Cuba, the capital of Havana.
In a dog fighting arena, there is always a figure of an 11-year-old boy.
He was thin and small, and he seemed out of place among the strong men.
This kid didn't come to watch the game, he came here in his spare time to help train the dogs and earn living expenses to subsidize the family.
His name is Chala and he was born into a broken and chaotic family:
The biological father is unknown, and the mother is an alcoholic addict.
Chala's childhood was full of quarrels and reprimands, social workers and police often took turns to find the door, but every time they would touch a nose of ash, fruitless...
Crawling at the bottom, Chala lives like an animal and has learned a lot of livelihood skills since childhood.
In addition to his work at the dog fighting grounds, he also raises a lot of pigeons on the rooftop and occasionally participates in "gambling"...
In such a complicated environment, Zara grew into a problem teenager who did not trim the edges.
He would blow a "rogue whistle" in the class, in public, to the new female teacher...
Will fight for friends uneven, take a shot to teach students who have crossed the line of speech...
Will openly change the letters at the door of the classroom, creating a "child-inappropriate" vocabulary...
These scum behaviors make the mother who can't take care of herself have to run to school at both ends in three days.
As the most difficult child in the school, the classmates can't afford it, the teacher can't afford it, and it seems that things related to him will become the number one problem...
However, there are individual exceptions.
Her name is Camilla, she has been teaching for 50 years, and she is the most prestigious teacher in the school where Chala attended.
Only she saw through Chala and knew that this child was not bad in nature, and under those strong self-protection colors, it was actually a young but kind and sincere heart.
Camilla threw herself into Chala's extra care.
Even If Chala is the most difficult child she has ever met in her coaching career to get back on track.
In fact, Chala, who frequently breaks into trouble, has long been the focus of social workers, sending him to a re-education school (the educational environment is worrying, similar to a juvenile detention center), which is a "big joy" for the police, schools, and social workers...
Thanks to her presence in front of Chala, She did not let Chala's life deteriorate because of the deteriorating reading atmosphere.
However, Camilla has a heart attack and must say goodbye to the podium for a short time and recuperate at home for a while...
The new substitute teacher in the class seems out of place for this group that is accustomed to the Camilla education model...
Without shade, Chala was also sent to a re-education school...
Released in 2014, this Cuban film called "Childhood That Can't Fly" with a Douban score of 8.3 is an unpopular film that focuses on problem teenagers and explores the way of education.
In the Cuban slums in the film, under the blue sky is a dilapidated and decadent scene, although the fireworks are thick, people can only survive if they tighten their strings.
Tight webs of wires, mottled walls, dirty streets... They are far from cuba in the tourist scenery film, where "God overturned the palette".
In the film, the image of each character is very distinct and can withstand repeated scrutiny.
For example, the cold social worker who puts rules first, the substitute teacher who is infected by Camilla's concentration and persistence, the owner of the dog fighting arena with obvious sense of boundaries, the indifferent and indebted Chala mother... The details are meticulously handled to enrich the look and feel of the film.
In particular, the actor of the little male protagonist, Chala, interprets the sense of conflict between the jianghu and the kindness and friendship under the weight of growing up, which is a highlight of the whole film.
As the comments of netizens said: a film where tears and pain blend, the obscure life of the undercurrent, and more is the truth of the hidden blood. I didn't expect to be a fan of an 11-year-old child, and sure enough, this mysterious thing of acting skills is inseparable from the blessing of talent. The masking performance of domestic small fresh meat, even a child can easily crush it, it is time to roll up!
In the film, there are two scenes that impress the crow:
First, on the roof, Chala grabbed the feet of the pigeon with his hands, and the pigeon struggled to flap its wings, but it could not escape the shackles, and the blue sky and freedom in front of him could not be reached.
Second, in the dog fighting arena, the dog trained by Chala was torn and bloodied by another more ferocious dog, and the spectators on the side relished it, and did not have any emotion for a life that was about to fall.
It's hard not to think of Chala running barefoot in a glass ballast.
He wanted to break through the shackles and live a normal life, with someone loving and someone hurting.
But the reality in front of him is only the feeling of suffocation that cannot be escaped, he is like a dry and pickled ball, kicking a kick is afraid of dirty feet...
Camilla, the lighthouse, allows Chala, who crosses the Han Sea, to have the direction of his heart.
After recovering, she returned to work for the first time, and when she learned that Chala had been sent to a re-education school, she took Chala back to the school where she was supposed to attend, despite her objections.
On the taxi back, the two quarrel, and the driver mistakenly believes that Camilla is Chala's grandmother, and persuades him to listen to the elders...
After denying it, Chala realized that he had done something wrong, so he reached for Camilla's arm and asked for forgiveness.
Camilla dodged her hand, looked out the window with a sad face...
