Maybe you saw me, but I'm just a body. my soul doesn't belong here

Jaydon 2022-03-23 09:02:05

Maybe you saw me, but I'm just a body, my soul doesn't belong here.
The film is based on a school that only accepts problem students, the group of problem students is used as the environment, and endless social problems are used as clues behind the scenes. People are exhausted and confused. The level of confusion in those things is enough to drive everyone involved insane, enough to make any sane person eventually behave unreasonably, and in the end the substitute teacher's choice is to leave the school and find it. The lost girl who was once saved by him - since his grandfather died, his heart has been completely hollowed out, maybe only the girl who was saved by him and deeply loved him will finally bring him life happiness or family, and the end is that the girl almost frantically runs into his arms as soon as she sees him, and then he reads a novel in an empty classroom with a mess of desks and chairs, which is the end of the story. Perhaps this is life: it is always messy, and there will always be various contradictions that are unclear and unclear between people, and in many cases, irreconcilable extreme contradictions may evolve. As a teacher, he cannot give those troubled students the warmth of a family that they really need. The only thing he can do is to respect each student's individual personality, sense of speciality and existence as a "person". What is extremely ignored and ignored by the entire society is precisely the respect for each individual's personality and the respect for the individual's sense of existence.
This movie tells us through the monologue description of the protagonist, the substitute teacher, that in fact, many popular values ​​in this world are wrong. Wrong values ​​intentionally or unintentionally hurt others. Life is always chaotic, and no one can predict what kind of people or what kind of conflicts will be encountered in the next hour. The contradictions and conflicts between people are like wars that may break out every day. No matter what the reasons are or what everyone ultimately wants to achieve, conflicts and conflicts between people are always inevitable, and everyone who is confusedly involved in various conflicts or conflicts is trying their best. Emphasize themselves instead of learning to respect others - everyone thinks they are individuals ignored by society or the environment, so they are desperately emphasizing themselves, but the truth is that everyone is seriously ignoring and even deliberately trampling on others of personal dignity and sense.
Most of the problem students come from problem families, and the culprit who creates problem families is a society with lots of problems. In a troubled society, many popular values ​​are wrong, and the best lesson a substitute teacher can teach a troubled student is one about encouraging students to read literature. "We must learn to read, we must use a healthy, positive, even if it is based on dream or even false literature to publish our life, we must establish a self-protection mechanism, establish a kind of Self-worth affirming the worldview and values, we may be harmed by others at any time in our life, intentionally or unintentionally, but we have reasons to tell ourselves that we are valuable people, our personal dignity and as an individual Human existence must be respected, we must learn to protect ourselves, and this is the fundamental purpose of my request that you learn to read."
What a good lesson this is, he tells us that everyone who has watched this film has a principle that cannot be ignored or trampled on: every individual is a person with dignity and needs. People are all people who have special existence value and cannot be ignored or despised by the environment. They are all people who need to be recognized just like everyone else, and they are all people who cannot be forced into pieces by the environment.
But the ability of the substitute teacher is limited. Although he tried his best to save every student or young person in question, he did not have the ability to save everyone. One of the troubled female students who had always liked photography committed suicide during the school celebration. , which is the most direct indictment of the problem society. Perhaps none of us have ever thought that vicious language and deliberately hurting others' hearts will always be rewarded somewhere and at a certain time. The father of the girl who committed suicide may spend the rest of her life regretting it.
"Transcendence" is undoubtedly a good movie. It tells the complex contradictions and conflicts of human society in a calm tone, as well as the countless depressing and mentally shattering mixed realities behind the contradictions and conflicts. All problems come from society and are brought back into society by many people, and everyone who has some problems with their values ​​or mental state is really just a problem with this already quite mixed society. The distress and troubles brought to them, and what they can do or do subconsciously is not to try to digest these negative mirrors from the problem society, but to directly bring the problem back to the society like a mirror.
This is the life we ​​encounter every day. We are always exhausted and disordered in the contradictions and conflicts with others. Therefore, we always need a variety of literature and art to support our hearts and ensure our spirits. Health and life not to be crushed, not trampled, not distorted, not hurt by those wrong values ​​- each of us really needs to establish a strong self-protection mechanism: protect our own soul from being dirty covered in dirty things.


May 3, 2012 Shan Jushi

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Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?