In this era of people who like to be labeled, if a student is labeled as a "poor student", it means that the default is a group of people who will be difficult to get out of in the future.
We all remember that there were always a few children in the class with poor grades, who were the focus of the teacher's attack.
Being used as a negative textbook may be the only moment they get attention.
Their lives are prematurely defined, and under the vicious circle, these children become more and more inferior and rebellious.
However, it is often such a group of people who are classified as "knockouts" who will compose a touching story.
There is such a school, which can be described as a "bad boy" concentration camp.
Its name is "Pond Bottom Correctional Institution" (metaphorically meaning the bottom of a pond full of silt), and people do not have hope for these children, they are regarded as silt at the bottom of the pond, and the children cannot see hope there.
However, it is such a group of "bad boys" that has brought a natural song to the world.
Speaking of which, I believe many people have guessed the name of this movie.
A miracle that belongs to the "bad boys" - "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class".
Some movies are moved every time they are revisited, and "Spring in the Cattle Herding Class" is such a classic.
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Director: Christopher Bharati
Writers: Georges Chapro / Le Wheeler / Noe-Noel / Christopher Bharati
Starring: Gérard Junio / François Beleon / Cade Maillard
Premiere: 2004-03-17 (France)
Runtime: 97 minutes
The name of the movie is very special, "cattle herding class" means those students who have problems, a group of people with no hope, who can only go home to herd cattle in the future.
And the class composed of these "poor students" is the cattle herding class.
The film has set off a movie-going frenzy of more than 8.5 million people in France, with a population of just over 70 million, setting a box office record of more than 40 million euros.
Douban Movie Top250 ranked 16th, with millions of people giving a high score of 9.3.
Good movies always make people see hope and love, and "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" not only warms people's hearts, but also makes people understand the meaning of education more deeply.
Jacques Behan, the producer of "The Cowherding Class", is also a Master French documentary filmmaker on Microcosm, Bird Migration and Ocean. Not only did he personally star in the lead role in his old age, but he also let his young son play a lovely orphan.
Also impressive in the film is jean-Baptiste Maunier, the spirited protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Maunier.
His natural singing voice and a pair of melancholy and deep eyes have touched countless people.
Jean-Baptiste Maunier
When selecting other choir members in the film, director Bahatia did not want to use professional child actors.
Through the staff, he found 2,000 potential children from the primary and junior high schools near the shooting site to audition, and finally selected 65 children aged 8 to 13 who had no acting experience but were natural and spontaneous.
Gérard Jugnot, who plays Matthew's teacher, also served as the film's producer.
He mortgaged his apartment in Paris for the film, and eventually earned €5 million for selling a seat, making him the highest-paid actor in France in 2004.
Gérard Jugnot
The screenplay for the film was actually inspired by the 1945 musical film The Cage of the Nightingale, which director Christopher Bahatia saw when he was 7 or 8 years old and was so impressed that he decided to adapt it and bring it back to the screen.
The story takes place in a boys' boarding school in the French countryside, Tangdi.
Matthew, a musician whom Huai Cai did not meet, came here as a school supervisor in a middle-aged frustration.
Here, he is not confronted with ordinary students, but with a group of wild boys who have been abandoned by adults.
At the beginning of the film, Matthew meets a little boy named Pepino, who waits behind the iron gate every day for Saturday, because "on Saturday, my father will come to pick me up." In fact, he is an orphan whose parents have died, and his parents will never appear.
There are many children in Tangdi School who are thrown here without anyone caring, which shows that Tangdi is worthy of its name.
Matthew soon discovers that The head of the Tangdi School, Hassan, has used brutal and repressive methods to manage the children, and humiliation and corporal punishment are commonplace. What is wrong must be punished in his way.
A child's mischief hurt the eyes of the school's supervisor, Mr. Macsans, and Principal Hassan gathered the children on the playground to have the children reveal the murderer, otherwise everyone would be locked up for 6 hours, all entertainment activities would be cancelled, and all parents would not be allowed to visit.
Matthew believes that the principal's practice is encouraging everyone to make small reports, which will only lead to children slandering each other.
The children superficially succumb to the authority of the principal, but in their hearts they do not accept the principal's control.
They laughed at Matthew's bald head while showing rebellion and disdain for the headmaster.
Mr. Matthew believes that the headmaster's high-pressure wrist will only lead to children slandering each other.
On the first day of class, Matthew ate a bite to go. The children snatched his briefcase and threw it around.
In the midst of the chaos, the principal arrived. Not only did Matthew not expose the children to the principal, but he also covered them up and said that everything was normal.
The outgoing former homeroom teacher tells Matthew that the culprit is a child named Leghelek, and asks him to be wary of another "angel face, devil's heart" child, Morranje.
Instead of betraying Legay Lake, Matthew appointed him to care for the injured Mr. Maccáns until he recovered.
Although Matthew repeatedly showed kindness to the children, this group of naughty children did not make him worry.
