There are only two choices in your life: one is vulgarity, the other is depravity

Reyna 2021-11-28 08:01:19

In my opinion, An Education is more like a contemporary Chinese movie. I even suspect that it was filmed by a high school class teacher who has been an advanced worker.

The plot of the story is like this: Annie, who is about to face the college entrance examination, is a beautiful study committee. With good grades, she was placed high hopes by teachers and parents, and her first choice was Peking University. From the perspective of parents, if their daughter can be admitted to Peking University, she can get acquainted with the children of high-ranking cadres. After graduation, she can also find a decent job and become a middle-class female white-collar worker. This is the perfect way out for my daughter.

And under the huge amount of Huanggang secret scrolls, 16-year-old Annie was overwhelmed by exam-oriented education. This triggered a rebellious and profound question from a good student Annie: studying is for college entrance examination, college entrance examination is for finding a job, looking for a target after finding a job, and having children after finding a target. When the child grows up, he will be allowed to enter the university. Looking for a job, looking for a partner after looking for a job, having children...and their descendants are endless! Is our life so dull and boring? ! Doesn't such a person become a tool, a means? ! What is the meaning of such a life? !

And just when the good student Annie was shaken, she met the uncle in her life-David: a little money, a little experience, a little so-called "taste", a little belly, and a charming smirk at the same time.

Since ancient times, the uncle loves loli, and loli loves the uncle at the same time. I love you youth, ignorant and cute, you love me tender, considerate, mature and golden. You give me the energetic girl carcass, and I take you to a classical concert. The two hit it off with what they needed, and soon lived a happy life without shame.

Now, our heroine wants to quit school and marry her uncle. At this moment, a very interesting plot appeared in the movie: his father, who had always hoped that Annie could be admitted to Peking University, actually agreed to Annie's wish. His logic is this: After all, the entrance to Peking University is to live a middle-class life, and now you can live like that without taking the exam. Why not do it?

It was the class teacher who raised objections, but after Annie's sharp complaints about the education system, the teacher was speechless, "You are also a graduate of Tsinghua University, and the result is that you still sit in the office and revise boring homework every day?" Out of the door, the kind-hearted Diaosi class teacher stroked her wound in the classroom.

Of course, the story will certainly not end in such a simple way: Annie accidentally discovered that David is actually a married man, and the children can make soy sauce.
It turned out that the Lun family was a lie to the girl, and didn't want to really get fainted with me. So the girl's heart was completely broken.

After learning from the painful experience, Annie lowered her head to admit her mistake to the head teacher, repeated the studies for a year, and finally was admitted to Peking University. The bright prospects of female white-collar workers beckoned to her. The ending is happy.

Annie's final statement of the case was thought-provoking: "There is no shortcut to what I want. Everything depends on my own efforts."

Annie's three views finally returned to the level of her parents, the level of a citizen. There is no longer any question of the system, no more questioning of the meaning of life. She began to be satisfied with the bright future of a little white-collar worker.

As a result, the erosive life with the old man back then was characterized as an "education" that will not be recorded, a completely negative life episode, and a dark secret history of accidentally "degenerate" and "stumbled". It's just a dream in Yangzhou, it's just a boy who isn't frivolous, it's just a silly and naive person back then.

And now, the Lun family wants the prodigal son to return and don't change his money!

In this way, this film completes its narrative of extremely mainstream ideology. What it tells us is an eternal truth, that is:
There are only two choices in your life: one is vulgarity and the other is depravity.
There is no transcendence. Yes. There is no possibility of transcendence.

If you don't accept the vulgar life, then you can only go to the abyss of depravity, being toyed with and dumped by the old man, and finally hurt both physically and mentally.
Therefore, I seem to have seen a high school class teacher who has been an advanced worker said with all his heart: Children, study hard, don't be rebellious, don't think, don't question, let alone try to surpass.
Please work hard to be a white-collar worker in an office building! ! !






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  • Jaylan 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    The five-star point is not for those so-called remarks that this film educates LOLI not to be taken by the rich uncle. But to a girl's growth. Girls like mature men is inevitable, understandable. Admiration for experience, admiration for success, admiration for knowledge. What is wrong. I don't think that the rich uncles are taking shortcuts when they fall in love or get married. only the guy drinking water knows it's cold or hot. In short, be brave.

  • Demetrius 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    Her attitudes and choices are based on whether the man is single or not. If he doesn't have a wife and children, then she will still think that not reading is the happiest choice. What this petty bourgeoisie wants is a superior and "emotional" material life. Just as her parents demanded of her, studying Oxford is only for the convenience of contacting "high-class people".

An Education quotes

  • Jenny: [Reading from envelopes she found in David's car] Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman. Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman. Mr. and Mrs. David- you're married!

    David: Legally yes, but...

    Jenny: When were you going to tell me?

    David: Soon, it just never seemed like the right time. You seemed so happy, and I was happy...

    Jenny: You were living with your wife all this time, around the corner! Byron Avenue. It's no wonder we kept bumping into each other, is it? What number?

    David: 34. Don't be like this, come on.

    Jenny: I have nothing. I didn't take my exams. I... I left school. Where's it all gone now?

  • Jack: We have to have this out. Well, if you won't do it, I will. I'm still your father.

    Jenny: You're my father again now, are you? And what were you when you encouraged me to throw my life away? Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?