Last weekend, I watched last year's Danish movie "Someday" on the recommendation of a friend.
Knowing that this film will not be easy, I was mentally prepared, but during the process of watching it, I was still shocked and couldn’t describe it in words. to desperation.
The outright violence that takes place in boarding schools unfolds unabashedly in front of you...
The film tells the story of a pair of brothers who are sent to one of the "best" boarding schools in the country when their father commits suicide and their mother becomes seriously ill. story that happened. Principal Heck firmly believes that boys need exercise and that being beaten is learning how to better fit in society. Therefore, in the movie, there will be children whose heads are pressed into the plate full of food, and the number of children is uncountable, and the hand is slapped in the face.
Here, children are like prisoners living in a prison. They are physically punished, beaten, and sexually assaulted. However, it is so difficult for them to resist if they are weak. I can only look forward to the day...
This kind of naked revelation made me realize that Denmark is not only about beautiful fairy tales and mermaid legends. Like many places in the world, there are corners that the sun can't reach.
I always remember what Lu Xun said:
tragedy is to tear apart the beautiful things in life for others to see.
"One Day" is a tragic
movie of a group of children. When the brothers first arrived at the boarding school, they were not familiar with the rules and regulations there, the teaching style there, the schedule there, the perverted principal... It was inevitable that they would suffer some "Teaching".
When you first arrived, the instructor casually asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
If you answer your ideals naively, you will only be ruthlessly trampled on.
astronaut? This dream is too "arrogant", you have to be pragmatic and start over.
So in front of everyone's eyes, it's a slap in the face, and you won't have any self-esteem or face. Awaken this unreal daydream.
Brother Eric objected to the principal's decision, so he slapped him again.
The two of them are like "new people" who have just entered prison. They always have to suffer a little before they learn to behave like other classmates.
Here, the owner of the power has the supreme voice, and the students only need to become submissive individuals.
Living in an environment that promotes violence for a long time, children can easily learn violence. If they run away, the joint system will allow the escapee to receive punches and kicks from allies.
"You don't become a man without training," the principal said. Being beaten is called exercise.
Many generations of Chinese parents have also advocated the principle of "good people come out of the Huang Jing stick". In their eyes, there are no bad children in the world.
Violence is just to make you obedient, to make you submissive. However, the headmaster's self-deceiving words in the film whitewash the peace. Everything I do is for your own good, and I beat you for your own good. You must listen to me!
Brother Elmer wets the bed and will be publicly announced as punishment, and then everyone will boo, laugh at him, and say he is dirty.
In the cold winter, he was wearing only a pair of underwear, shivering from the cold, but he had to hold the sheet to dry it.
It was heartbreaking not only for his emaciated body shivering in the cold wind, but also for the companions who were lying in front of the window and humiliating him.
Here, huge oppression is everywhere, but I can't see where to dare to resist. It seems that I can only believe what the only kind-hearted female teacher in the movie said: "Everything will be fine one day."
The fire of hope is burning in my heart, but I have been living in fear.
The most frightening thing is that you don't know if the wretched carpentry teacher will wake him up in the middle of the night and be taken to his bedroom to do whatever he wants...
Children can only be mercenaries in front of these adults, without any resistance. possible.
Elmer was finally spotted by the teacher... and fainted in the toilet afterwards.
Will anyone hold that "teacher" accountable? Elmer was just one of many victims, and at a boarding school with a single hand, things like this were never over.
Being beaten and humiliated, the brothers are counting down the days, looking forward to going home for Christmas. After all, this is what my mother promised.
And just as Christmas was approaching, the bad news came...
The news of the death of the mother made the brothers cry out of control in the dining room. This should be the only time the brothers cry in the movie.
Such unruly behavior immediately aroused the anger of the principal. He calls them "eat" like crazy! And he slapped his brother Eric with four loud slaps in one breath...
The principle of not speaking during meals is unshakable, even if you just heard the news of her mother's death.
The rules are made by the principal, and he is like the emperor in this school, everyone must obey his orders, and his words are the code. All kinds of oppression in an autocratic society are manifested here.
But if you beat the child for 3 days and 3 nights and can't wake up, you can still use that high-sounding reason: "For your own good!" It's really ridiculous.
Because we all know that he is just a manifestation of oppressing another will to ensure his own authority, consolidate power relations, and expand his own coercive will, which is the exposure of the ugliest side of human nature.
Before watching the movie, I don't know why the movie is called "The day will come".
I thought:
"One Day" is that justice can be declared;
"One Day" is that malice will be eliminated;
"One Day" can live without fear;
"One Day" can freely roam in the boundless universe.
But after watching the movie, I found that one day is so far away.
One day my parents will take me home;
one day Christmas will come and I can be with my mother;
one day I will be 15 and leave this hell; one day I will be
so powerless...
Shockingly, just recently, I have seen several requests for help to send children to special schools for "education".
Why is it all in 2017, Yang Yongxin has been criticized by CCTV, there is still a market for such a school?
Is it really as the principal said, because no one can educate these children well. So they use violence instead?
After watching this movie based on a true story, I am once again sure that those militarized management schools that "help" children to get rid of Internet addiction, stealing and other bad habits are essentially no different from concentration camps!
The ghost knows what children will experience in these special schools, the ghost knows how the "teachers" and "disciples" there will "fix" the students...
Really responsible parents will never send their children to that kind of place.
Foucault said that all knowledge, words and even experience make me more powerful than you, who are ignorant. Therefore, it is difficult for parents and children, teachers and students, government and citizens to be in a completely equal position.
Because parents or parents-in-law have more experience than you, they will believe that they know more than you, and you should follow their way;
because parents feel that their children know nothing when they are born, so they will follow it, for the sake of Ta good way to educate Ta.
Because the teacher has the right to speak on the podium, and the students must obey the teacher's orders, so the teacher's words can even lead all the children to laugh at or accuse a certain child.
Power exists in all aspects of human life, and when it brings us pleasure, it is time for us to reflect.
What is the final ending of the movie, I will not spoil it, but in any case, there is still more hope than "The Furnace".
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