This year's Netflix popular Korean drama "Zombie Campus", in fact, we have already been filmed.
Eight or nine years ago, several domestic high school students made a campus zombie film, and the script was adapted from the Korean comic "Extreme Panic", which is the original book of the current popular Korean drama.
But Uncle Meat is not talking about horror movies today.
It's the group of people who make horror movies—kids who grew up on their own ideas early on.
Put on the red pupils, smear blood on your body, and get ready to shoot
At that time, the students had not even raised funds for the shooting, and they had already boldly conceived:
I want to make an epic work that can leave a name for film history.
Judging from the results, this ambition has not been achieved. Not to mention the fire, no one has heard of it at all.
But doesn't it make any sense to do it?
The above clip is from the documentary "Real Growth" (produced by Zhou Hao) and is regarded as the domestic version of "Seven Years of Life".
The crew came to the school in 2012 and followed three post-95s with different family backgrounds and personalities, from the first year of high school to the eight years of growth in college.
Nearly 1,000 hours of footage, condensed into more than two hours of torture:
#人应该成为怎样的人, do you have an answer? #
The above teenagers are from Beijing Eleventh School, the earliest quality education pilot in China:
With the implementation of the shift system, there is no class teacher, no one stares at whether you have worked hard every day to chase grades; there is no fixed class group, and the children come in like college students who choose the courses on their own.
There is a lot of free time, generally there is no class after 4 pm, and students can play a variety of interest activities.
It creates a relatively free and open growing environment for children.
"Little utopia" like existence.
Rather, it is the growth state of the three protagonists at this stage of youth.
First of all, Zhou Ziqi, since the age of four or five, has been full of history books, knowledgeable, and a thief with a slippery mouth.
Usually, I don't like to turn in homework, and I dare to play dota games with the teacher's computer, but the exam can always be at the top. (In short, let people envy envy and hate it)
However, compared to xueba, his more unique attribute is "Diao Min".
Not a pejorative meaning, but his playful positioning of himself.
How about a "trick" method?
Come and see the "bead of sweat" debate between him and his teacher.
During the military training at the beginning of the first year of high school, teacher Li Liang stressed to all the students at the meeting that military training is to exercise the spirit of students to abide by the rules and the will to endure hardships.
Li Liang gave an example of one of the rules: When there is sweat during military training, you should not wipe it.
Zhou Ziqi listened to the disagreement, and immediately after the meeting ended, he immediately went forward to debate with the teacher, and the questions were thrown more fiercely than the other:
If the public will is contrary to human nature, from whom? (Teacher: Of course from the public will)
So all students want to wipe sweat, wiping sweat is the public will, doesn't the teacher's rules violate the public will?
Look, there are people who learn the five cars of the rich in every school, but there are not many people who can apply what they have learned to reality.
Zhou Ziqi's "Diao" is his boldness in speculation and dare to challenge authority.
The difference between quality education and general education lies in the difference between "learning" and "using".
The second student is called Chen Chuqiao, and many viewers say that they want to be her after watching it - confident and sober, they are the kind of people who constantly think about where they are now and how to go next.
She likes to plan early and set herself a clear head.
Not long after the first year of high school, many people of the same age only want to play, and those who are sensible think about how to deal with the exam. Chen Chuqiao, on the other hand, thinks about himself and the future "in advance" like a fresh college graduate:
What am I good at myself, and what can I rely on to eat in the future?
Seeing this paragraph, many adults in front of the screen were pierced.
How many people have been out of the campus for many years and have not yet figured this out, or even paid as much attention to this issue as she did?
At this point, the film exposes a blind spot in most people's growth process:
Throughout life and even in the shaping period of destiny, most people do not seem to realize that they have to actively intervene.
In the end, he went with the flow, let others knead, and became an "ordinary person" whose shape tended to be consistent.
Eleventh School gives students this freedom of "active intervention."
However, there are also people who do not want this freedom.
The resonate with most people in the film is Li Wenting, who is a "small town writer".
She was accustomed to the previous Hengshui middle school-style education system, and the relatively free atmosphere of the eleventh school had become a kind of torture for her.
