Hiccup Teacher Chinese movie poster
Reference News Network reported on November 2 from "Wrestle It! From "Daddy", "Mysterious Superstar", to "Starting Line", and "Hiccup Teacher", the audience can always be attracted to certain qualities of Indian cinema, such as mature commercial operation, in-depth analysis of reality, and excellent character growth at the script level... These films make the audience happy, touched, thinking, and full of positive energy. These Indian films have their own advantages: "Wrestle! "Daddy" has a very strong emotional core, and the theme is thought-provoking; "Mysterious Superstar" and "Starting Line" are more realistic reflections of the current situation of Indian society. Compared to them, Hiccup Teacher is not profound and sharp, but it wins in the ingenious fusion of reality and film art.
The protagonist of the story, Naina, is a patient with "Tourette syndrome" (the patient's face, limbs, and torso muscles twitch involuntarily, accompanied by abnormal laryngeal pronunciation and foul language - this online note), which makes her always cause onlookers and ridicule, hence the name Hiccup Teacher. Fortunately, she has a warm family and meets a good principal who guides her, so that she maintains a sunny personality and can correctly view her life. Her dream is to use her insights to guide more students.
"Hiccup Teacher" makes people see the "possibility of the impossible".
After Naina began to take over the 9F class, the focus of the film's narrative shifted almost entirely to the students, and The identity of Naina's "Tourette Syndrome" patient was gradually ignored. The origins of the students in Class 9F intuitively reflect the outstanding contradiction of Indian society – the extremely uneven economic development. Coming from slums, they are planned to go to higher schools because of the "educational obligations" stipulated by the policy, and they go from the dirt playground to the classroom and wear neat school uniforms, but in an environment where they are treated differently because of the color of their skin, they are constantly reminded that they are out of place.
Because of religion, history and many other reasons, the gap between rich and poor in Indian society is serious, just like the gap between the 9A class and the 9F class in the film: even in the same school, the 9A class received elite education from childhood, grew up to study in the United Kingdom and the United States, returned to China to continue to become the elite, and managed 70% of the country's wealth; while on the other side of the 9F class, the students' clean and sufficient drinking water was not guaranteed, and they had to queue up for 50 meters to go to the toilet. The parents of the students in the class do the most humble jobs, which are taken over by them when they grow up.
India's gap between rich and poor may seem difficult to solve for a while, but "Hiccup Teacher" makes people see the "possibility of the impossible" - as long as they face reality, use the right method, and make changes, then the students of the 9F class can also move forward side by side with the students of the 9A class.
That's what Hiccup Teacher is trying to do—bring art to life. The same ambition coincides with all the Indian commercial films that have been hugely successful in recent years: WrestleMania! Dad, "Mysterious Superstar" and "Toilet Hero" focus on women's rights, and the success of the film in turn promotes the progress of society; "Starting Line" and "Hiccup Teacher" are to reflect on the Indian education system, face up to the differences of students, and advocate personalized teaching.
This is also the reason why Indian films are still valuable even if they are "routine". The industrial maturity of Indian cinema claims to be the second in the world, and it is worth affirming that compared with Hollywood, it has chosen to explore a set of models suitable for local applications to feed back society.
First of all, Indian films have extremely mature script production. Take "Hiccup Teacher", 10 minutes to explain the characters, 20 minutes to enter the main line, several contradictions, several reversals, where tears, where to excite, all grasp the score is not bad, it can be said that the formulaic template script - this is an indispensable foundation of a commercial film.
It was a long process for the students to go from instinctive rebellion to being sincerely conquered by Naina.
For a movie about dreams, the script must have the resistance of dreams (similar to the coexistence structure of heroes and villains). WrestleMania! The resistance to dreams is fate in "Daddy", patriarchy in "Mysterious Superstar", and elitism in "Hiccup Teacher". Elitism here is more of an inertial thinking, that is, people who are accustomed to a superior life have a hard time paying attention to the inner world of the people at the bottom. Just like for the 9A class teacher, the students of the 9F are incurable, their nature is difficult to change, and they cannot have a better education because they do not deserve it – this is typical discrimination. And this kind of thinking, in the end, affected the values of the next generation, and after witnessing its horror firsthand, the class teacher of class 9A realized his mistake. Just like sometimes, the pain points of society are often unconscious, and only when they are expressed in movies will people begin to reflect on themselves.
"There are no bad students, only bad teachers" is also the core idea of this film, and the corresponding emotional core is that everyone is eager to change. And in all the 9F students, we also see how hard it is to really "change". The students' journey from instinctive resistance to being sincerely conquered by Naina is a long process, and it is another process from self-willing depravity to completion of self-help, during which they have to go through many corrections and self-examination, and they also need the support of external forces. Therefore, the role of the teacher is not only to the teaching itself, but also to the meaning of "guidance".
At the end of the movie, and the most touching place - every 9F class student has grown up, and they are now full of energy and have a beautiful life... They will always remember that afternoon when they were students, they threw out the paper airplane of "limiting themselves", and their fate began to change. (Text/Small Fish)