Editor's note: Liu Cixin described the greatness of the teaching profession in the science fiction novel "Village Teacher", when the commander of the high-level civilization that almost reduced the earth to destruction wondered how it was possible to evolve such a civilization of such magnitude in a species that had no memory inheritance and used sound waves for information exchange, his junior officer explained to him:
"They have an individual, a certain number, distributed in all corners of the population, and this kind of individual acts as a medium for the transfer of knowledge between two generations of life."
"Sounds like a myth."
"No," said the senator, "there was indeed a concept in the primeval era of galactic civilizations, but even then it was extremely rare, and few people know about it except for those of us who are professional researchers of the evolutionary history of galactic civilizations." “
"You mean the kind of individual who passes knowledge between two generations of life?"
"They call teachers."
On the occasion of Teachers' Day, Bao Ma pushed Mao Jian's film review, and the movie she commented on, "A Lifetime is Only for One Thing", was specially filmed for the 35th Teachers' Day of New China. Baoma hopes to use this article to express high respect to teachers across the country, especially rural teachers, and congratulate teachers on happy holidays!
This article was originally published in the People's Network, authorized by the author, thanks to Mao Jian's strong support for Baoma!
The Ability to Return to Childhood
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The movie "Life only for one thing" was released on September 9/9, 2019
When I watched "A Lifetime Just for One Thing", I actually shed tears. I myself was a bit surprised that after watching movies for half a lifetime, I have long been a cold-hearted professional audience. Similar to "Tangshan Earthquake" and "Hawthorn Tree Love", inside and outside the movie, there are about five tons of tears in all of China, and I just listen to others cry.
And movies like "A Lifetime For One Thing" are, to be honest, not my dish. Because I don't like sensationalism, I don't like inspirational themes, and it's too easy to pick on this movie in the sense of the image. For example, the sense of age of the whole movie is thin, the era symbols are also simple, the plot setting and the basic routine of the starting and ending, and the voice and expression of the main actors are also quite urban. However, I was almost easily grasped by this subject, because the Chinese teachers in these years lacked video representation. Since "Sunny Days", the image of Chinese teachers has basically been obscured by Feng Xiaogang. Although the teacher Hu played by Feng Xiaogang is definitely the best in his personal performance history, the form and spirit show the embarrassing beginning of the teaching profession, and the teacher's image after that basically swings in teacher Hu's aperture, conveying a gentle incompetence, fierce and introverted, and obscene decency.
▲ Feng Xiaogang played Teacher Hu in "Sunny Days"
With the erosion of education in these years, the teachers in the video have either become "crazy teachers" and "spicy teachers", or they have become "horror teachers" and "puppet teachers". We almost forget how kind the teachers we met as teenagers were, who were our neighbors, our fathers and mothers. This is the meaning of the movie "Life for One Thing", the choreographer uses a rather simple lens to take us back to the past, to return our childhood teachers to us.
The film begins with the time when we were born in the early 1970s when we went to elementary school, and When Zhi Yueying came from the city to Dashan with her luggage, I thought of my own elementary school Chinese teacher, Jin Ganfang. She became our class teacher at exactly the same age as Zhi Yueying, and the likes of her youth were often expressed in a mischievous way, although we did not give the teacher croton to force her to leave like the little male protagonist in the movie, but we also made our favorite teacher angry and his eyes were bleeding.
▲ The little male protagonist Dashan in the movie "Life only for one thing"
The teacher was hospitalized with bleeding eyes, and like the children in the movie, everyone suddenly realized the preciousness of the teacher. We pieced together two and a half cents of pocket money, bought four eggs for the teacher, and escorted them all the way to the hospital like a jade seal. Unfortunately, the hospital did not let a group of us in, so we climbed the wall and broke two eggs, and the heartache at that time is still vivid. When watching "A Lifetime Comes Only for One Thing", so it has been intertwined with our own memories, and later, you don't feel that it is a movie at all, although there is a moment, such as when Teacher Zhi and the student Ruyi sleep together in the dark school dormitory, the movie gives a two-second shot of a purple flower, when I think of the vase that was stared at by Hara Setsuko in "Late Spring", the director may not know or remember that Ozu had such a shot, but the flower shot that appeared three times in "A Lifetime Only for One Thing", It makes people feel that in the sense of the film, the most simple expression is the highest expression.
▲ Teacher Zhi in the movie "Life only for one thing"
Of course, "Life" is still far from being so advanced, the choreographer's technique is almost old, and every difficulty of Teacher Zhi is manifested as falling and getting up, and the resolution of contradictions and contradictions is also a bridge section. Fortunately, the scenery in the mountains of Jiangxi is simple, the millennium moon color is simple, the stream is simple, and the director rarely makes this film into a Jiangxi scenery film, a simple world, to brew the real day. It was also in those years that we experienced the wind and frost with the teacher and grew up together. At the end of the movie, there is a very inconspicuous detail, the little male protagonist who has become the big boss gathers his past classmates together to sit in the classroom, giving Teacher Zhi an accident. Ruyi, who has lived the hardest life, has been going to various construction sites to make a living, and brought a stack of letters written to her by the teacher, saying, Teacher, I have no regrets about meeting you in this life. This actor is not beautiful, but he is particularly sincere. Remembering our thirty-year party in elementary school, every classmate, seeing the teachers of the past, cried together.
Therefore, the best thing about "A Lifetime just for One Thing" is that the whole film does not show how accomplished Zhi Yueying's students are, nor does it strongly show how touching Zhi Yueying's efforts are. The ultimate point of this movie is that the so-called teacher is the person who has planted trees and forests for decades. The emotional care of a nation is the deepest contribution of teachers. In Akira Kurosawa's "Sunset Love", the teacher and the past students gathered, everyone played treasures, it seems that the emotional intelligence is not very high The student performance newspaper name, he has been standing there to report, especially cute look, for a long time, there is a kind of touch, the best teacher-student relationship is like this, in the face of the teacher, everyone regains the ability to return to childhood. And how long a nation's childhood can be depends on how many Zhi Yueying there are in this country.
▲ In Akira Kurosawa's movie "Sunset Love", every student at the banquet had to speak, and it was the turn of a student who was not good at speaking on such occasions, who said: I don't know how to speak, so let me memorize the stations along the way from Hokkaido to Kagoshima.
In this way, after watching "Life for One Thing", I also took off my mask as a professional audience, and before Teachers' Day came, I wanted to write a card to my elementary school teachers, middle school teachers and university teachers, telling them that I had lied exactly like them: "I can't come to school for the next two days because my uncle is dead." "But actually, I don't have an uncle at all.
Teacher, give you flowers ~
Happy holidays!