Although there was a big oolong at this year's Oscars, "Secrets of the School Choir" was indeed well-deserved for winning the Best Live Action Short Film Award. I have watched this film twice, a good film is worth it and it is worth repeating.
In fact, the story structure is not very complicated, there are no dazzling special effects, and it does not firmly grasp the narrative structure of the audience. The film adopts a sequential narrative structure from beginning to end. It can be said that this is a straightforward story. But the profound connotation revealed from the story made all the viewers who watched it fall into deep thought.
The film tells that in a Hungarian school choir, two girls, Lisa and Sophie, reveal the secret of the choir's lip-synching. Sophie transferred to a school. The beginning of the film showed Sophie's love for the school choir and singing. Sophie peeked at the choir's practice in the crack of the door, which made the little girl one step with the choir. Connected step by step. However, after the first chorus practice, the teacher asked Sophie not to sing aloud, but to sing silently. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the children who love to sing, but it is a matter of course for the teacher. . Another child, Lisa, noticed the change of her friend Sophie and confronted the teacher in a chorus practice. Although she was temporarily suppressed by the teacher, she defeated the "big villain" music in her own way at the end of the film. teacher.
This reminds me of a sentence: "The adult world only looks at the pros and cons, and the children can distinguish right from wrong." In the scene between Lisa and the music teacher, the teacher's set of "everyone in the choir can participate." , can't just allow talented children to participate." The rhetoric seems to be seamless, but everywhere reveals the idea that adults value fame, fortune, pros and cons above everything else. In order to get the ranking, the music teacher gave the choir the opportunity to sing in Switzerland, not only depriving Sophie of her right to speak, but one-third of the children in the entire choir were forced to sing silently. This kind of behavior of the teacher makes us tremble. Is the world of adults like this? In order to win, in order to win, must some children be silenced? Are you going to cheat?
In contrast, the world of children is much simpler. There is a scene in the film where Sophie and Lisa are listening to music with headphones. That is the purest state of children. They dance and are completely immersed in music. No matter their ranking or achievements, they just express themselves in their own way. love of music. This may be silly in the eyes of adults, but this is the purity of children. In the world of children, there are only right and wrong, no so-called interests. In Lisa's eyes, it was wrong for the music teacher to not let some of the children in the choir sing, and it was unfair to those children. So they correct this mistake in their own way, allowing each child to speak freely. So there is a scene that shocked everyone at the end of the film. All the children are "out of control". The music teacher's conductor cannot make the children sing. They are resisting with silent language, resisting this unfair treatment, and exposing the chorus. The ugly side of the regiment. In the end, the innocent and lovely child won. When the song sounded, the world seemed to be quiet. It was the child's truest voice and the most beautiful voice, because it was not mixed with any impurities.
The great thing about "Secrets of the School Choir" is that it brings together the sharp contradictions of adult ugliness and child innocence, and places them in a peculiar way, allowing the audience to themselves to feel the huge contrast. Similar examples are very common in our society, but rarely so naked to the public, so this film is rare.
In addition to having a profound connotation in the theme, the director has also dealt with some details. Such as the scene where Sophie practiced with a mirror at home after being told she could only sing silently. Sophie in the mirror and Sophie in reality are a contrast between the virtual and the real. Sophie in the mirror can only open her mouth and cannot hear the sound, which means that the appearance of Sophie in front of the public can only be the appearance. Yes, a false self. There are also two scenes of children playing. The children are so happy while playing, but they all have the same face when the choir is practicing chorus. This strong contrast makes us feel that the child's heart is not real Happy, and when they finally sang on stage, the children were smiling happily.
The first time I saw it, maybe I would think that the story was just the ending that shocked me. But the second time I watched it, I really realized that the film deserved its name.
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