"The Spring of the Cow Herding Class", a French film, is full of natural childish voice, full of warmth, and makes you cry quietly. But after the tears fell, I became ashamed, because the whole film is actually a sweet dream of a selfish child.
Let's take a look at the characters in the film.
Teacher Matthew: A small person with a shameless appearance, a kind heart, and insignificance. After many years of drifting and still unable to make achievements in music, I came to the "pool school" as a teacher. Faced with a group of lawless problem children, I chose to use music to influence them. Under the inspiration of music, the children feel sunshine in their hearts. His side slowly emerged, but in the end he was driven away by the incompetent and cruel principal.
In fact, Mr. Matthew is an imagined ideal father image. He is very good to us, allows us to make mistakes, never treats our mischief with crude methods, is good at discovering our strengths and potential, and encourages us and guides us. But he is not a successful person, just the very ordinary, very ordinary one among all living beings. Such a father, on the one hand, will make our childhood full of warmth, but on the other hand, it will not bring us pressure. We don’t have to worry about being under his shadow. After many years, the already accomplished command Pierre returned to his hometown. When I saw Pepino with the same white temples, I had forgotten the name of the old man Xie Ding. This shows that the selfish we take all his spring breeze and rain for granted, without repaying, those important moments that actually changed our lives have been gradually forgotten after success. We remember that there was that person, but we have forgotten what he did. Everything, so that we can proudly tell ourselves that all the honors I get are on my own, and I don't owe anyone. In this way we no longer need to be grateful.
Principal: A bastard who only knows domineering in the position of principal. He is actually the incarnation of the "home" that Black Jack said in "Rock School". He is always using his power to the extreme. In his world, you can only choose to obey and not allow anyone to challenge his authority. When Ms. Matthew first arrived at school, he exposed his personality in a few words, such as adding the principal when he answered. When the school worker was injured, he was merciless and even suspected that the bleeding old man was pretending to be pitiful. In his world, there is no good, no beauty. There is only interest. What is good for me is good, and what is threatening to me is bad, and it is absolutely not allowed. He represents our fear and contempt for mainstream society. We live cautiously, guarding against his "make mistakes and punish" principle, but privately we use the most vicious language to attack him, steal his money, burn his house, and fight with him unyieldingly. Although this struggle is destructive, as long as it can make him frustrated and furious, why not do it?
Pierre's mother: Beautiful and elegant single mother, who made the poor teacher Matthew had a painful love, and finally sat awkwardly at the coffee table on the street and watched her get on the mechanic's car and go away. This is also the image of a mother in our subconscious, beautiful, and always beautiful, loving us unconditionally, bearing hardships for us, we believe that mothers belong only to ourselves, so in the film, the shameless good old teacher Matthew can only be unrequited love. Because ordinary Matthew can only treat us like a father, but he can't really be our father. His looks and his profession are not worthy of being our father. Because he is so ordinary, we are pretentious to reject such a person, but we do not reject him like a father to love us. In fact, no one can be our father. In the end, my mother gave up the mechanic she liked for me, and she was lonely all her life. It defends the image of virgin virginity in our minds, but what about us? It wasn't until the mother died that we returned to our hometown. Before that, do we really remember our mother? Do we realize that she has given up too much happiness for us, is this fair?
Pierre: The central character of the movie (first he leads the whole story, and also, please pay attention to his position in the photo, right in the middle of the photo), "angel face, viper heart", the first half of the comment of the teacher who left True, the second half sentence is a bit vicious. He is just a sensitive, self-respecting, and somewhat autistic child, just like us. Since you can't get the praise of the "master", you will become an idol of the same kind, turning creativity into destructive power, despising all mainstream values, including the true, the good, the beautiful, and resisting in order to resist. Stubbornly living in his own world, he is the same as us, because he is afraid of being rejected and will not take the initiative to ask for anything, but we will secretly work hard for what we like, and if we are appreciated by others, we will study more attentively. Because I knew from the beginning that I have the ability to do my best. He gets along with others on an equal footing, including Teacher Matthew. He will not get too much contact because he is changing his own Bole. He will always keep a certain distance from others, on the one hand because of his nobleness and on the other hand. He is sensitive and suspicious. He believes that "others are hell", and he doesn't even trust his mother completely. In the film, when the bad boy Meng Dan spreads rumors and insults his mother, he greets him without fear and is much taller than him. Meng Dan fought, but then he ran out of the school and stared in the rain outside the restaurant where his mother worked. Why didn't he walk in? Because he wanted to be an observer to secretly confirm that his mother didn't do those vulgar things, it is also worthy of forgiveness for him to make such a move. After all, he is an illegitimate child. During his growth, he used various rumors and rumors. The slander must have never stopped. This is a knot that he has not untied in his life, and even after his success, because of his distrust of others, he chose to be single (lonely when attending his mother's funeral). When he found that Teacher Matthew admired his mother, he threw the ink bottle from downstairs to warn Teacher Matthew not to approach him. Yes, he doesn't want anyone close to his mother, it will hurt his self-esteem. At the end of the film, Matthew walked out of the school lonely, Pierre just dropped the paper airplane with the other children, and did not say more, because he is Pierre, because he is us.
Pepino: He represents our childhood impressions, silly children, but also likes to be a little clever. During the exam, he pretended to be close to the next table set, but got an answer of 5+3=53. Yes, this is our childhood. Being bullied doesn't know how to solve it. Only waiting for the help of the elders, the hope that I believe will wait forever. In the photo, he is located in the middle of the first row, just below Pierre, implying that it is a past Pierre. Letting the past Pierre follow Teacher Matthew to leave school is just enough to satisfy what we owe Teacher Matthew. After all, a child has gone with you and regards you as a father. At the same time, it also reminds us that we also need A father, but we dare not or don't want to admit it. Only when we are ignorant and ignorant, will we enjoy the most unpretentious and true love in the world.
Physical Education Teacher: Although an older brother sometimes fixes us, he will stand up to defend us at critical moments. For example, in the face of Meng Dan, he will say: "Come to me if you are not convinced!" When the three children and Teacher Matthew were found in the toilet, they would also severely warn Teacher Matthew. When there was no firewood to take a bath, he helped us steal the principal. When Teacher Matthew was kicked out of the school, he also went to expose the principal's embarrassment. In short, this is a big brother who doesn't like talking for us.
School worker: A good old man who is bullied by us can make him foolish and relieve our pressure.
After watching these, are you like me and find that the whole film is a selfish child's dream? Because all the plots and all the character settings are set by Pierre, only his happiness and freedom, and all other people’s lives are his foil, so I come to this conclusion, if you want to say that A sentence from Teacher Matthew to the physical education teacher: "Why do you only see the dirty and dark side?" I also want to use the words of the physical education teacher to say: "here? Yes!"
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