The film begins with a female teacher, Naina, who suffers from Tourette's disease (Tourette's disease, patients often burp). From the beginning, she quickly pointed out her differences from ordinary people and several major conflicts in the film.
With a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in science, she participated in one interview after another. Five years later, she was rejected countless times by 18 school and five times by her alma mater ... the reason is this frequent convulsion.
This is an incurable disease, and the symptoms will get worse when patients are nervous. Naina was ridiculed when she was a child, and she was constantly questioned whether she could become a qualified teacher when she was an adult. These are the history of her constant hitting the wall.
Finally, her alma mater sent her an olive branch, but I didn't expect there was a bigger dilemma behind it. Because she is not facing a group of top students, nor a group of "ordinary class" students, but 14 "slum problem students" who were merged into the "private high-end school" in Saint-Tick because of land acquisition. Almost all the students and teachers in Saint-Tick come from the middle class or the rich class, and they sometimes show a tendency to discriminate against them, while these students in Class 9F also have their own family problems and personality problems.
When all the problems are combined, they soon become the rebellion of the students in Class 9F. They not only neglect their studies, but also often spoof Naina, which conflicts with the students in Class 9A. How to teach students in accordance with their aptitude has become the most worrying thing for Mr. Hiccup. However, everyone did not appreciate her kindness, and repeatedly gave her various blows, and her illness suffered many serious blows.
It can be said that the biggest difference between Teacher Hiccup and many other national films involving educational ideas lies in its unique social discussion as an "Indian film".
The biggest thing these movies have in common is-
They can usually convey the discussion of social problems and touching interpersonal feelings through their own stories, distinctive characterization and strictly controlled climax, and face as wide an audience of all ages as possible, so as to achieve a balance between commercial value, social value and audience resonance.
On the premise of being full of comedy type elements, the audience can gain laughter and emotion in expectation, and at the same time bring out a lot of social discussions, which are related to class and education system.
There is a scene in the film that we have seen in Indian movies now, which may have been "normal": when we look at slums, we will find that the nearest to this dilapidated land are high-rise buildings and cities.
With teacher Hiccup's door-to-door home visits, this film once again shows us a typical "poor society" like India.
What is a "poor society"? To put it simply, with the widening gap between the rich and the poor, social classes have been clearly divided and the people have formed a strict class division. In India, 1% people own more than 50% of the national wealth, while more than 50% of the poor only own 4% of the national wealth.
As a result, there is a great gap between economic, educational and social status, and the class areas are fixed and not flowing, so it is extremely difficult to change their social status. Many people at the bottom of India live in a state of "no matter how hard they try, they can't cross the gap between the rich and the poor", which forms a cycle day after day, generation after generation. The rich enjoy abundant material resources, but people in slums often rob them of water for days on end.
But in fact, many neglected poverty situations are closely related to everyone.
The children of Class 9F, after class, sell vegetables in the shabby vegetable market, gamble in wannabe in the slum, and work in bicycle repair shops. Even when a classmate meets a teacher, he will play dumb because of his inferiority complex. None of their parents can come to the parent-teacher conference, even if they are forced to make a living.
A parent said to the teacher, "The whole world is outside the slums, and we just want our children to do things they haven't done."
This is a simple and real wish of the bottom. Your children may not get ahead, and the road to growth will never be smooth, but you still have to pin your hopes on them.
At school, slum children are placed in Class F, and the students who are in conflict with them are not from other classes, but from Class 9A.
On the one hand, this is due to the friction between different classes and the difference in academic performance. Life for different people, as if in one reality, can open the parallel universe of another reality. School and social life have given the "schoolmasters" in Class 9A the capital to look at people and be arrogant, and given them more care, tolerance and trust. And all this is something that the children in Class 9F have never had.
On the other hand, the film does not deliberately whitewash the children in Class 9F, and even directly points out that the greater responsibility for the conflict lies in Class 9F. Because these children from slums have more inferiority complex, negative attitude towards life and rebellious psychology in adolescence. They blamed their situation on their family background. Because of their different identities, they gave up better communication and friendship with Class A students and chose smoking, gambling, pranks and other bad hobbies instead. I tried to use these to seal up my inner self and show people with sharp teeth. But in fact, these are not their original faces.
Some people say, "education is not a project of survival of the fittest, but should follow the true love of life." Teacher Hiccup obviously did it herself, and she made a lot of efforts in this regard.
She encourages children to look directly at their origins, talents and shortcomings, make good use of heuristic teaching, and transform the playground into "another kind of classroom". Free and divergent thinking makes students have the desire to learn.
She knows how to protect children's fragile self-esteem, because she has lived in the eyes of people around her since she was a child, and even her father will regard herself with special respect.
It is in this process that students in Class 9F begin to learn to live an active life, and the contradictions and estrangements between classes are slowly being bridged and thawed. Mr. Hiccup has saved himself and his team in his own way.
But these may not be enough. As a sick woman, Naina has been hitting a wall-it took her five years to find this neglected job; She couldn't get her students to study at school before the exam, and almost all of them were expelled from school.
This is definitely not a deliberate "selling bitterness", which is the case in society. Many times, it is normal and helpless to get what you want without "tasting chicken soup".
At the end of the movie, I didn't expect to be an old teacher of Class 9A who has been wearing a villain's face, giving a speech on the stage.
He said: "Twenty years ago, I thought teachers were difficult to teach, but now I find it even harder to be a student. Because the teacher does not teach well, he will not be criticized and will not have to bear the consequences; When you are a student, you have to face the teacher's criticism and the pressure of taking exams for further studies. " This is not only his reflection on his behavior of treating others with colored glasses, but also his reflection on the current situation of Indian social education system.
Teacher Hiccup talked about many topics, but the core of the film is actually to show how to bravely choose to break and innovate when encountering social and life difficulties, rather than avoiding problems.
Teacher Hiccup not only broke the dogmatism of education, but also showed us an ideal educational environment even in an unsatisfactory society. At the same time, she also defeated herself. Even if you are sick, laughed at and bullied, facing more and more doubts, you can still firmly believe in your beautiful thoughts, make your own choices and find the direction of life.
It is worth mentioning that this is the second of a large number of Indian films released in recent years, which is mainly based on the "big woman" drama and has a distinct female perspective.
I prefer the expression of this one to the last mysterious superstar. Women are no longer waiting for redemption, nor are they people who can successfully escape from the cruel life only with extraordinary talents, but they can really speak for themselves freely. As Dead Poets Society said:
"Only your own heart knows what kind of person you want to be, and only you can find your own value."
Perhaps, after many big sales of Indian films and the summer bombing in Dying, this kind of work with deep "Indian film imprint" has not made our audience feel "fresh" so much.
However, Mr. Hiccup still has its advantages-it combines the educational concept of "spring breeze melts rain", the self-help of ordinary people and the discussion of a poor society.