Without the strict supervision of the teacher, I fell into invisible pressure, feeling that I was pressed by many people every day.
She is basically not involved in things outside of learning, or even paying no attention to them.
The reporter asked her, do you know the "student cabinet" in the school? She shook her head and asked what it was.
The reporter asked again, what do you know besides studying?
She couldn't answer.
The three children in the camera are like three seedlings with different shapes.
What kind of flowers will they bloom in this free-growing experimental field?
Take the "student cabinet" mentioned earlier.
It is a self-formed society of students dedicated to the rights and interests of students.
Three children reveal three very different attitudes.
"Diao Min" Zhou Ziqi has seized a bottom-up window of expression here. The earliest slogan of the student cabinet was written by him:
As mentioned earlier, he was dissatisfied with the school's existing military training system, and on the back foot he wrote a letter of ten thousand words to the principal, proposing a set of military training reform advice.
In the end, the school was successfully prompted to cancel the junior high school military training and shorten the duration of the high school military training.
Zhou Ziqi has a sense of mission of public care.
What he longed for was the lofty dignity of "establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a destiny for the people, continuing to learn from the saints, and opening up peace for all the worlds."
In his opinion, the endorsement examination is vulgar.
He sought a spiritual sublime to resist the vulgarization of growth.
Looking at Chen Chuqiao again, her attitude towards the student cabinet was very interesting, first affirming that this was a very good organization.
But when asked if she would attend, she said: Probably not, it takes up time.
However, the time-consuming time is only one, and the second is that participation means taking responsibility, and behind the responsibility is the expectation of all students, and the pressure of this burden is too great.
Chen Chuqiao is obviously the person who pays more attention to himself, and at the same time has a very clear understanding of himself.
Her growth is a more inward exploration, not wanting to be subjected to too much external gaze and expectation.
And Li Wenting?
She felt that the reforms proposed to the school by the student cabinet, such as the regulations governing the use of mobile phones by students and the price of meals in the canteen, were unnecessary.
In her opinion, what the student cabinet is doing is provoking.
Notice that there are two words in her words: adaptation.
A word that originally sounded proactive, but in fact revealed a kind of passivity throughout her conversation.
As Douban hot commented:
Most of us are Li Wenting, ordinary, who see life as a natural process and believe that the pain of life is taken for granted.
Li Wenting smiled and said that she would be "particularly painful."
When the reporter asks, unhappiness is a matter of course for you, isn't it?
She smiled brightly again and said, "Yes, well."
Seeing Li Wenting's almost uninterrupted smile in the camera always makes people feel a little helpless. Not to criticize her choice of life, but to more or less substitute for a certain sense of powerlessness in her.
Her growth keyword is "adaptation", a slightly passive tenacity and a kind of vitality.
And if you understand these three individuals, you will realize that they reflect three kinds of miniature Chinese families.
Behind Zhou Ziqi is the chicken baby education of the new middle-class family.
With the world in mind and lofty ideals, he encountered a tear between ideals and reality before the college entrance examination.
His parents stuffed him with various training classes from an early age, attaching importance to his education, so that he could jump up and achieve a new round of class jump.
His grandfather brought the family from the countryside to the county seat, and then his father brought him to Beijing, and now they hope that Zhou Ziqi can be admitted to Peking University's finance major and break into Wall Street in New York.
So his parents have been opposed to Zhou Zi's choice of his favorite, but the employment prospects are difficult in the history department.
Behind Chen Chuqiao is the other side of the elite family, attaching importance to humanistic literacy.
Compared with parents who value academic performance, Chen Chuqiao's parents are more concerned about her happiness index in the learning process.
Her mother would come to the school to talk to the teacher about the spiritual happiness her daughter had gained in Lu Xun's special class.
Whether it's sharing a favorite rock band in class or taking the initiative to choose a course that inspires critical thinking, Chu Qiao always has the initiative to become a person who can bravely express himself.
The education that Li Wenting heard from childhood was that it was moderate.
Her father worked on the Beijing railway and brought her from the countryside of her hometown of Datong, Shanxi, to beijing to study after her middle school entrance examination.
