Today, let's talk about the movie "Beyond the Standard".
The title of the film is Hors normes / The Specials / The Extraordinary (2019), alias Special Life (Hong Kong) / By Your Side (Taiwan) / Outside the Standard / Outside the Standard.
This French film is based on true events.
Inspired by the real experiences of Stéphane Benhamou and Daoud Tatou, directors Olivier Nakash and Eric Toledano shoot A film documenting associations helping young autistic people.
In real life, Stephane Benhamo and Daoud Tatu each run a non-profit service organization that helps young people with autism who are left alone.
Olivier Nacash and Eric Toledano spent two years at the service organization, finding creative inspiration through immersive living experiences. Many real-life scenes make it into the film, including the most heart-wrenching scene of Valentine's escape.
The film also uses a dual-protagonist setting. Bruno and Malik also run and manage a non-profit service organization, both serving and caring for those with autism.
There are differences between the two. Bruno's organization focuses on treating severe autistic patients who are not admitted to formal institutions and are not admitted. Malik's organization focuses on recruiting and training marginalized youth in society to become supporters through training.
The film shows their hardships in taking care of 40 autistic patients.
Their non-profit service organization has good intentions, but it also faces various problems. The biggest problem is the lack of funds, and the consequent shortage of manpower and the decline in nursing effectiveness.
Treating autistic patients who cannot be solved in society, and at the same time solving the employment of many marginalized people, both in terms of social effects and humanistic care, it is a win-win situation with multiple benefits.
Unfortunately, the ideal cannot be eaten as a meal. An idealized organization cannot make a profit. If it does not receive donations or grants, the service organization can only go to the end of the closure.
The road to serving autistic patients will not be smooth, and in reality, the fate of the film is equally ill-fated.
It is a pity that the film was eliminated at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
The film itself also has such and such problems that it uses an overly idealized expression to express an overly idealized concept. It's a miracle that a service organization has survived for so long without finding a sustainable path.
At the end of the film, there are some real audio and video recordings, which record in detail how the autistic patients gradually improve with the help of the service organization.
It is truly a blessing to be able to help so many autistic patients.
Warmth is only one aspect of "Beyond the Standard". The more important aspect of "Beyond the Standard" is to face the root cause of the problem sharply and point out that the government is lazy and inaction.
Such a perspective transcends the camera, and this courage transcends the film itself.
In the film, the inspection team of the health department, representing the government, has been entangled in various management failures of the service organization. Another patient runs away, another patient hurts others, and another patient self-harms.
This is the performance of the government's inaction and incompetence. They know that there are many problems, but they don't help to solve them, but they want to pick on those who solve them. There is quite a feeling of picking soft persimmons, tying the soft and fearing the hard.
In order to clear their responsibility, the government regulators stared at the bullying charities for a while, and did not even look at the root cause of the problem.
This is just like many companies now, the main leaders never take responsibility, they are quick to slip when they encounter problems, and they are stolen when they get credit.
For example, if someone wants to do something to help the business grow, but walks in the gray area of normative standards. At first, the leaders neither agreed nor denied. Seeing that things could be done, the leaders came out to applaud. Seeing that things were going to be bad, the leaders immediately came out to be held accountable and assessed.
The final result is that there are not many people who want to do things and are doing things, and there are a lot of people who are staring at people who are doing things.
Faced with the censure of the inspection team, the non-profit service organization directly asked the other party to misfire.
It’s hard to be a good person, and it’s hard to do a good thing.
Because doing more is more wrong, doing less is less wrong, and doing nothing is good.
In reality, everyone will not question the reckless leaders, and can only avoid risks by doing nothing.
At the end of the film, there is an excerpt from the 2017 "General Monitoring of French Social Affairs Report", which clearly states that it is recommended to grant these service organizations a temporary permit.
Social problems do not exist without looking at them, nor do they justify inaction.
The biggest significance of "Beyond the Standards" is to face the problem head-on and tore down the hypocritical fig leaf of the inspection team.
The film dares to point out the government's shortcomings with real stories and ask them to improve.
This courage is much more meaningful than photographing some sensational autistic children.
facing the core of the problem,
Courage beyond film.
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