Today, let's talk about the movie "Beyond the Standard".
Title Hors normes / The Specials / The Extraordinary (2019), alias Special Life (Hong Kong) / By Your Side (Taiwan) / Outside the Standard / Outside the Norm.
This French film is based on true events.
Inspired by the real-life experiences of Stéphane Benhamou and Daoud Tatou, directors Olivier Nakash and Eric Toledano made a film documenting the Association of Young Autistic People.
In real life, Stefane Benhamu and Daoud Tattu each run a non-profit service organization that specializes in helping young autistic people who have no one to deal with.
Olivier Nakash and Eric Toledano spent two years within the service organization, finding inspiration through immersive living experiences. Many real-life scenes enter the film, including the most heart-wrenching scene of Valentine's escape.
The film also uses a dual-protagonist setting, and Bruno and Malik also manage a non-profit service organization, both of which serve and care for those with autism.
The two are also different, Bruno's organization focuses on treating severe autism patients who are not needed in formal institutions and are not admitted. Malik's organization focuses on recruiting and training marginalized youth and training these marginalized people to become escorts.
The film shows their arduous journey of treating and caring for 40 autistic people.
Their nonprofit service organization has a good starting point, but it also faces a variety of problems. The biggest problem is the lack of funding, and the consequent shortage of manpower and the decline in the effectiveness of caregiving.
Treating autistic patients who cannot be solved in society, while also solving the employment of many marginalized people, whether from social effects or humanistic care, is a win-win situation with one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, the ideal cannot be eaten as a meal. An idealistic organization cannot make a profit, and without donations or assistance, the service organization can only move towards the result of closing its doors.
The road to serving autistic people will not be smooth, and in reality, the fate of the film is equally difficult.
It is a pity that this film was eliminated at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
The film itself has problems of being too idealistic in its own right, using an overly idealistic approach to express ideas. In the absence of a sustainable development route, it is a miracle that service organizations can survive for so long.
At the end of the film, there are some real audio and video recordings detailing how autistic people gradually improved with the help of service organizations.
Being able to devote all my efforts to helping so many autistic people is really a great merit.
Warmth is only one side of "Beyond the Standard", and the more important side of "Outside the Standard" is to sharply face the root cause of the problem and point out the government's laziness and inaction.
This perspective transcends the camera, and this courage also transcends the film itself.
In the film, the health department inspection team represents the government and has been entangled in the lack of management of service organizations. It is the patient who runs away, the patient who hurts others, and the patient who hurts himself, in short, it is to provoke the thorn.
This is a manifestation of the government's inaction, incompetence and laziness. They know that there are many problems, but they do not help solve the problem, but provoke the people who solve the problem. There is a feeling of picking soft persimmons and pinching soft and afraid of hard.
In order to clear their responsibilities, government regulators stare at the bullies of charities and do not look at the root cause of the problem.
This is like many enterprises now, the main leaders never take responsibility, when they encounter problems, they slip quickly, and they rob the thief when they encounter credit.
For example, if someone wants to do something to help the company grow, but is in the gray area of normative standards. At first, the leaders did not express approval or denial, and seeing that things could be done, the leaders ran out to ask for credit and applause, and when they saw that things were going to be yellow, the leaders immediately ran out for accountability and assessment.
The final result is that there are very few people who want to do things, and there are a lot of people who stare at the people who do things.
Faced with the criticism of the inspection team, the non-profit service organization directly asked a question and made the other party dumbfounded.
It is difficult to be a good person and difficult to do good things.
Because doing more wrong, doing less and making fewer mistakes, not doing good.
In reality, people will not question the arbitrary leadership, and can only avoid risks by not doing anything.
The film concludes with an excerpt from the 2017 Report of the French Directorate-General for Social Affairs, which clearly states that it is recommended that these service organizations be granted provisional orders.
Social problems do not exist without looking, nor do they absolve themselves of responsibility by inaction.
The biggest significance of "Beyond the Standard" is to face the problem head-on and tear down the fig leaf of hypocrisy of the inspection team.
The film dares to use true stories to point out the shortcomings of the government and let the other side improve them.
This courage is much more meaningful than photographing some sensational autistic children.
Facing the heart of the problem,
Courage beyond the film.
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