He often said that blandness is true, and excellence is not necessarily happiness, especially for girls.
Therefore, Li Wenting always regards herself as very small - she does not have too strong control over the right to speak in life, just like the state in which she is often silent when facing the camera.
More presents a kind of flexibility of "if it comes, it is safe".
What kind of people will these three children grow up next?
Many viewers look forward to seeing a final answer from this film.
But when you see it in the end, you will find that it does not want to give an answer.
In turn, it actually wants to torture the masses:
Is there a standard answer in life?
The title of the film is "Real Growth", why did you choose the word "growth"?
It is different from "growth" with human intervention and discipline.
It has its own biodiversity that is reminiscent of a rich, diverse and harmonious natural world.
They come in all shapes and sizes.
It is difficult to predict the growth trend, but there is no advantage or disadvantage.
The three protagonists, three very different growth patterns, the camera always looks at them gently, without praising or belittling any of them.
This practice of not taking sides is exactly the attitude of the film - director Zhang Lin often said a sentence in interviews: treat people as people.
Behind this phrase, which sounds like "nonsense," is a phenomenon that spreads out of the education system and exists throughout society—that people are often seen as the scale of the secular standard of success.
This single criterion of success/excellence is like an axis rooted in the center of society, where people always try to move closer to the center from the edge of opposites.
Lian Changxi, the second elder in the recently popular "My Liberation Journal", is such a typical example.
In Seoul, people use egg yolks and egg whites as metaphors for downtown Seoul and its edges.
As the second boss of the protein man, he is always depressed because he cannot become an "egg yolk man".
Most people have a "central complex", think that the marginal life is worthless, and they all compete to go to the center, which creates anxiety.
Recently, a Peking University girl who is chasing her dream of showbiz has attracted attention because she is walking in the opposite direction with the public.
Li Chengxi, a graduate of Peking University, originally worked for a promising job at a leading financial company in Hong Kong, which was the highlight of her life that was closest to the world's definition of success.
However, she turned her head and plunged into the show business circle in 18 years, and there is still no representative work.
He withdrew from the "bright avenue" of financial elites and became a small actor outside the eighteenth line of internal entertainment.
After changing careers, she underwent seven or eight moves, moving from the city center again and again to more peripheral parts of the city.
Li Chengxi's life is from the "center" to the "edge" - deviating from most people's recognition of the "growth path".
Many people don't understand why she's doing it, and some even think she's wasting national resources.
Graduating from a prestigious university majoring in economics, if you don't do financial elites, it is a waste.
Behind this logic, they are using the eyes of secular utilitarianism to measure a person's value. Most people use this "success" as the only measure.
And if you can get rid of this kind of look at her, what will you see?
When Li Cheng xi was about to graduate from Peking University, she thought of trying the acting industry for a year, and she once told this idea to the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the college.
Unexpectedly, the secretary's reaction was particularly happy: our Yuanpei students should be like this!
What he saw was that a student was not limited and dared to practice his inner thoughts.
In the last question of an interview volume, Li Cheng Xi was asked:
If the 30-year-old didn't get mixed up in the entertainment industry, what would you choose to do?
Dry finance? Exams? Continue to struggle in the entertainment industry?
Li Cheng Xi did not hesitate to choose the last option "none of the above".
Because she doesn't preset an ending for herself.
Because there is no standard answer in life.
Anthropologist Xiang Biao mentioned in the book "Using Yourself as a Method" that society always opposes this "edge and center".
If this opposition is inevitable, then who decides on this "center"?
Is it Volkswagen?
Many people never realize that this decision is actually in their own hands.
In the end, man is also a creature.
You can actually grow into all kinds of shapes.
You should have the courage to grow into all kinds of shapes.
Think back to the "Real Growth" director's words of "treating people as people".
If we can really see a person as a human being, we will find that there is no single path for growth, no single standard, and no fixed center as the terminal station.
Jump out of the opposition between the edge and the center.
Only then can people really grow.
When I erase my own colors
I became transparent in the eyes of others
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