They stole Matthew's briefcase filled with sheet music.
A teacher told Matthew in the tone of a man not to shield the bad boys.
However, Matthew does not believe that any child is born bad.
He picked up the sheet music scattered on the ground and went into the dormitory, where the children were singing songs that mocked him.
Matthew, who had been teased repeatedly by his students, suddenly had a bold idea to use music to change these children.
These kids don't sing well, but at least they're singing.
Having vowed never to touch the score again, he decided to compose songs and compose songs for the children to return to their old profession and form a choir.
Soon, Mr. Matthew organized the synthesis group.
He gave all the children roles: midrange, bass, treble...
The five-tone child acts as a score frame, while the little non-point Peppino, who "can't sing anything", is placed on the podium by Matthew as his command assistant.
Principal Hassan was not optimistic about the idea of forming a choir.
He didn't believe these hopeless children could sing, and he advised Matthew not to be too naïve.
The principal's only expectation for this group of children is to keep to themselves.
The choir was formed at Matthew's insistence.
Children are not stubborn only when they sing, and music becomes a window into their hearts.
Matthew let their nature gradually reveal: not the garbage of society, not the burden of parents, not the prisoners of the school, but the innocent and lively children.
Morangjie, a child of "Angel Face Devil's Mind", had just been sentenced to confinement and was punished by the principal for cleaning for a month.
Whenever the choir was rehearsing, he would stop what he was doing and look into the classroom, and when everyone left, he would secretly practice alone in the classroom.
Once, Matthew overheard Molange secretly practicing songs, and Matthew was surprised to find that Morangje had an angelic voice and a gifted sense of music, but the arrogant Molange was reluctant to join the choir.
Matthew said to him: "Breaking discipline, fighting, and getting together with hooligans, these little tricks may disappoint others, but I won't, from tomorrow you have to come to the choir every day."
Matthew wants to help this musical genius with the Radical Technique, and he cherishes Mo Hangzhi's talent.
Moranje agreed to join the choir, and Matthew tutored him alone every day, feeling that he had met a "miracle of sound" and that he wanted to send the child to the Conservatoire de Lyon.
The music restored confidence to both the children and Matthew, and changed the oppressive atmosphere of the school.
Even the always serious principal was kicked by the child, not only did not get angry, but also played football with the children.
Once, however, Morranje bumped into Matthew and had a good conversation with his mother, and he misunderstood that Matthew was only good to him because he admired his mother. He angrily splashed Matthew with ink.
Matthew, in turn, comforts Moranger's mother: Morangje is just too self-respecting and doesn't want to share his mother's love with others. As long as we work together, he can definitely be admitted to the Lyon Conservatory and make music a career.
Matthew still decided to teach Morange a small lesson in bad temper, and he deliberately said: "It's not a big deal that our choir is less than you." So MoLange could only watch his classmates singing from a distance in the corner, and he needed to learn to let go of his arrogance.
Matthew's choir was learned by the Countess, who had come to listen to the children's performances.
The principal calculated that if the chorus could make the countess happy, she could apply for more education funds for the school. Matthew sees this as a great opportunity for the children to show off their hard work.
On the day of the Countess's arrival, Matthew still left Moranger aside and led the choir to begin the performance.
But Matthew certainly didn't give up on this arrogant musical genius, and he left his last solo time to Molange. Mo Langjie lived up to expectations and touched people with his angelic singing voice.
Matthew read a lot in Molanger's eyes: pride, joy after being forgiven, and gratitude.
This is not only a success for the choir, but also a victory for education.
Matthew was also sure that Moranger was getting closer to the Académie de Lyon.
However, an alternative teacher like Matthew is, after all, incompatible with the tradition of "pond bottom".
Eventually he was fired by the principal.
The day he left, the children threw paper airplanes out of the window.
Every paper airplane is a child's farewell to him.
A pair of waving small hands is a farewell and a gratitude, Matthew makes these repressed children feel confident and happy, he makes these abandoned children have dreams.
The film begins at the Iron Gate waiting for Saturday's orphan, Peppino, to catch up, begging Matthew to take him out of the pond.
It was a Saturday, and Matthew took the poor child with him.
There is a passage in the movie that says:
"Every heart needs love, it needs tenderness, it needs tolerance, it needs understanding. Every child comes from a place of pure innocence and should always be a treasure cherished by the world. ”
Every child should be loved and know that they deserve to be loved.
Before Matthew came to "the bottom of the pond", this group of children who were abandoned by adults was always disappointed and negated, so they gave up on themselves and went farther and farther on the road of depravity.
Matthew came and told them:
You deserve to be forgiven and kind; you deserve to be loved and expected; you deserve all that is good.
I think that's the spirit that the film wants to convey to people.
Don't label anyone, no one is born hopeless.
Also many people pay a tolerance and kindness, and there is one less inferior and depraved soul in this world.
May everyone, every child, meet a good teacher on the road of life.
*This article is written by RAMA