How many ugly lies are contained in the adult world?
How should individual rights be chosen under collective rules?
The Hungarian short film "The Secret of the School Choir" tells the story of such a child's rebellion against the adult rules of the world from the perspective of a child.
Sophie, a transfer student, is full of love for music, but due to her limited talent, she is asked by the choir teacher Erica to "sing silently". Bound by the rule that collective interests are paramount, she had to silently obey her teacher's decision. However, she soon discovered that she was not the only one with such a child. Sophie and her friend Lisa decide to uncover this ugly secret. They joined forces with the other children to rebel against this unfair adult rule by collectively "singing" on the day of the competition.
This movie is based on a true story, although the pattern is small but far-reaching, the character characteristics of "adults only look at the pros and cons, children distinguish between right and wrong" vividly, and also bring us a lot of social thinking.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > thoughts: How should the relationship between the individual and the collective be handled? </h1>
The individual and the collective are interdependent. On the one hand, the individual lives in a certain collective, inseparable from the collective; on the other hand, the collective is composed of each individual. Every word and deed of an individual affects the interests and development of the whole collective.
It can be seen that in a group, the fate of the individual is always closely linked to the collective. In the Vilage Elementary School Choir, as long as there is a problem with the voice of one child, it will affect the effect of the entire harmony. From the perspective of the choir as a group, Mr. Erika chose to let some children "silently sing" to safeguard the interests of the whole group. Starting from the honor of the school, it seems that there is no fault in sacrificing the ego to compete for the honor of the collective. However, it should not be forgotten that while promoting the collective consciousness, respecting the will and choice of the individual is also one of the rights to defend the collective. The collective is composed of each individual, and respecting the legitimate needs of the individual is a reasonable way of acting.
However, the children represented by Sophie in the story are obviously deprived of the right to sing under the collective rules. Their personal consciousness is not respected. Such a decision is clearly a rule left by the school represented by Teacher Erika. The collective consciousness here is not guided by the children's own consciousness, but by the interests of the school. At the end of the day, this is actually a game of rules for adults, not for children.
Children are innocent and simple, and their judgments of the world are very different from those of adults. People who don't have the opportunity to really let go of their voices and sing are sad and sad, and those children who have the right to sing are equally reluctant to do such a thing. They have a deep affection for each other and hope that everyone will have an equal opportunity to sing.
You must know that the school is not only the school of teachers, but also the school of children. Children's reasonable conscious choices should be respected and accepted. Honor is important, but the purest friendship between classmates is even more precious. Isn't this kind of emotional power condensed in each individual a powerful manifestation of collective consciousness?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > thought two: how to balance interests and truth? </h1>
Through the innocent friendship between the children and the natural and clean children's chorus, the whole short film makes the story seem to be a beautiful fairy tale. The sheer goodwill and beauty it conveys is also touching. The hypocrisy and power of adults in the story through the power of children's unity is the most beautiful social ideal in each of our minds. However, such a situation is rare in the real world. The lies and cruel truths of the adult world can always smooth out our edges and corners, forgetting the truest needs and feelings deep inside.
Among them, the "silent singing" plot of the movie makes people can't help but think of Lin Miaoke's false singing incident at the 2008 Olympic Games. At that time, Lin Miaoke sang "Singing the Motherland" in a red dress and became a well-anticipated child star. The real singer Yang Peiyi is unknown. This is director Zhang Yimou's choice after weighing between interests and truth. But unexpectedly, this time the choice deeply affected the two girls. Lin Miaoke is constantly questioned for the false singing incident, from radiant to eclipsed. Although Yang Peiyi lost a lot of acting opportunities, she was able to study like a normal girl and did not get involved in the cusp of entertainment.
In the music world, such false singing events often occur. In various competitions or activities, in order to create a better singing atmosphere, people will always abandon the truth and use falsehood to seek collective honor. In this contest of interests, innocent children have become victims. For the audience, what they want is always the real thing. Our sacrifice will be counterproductive, and in the end it will not be good to lose more than it loses. The pursuit of interests must not disregard the facts. The interests accumulated by the lies are like bubbles, and the beauty is beautiful, but I don't know which day it will turn into a shadow and drift away.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > thought three: from whose perspective should fairness and justice be defined? </h1>
The principal allows all children to participate in the choir, satisfying their enthusiasm for participation. Teacher Erika even believes that it is unfair to let only gifted children join the choir, and "silent singing" can not only win the competition and let the children travel to Sweden together, but also let everyone enjoy the honor of being unique to the choir. This is clearly the fair way that the school thinks it is. In the eyes of the children, since they joined the choir, it was unfair to them to be asked not to speak out. After all, everyone has the right to sing.
In order to break this unfair rule, the children completed a perfect confrontation against the adult world with collective silent singing during the competition. This is an act of justice that belongs to children in support of good ideals. However, for many people in life, they believe that There is nothing wrong with Mr. Erika's actions, but the children's actions are unrealistic and irrational.
So what is fairness and justice?
Fairness means that things are handled reasonably and without favoring one party or another person, that is, everyone involved in social cooperation bears his due responsibilities and receives the benefits he deserves.
Humanitarianism in justice advocates fraternity, equality and freedom.
It is not difficult to see that the fairness and justice that the school believes is not to favor any one person, and all children, whether gifted or not, have the right to freely choose to join the choir. From the child's point of view, such a "silent singing" method does not allow them to bear the responsibilities and interests that they should have in the team, and they do not enjoy the right to freely choose to sing.
Therefore, the seemingly fair behavior of Erika's teachers and principals to allow untalented children to join the choir is actually killing their right to speak when singing. Such fairness is based on false lies. The children join the choir with great joy, and the clinker can only be used as a "silent" background board, and they have to enjoy the honors that do not belong to them. The honor of the choir should belong to every child, or more precisely to everyone who has made singing efforts for the team. False honors on their heads can upset them, and more importantly, this form of education actually encourages children to lie. This is essentially contrary to the basic educational concept and is not conducive to the growth of children.
The education of the school should start from the perspective of the child, pay attention to the individual itself, listen to their needs, and actively create a healthy and upward learning atmosphere for them, which is the meaning of educational fairness.
The real society under the constraints of collective rules will naturally not be as beautiful as the movie. At the end of the film, there is thunder in the silent place, and everything stops abruptly after the children sing silently and the teacher is defeated and flees.
What will happen to such a blatant rebellion?
Will children grow up to be teachers like Erica?
The blanks and questions of these stories leave us with unlimited space for reflection, which makes people feel unfinished.
Conclusion: It is true that under the laws of the world, the power of the individual is very small. People in reality try to hide their truest selves, trying to cater to this cruel rule full of lies. The movie "The Secret of the School Choir" tries to expose the falsehood of the adult world, attack the ugliness of the whole society, and awaken people's inner pursuit of perfection like a child through children's perspectives and behaviors.