Chala said to the driver, "But I wish she was my grandmother." ”
Camilla was silent, her eyes were shallow and shallow, and a smile hung from the corners of her mouth...
At that moment, silent but powerful, it was worth a thousand words.
But under the pressure of life, he had to turn himself into a bad and cruel character.
Faced with a deliberate provocation, Chala's response was simple and crude: scolding back and fighting back.
The mistakes that Chala made, stubble after stubble.
For example, accepting a "duel invitation" from a black child.
During the competition swimming, the black child almost drowned due to physical weakness, and after the police dragged Zara to the school, he was stopped by Camilla, so that he did not make a big deal out of it.
Including previous fights, disrupting school order, flirting with teachers... It is because of Camilla's presence that he is exempt from extreme punishment.
Camilla's love and care make Chala open her heart and slowly change...
But the misfortunes he has run through, under the background of a bad family background, have made him a big trouble in the school that is imminent to be solved.
In more than 50 years of wandering, education has long become Camilla's sense of faith, and she has not and will not abandon every lost child she encounters in her life.
For example, Yeni, the best-achieving child in her class, lives with her meager father in a dilapidated warehouse next to the railroad tracks.
They are illegal immigrants and have to walk with their heads bowed when they meet the police on the street.
Because there is no legal residency, Yeni has to drop out of school until Camilla helps her complete her student registration...
After the substitute teacher learns the truth, he sends Yenni home, who is also Camilla, to convince the school to let Yenni return to school...
The concept advocated by Camilla is similar to the Confucian culture of "teaching without class".
Her words in the film made many people feel like this:
If you want a juvenile offender, treat him like a juvenile offender, and chala alone can be trained to be a juvenile offender...
The inspiration of an educator may be contained in this sentence.
The act of pushing Chala to the re-education school for discipline seems to be once and for all, and the troubles of all parties will disappear, but in fact, it will breed more problems and push Chala to the edge of society.
This is also the shining point of Camilla's soul, she is not only educating people, but also crossing people.
Maybe she can't participate in the children's future life, but she will do her best to pave a smooth road with flowers for the future of the children.
But even "education," something full of human brilliance, can be limited by rules and processes.
Camilla's strength alone is always not enough, she has prestige, is loved among her classmates, and in front of the rules, her actions are all transgressions.
She was seen as a nail in the coffin, hindering "normal" teaching work, challenging "conventional" educational norms, and colleagues even began to find opportunities to bring her down and force her to retire...
Unfortunately, they did succeed, and Camilla had to say goodbye to the education career she loved.
Using an old-fashioned typewriter, she stumbled and wrote a long resignation letter, like an elegy at a "teacher's funeral" or a love letter to her teaching career, writing:
When educating children, you need 4 things: home, school, strictness and love. But when you go out of school, you have to face the social changes, and as a teacher, you need to know that there is something waiting for them outside. In the past, life was much simpler than it is now, and I knew exactly what to "prepare" for my students. But now, all I know is one thing, and that is not to "prepare" anything for them.
The first three things are all easy things, but "love" is the most difficult for every educator to balance, the easiest to ignore, and it is also the most important thing for children.
Education should not be a rigid tool, but a way for people to lead to kindness and fraternity.
And good education itself, for educators, in a sense, is not a process of reshaping.
Camilla's last lesson was given to other teachers, as she said:
Time will make you a good teacher, better than me, an old woman who had to retire until she couldn't climb the stairs...
The crow did not expect that in the case of such a big cultural difference, he actually found an empathy point from the educational concept of South America...
Compared with the Chinese translation of the title "Childhood That Can't Fly", the original Spanish title can better convey the profound core of the film: Conducta, which is Behavior (behavior) in English.
In the eyes of others, Chala is the "archival wonderful far more wonderful than the novel", "live like an animal" life outcast...
Yenni is the nasty "outsider" who is not qualified for education...
But in Camilla's eyes, they just need to be doubly cared for, sunny-hearted children.
Even if you bet on the cause you love all your life, you will not give up on any of them...
This movie reminds me of the hits in recent years, "Why Home", "Young You", "Florida Paradise"... What dispels the haze in the hearts of those troubled teenagers is, without exception, the light of love itself...
"How to Be Home" "Young You" "Florida Paradise"
Behind every troubled teenager is a broken family, and there is a failed education.
We call on educators involved in the growth of children to give children more companionship and warmth, they may be parents, relatives and friends, teachers...
I also hope that the whole society will learn something from Camilla, help those young people with thorns in the body, and outline a future with more possibilities...
Troubled teenagers, caused by the lack of education, should also be put back on track because of the light and heat of education.
You know, even if it is a three-foot ice layer, it will slowly melt into a soft wave when the warm spring comes...
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