The tone of the film is decided at the very beginning, making it a total score-structured film: a vellum copy of Linus' "On Mating" scrolls across the screen with the aria "lascia ch'io pianga", Introduces all the characteristics of a man's sexual maturity. And this aria runs through the whole film, and isn't youth just an aria.
Many people hold this attitude that youth films should be distinguished from growth films. For example, "Spring Die" is both a romance and a coming-of-age movie, but it's definitely not a youth movie. Because there is really no trace of youth in it. Sexual sprouting is the essential feature of adolescence. Rebellion, fantasy, ignorance... are its key words. A person has never stopped growing in his life. As Shi Zuozhen said, a person is a processer. But why is the growth of adolescence particularly prominent? It seems that a cell begins to fission after accumulating energy for a winter; or it can be said that it is the process of a cocoon and butterfly. Pain arises immediately.
The image of the male protagonist Sidi first reminds me of "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", a 15-year-old boy's love for a 37-year-old female teacher, and the 12-year-old boy Veritu in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" Looking up to the back of the young woman Malena countless times is exactly the same, the sexual impulse of adolescence induces the so-called love of an immature boy. Not only the love of adolescent boys, in fact, the origin of all love between the opposite sex is sex, and the desire to meet the physiological needs, so all the mediocre or noble love is born. For Sidi, the female teacher Viona's smooth neck, flesh-colored stockings, and slender curves are the key to stimulating nerves. The mysterious female body is like a gate that has been closed for a long time, waiting for Sidi to open it. In each copulation, Stie completed the identification of male identity with Viona. Owena once teasingly asked Sidi: "Isn't it a long time since I took a biology class?" Is it just a biology class, and it is also a psychology class for Stie. With every joy, Stie's subconscious has gradually formed the identity of "I am a man", and many men with sexual orientation problems in real life are more or less in this most important period of male identity. , being attacked or misled.
Different from Veritu's unrequited love for Malena in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", Stie and Viona are two interacting individuals, which means that they do not have pure love or pure seduction by one party. This is more similar to Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. And the growth of the boy in "Farewell to the Classroom" makes people see the meaning of decisiveness more clearly. Sidi, who was slandered and teased his teacher, was punished by repeating his class, and then he began to retaliate with determination. At the end of the film, Sidi resolutely walked out of the school carrying two bundles of dictionaries, and the last shot was frozen on his angry face. This is obviously an imitation of Truffaut's "The Four Hundred Blows": Antoine, who fled from the correctional center, ran all the way to the sea, and the last shot decisively cut his confused face, thus creating a precedent for filming , is relished by people. This is a successful imitation, whether it is Antoine's confused face or Sidi's angry face, they are deeply imprinted in the hearts of the audience, and people can't help but go back and savor the pain of growing up they experienced.
Regarding the pain of growing up, "Spring Die" can be a reference for "Farewell to the Classroom". If it is said that Shang You's pain in "Spring Die" comes from the trauma of love and changes in human feelings, and ends with a peaceful state of mind, then Shi Di's pain is more complicated. Not to mention the damage that Viona's last slander had done to him, he also endured a lot of subversion, day and night air defense alerts, and the slump in the textile business that Viona's husband Shel (a textile salesman) recounted to him. Learn how a peaceful world was disrupted by Hitler's fascist organization; brother Seeger bravely pursued his dream - serving on a submarine, only to end up giving his life... His pain comes from a bizarre adult world in The growing clarity in his mind ended with responsibility and strength. Once he was a middle school student fighting flies in class, but now he is a man who leans on his mother's shoulder when she cries.
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