Author Xiao Shen
A few days ago, a sentence was frantically reprinted in space - in the first half of the year, we passed through one model and two models, as well as large and small joint examinations and additional examinations, but in the second half of the year, we were scared into a "dog" by a midterm exam. For the meaning of this sentence, probably every freshman is tacit. The tense and orderly mock exam has left us, followed by the bitter and joyful high school time we hid under the school uniform. Today, the movie I want to recommend to you tells some trivial things that happened in our high school days, and its name is "I want to be in the top ten.".
Presumably, in everyone's high school class, there will be one or two students who have been in the top three of the class for many years, there will be some students who work hard to brush up on the grades day and night, and there will be some students who are happy with nothing depending on the results... The male protagonist Ye Xiaohui's class is an excellent class in the grade, and there are naturally many strange characters. In their class, there will be people who tie their hair into the same style in order to make the scalp contact with the air in large quantities; there will be people who hear that eating leeks can promote brain movement, eating leeks three times a day; and even more those who hear that smiling can stimulate facial nerves, smiling all day long...
At first glance at these weird behaviors we laugh out loud, but it seems a little sad isn't it? The reason for these strange behaviors is probably the ranking and parent-teacher meeting again and again...
Since Ye Xiaohui was in it, he involuntarily began to chase results and rankings. He went to the school's printing room with Yan Xing, a female classmate who was in the second grade for many years, to buy the exam papers that were about to take the exam. The motives of the two can be said to be the same. For Yan Xing, the position of the second eldest of the millennium is like a hurdle that cannot be passed; for Ye Xiaohui, it is a great honor to be in the top ten of the grade. And the reason for their rankings is not themselves, but what their parents think.
Yan Xing said that I didn't care at all about the title of first grade, but I was afraid of forgetting an expression, the kind of expression my father had when he gave me a parent-teacher conference. These words seem to be right in the ears, as if they were just yesterday. We will be afraid of the rankings, and we want to see the joy that flashes on the faces of our parents when they see the report card... So we continue the pattern of the previous day day after day, drowning ourselves in the sea of problems. It seems that these snow-white exam papers are enough to support our entire high school years, but it seems that there is more than that...
Ye Xiaohui's father will download the songs that Xiaohui likes to listen to in the mobile phone he bought for his children; the first of the perennial grade will turn in English in a white paper in an exam because he likes Yan Xing, just hoping that Yan Xing will also take the first exam... These little things are mixed in high school life, as if a little spark is mixed in the darkness, making the darkness a little cute. I remember my high school homeroom teacher once said to us, when you go to college, you will know what a wonderful memory of high school is for you. We all scoffed at the time, and now that I think about it, it seems like that's it. Looking back on my high school days, those painful memories are slowly stripped away, leaving only scenes of joy and warmth.
In the end, Ye Xiaohui and Yan Xing's cheating behavior still failed because Yan Xingdi took the initiative to report it. Ye Xiaohui did not enter the top ten of the grade, and was beaten up by his father, but he reconciled with his father. They leaned against the wall and sang Xiaohui's father's favorite "The Most Dazzling National Style" one by one, Xiaohui would no longer buy questions in order to enter the top ten, and his father would no longer listen to music that he could not appreciate for his son's college entrance examination...
In general, we in high school are sometimes cautious and sensitive, sometimes grinning, wearing loose school uniforms and holding the test papers that are still warm in our arms; we will stubbornly force ourselves to nowhere to retreat for the sake of rankings, but we will also laugh like an idiot because of a small matter. The little things that add up to seem like that doomed our high school years to be so unforgettable.
At the end of the film, a sentence appears, white on a black background, incomparably calm.
It's just that I still have a pure land in my heart
Even in the eyes of others, there is no grass
But it was always spotlessly clean
The girl who tied her hair into a small knot, little by little, removed her original hairstyle: for the girl she liked, she turned in the first grade of the white roll, even if she was reprimanded by her father, her smile was still the same; the classmate who ate leeks, facing the mirror, brushed her teeth and rinsed her mouth over and over again...
Behind the funny, those small hearts are really touching people's hearts. In the face of the constraints of the system, we are powerless to resist, but we have not stopped expressing. Behind those absurd behaviors, it is precisely our most sincere expression. I hope that everyone can keep the pure land in their hearts, and I hope that everyone can fearlessly insist on themselves.
To our absurd and sincere high school days.
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