"The Secret of the School Choir", as the winner of the best live-action short film at the Oscar, the director carefully used various audio-visual elements, with a soothing rhythm, a strong contrast between the group and the individual, and the innocence of children, depicting a Hungarian A moving story like the Danube, exposing the ills of collective assimilation and education, and praising the individual's right to resist. As Hugo said - "The day belongs to everyone, why only give me darkness?" The children in this film also made such a cry. In order to create the kind of "darkness" that belongs to the film, in terms of plot and scene structure, the director deliberately set a school with a smaller space to give people a sense of oppression, and the conflict between "darkness" and "light" was processed by the director as The contradiction between the prestigious school choir and the new students outside the system leads to the theme of the film - the game between collective assimilation and individual resistance. Under the collective interests and individual rights, it is not like the absolute darkness and light. No one can tell which side is correct, but the film perfectly interprets the solution to this problem from the perspective of a child. Sunshine Girl Sophie's desire for music and her admiration for the choir are drowned out by the cold water of the teacher's coercion and temptation. The interests of candy and Swiss travel are shrinking the space for personal rights little by little. The "darkness" created in the film is little by little. Lisa, who devoured the only remaining "light", but was unaware of it as a vested interest, held a bright light and faced the "darkness" of collective assimilation with the courage of a new born calf to face the collective assimilation. This kind of individual resistance and collective assimilation The collision between them is exactly the dark conflict that the author wants to shape. At the same time, the individual and collective themes expressed in this film are also enough to trigger our thinking about education, creating a terrifying "darkness" and constantly smoothing out the edges and corners of students. mode. The double-thinking of the film's theme is at the heart of the film. The film is also very distinctive in terms of character creation. Although it is a film about children, it is not like a children's story. The full text does not have absolute good and bad like darkness and light. It is just a game of two different viewpoints, which is also shaped in the film. The game of darkness and light. The people in the text are not simple people, but symbolize a group. Teacher Erica represents the adult world. She yearns for collective honor rather than personal happiness. She is the executor of collective assimilation in the film, using various means to make the choir look good The illusion that makes adults happy, but she is not "darkness", she is just a boatman walking on the gray edge. The "darkness" really shaped in the film is not a person, but a collective assimilation system. And Sophie and Lisa symbolize different classes in individual resistance, one with a shimmer, the other as a beacon for children. Sophie has a spirit of resistance in her heart, but she doesn't dare and has no strength to resist, while Lisa is a choir The unsuspecting vested interests in the system take the initiative to stand on the side of the disadvantaged, speak out in the dark for the disadvantaged, and like an angel, they fully display the "light" belonging to children, and resist for everyone's rights and interests. Three people, two viewpoints, one conflict, and other various characters, the director uses these characters to depict the direct dialogue between children and the adult world, which is restrained yet powerful and expresses the director's disapproval of the idea of collective assimilation. It is easier to express the light of the day and the darkness of the night, no doubt in the use of tonal transformation and light and shadow. The contrast between Sophie's cold tone after being unfairly treated at school and the warm tone when she is with Lisa fully shows Sophie's emotional changes, and it is also a kind of constant wandering between "darkness" and "light" in the gray area, Give the audience a very strong intuitive feeling. The use of light and shadow is more able to express the contrast between dark and light, and there are many times in the film that the contrast of light and shadow, and the black and white contrast. Whether it is the contrast of light and shadow and the alternation of reality and reality when Sophie sings silently in front of the mirror after listening to the teacher's words, or the difference between light and shadow shown by the director when Sophie Lisa is conspiring with other children, this contest of light and shadow means that the film The contest between "darkness" and light, that is, the contest between collective assimilation and individual resistance, and the crescendo of light also means the gradual weakening of darkness, which implicitly shows the inevitability of individual victory for Sophie and Lisa. . The audio-visual language expression of this extremely tense tone, light and shadow further enriches and sublimates the theme. In short, the most Oscar-winning work, "The Secret of the School Chorus" is extremely mature and has its own characteristics in terms of characterization, audio-visual language, scene scheduling and music processing. And the dark and light contrasts created throughout the film are also throughout. This contrast between "light" and "darkness" is reflected in the world of children and adults, collective interests and individual rights, collective assimilation and individual resistance, and the final collision sends out The day belongs to all, the light belongs to the cry of all.
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