At noon on weekdays, there were only me and two serious middle-aged women in the theater, and the movie-watching experience was good.
The core of "Mr. Hiccup" is still that a different teacher meets a group of different problem students, and finally changes their own story while influencing them.
Old-fashioned but effective.
As an Indian film, it is rare to dance without a word, which makes the narrative of the film and the substitution of the audience's emotions very smooth.
To the second half of the movie. There were also faint sobbing sounds in the cinema hall with only three people.
That's right me. As the only man watching, the tiger's eyes were full of tears, which made the atmosphere in the already quiet theater a little awkward for a while.
In fact, I didn't have much expectations for this movie before watching it. After all, mainland audiences of the same type of film and television have more or less seen it. In the early years, there were famous "GTO" and "Spring in the Cattle Class". In recent years, there have also been some small and beautiful inspirational movies such as "Bottom Spice Girls". Audiences who regularly watch Japanese dramas may see more. If a work that has changed the soup but not the medicine is seen today, it will appear a bit outdated and boring. If you want to shoot good-looking works on the same core, you must excel in the concept of the film and the selection of representative characters.
"Mr. Hiccup" did it. The role of the teacher in the film is a "Tourette Syndrome patient". I believe that many viewers, like me, learned about this disease for the first time through this film. Students are children from slums. Both sides are marginalized and vulnerable groups in society. The selection of such characters can be seen that the ambition of this film is very large. There are many things I want to express. Although the core is still the process of growth, what the film wants to convey more is the status quo of the gap between the rich and the poor in India and the ignorance of people's lack of understanding of vulnerable groups.
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Let's talk about the disadvantages first. Although the film's ambitions are great, it seems a bit stripped away in terms of presentation. Because as mentioned earlier, the core of the film is still a process in which students and teachers grow together. It is obviously difficult for a movie to incorporate so many relatively large topics in this process.
On the issue of expressing the gap between the rich and the poor. The film specially arranges a class F. As a group of children from slums, they are independent from the whole school, and they are subject to the common resistance and exclusion of teachers and students. Their inferiority complex turned into their rebellion and became a rebellious group of problem students who kept playing pranks to drive away their teachers.
Their lack of self-confidence and inferiority stems from the scorn and ridicule of others. They are eager to prove themselves, but all the performance is only reflected in innocuous pranks and various confrontations with honor students. As the opposite, Class A, the top students showed arrogance and contempt, and took it as their responsibility to drive Class F out of the school.
This kind of performance is fine as a movie but it seems a little superficial. Those who really understand poor students will know that their inferiority often does not come from the malice of others. On the contrary, at least at the student stage, what we convey most is the care and sympathy for poor students, and what we are taught is a society where everyone is equal. Although this is not the case, everyone will try their best to help and care for poor students in action.
No one and no teacher would hostile or ridicule poor students, much less isolate them. Because we all know that's disgraceful.
The inferiority complex of poor students comes from the moment they come into contact with society. The moment they walk into a normal school. They grow wildly in places where the environment and educational resources are extremely scarce. Their conversations and experiences tell them how huge the gap is between those students who have access to good educational resources and them. Inferiority comes from every cell in their body, but it often does not come from the malicious intentions shown by the teachers and students of Class A in the movie.
Students in impoverished areas are still studying desperately for the college entrance examination to change their fate. Children with excellent education may have already made plans to go abroad for further study early, so that they can develop in an all-round way. Many children may have attended various dinner parties with their upper-class parents at a young age, learning the conversation and understanding of mainstream successful people in this society. When others are still learning ABC, they have already stepped into the society with half their feet.
It is conceivable that when a poor student who can only work with tire repairers all day meets such a dazzling, confident and excellent peer, the inferiority complex has been deeply rooted in their young hearts without being hostile to others.
The vicious circle of the gap between the rich and the poor comes more from the asymmetry of huge educational resources and the environment, rather than from the malice of people in primary and secondary schools. In this regard, the description of the film is a bit shallow.
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Let's take a look at the performance of the problem generation growth.
Like most movies, the main manifestations of the problem are mischievous and mischievous. This is their small protest against this society.
But believe me, when faced with various injustices in reality, a student who is as impoverished as said in the movie will either choose to study hard to change his fate (such as entering a school like Hengshui Middle School), or he will accept the reality early and enter the society Work. Not all troubled students who stay in school are waiting to be rescued to prove their existence through small pranks. Many of them just simply can't read books. There is no complicated reason and there is no deeper reason behind it, but they chose to give up in every corner that you can't see.
Through a touching teacher's monologue, he repented and made a new life, and after he just finished learning Newtonian mechanics and parabola, he was able to master the transformation of Einstein's mass-energy equation and Planck's black-body radiation formula. Duan's old-fashioned growth plot is more old-fashioned and playful.
The five-minute confession of a class A teacher who appears as the villain at the end of the film is the most outstanding performance in education in the entire film, even overshadowing Naina's aura as a teacher, and a three-dimensional teacher image stands up. He is no longer a bad teacher who only knows hatred, but is as serious and serious as most teachers, and at the same time truly loves his students.
