History is just one fucking thing after another, nothing special, ordinary stuff.

Eight very different boys facing the entrance examination for the history of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, one Christian, one black, one Muslim, one Jewish, one sports student, three standard British boys. (I checked the information after watching the movie, it turns out that history is a very strong major in the UK), a literature teacher with innovative thinking, a new history teacher who is good at taking exams, and a feminist class teacher. Where will the exam go. That's the background of "The History Boy", but if that's the case, he can't be called a British movie, because I forgot to mention the Shakespeare sonnets and Whitman's grass they recite every now and then. Ye Ji; forgot the classic movie clips they can imagine and perform; forgot that it can take nearly ten minutes to give you Hardy's poetry like a literature class; forgot the punchline that will pop up anytime, anywhere; of course I also forgot that little bit of same-sex friendship that is necessary for British film and television.
He is not an ordinary school movie, it is not an inspirational film to show you that your dream has finally come true after hard work, nor is it a school comedy where a rebellious teacher leads children to rebel against the old system, because he is nothing, he is nothing, he does not Deliberately seeking a purpose for a purpose, as said in the first sentence of the opening paragraph, history is one bad thing, and this story is also composed of consecutive events, accidental and accidental is inevitable, because history is In this way, there are no assumptions, because assumptions are disguise, and disguise can be liberated, but history has no liberation. This movie is just a movie, he shows you what the director, screenwriter, actor is thinking about, it can be about the angle of philosophy, about the accident of history, about the angle of thinking, about the meaning of literature, about the existence of truth, It's about the true meaning of art, about exams, about family, about life, about feminism, even about harassment, about love, about ignorance, it's very complicated and trivial, even you sometimes feel that his trivialities are as complicated as real life , so you also blend in, laugh together, get frustrated together, without the frame of purpose, everything becomes real and more fascinating. This is a movie that you need to watch, figure out, and think about. Of course, it's not heavy, and sometimes even hilarious, but it's not a farce either. Enough to make you stop and think deeply about the subtitles.

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