"I thought of a poem."
No one listened.
The film ended in Jimmy's childish and somewhat overwhelmed monologue.
Does he know what happened? Perhaps, like most viewers, he knew he had been kidnapped. But unlike most adult audiences, he didn't know why he was kidnapped.
Poetry is a momentary art, like a gust of wind passing by suddenly. Poetry is an eternal art, like a nebula blooming in the universe.
The film closely follows Lisa, a senior kindergarten teacher, from her discovery of Jimmy, to her companionship, and the process and reasons for her kidnapping. Everyone who has seen this film is moved by this poor woman.
She undoubtedly has a dream of detaching herself from this boring society. Around her, there are too many so-called "success" and "normal" things. But the experience of spending a long time with unspotted children and joining a short poem interest class by chance, made her still maintain an uncompromising heart.
Until one day, this heart was awakened by the beautiful verses full of unreality from the boy Jimmy. She seemed to see the door to another world slowly opening.
What she did was dubbed by her daughter as the "cultural ambassador of the United Nations." In a mediocre and trivial life, she seemed to transcend some kind of heavy fetters. In pursuit of a poetic dwelling, she not only fell in love with poetry, but also fell in love with poetry. Jimmy, a boy with a poet's heart.
This pure love that transcends race, class, gender, and age, perhaps only she herself understands. In order to keep Jimmy from the pollution of reality, but also to enjoy a poetic life to himself. The only thing she could do was run away with Jimmy.
However, reality does not provide a paradise for this escape, and the poetic life is only a flash in the pan. Jimmy developed a "reasonable" distrust of Lisa, and the escape turned into a kidnapping, which is in line with the normal logic of all onlookers.
The film, at the end of this normal logic, came to an end. Except for the anachronistic Jimmy's poem, everything is normal.
This film uses the dull life of adults as the background of the story, whether it is Lisa's family or Jimmy's father, they are all living a "standard" life. This does not seem to be a world reprehensible, but it is terribly drowning and annihilating precious gifts and personalities. Protecting talent and individuality and promoting talent and individuality are the core tasks of education and art.
From this point of view, the film has been carefully maintaining a certain balance in the contradiction and conflict between the two until this balance is broken.
Lisa was expelled from the Poets Club for lack of artistic talent, and Jimmy was taken from Lisa's nursery for her "selfish" purposes. Poetry should not be the vent of some negative emotions oppressed by reality, but something that still evokes some kind of eternal and light breath under the weight of reality.
There is no doubt that the film provides us with two kinds of thinking. Art, like a precious mine, is hidden deep in our hearts, and should we slow down the pace of life so that we can truly listen to our inner voice in the impetuous and illusory bubble? Compared with material things and fame, in fact, there is another thing that can make us feel real happiness and satisfaction. Also, about education. Making people who they are is far more complicated and difficult than making them successful in the eyes of others. Because, in a sense, everything around us, after being "filtered", has become narrow and similar, whether it is each other's worldview and values, or love and family, these seem to be marked with "mass production" "Tag of. You have been "assimilated" before you know what your uniqueness is.
In the eyes of the public, an incomprehensible senior kindergarten teacher was eventually labeled a "criminal", and she paid the price for her "rebellious" artistic and educational "dream". This is an incomprehensible crime. The sad thing about this crime is not the crime itself, but the fact that no one understands the crime.
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