Foreign Film Critics: "Twenty-Four Eyes"

The black-and-white feature film "Twenty-Four Eyes" is a classic story theme that has been filmed again and again in the Japanese film industry for nearly 60 years. The film "Twenty-Four Eyes" is a story about the young female teacher Oishi alone, who came to the remote countryside of Kodou island by the Sea to serve as a primary school teacher, and truly shows the joys and sorrows of the beautiful Oishi teacher who worked hard to raise children by hand, pulling and growing up twelve children who had just entered school and did not understand human accidents. When talking about and coming into contact with the so-called "youth enlightenment period" of these 12 children, the master's teacher's heart was hazy and painful. Somehow, in the film "Twenty-Four Eyes", the little boys in the water island and mountain township primary school came so early in this adolescence? This is probably earlier than the Italian film "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", the Russian film "Ugly Monster", and the French film "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" and other art films.

For such a youthful "reflection" film that pays great attention to human nature and human nature, we viewers also need to look at the hard growth and unfortunate years of those children in the picture according to the specific and objective situation in the depths of the film story. It should be said that as soon as the film opens, the story confesses the "unfortunate" encounter of Teacher Oishi coming to the frontier island, she is a foreign woman from the city, beautiful and cultivated and riding a bicycle, which inevitably provokes the old and young people in the village to be suspicious of the mouth. So The little teacher can only go her own way, she has her way of educating and bringing up children. I have always thought since I was a teenager that all young and beautiful female teachers who have not been mothers are naturally the most likely teachers. In the film "Twenty-Four Eyes", Teacher Oishi is such a beautiful female teacher. The heart of teacher Oishi was as beautiful as the heart of the most beautiful teacher who was widely praised by the media to save students today.

The screen clearly shows the emotions and emotions of the female teacher? When the young teacher Oishi was exchanging hearts with the children of these small villages around him, the students seemed to be fighting with their young female teachers. For example, on the Douxin Eye. In fact, students overwhelm teachers. The sexual psychology of this group of little boys shown in the pictures of Eastern Japanese movies is far less elegant and reasonable than that of the mature male students in Western film shots. Because we can see the scene of the little boy digging a pit and teasing Teacher Oishi and breaking the teacher's leg from the thirty-sixth mirror section of the movie "Twenty-Four Eyes". I've watched this set of movie plots more than a dozen times, and finally I still think that it's not enough to just say that the little boys are pranks. There is even a little bit of the taste of the original evil nature of man. Because of this, this remote corner of the sea is very suitable for a teacher. And a naturally beautiful female teacher.

Common sense of life tells us that elementary school students seem to be born without the kindness of female teachers. Not really, it was evil in the beginning. However, beauty can be contagious to the eyes and the mind. Truth can bathe a person's heart. The only window through which children can see their world should be their eyes. So the director more wisely named the film "Twenty-Four Eyes". It should be useful to see the world with relatively simple eyes, to feel the beautiful things and people, and to become the first realm of bathing the window of the soul. I have not yet heard of the truth that after the old pearl and yellow seven or eighty years old, people can still rely on beauty to heal the decaying body. Only naïve children who have entered the world and are often able to be with beautiful people and beautiful things can really purify the soul. Beauty purifies the mind. Beauty is a kind of love. Advanced feelings. Often in works of art, high-level and benign feelings are often poetic.

In this Japanese film "Twenty-Four Eyes", we once again hear the famous exclamation in Toei's "Saijo Eighty Poems": "The crow on the mountain brought, a small red envelope, opened to see that it is really terrible, the moon is burning on the night, strange things woke me up, it turned out to be a red leaf." Sway remembers that the Japanese business card "Human Witness" also quoted the famous passage of the "Saijo Eighty Poems". It is precisely because the children in the film "Twenty-Four Eyes" have the human beauty and love of Mr. Oishi around them, so the children have grown up relatively smoothly in the midst of difficulties. However, it was also these little boys who mischievously made trouble, secretly set up traps and broke dashi's legs. During Mr. Oishi's recuperation, the learning life of the twelve elementary school students was completely chaotic, and the whole class seemed to have lost their flesh and bones as if they were their own.

The substitute male teacher could not understand Oishi's previous family education line at all, and the old-fashioned male teacher led the twelve children to sing like a chant: "Shihihiv Mimi iy Yi imyi, Mimi Mifu Fu Shif Shif Shimi." "Once under the influence of Teacher Oishi, where can the children with a certain musical literacy stand this?" So between classes, the children returned to the days when Teacher Oishi taught them nursery rhymes: "The little tadpole is black and dark, with a round head and a long tail, no hands and feet, and can swim briskly..." The children in the cape of the world thought of Teacher Oishi's efforts and friendship, and thought of Teacher Oishi repaying his grievances with virtue and repaying his feelings with affection, and the children knew that they were wrong in their hearts in front of the teacher's virtues.

