I heard that this film is very famous but I didn't have detail information. After the interviews, I have some time to do something else finally and I started to go to Alliance Francais agian, so I borrowed the DVD last jeudi.
I'm not going to read reviews or information about the film before I finish writing this post.
It was like a documentary. It's about a story of a school life of a school isn't that good and relationships between a teacher and his students. Most of the students are Maghrebs and other people are from China and Mali (Maybe more, but I don't know all) and of course there are French.
Cameras follow the actors - teachers and students, and they don't really focus on one's personal life. The students make troubles but the film don't show us why they do that. They only show the lives of school.
Interesting parts for me are:
1. French people discuss so MUCH ! Between students and teachers, teachers and teacher, they discuss about everything and try to listen to each others. In Korea, many times it's considered to be rebelious if students say something back to teacher right away.(it's called '말대답/말대꾸') Unfortunately, though French discuss a lot, as the title contains the word 'murs', it shows that it's not enough.
2. The teacher is so patient. Students say something stupid, they answer wrong, but he treats them with patience until he says the word 'betisses' to girls. I taught students for a while, so I felt like I was the main actor. Even though students were in a film, they made me so mad but the teacher was quite calm, he sometimes yelled though but he didn't lose himself completely.
3. The film do not try to guide our roles as a student, as a parent, as a teacher. It just shows normal lives in school. After one boy is expelled from a school, their lives didn't change much. At the end of film, they finish the semester and expect a good holiday and play football all together. It was good because I didn't need to waste my emotions. I could be the 3rd person and watch the film objectively. (Quite) But it would be also good if it showed the students' lives more.
It's hard to teach student since it's not only about giving them knowedge but also considering to make them good people. We tend to focus on being the number one in a class, in a society, in every part, so the film made me think about the real education. But I still don't know what it would be. The thing I can be sure now is that Korean society is too compatitive and it's getting worse and worse. What can change this bad stream?
P.S. I found that some girls seemed never brush their hair, even teachers!
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