Problem students are not something that can be changed by the refreshing teaching methods and confessions of tears and cries in the movies. The whole process must be arduous and long. "Excellence always comes from hardship rather than fun", as a teacher of Class A, may be the best comment on the problem of changing problem students. In this regard, the description of the film is also a bit shallow.
03
It is true that if you look at it separately, it can only be regarded as a passing level and plain as a film that focuses on educating students with problems, teachers and students grow together.
But as a movie that I watched with tears in my eyes, it must be flawed.
The film's description of the vulnerable group of "Tourette Syndrome patients" is particularly delicate and brilliant against the background of other contents. The first fifteen minutes of the film showed the symptoms of the protagonist Naina unreservedly. Thanks to the realistic performance, I believe that many viewers will start to feel like me when Naina repeatedly twitches and makes a "crack" sound. Discomfort and even a hint of embarrassment. I even started to hope that Naina would be cured of this disease and stop this movement.
At the same time, the group performance is also particularly brilliant. The eyes of the people around them that they performed were so real and piercing. Adults are no longer like children. They have already learned tolerance and acceptance, and everyone has shown understanding and tolerance for Naina's illness. But the only thing that won't change is the instinctive combing and puzzlement in other people's eyes, and the act of father ordering for Naina in order not to embarrass Naina and at the same time not to embarrass himself. During the viewing of the movie, I kept asking myself again, can I show real kindness when I meet such a patient in real life, who feels uncomfortable across the screen.
The answer is no.
The movie reminds me of a little episode in my college days, and thanks to this movie I finally know the name of this disease.
One day I was studying in an empty classroom as usual. After a while, a group of students came to class. This is very common. There will be classes next in the self-study classroom. Normally I would choose to leave to switch classrooms but this time I wanted to stay and listen to what others were teaching.
The students filed in and sat down. I sat in the last row and did my own thing. The last girl who came in sat in front of me. The surrounding students stayed away from each other and sat far away, leaving only her to sit there. There was only one vacant seat except for us. It seems that the other classmates did not feel anything wrong or strange, and talked and laughed on their own.
The girl seemed a little labored when she opened the schoolbag and fetched the book. Her neck was always turning to the side from time to time, and she also made a "kick" sound in her mouth. It wasn't as strong as in the movie, but I could hear it clearly when I was sitting in the back. .
The twitching never stopped. I saw her struggling to put the book away, her head still twitching. I remember my first reaction was a little funny. Then it felt a little weird, and I told my roommate about it like a child who had never seen the world. After sharing, I watched her sitting alone in front of me, twitching her body and making strange noises from time to time to finish the whole class, no one spoke to her, and no one looked at her except me. She shrunk alone in a corner of the classroom like a mass of air that no one wanted to touch.
At that time, I, like them, regarded ignorance as good intentions, regarded not doing evil and not laughing as good intentions, and regarded understanding but not approaching as good intentions, but only ignored the greatest malice of indifference.
This experience was just a fleeting episode. I was not impressed. Like many people, I am used to forgetting little things that have nothing to do with myself. But the memory of the second day, and my alienation and indifference, that was left behind, suddenly stabbed at me like a knife in the opening five minutes of the film.
In the film, a dialogue between the heroine and Principal Khan when she was a child is particularly moving.
"Did you hear strange noises from the audience when you were listening to the opera?"
"have"
"I heard it too"
"I'd like to ask this weird-sounding person to come on stage and talk about why you're making that noise"
"Do you like to make weird noises?"
"do not like"
"Then why are you doing this"
"Because I have Tourette Syndrome"
"What's wrong with this the first time I heard"
"I have a problem with my brain and make strange noises involuntarily"
"Can you control it"
"It can't be a disease"
"What do you want us to do I mean everyone at the school"
"I just want people to treat me like a normal person"
"Okay, we'll treat you like the other students. Go back."
Plain but powerful enough, he didn't deliberately protect her. On the contrary, he let Naina go to the stage to complain about the symptoms, just like a child saying that he has a cold and a runny nose is as normal. There was no strong sympathy or appeal to everyone to care for her. Naina was just an ordinary student at this time. And that's exactly what she needs: not being ignored and being able to enter the life of a normal person is the simplest truth that is always ignored by us.
The presence of "Tourette Syndrome" in the latter part of the movie has been diluted, and more often it is just a manifestation of Naina's emotions. Maybe this is what the film wants us to see. From the initial discomfort to learning to accept it, this symptom is not special. It is just a small hiccup that suddenly appears in a person, and it is not a big deal.
Despite its flaws, despite many of the problems it wants to express, it remains on the surface. I would like to thank this movie for letting me know the disease of the girl many years ago, and it also let me get rid of the ignorance and understand it, and this is also worthy of me giving it a good evaluation.
I still remember that day she kept her head up high, and her straight back was so confident and distressing. I don't know how much she has to overcome like Naina and develop how much self-confidence to sit in the same classroom with us. I just hope that if I could go back to that day, I would pat her and tell her that I sincerely wish her all the best in the future.
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