"Youth Class" is an educational comedy film produced by Gongfu Films, produced by Chen Guofu, directed by Xiao Yang, and starring Sun Honglei, Zhou Dongyu, Dong Zijian, etc. The film, which was released in 2015, tells the hilarious story of several precocious teenagers with extraordinary intelligence in their college lives.
The hilarious story of five high-IQ geniuses in college life is one of the highlights of the film. They were brought together because they were different and showed their unique personalities and talents as they faced challenges in academic, emotional, friendship, and more. Among them, the "uncle" played by Sun Honglei left a deep impression on people, he has a rough appearance but a delicate heart, and uses his life experience to help other teenagers grow up. Zhou Dongyu and Dong Zijian showed a fresh and cute and infatuated image respectively, and the performances of the two actors were natural and real, very down-to-earth.
In 1998, Zhou Zhiyong, a tutor from Xi'an Jiaotong University's "Youth Class", went to all parts of the country to find talented teenagers with superior IQs, and the 22 teenagers who were finally selected will be given a difficult mission. The teenager Wu Wei is one of them, in this special class, he has met the violent Mike, the little genius Fang Houzheng who loves to play game consoles, the turtle shell divination "God Stick" Wang **, and the smart but cold Zhou Lan, the five genius teenagers have since started their college life earlier than their peers, and they are also facing various "incurable diseases" in adolescence. The appearance of the campus goddess Jiang Yilin disturbed the hearts of the boys, and the pressure of overcoming the "World Mathematics Competition" also fell from the sky, and the tutor Zhou Zhiyong is also facing the biggest problem in life, where should the "junior class" go? The journey of a genius boy's life has just begun.
In addition to the hilarious storyline, the film also makes people think more deeply about the university teaching system. The film shows some of the disadvantages of university education, such as the unfair distribution of educational resources and the excessively simple way of education. These problems also exist in reality, and for many students, university is not a place where they can develop freely, but a place full of constraints and restrictions. Therefore, we need to rethink and improve the university teaching system, so that each student can get his or her own educational style and development opportunities.
In order to impress the audience, some plots are exaggerated in the movie, which seems a bit deliberate. However, if we put aside these exaggerated elements and delve into Wu Wei's inner world, the audience can still easily resonate with him and understand his feelings about being wanted by his mother to become a dragon. Even the ignorant rebellion of their adolescence has been experienced by most viewers, and even many children now are still facing the situation of being constantly urged to register for classes due to involution.
Probably most people can't understand and feel the world of genius, and they can't understand what this movie presents. However, in today's era of rapid development of the Internet and the flowering of self-beauty, all kinds of geniuses have been shown in front of the general public through self-development, and now it seems that the movie still reveals the temperament and characteristics of some geniuses in the real world, perhaps similar to "magic stick", "early love", "playing cool" and other things may not be pleasing and unacceptable, but the world is so big that there are no surprises, not to mention in today's "era of Internet celebrities everywhere".
"Juvenile Class" is not a very good film, but at least it can be regarded as a comedy film suitable for watching as a spice of life after dinner. It makes people laugh out loud and offers unique and sharp reflections on education and life. Of course, through this movie, the director wants to tell the audience that everyone has their own unique talent and value, and we should respect and explore our own potential, rather than using other people's standards to measure ourselves, because there are no two people who are exactly the same in this world, and there is no flawless life template. At the same time, the director also wants to use the special "class" of the juvenile class to send out a call for fairness, a call for education without class, so that those children who are not favored can be more just and inclusive in school, so that every student can get their own education and development opportunities.