更新时间:2009-07-07

S • 墙壁之间:“老师，我什么也没学。”

"The Class" might have been set in any classroom in the Western world, and I believe most teachers would recognize it. It is about the power struggle between a teacher who wants to do good and students who disagree about what "good" is. The film is so fair that neither side is seen as right, and both seem trapped by futility.

《高中课堂》中的课堂或许是任何一个西方国家的课堂，笔者相信很多老师都有同感。这是一部发生在老师和学生之间的力量斗争：老师希望学生们做好，但是学生们对于什么是“好”的定义与老师不敢苟同。这部是一部公正的电影，没有偏袒任何一方，反而让双方的努力都显得困于徒劳之中。

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The movie is bursting with life, energy, fears, frustrations and the quick laughter of a classroom hungry for relief. It avoids lockstep plotting and plunges into the middle of the fray, helping us become familiar with the students, suggesting more than it tells, allowing us to identify with many points of view. It is uncannily convincing.

影片充满了生活气息和活力、生活的恐惧、挫折，以及在快要窒息教室中的玩笑话。影片没有陷入传统死板的情节构建，而是集中主题（pluges into the middle of the fray），让我们逐渐熟悉众多的学生，感受到更多荧幕之外的东西，理解他们的观点，可行度惊人的高（uncannily convincing）。

The reason for that, I learn, involves the method of the director, Laurent Cantet, one of the most gifted new French directors. He began with a best-selling autobiographical novel by a teacher, Francois Begaudeau. He cast Begaudeau as the teacher. He worked for a year with a group of students, improvising and filming scenes. So convincing is the film that it seems documentary, but all of the students, I learn, are playing roles and not themselves.

之所以有这样的效果，笔者认为，是因为导演Laurent Cantet的手法。他是法国新晋的鬼才导演之一。他选取了一个名叫Francois Begaudeau的老师的热卖自传体小说。他还让作者出演这个老师。他和学生们相处了一年，临时创作并拍摄了片中的场景。影片以假乱真，好像是一部纪录片，但是根据笔者所致，所有的学生都是在出演角色，而不是演他们自己。