Speaking of Adrian Browdy, you may feel a little strange, but if you talk about "The Pianist", a Jewish figure walking on a battered street like a child in tears will come to mind.
Adrian is a powerful actor who plays the protagonist Spielmann in "The Pianist".
His strength and acting skills are not casual, he has starred in many classic movies like "King Kong" and "1942", and has conquered a series of heavyweight awards such as Oscars.
Carefully, in the list of films he starred in, it is easy to find that many of the films he participated in were strongly anti-war.
The reason seems to be because he learned about his grandparents, who were Jewish, and the experience of the Holocaust that year, the suffering of his relatives made him want to use his own strength to publicize the harm caused by the war.
However, in 2011, the drama film "Detachment" starring Adrian was released.
Unlike in the past, he plays a teacher in the film, which tells the story of his teaching in a down-and-out school.
What kind of story moved Adrian and made him give up opportunities for other films?
Henry is the protagonist of the film, a teacher with excellent educational talent.
Because he had to take care of his grandfather, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he had to work at a school close to the hospital.
The school he worked for was one of the best in the state.
Students never learn, and the daily tasks are only fun.
After spending enough time in school, he left school to start a more crazy entertainment life.
Unchecked living allows students to see no one in school and go their own way.
So, on the first day of the job, two students in the class clashed with Henry.
In fact, the students were not ashamed to confront the teacher at will, and this situation was not only encountered by Henry, but the teachers who had worked in this school for many years had long been accustomed to such things.
Some children will squeeze the teacher in the corner and scold, and even spit in the face;
Some children will lie on their desks with headphones on in class and chat with their friends, and even if the teacher asks them to listen quietly, the students will not respond in the slightest.
If such a school were put into reality, there would be many people who would treat them as hopeless moths.
However, in this school, many teachers, including the protagonist, have given up the education of their students.
They called the wrong students into the office over and over again, and although the students scoffed at the conversation and showed no respect to the teachers, the teachers still did not take away their educational possibilities.
Henry left such an assignment for the students in the first class and asked them to write a speech at his funeral.
The next day, the teacher read out their speech in the class, some of which were rude, but some of whom expressed their lament and dissatisfaction with the injustice of fate.
In such a group of children, grief seems to be the same.
Because they have never been loved in life, never cared for, and have never even experienced what people call affection at home.
When the teacher finished reading this speech full of sadness and doubt, all the students stopped laughing, and their eyes looked at each other with helplessness.
And this is the deep meaning of the teacher's homework, he wants to let the students understand that the role of the school is not only to teach, but also to provide them with a way to face the dilemma.
Courage is very important for these children who have been numbing themselves with anger and indifference and escaping from the suffering of life.
When these students experience kindness from others for the first time in their lives, they also begin to gradually accept this teacher who never "plays cards" according to the usual teaching methods.
Henry never talked about the knowledge in books at a glance, but chose to tell children the importance of knowledge in various attractive ways.
With knowledge, you can have a mind that recognizes the good and the bad, and this is the only way for children to get out of the decadent life of the past.
At the end of the film, these students fully understand the teacher's good intentions, no longer despise knowledge, and no longer disrespect the teacher.
Knowledge makes them better.
In fact, there are three character lines in the movie, one is Henry's childhood encounter, one is the runaway girl henry saves at the beginning of the movie, and the other is a fat girl in Henry's class.
The protagonist Henry only has his grandfather and mother in the family, but due to some of his grandfather's animalistic behavior, his mother chose to end his life a long time ago.
Henry witnessed the accident and suffered a huge blow in his heart, and from then on, he no longer believed in the feelings between people and closed his heart.
Therefore, the gentleness and gentleman he shows in front of the audience is just another explanation under the inner closure.
At the beginning of the film, Henry once rescues a runaway girl living on the street.
Although some of the girl's behavior caused him a lot of trouble, it seems that because he saw his mother in the girl, he could not bear to let the girl continue to wander, so he took the girl home to provide him with food, clothing and accommodation.
