Dan is undoubtedly an idealist, and he even uses dialectics, contradictions, and even the Chinese theory of yin and yang to teach history to his students. He hated the scriptures of his colleagues, ignoring the civil rights movement that the principal had given him to talk about. He talks about the knowledge that he thinks students must understand, and his own understanding of history, so that students can recite some truths that are just but at the same time always tried to cover up by history. The scenes of the students standing on the podium reciting these histories are interspersed in the middle of the film, along with the video materials of the past. The unusually lonely scene has awakened the numb people. We should remember these people and those things buried in the vast history, so as to awaken our conscience that is about to be numb.
From this, it can be imagined that the young Dan Ding was a young man full of enthusiasm, with political ambitions, and hoped to make a difference. He wants to save the world. But now, all ideas can only be directed at these children who are still vague about the theory. How many of them can really understand the teachers who are dreaming on the podium? So, looking at Dan's eyes in class always makes me feel a little sad.
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