The picture is more of a mood. The boys decide to visit Mr. Oishi. The boys took the initiative to join hands with the little girls, and a total of twelve people in the class lined up in a long line to see Teacher Oishi across the sea. Along the way, the mouth also sang the song taught to them by the teacher: "The crow on the mountain brought, a small red envelope, open to see that it is really terrible, the moon night the mountain is burning, strange things woke me up, it turned out to be a red leaf." "Beauty is an emotion. High level of authenticity. The film "Twenty-Four Eyes" is precisely such a feeling of original beauty. Therefore, she has always been the art film in the history of Japanese cinema that makes the audience shed the most emotional tears. Whether it was in the past or in the international film world today, it has almost formed a type of teacher-student friendship relationship. For example, the former Soviet Union's "Village Female Teacher", such as Iran's "Blackboard" and "Little Shoes", such as China's "Phoenix Qin", "No One Can Be Less", such as France's "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", such as Germany's "Classroom Don't Love", and so on. And for this kind of classic educational films are always being remade. Is it about the desire to innovate? But apparently every re-production of an old film has not surpassed the first film creation. For example, this film "Twenty-Four Eyes". One shot after another did not exceed the overall artistic standard of the first generation of Keisuke Kinoshita's palm. Even the opposite leads to ambiguity.

In the summer of 1987, Toei contemporary film art critic Masazo Ishizaka wrote an article in the "Film Shunbao" to recall that when the film "Twenty-Four Eyes" was re-adapted and filmed, director Asama Yoshio deleted the long mirror of the heroine and her mother Tsukishita talking on August 15. However, this love mirror is so rare and indispensable under the supervision of director Keisuke Kinoshita. From this point of view, can we say that the artists of modern films are a little bored with the more sentient and meaningful things in the picture? It is true that sometimes, whether it is life or creation, I sincerely keep one, I am afraid that I will be particularly lonely. Let's try to take out the long scene of the dialogue between Oishi mother and daughter in director Keisuke Kinoshita's film "Twenty-Four Eyes", and see what contemporary films have cut out here. This is the twenty-eighth mirror festival in the movie: in the moonlight of Oishi's home, the teacher Oishi who changed the student's homework said to his mother who was doing needlework, Mom today I asked the male teacher, why are the villagers here unwilling to mingle with me? He said it could be caused by you wearing a suit and riding a bike. They didn't like me wearing a suit and riding a bike and thought I was bad at talking. Oishi's mother sighed and said that the bicycle was bought in installments, and the suit was dyed with a kimono.

And the picture also expresses that Mr. Oishi can't walk eight or nine kilometers to school, right? Teacher Oishi replied to my mother: I am all right Mother, as long as I go to school every day and see the twenty-four eyes as clear and bright as the sea, I will have no worries, no matter what they say. What Teacher Oishi means here is that adults are not as pure as children. Although adults are not pure. But the beauty of Oishi's teacher nourishes the crystal hearts of the children in the twelve water islands. In the movie, Teacher Oishi has no prejudice against the children under her knees. Her main intention was to show that everything was bad for adults. For example, the evil war revealed in the film originally had nothing to do with the children, but soon after, the children around Mr. Oishi were forced to go to the front line. As an anti-war film, "Twenty-Four Eyes" does not have a positive depiction of the blood of war, and the lives are decarbonized. Instead, through the perspective of teachers and students in the primary school of a peaceful cape, it radiates and perspectives the cruelty and ruthlessness of war and the unfortunate persecution of ordinary people. In the final scene of the film, there is a large section of the picture content that quite conspicuously tells the deep theme of the film.

18 years have passed since this story was first started with the film. Later, at this time, the Sutra was the spring of 1946 AD. The children in the film "Twenty-Four Eyes" have grown up, and some have also been destroyed by the soul. At this time, Oishi Sensei was responsible for the next generation of the "Twenty-Four Eyes" as a teacher. When the former "Twenty-Four Eyes" reunited with Mr. Oishi, the gift the children gave to the teacher was a brand new bicycle. A child's heart is a pure heart. At this time, Oishi Teacher, she she she she may not even be able to ride her bicycle? At this time, the students gave a new bicycle to Mr. Oishi as a gift for post-study and appeared on the screen, which was a scene that made people feel sorry and moved. The audience saw that when Oishi-sensei accepted this gift, she was wearing a traditional ethnic kimono. This unusual gift is, of course, also a kind of beauty sustenance, an expression of feelings. It is a high-level gift of affection.

We see that at this time, when Teacher Oishi suddenly became an old man, the children she had taught gathered around her again. Teacher Oishi still clearly remembered the twenty-four eyes that he had moisturized. She was old, but she, she could still clearly and carefully read the big names of the 12 children around her: Okada Isoyoshi, Takeshitake Takeshita, Tokuda Yoshiji, Morita Masa, Hitazawa Hita, Matsue Kawamoto, Misako Nishiguchi, Makino Kagawa, Fujiko Kinoshita, Sanae Yamashi, Katato Kotoe, kabe Kozuru. This is the name of a total of twelve students. They were exactly twenty-four eyes clear. I remember it so clearly: when the young and beautiful teacher Oishi first rolled names at the Yamago Water Island Elementary School, she paid special attention to adding the names of the men to the names of the six little boys in front of her.

At this moment, my heart thinks that this must also be a special concern for these little boys under the knees of Oishi, right? Teacher Oishi uses her self-cherishing love style and indicators to take care of the children who have brought out generations of children. And one by one, the children in these mountain villages have grown into useful people. Peach and plum world. Teacher Oishi used her youthful beauty to moisturize and dye the crystal hearts of the children in the twelve water islands. Today the peach and plum world. Useful people tomorrow.

The twenty-four eyes on the teacher's heart, educating people is to bathe and nourish the soul.