everything sucks, doesn't it?
Regret, Alienation, Detachment
The film is a monologue about everything inside, beginning with a quote from Camus "So detached from myself and so present in the world. My soul is so detached from me, and my existence is so real .” The content is compact and wants to express a lot, and the shock it brings makes it difficult for me to explain it for a long time. When echo was recommended to me, I was full of anticipation. It took so long to get my wish, and I want to say that the film is much better than I expected.
The film draws out several themes:
parents and children
—the parents do not care enough for their children or discipline them too much, both of which bring harm to the children. It is a kind of confrontation and alienation from the adult world, and even a deep sense of loneliness , confusion and nihilism make them cruel, rude, tyrannical, wanting to destroy. I believe that everywhere in the world, parents are to blame for the factors that make their children helpless and misguided: refusal to take responsibility, lack of responsibility, disregard and even being a model of bad behavior and values.
Teachers and students
- this school does have soul and is respectable. The teachers understand the importance of acquired guidance to people, so that the children can be prevented from going to a broken end, and they try their best to guide the children in their own way. However, the depravity and self-abandonment of those arrogant children, the questioning and unreasonableness of the parents, all bring a sense of helplessness and futility to the teachers, making them feel lonely and burdened, exhausted, and on the verge of collapse.
For example, Grace, who was dealing with academic affairs, was exhausted physically and mentally, and her painful patience finally broke out violently. When she shouted, "Everyone can easily learn to not care, but learning to care requires a hundred times more effort and courage. NONE OF YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE QUALITIES.", the kind of anger that can even pierce a stone, the kind of despair that is heart-wrenching.
Teacher B's ostensibly strong and consistent sense of humor comes from his addiction to psychoactive drugs.
Teacher C stood alone in the sunlight for a long time in front of the iron fence. It was not until Barthes who passed by asked him with concern that he was surprised to find his own existence - he felt that he had lost contact with the world.
Students, who don't like to consume their own attention, may not trust others to share something meaningful with them. They need respect, understanding, protection and guidance. The severely closed inner world due to the lack of family affection pours out nowhere, so that the talented student Meredith will empathize with Barthes, who is the "inner savior", but what follows is a complete spiritual collapse.
Inner confusion
- a problem that exists no matter what age you are in. Life itself is quite confusing. Including dealing with life, dealing with death, dealing with the "meaning" of living in life. Everyone wants to get rid of confusion and pain, and those things that are temporarily called "problems." Among them, including the kind that has plagued Barthes since he was a child, the direct and tyrannical solution.
Grandpa was full of regrets in his later years. Life is about to end, so I pray for forgiveness for hallucinations.
The relationship between people -
Erica is just a child, full of distrust of people, full of negative and mixed attitude towards the world, and she was also cruelly hurt. Until she met Barthes, she was not treated as a human being.
"You're the only one I can pour out on," Grace said as another teacher comforted her.
Barthes' companionship and comfort with grandpa, haunting memories of her mother, distance from coworkers, anxiety and unease about building long-lasting relationships Everyone
in the world has their own problems, but loneliness is common. Stable relationships and genuine communication have become so rare and precious.
Sometimes I close it, refusing to reveal my fragile self to others, guarding the pure spirit, fear of not being understood, hurt, and even the fear itself that makes me suffer. Some problems really can only be solved by yourself, and it takes courage and hard work. For some paths, only if you decide how to choose, can you face the consequences without regrets and calmly.
However, if a wounded soul comes to me and asks for help, if I can, I will help it without hesitation, and lead it to grow toward the sunny side. This is probably the conscience I have.
I respect all good hearts, here are two of my favorite passages:
a class by Barthes on how to change their intellect to build self-awareness and face the complexities of the world in which they live; Barthes' heart sits empty In the empty, desolate classroom, reading aloud, like the picture Meredith gave him: an empty classroom and his empty face.
In fact, I also have a seed buried in my heart, which is about to move in the process of my precipitation and accumulation. I must one day, it will break out of the ground, and that day is probably not far away.
"The child's intelligent heart can flatten the death of many dark places."
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