There are a lot of people who have watched this film and thought it was an educational film and compared it to many similar films, but I don't think so. I think it's a narrative film about the protagonist himself, who happens to be a substitute teacher, so in his eyes the most concern is the students, the role of a teacher, not the whole education There is a problem with the system, so we can say with certainty that this film has nothing to do with the education system. This is a film about the individual, a film about writing and reading, a film about the relationship between childhood and adulthood, a film about the caring needed between people.
There are certain details throughout the film that I want to delve into. First of all, I think the male protagonist is in a very difficult situation, not just because of her mother's suicide itself, but the reasons for her suicide. The protagonist said that his father left his family when he was very young, and he has almost no impression of his father, and the memory of his mother in the whole film is also in an illusory background. The camera wobbles constantly, unsettlingly. When his grandfather was about to die, it was strange that the protagonist was speaking to him in a very childish voice, changing his previous gentle tone. And the subject he told turned out to be daddy. I'm very surprised to see this, I thought the protagonist was a psychopath, but it seems that the director or the screenwriter is suggesting to us that his father is his grandfather, and the result of incest between his grandfather and his mother is him, and his grandfather is both mother's father and mother. his dad. This immoral relationship is the main reason why the protagonist is worse off than dead, and the main reason why his grandfather was under so much stress in the last moments of his life. Of course, the protagonist does not approve of this relationship, but he has to accept it.
This is the great difficulty people face in their lives. In his class, he hints this to everyone, and the protagonist asks everyone what is double thought. That is, two opposing viewpoints are both correct, and they both exist at the same time, just as there are many lies in life, and the opposite of lies is facts, but people are often reluctant to face the facts, and Choose to believe lies. After all, lies are relatively more satisfying to people's inner needs. This is the core value of this film. The conflict of opposites, the hardship that cannot be chosen.
Writing and reading are another kind of conflict. Simply put, it is a conflict between input and output. On a deeper level, in my opinion, reading is a defensive gesture. The protagonist says that we have to use reading. Come to defend ourselves, so that we are not threatened by all kinds of prejudice from society. When writing, the protagonist has been asking his grandfather to keep a diary. At the same time, we can always see the small notebook that the protagonist carries with him, and the gift he gives to others—the notebook, a large number of diaries he records his life, This was the outlet he was looking for for his emotions. I have to admit that at some point in our lives, writing becomes the only way for us to express our emotions. If we can't find an object to talk to, we use writing to express ourselves. (It is not difficult to find that everyone has their own object to talk to. The female psychological teacher is with the dean, the female teacher is with the male protagonist, and everyone has one and only one object to talk to. But it is worth noting that the male protagonist does not .) This objectless writing and output is a completely opposite conflict when compared with the reading and input of a certain reader. From the protagonist’s point of view, reading helps us consolidate our thoughts, and writing allows us to release our emotions. The two cannot be unified and are far apart from each other, such a real existence.
The film is yet another exploration of childhood and adulthood. Childhood experiences, shadows, and sadness in adulthood are inextricably linked. The protagonist cannot realize his transition from childhood to adulthood. He says that teenagers are not energetic but extremely boring, and that they are also boring. To the top, this obviously implies that he is not divorced from childhood. What he is looking for is the dividing line between childhood and adulthood. He hopes that he can get rid of childhood so that they can be separated from each other. It is not a kind of transcendence, a kind of detachment, but a choice based on the equality and opposition of both parties. Put the soul against the body, against reading and writing, against truth against lies, against father against mother’s father, against childhood against adulthood. Then let them be separated from each other, estranged from each other. The opposition between the people and society at the shallow level needs no further statement.
From this, we can clearly see that what this film conveys is not a purpose to achieve detachment, nor is it a point of view on how to teach as a teacher, but a kind of nowhere to place oneself in a contradictory world The dilemma is a difficult choice in opposition. This is the reason why the male protagonist burst into tears on the bus. That's why, the title of this film is neither detached nor should it contain detachment.
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