Irwin knows it, I can only guess that he is not willing to pay the price for his students' impulsiveness, and at the same time, he also deeply despises hector's "beast" behavior ——But "glasses" is the last step, which is really wonderful. He was forced into a corner to face his own feelings, but with great uncertainty. Because the counterexample is all around.
Hector is an excellent teacher and another outlet for students' publicity. But when he defended his obscenity, Dorothy was the most accurate. Obscene is obscene, no matter what words you use to beautify it, this fact cannot be changed. I don't think all the boys agree with Hector's way of teaching, you could say Posner is his bosom student, but surely? Not to mention other people, see him as a joke.
From this point of view, I think the screenwriter is actually discussing this issue seriously, and the direction is quite clear. And even if Irwin agreed, he was destined to fail to make substantial progress. After all, Dakin is too young for him. A self-proclaimed little brat, the reason for his loosening is very important. It was because the lie he told was known to the other party. (The stage version and the movie version prefer the filming feel of the movie version, because it is a closed space, and the dialogue is very private and provocative, forcing Irwin to the corner, leaving him nowhere to go. The stage version is because of the sense of emptiness lighter)
A little bit of his dialogue with Posner in the electric wheelchair is played in the theatrical version, and I prefer the way that version handles it. "Disability makes me appear more sincere." He used lies to build a beautiful landscape for students to see, and for himself to see, anyone is nothing and dust.
Although that moment of turning back and laughing is real.
But in the end?
In the end nothing happened.
Yes, all our splendid imaginations are nothing but scraps of paper. The 3A test scores, the essays approved by the teacher, the unbridled love, the blurred moral boundaries, and the bright hats of minors are all past tense or virtual tense.
In the end nothing happens in life, nothing is left. We parted ways, embraced our daily lives, spent our lives, and only indulged in our memories.
The history and literature we talked about, each microscopic self, in the narrative of others, in our own interpretation, just one fucking thing after another.
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