I have to say that this poster of "Farewell in the Classroom" gave me a lot of misleading. I entered the movie with the pleasure of voyeuristic eroticism, and what I gained back was the hardships and heaviness of growing up. It was bitter, sour, sweet and salty for a while, and all kinds of tastes filled my heart. It made me unconsciously compare the "Beautiful Legend of Sicily" (see the introduction before the secret window for details), cut in with sexual temptation and visual pleasure, with the inflated desire for conquest in the war as the background of the times, to analyze human nature and the meaning of life As the theme, from the perspective of a young boy who has never been contaminated by social vulgarity, he casts aside the thought-provoking heavy net, and catches you and me struggling.
If the first half of the film focuses on the sprouting of adolescent boys and girls, the second half turns to the exploration of the meaning of life. During the development of the plot, the changes in the boy Sidi's thoughts can be clearly felt. In the first half, like every adolescent child, middle school student Shi Di is full of adolescent rebellion. He dares to provoke his father, who is at the heart of the family, calling him "immortal." He has an incomparable curiosity and thirst for the opposite sex. As a result, he tirelessly discussed sexual issues with his partners during class, and theoretically mastered sexual knowledge to satisfy his curiosity, while the emergence of female biology teachers filled the gap in practice. In Sidi's eyes, the married female teacher Vieira has the temptation that a mature woman should have, and is also fully able to guide him to break away from the Oedipus plot and satisfy his sexual desire. Vieira's hungry eyes give Stie unlimited motivation, and an incestuous sex scene is on the scene. The appearance of Vieira's husband Frank is the key point of the plot turning point. In the second half of the film, Stie and Frank have a direct dialogue. Under the influence of Frank, Stie has completed his transformation from a boy to a man step by step, while his brother His death in battle has tempered Sidi's psychology. He faces the replacement of his elderly father, Yuxin, to eliminate the estrangement. Gradually realizing that he was serving as a tool to satisfy Vieira's sexual thirst, Sidi gradually snubbed the female teacher and humiliated her in his own way.
Compared with the poetic film language of "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", "Farewell to the Classroom" focuses on the meticulous records of youth growth. This seemingly messy recording scene accentuates the documentary style of the film. It can be said that each is good at winning. Of course, the emphasis of the two is not the same. The teenager in the former is just a bystander, while "Farewell to the Classroom" directly describes the growth and life of the teenager Sidi. From this point of view, I classify the two films respectively, "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" is an adult film, and "Farewell to the Classroom" is a youth film.
I can't help but mention the music in the film. The music configuration is definitely the highlight in "Farewell to the Classroom". The director chose a female opera aria as the soundtrack throughout the film. This distant and meaningful aria is repeated in the film. Echoes, due to lack of knowledge, I can't know the name of this opera and who the composer and singer are, also because of this lack, when Stie and Frank in the film share Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Mahler's music, I can only stay like a fool, because I can't tell which song is whose. Frank keeps complaining about whose music he's going to reconcile with whose speech he can't, and I'm sorry I can't read this part, so I certainly can't get any closer to the director's intent. Also, the radio battle news and the fleet where Stie's brother is in the background from time to time in the film, I need someone who is enthusiastic to tell me about it. The film should also try to tell us about the strong impact of American nylon on the European market through Frank's business failure as a wool and silk salesman, but unfortunately I don't know much about this economic history. So my introduction can't tell you more, if you have free time, you should see it yourself and understand it yourself.
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