Thoughts after watching "The Other Side of the World"
The film revolves around the topic of supporting education in a rural area. Xu Xiaomeng, who had just graduated from college, and her boyfriend Jiang Keke came to the "Shugulu Primary School in Shuigulu Village, Shuigulu Township, Shuigulu Township" in the remote mountainous area of ??Hunan Province to work as volunteer teachers for three months. The young and revengeful people wanted to realize their ideals in life and become a qualified people's teacher. Xu Xiaomeng, an only child who was pampered at home, sneaked out from home and resolutely signed up to be a volunteer in the mountains; Jiang Keke, a fashionable urban boy who has lived and studied overseas for many years and has not completed college courses, came here mainly to witness I am loyal to my girlfriend's love, regardless of the repeated questioning and threats from my buddies, and regardless of any difficulties and obstacles that I will face. In this way, in three months, two urban fashionable men and women with different purposes will become two teachers in a mountain village...
In the movie, the most outstanding performance is a mountain village teacher "Po Luo". He is not only a teacher, but also a principal, a school chef, a nanny, etc. There are 18 students in a mixed class of all ages from 5 or 6 years old to 16 or 17 years old. He has to teach from elementary school to high school every day, from pinyin a, b, c to English a, b, c. The "all-round teacher" who only has a junior high school education loves these children wholeheartedly and is not willing to let them suffer a little. Feeling aggrieved, but also proud and proud to have these children. However, after all, he is only at the junior high school level in a mountain village. He has no standard Mandarin teaching, no scientific and rigorous teaching methods, and no scientific teaching concepts...
The story unfolds like this, making you and I realize that there is no difference between people. Big difference, but the environment has created different you and me. The simple mountain villages need advanced educational concepts, and they also need modern passionate young people who can devote their youth. Finally, Jiang Keke left "Shui Gulu Village", a place where he could not find himself, and a place where he had no dreams; Teacher Poluo went to the mountains to carry yellow mud to build a dilapidated school building and encountered a mudslide. Unfortunately, he left the people who loved him. .18 students; Xu Xiaomeng, once again returned to Shuigulu Primary School in Shuigulu Village, and spent his whole life on the other side of the sky to realize his ideals in life...
The first part of the movie felt funny. , especially the scene when the village chief and the heroine first entered the village, facing the camera and greeting each other in close-up, it felt nonsensical. However, as you watch, about 1/3 of the way through the movie, when the heroine learns a few special details about the primary school where she teaches, she cannot make people laugh. The movie gives people a deep feeling. sorrow.
The movie "The Other Side of the World" ends with the heroine returning to a mountain village primary school to continue her teaching career in place of the deceased old principal "Po Luo". This ending is very sad, but in terms of reality To put it bluntly, it is simply unfeasible, or difficult to achieve. How many college students can safely commit their youth to this barren countryside, let alone a lifetime.
I think this ending of the movie, and the information revealed in many plots in the film, are also an expectation for the current teaching method: it is a good thing for college students to come to remote areas to teach, and they bring new teaching methods and knowledge. , but the time is too short and you can’t do many things at all! For children in these areas, what they need is not necessarily the best and most avant-garde teaching methods and theories. What they desire is just a "stable team of teachers." You don't have to be the best, and you don't have to be the best. The smartest, but as long as you can take root here, the children in the mountain village will always go out one day! At the same time, the country should also seriously increase the salary of teachers in remote areas!