The most impressive thing about this film is of course the male and female protagonists. The male protagonist looks like a mirror image of the female protagonist. Some people may think that these two people are just a matter of first-come-last-arrival in terms of social class, personal ability, and approach to affairs. If the heroine and the hero move in different places, their fates will also be exchanged.
Is it?
impossible.
Family background: poor intellectuals VS low-end manual laborers
The two are children of a single-parent family. The heroine's father is a teacher. He has collected enough transfer fees and hopes that the heroine can develop better. He has an independent house and a piano at home. The mother of the male protagonist opened a small laundry shop and separated a space in the shop for daily living. The equipment in the store is very outdated, and many times rely on manual laundry, and the male owner often has to help with the family's business
The heroine's father has an innate advantage in education, and the house is also independent. The heroine does not need to worry about making a living, nor does she need to think of additional ways to create a learning environment. From the perspective of economic level and parents' educational level, it is obvious that the female lead has a better family environment, less psychological burden, and greater flexibility of thinking.
Personality: Boldly Fight vs Play by the Rules
When the heroine appeared for the first time, she immediately and the principal calculated the tuition fee and the extra cost due to the transfer. In this scene, even though her father repeatedly reminded her with small gestures, she still insisted on expressing her views. Compared with my father's careful flattery and submissiveness, the heroine's neither humble nor arrogant left a deep impression on me: she is clear about her goals and bottom line, and she is also clear about her own value. It's the parents who hold back. She is rational and skilled, analytical and judgmental, and able to make objective assessments.
The more important point is that she will take the initiative to choose her own destiny, and the male protagonist is too far behind.
Although we are not clear on the ins and outs of the male protagonist entering the school. But in the film, there is obviously no performance of the male protagonist taking the initiative to fight for anything before the male protagonist is pulled in by the female protagonist. He seems to have been passively accepting fate, while in comparison, he pays more attention to rules.
For example, when a classmate asked him to help cheat, his reaction was that he couldn't accept it and refused immediately. Presumably the rules in his mind at the time = no cheating. So when this rule is challenged, the heroine's choice is to use the existing rules to make a fortune, while the hero's choice is to report the party and "do bad things with good intentions" and bring disaster to Chiyu.
To use a sentence, the male protagonist knows nothing about his situation. This kind of ignorance runs through from the beginning when he found out in the principal's office that the heroine lost the opportunity to study abroad because of his unintentional reporting, to when he wasted precious minutes at an important juncture, and finally he threatened the heroine to cooperate with him by reporting it. ——If you observe carefully, you will find that although the male protagonist does repeat the successful experience of the female protagonist, it is only a repetition. He is unconscious and passive. Even if it is a seemingly active choice, he always hides the idea of "for objection." and against" means.
Ways of thinking: lose-lose vs win-win
The extremely emotional male protagonist is more surprising as he goes on: the threat of the male second to add money in the final exam is just as incomprehensible as the threat of the female protagonist to rejoin the team in the last scene. Is this anger justified? Reasonable, but pointless. The qualifications have been revoked, and people have been dismissed by the school. Could it be that reporting the heroine and other cheating students can make everything return to the past? The most serious result is nothing more than the cancellation of everyone's grades and the blacklisting of the admitted school. Anyway, he is finished, and everyone should not try to achieve his goal.
This is a lose-lose mindset.
And the heroine's idea is always that things are already like this, and I want to find a solution. And her solution is always based on the premise of win-win, others can improve the score, she can get the money. Others can get good grades, and she can get money to study abroad.
More importantly, the heroine has a strong sense of risk. From the very beginning of teaching piano lessons, I knew that one question should be left for everyone to choose the answers to the three questions, so that the results of the test papers would not be too similar. In the end, after she couldn't bear it, she also deleted the photo. She rejected the suggestion that the two boys and girls would take the test again, just because she understood that it wasn't a long-term solution. High returns always come with high risks, and she doesn't think it's worth taking the risk. Rapid retreat has always been done by wise men. At the last moment, the resolute withdrawal of the female protagonist is in stark contrast to the male protagonist's pulling people into the water.
Therefore, a bank is always just a bank, not a banker. And the gap between the male and female protagonists is really not as simple as "the difference of one thought".
People like the female lead must still have a chance to turn around, but it is difficult for people like the male lead to make a comeback.
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