This is a movie I watched in two days. It's not because it's hard to watch, but because it's so familiar that it loses its freshness in the process. But after watching it, there are some different sparks in my heart.
The first half is really all too familiar, especially for an educator. For their children, parents do everything possible to move, choose a school, find connections, and make connections, hoping that their children can go to a better primary school and a better middle school, and then be admitted to a better university...
This phenomenon is understandable, but it is also very powerless and regrettable. On the one hand, in a country with a large population, the competition must be very, very fierce. Just like us, we and our parents were told from a young age not to lose at the starting line. Then, we ran and kept running, but we didn't necessarily see clearly where the end point was, but we were still running. On the other hand, does blind pursuit of some so-called "high-level", "petty bourgeoisie" and "Western culture" really make oneself "beautiful"? Do they have to be perfect? Do native languages and cultures have to be contemptible?
Reminds me of the Finnish episode of Zhou Yijun's documentary "Childhood in a Foreign Land" that I watched before. The contrast is very stark, the education in Finland is too good, I see the people there are pure about receiving education and learning knowledge. A teacher will take the train to teach in another city; the courses prepared are not only subject courses, but also comprehensive courses with rich content across disciplines; the threshold for becoming a teacher is very high, and the course preparation process requires a lot of effort, and you have to learn different There is a huge amount of knowledge; there are both children and elderly people in a painting studio, and she will tell you that she just likes to paint, and there is no purpose. You can see how dedicated a middle-aged and elderly person is for her love. She has many ideas of her own, not for the approval of others, but because she likes it. There are many other forms of teaching that we have never experienced. Seeing this scene, I remember that I cried many times at that time. For a while, I couldn't tell if it was because of emotion, envy, or emotion.
Of course, Finland has its own regional characteristics and humanities, and the small population is also an important reason for realizing such a teaching form and learning culture. However, it is still difficult for a country with a large population like my country and India to achieve such idealized teaching and obtain such rich educational resources. This has created our current state of education.
India is a more complex country, with colonial history, racial systems, beliefs, etc., which are too involved, and the gap between the rich and the poor is extremely large. This is also the point of conflict in the middle and later stages of the film. It is really ironic when the children of the hero and heroine take up the places of the poor and go to the ideal private school to be discovered by the poor neighbor of that person.
At the end of the story, I still feel that it is still too idealistic, which is the common feeling of many Indian movies I watch. In reality, those "upper-level people" will not affect their children's access to good schools and occupy good resources because of this little thing.
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