Perhaps under Henry's gentle care, the girl made Henry her own.
In Henry's class, a fat girl also fell in love with Henry.
This fat girl has a talent for photography beyond ordinary people, but her parents have never encouraged, but they laugh at the girl's work over and over again, and the girl can only say with tears: Dad, you are really good at hurting me.
In school, girls also did not get the respect of their classmates because of their body shape, and in order not to be ridiculed, they even had to hide in the toilet when they ate.
After all, in the eyes of these students who don't know what respect is, there is no better joke than watching a fat girl eat.
Henry's arrival gave the fat girl the only light in her life.
He is gentle and kind to people, so the fat girl wants to desperately grasp this ray of light in the dark of life.
Faced with the approach of the two girls, Henry showed disgust.
Therefore, when the fat girl confessed to the teacher, although Henry understood that this was not a show of love, but a "call for help", he still pushed the girl away.
At the same time, in the face of the girl who was rescued by Henry at the beginning, Henry also ignored her pleas and sent her to the youth rescue center.
Because he understands that if a person's heart is empty, how can he fill the heart of someone who needs help?
The three of them were back to their original single shadow.
The one who impressed people the most was the fat girl, because the loneliness that no one understood seemed to have become the main theme of her life.
The film is very real because he describes not only the end of the children who were rescued, but also the consequences of the small number of children who were not helped.
Just like in the movie, the children in Henry's class are lucky enough to get help from their teachers in their dim lives to correct the direction of life.
But there are still some people who experience far more difficulties than they encounter, and the hellish pattern of life is what makes them go to a dead end.
Despite the need for help, there was no one to help, and these children became the "fat girls".
The film is not like Adrian's previous works, there are no fierce gun battles in between, no inhumane wars, and no screams full of pain.
But after watching the movie, people feel a loss and despair that is more intense than the stimulation brought by the senses.
This feeling runs through the entire movie, and this feeling is a real allusion to some of the current educational problems.
In the movie, the teacher played by Liu Yuling was once angered by the students' attitude towards learning, and she cried loudly, hoping that the students would no longer abuse their lives.
Her heartache children's contempt for the future society, heartache children will compete with hundreds of thousands of people in the future for a most tired and bitter position, but the teacher's anxiety still can not change the status quo, all she gets is the students' anger and slamming the door to leave.
Why is this happening?
Because there are too few people who really want to reach out to students who have gone astray.
Local leaders went to the school to give a speech, thinking that they were coming for the children's learning, but they criticized the teachers, believing that the students' grades had caused the surrounding housing prices to plummet.
He doesn't care about student grades, he only cares about the money he can make by selling his house.
The parents of the students are even more outrageous, they are not beating their children, and the reason they send their children to school is to push the trouble to the school.
Adults are the leaders of society, but in the movie, adults become "slaves" to society.
They indulge in comfort, follow power and money, and do not take their children's education seriously.
A whole school of children who are going astray, but only a few teachers are trying to change the status quo, and the extreme imbalance between helping and the helped makes the situation worse and worse.
The indifference of most people is the sadness of this movie.
At the end of the movie, the fat girl, disappointed and desperate, chooses to eat a small cake painted with a "crying face" and put poison in it.
The irresponsibility of parents, the alienation of teachers, and the numbness of society have made such a talented little girl step into the darkness, because she cannot change the way she views the world, so she can only change herself.
In the face of the fat girl's departure, Henry also seems to understand his indifference, perhaps to compensate, he picked up the runaway girl who was sent away by her.
He wished he could do everything he could to help him get back to a normal life, at least so that the fat girl's end wouldn't happen to this child.
"It's nothing remarkable not to care, it takes courage to choose to care!"
In fact, this sentence is not only for those children who do not care about their lives and futures, but also to parents, teachers and even people in society who have always been indifferent and never give help to their children.
Children are raised to grow up, and they do have their own reasons for going down a crooked path, but what other people do is equally worth thinking about.