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“The life I want, there’s no shortcut. ”
"The life I want, there are no shortcuts."
This is a classic quote from the British film "Growing Up Education". The film tells the story of Jenny, a 16-year-old high school girl, who is lost from life and regains her growth.
When the dream is at your fingertips, love will become a rainbow in life, as soon as it appears, it will make you forget the boredom in life, only its colorful eyes, let others persuade, but also believe in the beauty of it.
Everyone will have a vision of the future, and in the process may fall into the trap of life, but we will also grow because of it, as Jenny said when she finally begged the principal to repeat the reading: "There is no shortcut to the life I want." ”
Premiered in 2009 and set in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, "Growing Education" is a film of educational significance for girls' growth.
The film portrays the 100-minute film journey in a realistic layout. It reveals the loss, hypocrisy, regret, and choices that girls will experience on the way to becoming a woman. Convey to the audience the profound truth that "the life you want, in addition to hard work, there is no shortcut".
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Jenny is a 16-year-old high school student with excellent grades and is the "seed player" who is expected to be admitted to Oxford University.
Facing the lack of growing up experience, the expectations of her parents, and the boredom of life, Jenny plans: after college, she will read the books she wants to read, listen to the music she wants to listen to, watch art exhibitions and French movies, and chat with well-informed people.
One day it rained heavily on the way home from school, and Jenny met a humorous man, "David", who opened the car window and offered to help her load the cello, and in order to reassure Jenny, he humorously said that he could pay the cello money as a guarantee. Jenny smiled and gladly accepted David's offer.
One of them was in the car and the other was outside, and as they walked and talked, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Jenny had to get into the car as well. On the way home, Jenny and David talked about life and vision.
Jenny told David that her father didn't care about the music he loved and thought that nothing could be more important than going to a prestigious university, but David said that he appreciated the art of music, which made Jenny, who lacked family understanding and support, happy, and seemed to meet someone who could resonate with her.
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After encountering each other in the rain, Jenny and David became friends.
On the way home from school again, Jenny saw David, who had just finished buying the newspaper and turned to leave, and Jenny ran over and thanked him. David also took the opportunity to invite Jenny to a concert at St. John's Smith Square and have dinner together after the concert.
Jenny, who had been restricted by her father since childhood, was worried, but under David's words, she agreed to David's invitation. After all, going to a live concert is also something I have always wanted to do.
Coming to the concert, Jenny was infected by the atmosphere of the scene, and at the same time, her feelings for David became deeper and deeper in her heart.
The concert was just the beginning of David's invitation to Jenny. After that, David grasped Jenny's psychology and kept satisfying Jenny's vision, such as going to France and Oxford, where she longed, such as giving her a lot of gifts for her birthday, and for example, he gave Jenny the love she longed for.
Before that, Jenny had never imagined that the life she longed for would come so easily. They trust each other and fall in love. Despite her school grades, Jenny dedicated her virginity to David on the night of her seventeenth birthday, and the idea of preparing for Oxford gradually faded, losing the opportunity to take the entrance examination only once a year.
Jenny hid in the rainbow that David had laid out, thinking that this was the life she wanted, but she had thought that this was just a mystery in reality.
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One day, in David's car, Jenny found a friend's letter to the "Davids", and the truth about David's marriage was exposed, which was like a blow to the head, breaking Jenny's false barrier to real life.
Faced with Jenny's request to voluntarily confess the truth to her parents, David chose to escape and leave.
Jenny saw the reality clearly, at this time, she had given up too much for love, left school, lost the opportunity to take the exam only once a year, wasted too much time, and failed to live up to the expectations of herself and the people around her.
Jenny began to reflect on whether such a life was what she wanted.
After being sad, Jenny plucked up the courage to admit her mistake to the principal and teachers and applied for re-reading.
A year later, Jenny received her acceptance letter from Oxford University.
In college, she acted as if nothing had happened, trying to maintain the same innocence and rambling as the other girls, yearning for everything she had longed for in the past as if she had never achieved it.
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In life, we will also be like Jenny in the play, so eager for the waves of fate, so stubbornly insist on what we think in our hearts
And if you accidentally fall into the trap of life, you mistakenly think that what you want can be close because of shortcuts.
Then we are lost, remorseful, blaming ourselves, overwhelmed, but when you wake up, you will understand that it is all just a lesson that life has taught you.
Finally, i would like to give you a passage from Milan Kundera:
"From now on, I start to choose my life carefully, and I no longer easily allow myself to get lost in all kinds of temptations. I have heard a call from afar in my heart, and I no longer need to look back and care about the rights and wrongs and arguments behind me. I have no time to dwell on the past, I want to move forward. ”