This is a very good movie. The film consists of eight history boys and two teachers with very different styles. There are various poems, excerpts from novels, plays, and songs interspersed from time to time in the film. You can imagine what the lives of these future Oxford students will be like.
The most profound impact is the scene where these students can't put down their books in the library and collectively read their favorite books. And their impromptu performances as they study poetry, and of course the wonderful singing of Jewish handsome boys (really amazing).
I am not too impressed with the teaching methods of the teachers. However, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is not limited to examinations and grades, but also pays attention to the development of students' quality and the refinement of their thoughts. This is always good. P.S. How to understand poetry
with great passages : But learn it now, know it now, and you will understand it, whenever. Most of what poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet. But it will. And when it does, you' ll have the antidote ready. Grief, happiness, even when you're dying. We're making your deathbeds. I don't know how we could possibly understand it, but learn it now, learn it and you'll understand it one day. I don't know how we could possibly understand, most poetry is about things that haven't happened to us yet. When the time comes, you'll already have an antidote. Pain, joy, even as you die. We are preparing for dying. Fun to read:
The best moments in reading, are when you come across something -a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things -that you'd thought special, particular to you, and here it is, set down by someone else. A person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand...has come out... and taken yours.
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