In movies that focus on the depressed and lonely lives of lower-level teenagers, a native family that lacks warmth and care is always a standard. For example, Rocky's other movie "Sweet Sixteen", all the efforts of the sixteen-year-old boy were only to let his mother get out of prison and start over, but in the end it backfired. In this film, Billy is a younger teenager, living in an industrial town with rich minerals and a developed coal mining industry. His father is absent, his mother is alienated, his brother is rude and violent, and he is a typical incomplete and repressive family. A friend of Billy's spiritual sustenance and speechless, the eagle symbolizing freedom. After briefly describing Billy's family life and working life at the beginning of the film, most of the following time is spent on school life and Billy's interaction with Eagle. Among them, the class football game organized by the school physical education teacher contributed the most jokes and slots in the film. The class is split between Manchester United and Tottenham. The physical education teacher has played the role of a self-heroic and touching ball tyrant very well. He is both a player and a referee. He will be hit... He awarded himself a penalty, he took the penalty without any suspense, missed the penalty without any suspense, made a new penalty on the grounds that the goalkeeper moved in advance without any suspense, and scored a point without any suspense The ball, without any suspense, regards himself as Sir Bobby Charlton, the greatest player in the history of Manchester United... Then when his team lost, he scolded Billy who was the goalkeeper, and even took a cold shower to physically punish Billy. Although this is a rather comical passage, the power rule and oppression of the school and even the whole society, as well as the helplessness and powerlessness of the oppressed, are visible to the naked eye. In the 1960s and 1970s, which was full of rebellion, many works about rebellion and subversion were also born in the world film, and the campus, a place where teaching and educating people, but extremely old-fashioned and obsessed with authority, became the object of criticism and reflection by a large number of art works. In addition, there was a scene where the teacher called the students who smoked into the office to give lectures, and used bamboo whips to corporally punish them one by one. The "bad students" didn't seem to care about this scene of exhorting students to smoke. Except for the pain when they were beaten, of course, there were also a few expressionless faces. Obviously, such corporal punishment and coercion Education does nothing but consolidate and strengthen the power and position of those in power and discipline the weak. Whether you still smoke or not has nothing to do with me, the important thing is that you have to come when I ask you to come to the office, and you have to endure when I hit you. There are also tender moments in the film. Billy told his life of raising eagles in class. The teacher and classmates were attracted to this rare and curious story. The teacher even followed Billy to the eagle-raising workshop after school. The place, Billy and the teacher enhanced communication and understanding through the eagle, and the teacher is also the only person in the film who is interested in Billy's life. However, in the end, because Billy used his brother's horse betting money to buy food for the eagle, and the horse that his brother bet on happened to win the race, the brother didn't have any money that he should have won, so the brother killed Billy's eagle, That kills the symbol of freedom. Billy said that the eagle can't be tamed, it's just controlled by humans, but it wants to fly freely. This sentence seems to be expressing his own position. But it cannot be tamed, but it can be killed. This is the unsolvable dilemma of every individual in the social machine.
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