130,000 people hit 86 points, Japan's national treasure director Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film "Monster", which is different from the "cool film" idea that the audience is accustomed to, and soon triggered reflection in the education industry after its release.
The main creative lineup can be said to be very luxurious, screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto, soundtrack Ryuichi Sakamoto, and powerful heroine Sakura Ando, who also won the Queer Palm Award for feature film at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
Unfortunately, due to the sensitive subject matter, it may not be released in China.
"Monster" is not a monster movie, but a storySchool bullying, sexual minorities, and the collapse of the school education system.
"Monster" runs through the whole story, causing the audience to speculate: who is the monster?
The story unfolds from the perspectives of a single mother, Saori, the homeroom teacher, Mr. Paulie, and the children. Deceptively simple,Looking at it from a different perspective, the truth of the matter is completely different
Even if the adults have no ill intentions and the starting points are good, it is still inevitable that harm will be done to the children, and the seemingly innocent schoolYesOnly children know the truth
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At the beginning of the story, Saori, a single mother, discovers that something is not quite right with her son, Sato.
Not only did he talk less, but he suddenly cut his hair short, went home wearing only one shoe, and there were mud and stones in the kettle.
It looked like the child was being bullied at school, but seeing that the son didn't mean to explain, the mother didn't ask too much.
However, Minato's behavior is becoming more and more abnormal.
One night fell, Xiao Miao didn't come home for a long time. finally found the child in a wilderness, but Xiao Miao, who got into the car, was suddenI opened the car door and jumped in
Saori finally couldn't help but ask her son the truth, and at this time Xiao Minato said:I'm a pig brain, Mr. Paulie said. And claimed that Mr. Paulie had beaten him.
Mother had already wored to the school to confront her, but Teacher Poly said, Xiao MiaoBullyingA classmate named Hoshikawa.
For this reason, Saori also went to Hoshikawa's house for verification, but found another shoe lost by Minato at Hoshikawa's house, and Hoshikawa also said that Minato did not bully himselfThe allegation was that Teacher Poly abused the students
The matter became bigger and bigger, and Mr. Poly couldn't argue, so he could only take the blame and resign. In his successive sufferingUnder the blows of unemployment, breakups, cyberbullying and social death, even thoughts of suicide arise
Is a teacher a bully?
From the teacher's point of view, he only stepped forward to stop Minato when he suddenly became extremely violent and smashed the facilities in the classroom, and inadvertently hit Minato's nose.
More often, he is kind and teaches seriously, but he is inexplicably saddled with a black cauldron. As the hot comment said: The teacher didn't mess with any of you.
What is the truth? It is only when the story enters the third act that it is slowly revealed.
It turned out that the boy named Hoshikawa was becauseNot enough "man".He was often bullied by other classmates, and even his father thought he was a "monster".
Sato, who is kind-natured, does not bully him, on the contrary, they become close and good friends.
But at school, Xiao Minato doesn't dare to be a public enemy and resists showing that they are friends"Even though we're friends, don't talk to me in class. ”
In class, he played pranks on Hoshikawa like other bullies, and in private, in an abandoned carriage, they played with each other, ** each other.
Faced with their mother's questions about school bullying, they did not hesitateLying, putting the blame on the teacher.
Seeing this, many people may feel that the fault lies with the two children, who let the teacher take the blame in order to cover up their secrets.
But the great thing about director Hirokazu Kore-eda is that the everyday scenes that we ignore seem to be nothing special, but they actually tell us the crux of the matter.
Adults are very busy, and what they are accustomed to doing is to impose their will on their children and ignore what they really think in their inner world.
When we start from the perspective of our mother Saori, it's hard not to be on her side.
She takes care of the children's daily life and diet, understands the children, takes care of the children's emotions, and tries her best to ask the school for explanations.
But from Xiao Minato's point of view, he knows that his father died in a car accident after dating his lover, but his mother insists on maintaining the image of a "good father".
Her expectation for her children is to marry like ordinary people and have an ordinary family.
She seemsPaying too much attention to your child, but not caring about your child's privacyand opened the door at random while his son was taking a bath. She loves her children, but she doesn't know her children and the real "crisis" that her son is facing
As a parent, there is no effective communication, no in-depth investigation, no guidance and education, only love from the perspective of adults.
And the father of Hoshikawa, who was bullied in the film, had a more rude way of educating and never thought he was wrongFeel free to belittle the child and insult him as a "monster".
doesn't care about the child's feelings, and even physically punishes him, just to forcibly shape a son who is "man" enough in his heart, for Hoshikawa, this is naked domestic violence.
