If you want to associate this movie with another movie, then I think of "Journey to the West". And what I'm talking about here is the feeling between the shackles of bondage and the dance of freedom.
The film portrays a respectable teacher who encourages students to "play in time" and to show off their individuality. This educational view undoubtedly contradicts the traditional educational view that "a small sapling needs to grow into a straight big tree under restraint". This film reflects such a conflict, which comes from the school. Hope the child will become a dragon, and is the "dragon" the ideal of the child? This is another kind of conflict that the film reflects. This film will have a lasting impact on young people, because conservative views on education and traditional parenting concepts have not been eliminated, and generations will experience this.
Shackles belong to this age, everything is shackles. If there are no rules, there is no square circle. Does breaking the rules also make a square circle? I think it is more appropriate to evaluate this film as idealism, because freedom is the most indefinable term, when the freedom of growth should be returned to the "his" congregation has different opinions, and the language of the film is overly ostentatious (there is no lack of that era) The strong resistance under the strong pressure of the characteristics), after the progress of the times, this idealistic freedom is more like a commemorative coin, its value is not its real market value, but the feeling of collection. When the shackles are distributed to everyone, what we need to master is not to try our best to get rid of them, to break the shackles, but a kind of ability. When the teacher and Neil talked about the period when his family opposed him to acting, the captain suggested that he must communicate with his family; when the "God's Call" incident happened, the captain also gave him an evaluation of not being smart enough to absorb the essence of life. The representative will be choked on the bone", "Calm down, be rational, you all have to remember this." Unfortunately, this age cannot be calm, and if Neil is calm and rational enough, he would not choose suicide. The captain's education was misinterpreted. His students misinterpreted it so, and the movie audience in front of the screen was still misinterpreting it. I think it really went against the original intention of the screenwriter, and I'm sorry to the captain.
Dance belongs to this age, everything is dance. The yearning for freedom has never stopped since the realization of freedom itself. And dancing doesn't mean you can't dance without shackles. This film teaches young people how to dance and how to dance gracefully in shackles, and I think these are the two parts of the film that should be seen.
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