Cuba, one of the five socialist countries in the world, has an economy blocked by the United States for many years, its population is small, and it is often at war, and the overall situation may be the same as that of China in the 80s.
However, it is such a developing country that has achieved universal health care and free education. Especially in terms of education, it is highly developed, from kindergartens to doctoral students, all without money.
You don't need any money, but it sounds cool, right? However, the movie that Ono wants to share with you today, "Childhood That Can't Fly", reflects on the education system in Cuba.
The film tells the story of Chala, a troubled teenager, who solves some life problems with the help of her teacher Carmela. There are no famous actors in the film, and there is no strong dramatic conflict in terms of storyline.
It is such a simple and ordinary film, but it won the 29th Spanish Goya Awards for Best Spanish-speaking Foreign Film (nominated) and the 29th Spanish Goya Awards for Best Ibero-American Film (nominated).
The teenager Chala grew up in a single-parent family, his father disappeared, his mother took drugs and alcohol, Chala's daily life was to fight dogs with adults, sell pigeons, gamble with small gangsters, flirt with new female teachers, kiss female classmates, a typical problem teenager.
However, the problem teenager actually has a careful, gentle and righteous side. Bring tea and water to the drug-addicted mother, accompany the teacher to visit sick classmates, and fight for weak friends.
For the sake of school honors, the principal of Chala School prepares to send Chala to a re-education school, a place similar to a Chinese juvenile detention center.
Everyone knows that juvenile detention centers will have a certain impact on the future of children, and sending children to that kind of place is actually believed to be a juvenile offender when they grow up.
So Chala's teacher, Carmela, resolutely rejected the principal's offer, insisting: "My students never go to re-education schools, without exception." ”
Teacher Carmela has always believed that children need four things to grow up: home, school, strictness and love.
And Chala's family has clearly left Chala without home and love.
Chala's mother was imprisoned for drug use, carmela took Chala in, made Chala a hearty breakfast in the morning, found Chala good classmates to do homework, and slapped Chala when she learned that Chala and her classmates were swimming in the open seas, and then hugged Chala and cried.
These behaviors of Teacher Carmela all show that she cares about Chala's problem as a teenager, and Ono is also touched a lot when she sees Carmela holding Chala who was fished out of the sea by the police and crying.
Someone who can cry for you must care about you.
However, looking back, such a person has no practical relationship with you, and it is inevitable to feel sad.
The secret of education is to respect children, and Ono thought that this sentence could not be more appropriate to put on Teacher Carmela.
Compared with the education method of Carmela teacher, the education methods of other teachers in the film are rigid and old-fashioned, inhuman and even a little irresponsible.
Yeni, the top student in the class, could no longer go to school because of the household registration problem, and when the new female teacher knew about it, she only asked Yeni to go home to find her father.
But Yeni's dad was just a small vegetable vendor in this war-torn city, and he couldn't solve the problem.
When Mrs. Carmela knew about this matter, she did not let Yeni go home to find her father, but took the initiative to help Yeni solve the household registration problem and ensure that Yeni could continue to go to school.
Teaching and educating people, this was originally a word, but now many teachers have divided this word, and they can only teach, not educate.
Teacher Carmela educates for education's sake, while other teachers educate for work's sake.
Ono sincerely hopes that teachers like Carmela can spread throughout the education community, and probably such people can be worthy of the word teacher.
However, hope is only hope, and the director has not given us a happy ending in the illusory space of the film.
Teacher Carmela, because of her age and heart disease, had to withdraw from education under pressure from the principal and so-called education experts. Teacher Carmela is gone, but Chala and Yeni's lives go on.
In Chala and Yeni's future lives, there will be no more teachers like Carmela to help them find that light in their difficult lives.
Perhaps chala will still be sent to re-education school after Carmela's departure, and Yeni will be treated unfairly in the school for other problems.
The resistance of the little people is not enough to make any waves in the large institutional environment, so think about it, the ending of the movie is inevitably a little sad.
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