Hoshikawa, as a soft and cute boy, is an absolute weakling in the class.
Walking on the road, suddenly a male classmate will push him halfway through, slap the chalk ash on Hoshikawa's table, and the male classmates will rush up and tease Hoshikawa.
For young children, their moral values have not yet been formed, and evil is more often a manifestation of animal nature, whether it is light or heavy, and they do not know whether these behaviors are violence or bullying
What's even more ironic is that when her mother Saori came to the school to question,The primary goal of the principal and administrators is to calm the situation as quickly as possible, rather than to investigate the truth of the matter in a timely manner
They use a seemingly polite but extremely indifferent attitude to perfunctory parents, just hoping to save the school's reputation and reduce the bad influence.
No one cares about the teacher's morality, no one cares about the physical and mental health of the child, they only care about their own interests.
Both reality and movies illustrate a realityMost of the time teachers are aware of bullying in schools
If the school teacher in the movie could understand the importance of moral education and be able to educate and guide, would things be different?
As a class teacher, Teacher Poly, who was bullied by the Internet, not only did not have the patience to understand the cause and process of the conflict between the children, but also one-sidedly asked one party to apologize to the other, but also emphasized "shaking hands and making peace like a man".
himPreconceived, determined that Xiao Miao from a single-parent family is prone to problems, so when Xingchuan couldn't find shoes, he went to Xiao Minato's desk as soon as possible; When the classmates in the class planted a false complaint, they directly thought that Xiao Miao was abusing the cat.
In the physical education class, Xiao Miao was unable to support and fell, and the teacher did not encourage him, but said:You're a man
These strong gender stereotypes, as well as the inappropriate education methods of teachers, further hurt and stung Minato's heart, making him more and more silent. also indirectly led to another child making an irreparable scene hinted at by the director.
See hereIt may not matter who the monster is, and the root cause of every tragedy of educational failure is not a single incident itself
It turns out that what caused things to fall apart were the details that we often overlooked, and these are only known to the children who feel it firsthand.
As with most films about school violence, there is no single cause for tragedy.
Behind it, there are parents who are only interested in themselves, teachers who ignore them, and a rigid school system, which are interlocked, forming a closed loop of violence against the victimized children.
Officer Yang in "Young You" of the same genre said that he once encountered a case in which a boy was beaten to death by his classmates, and none of these classmates knew about it at that timeIt turns out that people are ***
In an apology to the heroine Chen Ling, the abuser said:"We went overboard and no one expected it to come to this. ”
This is the beginning of the evil of human nature, which has not been well educated and corrected, they have no boundaries about their behavior, they have no sense of right and wrong, and they do not know how to sense proportion.
The root cause of this is the lack of education about "evil" by parents and teachers.
Some people are "evil" by nature, and some people are encouraged to be "evil".
A survey of public perception of school bullying pointed out that for bullies, behaviors such as isolation, rumor-spreading, sarcasm, and pranks are not bullying, but they are evil.
If not properly guided and stopped, these evils may turn into bullying
As a system and a small society, the school has only order and no morality, which is undoubtedly a hotbed of evil.
In the bullying incident at Datong Bilingual School, the teacher knew that there was already a conflict between the students, but still did not take any action, and the parents were removed from the group after the incident.
Teachers seem to be teaching and educating people and doing their part, but they turn a blind eye to school bullying, lack of investigation into students' abnormal behavior, and only cover up when their own interests are damaged.
In reality, it is often these "not seen" that disguised failure to stop it is tantamount to encouragement, evil escalates into bullying, and things are irreversible.
Whenever a child does evil, we are accustomed to hearing a kind of parent's remark:He was still a kid and didn't understand
Some parents' so-called love education only exists in the pocket for you when something happens, and they do nothing to do their own thing, and never deeply understand the child's heart.
The child has grievances and resentment in his heart, the child does not know about the violent tendencies, the child is in a bad mood and does not understand, the child is bullied and realizes it later, and finally rushes to the school to ask for an explanation.
They don't know that many of their behaviors have missed the best time to influence, educate, and care for their children.
All these injuries caused by it are difficult to make up for and resolve them with a sentence of "he is not sensible yet".
Imperceptibly,In many cases, the consequences of a child's evil are caused by adultsOnly by being aware of this cause-and-effect relationship can we create an environment in which children can grow up healthily.
This is not only the responsibility of schools and teachers, but also of parents and societyDon't turn yourself into a "monster" and don't see your children as a "monster", so that the future is full of hope