《放牛班的春天》英文观后感The Chorus is a movie you have seen many times before.Cute,well-acted and utterly predictable,Christophe Barratier's feature debut delivers just what the advertising promises:a musician who has given up on fame takes a job as supervisor at a school for hard cases,and when he teaches the boys how to sing,they mellow out and begin to love him dearly.Fond d'Etang,the name of the school run with iron fist by the stern Rachin(Francois Berleand),translates as Rock Bottom,but round-faced Clement(Gerard Jugnot)holds on to his good cheer.His cuddly exterior betrays a warm intelligencexxapparently he knows that he is in the kind of movie where a little art will certainly tame the teenage beasts,and so he sorts the boys by their voices and starts a choir.All the necessary types are present in the classroom:the cute small kid,the brazen thieves and hormone-addled thugs,and of course the surprisingly talented teacher's pet(Jean-Baptiste Maunier),from whose adult perspective the story is told.In the opening scene,we learn that he ends up in New York City as one of the greatest conductors in the worldxxjust to make sure that everybody knows right away that this story has a happy end.Forgive me if I sound cynical.The Chorus is told with skill and charm,and if you like to hear golden teenage sopranos,you will love the music.If you're in the mood to be uplifted in all the usual heartwarming waysxxMr.Holland's Opus,Dead Poets'Society,Billy Elliot and scores of similar films come to mindxxThe Chorus will not disappoint you.Disappointing,however,is that Barratier didn't pick a fresher subject for his first film,disappointing,also,that out of all the unique and innovative films that came out of France last year,this formulaic and obvious movie was picked to represent the country at the Academy Awards.放牛班的春天英文观后感Teaching below the college level is difficult,particularly in inner cities where there's no particular respect for learning in so many families.Shakespeare is part of the curriculum in many schools,though one wonders how effective such learning is at age 16 when maybe one out of every hundred in the adult population would go to a Shakespearean performance even if the tickets were free.If a teacher is hapless enough to get a classroom of orphans and delinquents,teaching is even more difficult.Add to this a European post-war time when orphanages would be full-up and society is still chaotic,and you have a recipe for disaster unless,perhaps,you taught a subject like soccer.That's still not all.Imagine that the teacher is assigned to a class of tough and lonely kids who are not even the same age–that varies from 8 to 13–and the guy with the chalk is not some young,handsome,athletic type that the kids might identify with but an aging,bald fellow,why,you'd say there's no hope at all.Oops,one more thing.The principal of the school,Rachin(Francois Berleand)is not at all sympathetic to the new teacher and orders that he call the school director sir.In Christophe Barratier's picture Les Choristes(The Chorus),this is exactly what happens.In 1949 Clement Mathieu(Gerard Jugnot)is assigned to a class in a Dickensian excuse for a school(actually filmed at Chateau Ravel,a medieval stone castle in the rustic province of Puy-de-Dome).He gives the Mr.Chips impression but he's not a bumbler,even if he falls on his face during his first entrance to the class.He is himself a failed and lonely musician,which adds depth to the story,particularly when he's counting on a fling with a mother of one of the students.Tossing out the French textbook,he believes that these kids can be reached not so much intellectually,but emotionally,through the universal language of music,particularly when the students themselves are actively participating.He forms these kids of diverse ages with voices from soprano to bass into a chorus,which the principal at first thinks ridiculous and never completely does a turnaround,but through the magic of music and by catering to individual talents such as that of a gifted singer,Pierre Morhange(Jean-Baptiste Maurier),he shapes up young people,accustomed to be punished by hitting and being locked up in the school dungeon,without violence.Les Choristes is a feel-good picture but to its credit evokes only a pinch of gooey sentimentality.As a former teacher,I cannot quite believe that he could be so successful with this population of castaways and,indeed,director Barratier does not let us sit in the the dynamics from A to Z–particularly how he is able to get four-part harmony from the class.Seeing the result,we simply have to take for granted that the teacher does an A-1 not only with the kids but with himself:the failed musician is invigorated by the unfolding experience and takes to composing music once again–this time for the kids.The film is framed by a scene from the present day as one of Mathieu's former students visits the gentleman who was the gifted singer fifty-five years earlier,now a conductor of classical music famed throughout Europe.All this goes to show that if you can't become a success yourself in your chosen field–musicianship in this case–you can indeed flourish as one who inspires others to fame.Les Choristes is a charming paean to a most underappreciated and underpaid profession.《放牛班的春天》观后感我一向是不喜欢看电影的，但自从看了电影《放牛班的春天》后，我改变了对电影的看法。看了这个题目后，我原以为这是一部关于中国乡村的电影，就像《一个都不能少》一样。可是我错了，这是一部法国电影，讲述了一名音乐老师马修在被分配到一所全是调皮孩子、外号池塘之底寄宿学校的情况下，仍然有一个梦想：在这60个孩子中成立一个合唱团。在他眼里，每个孩子都有自己的特长，他们在不同的声部，唱出了一曲又一曲的优美音乐。尽管有的孩子五音不全，有的孩子根本不会唱歌，马修老师就根据他们自己的情况，担任乐谱架和助理的任务。就是那个处处犯坏的孩子孟丹，也成为了他唯一的男中音。更别说那个本身就有音乐天分但不好好学习的孩子莫翰奇了，他是合唱团中唱得最好的一个孩子，在马修老师被解雇后进入了里昂音乐学院。马修老师的这个梦想却总是被院长扰乱。在他一开始有了这个梦想的时候，院长就说他没有搞清楚状况，还警告他停止合唱团。可他并没有放弃自己的梦想，并在每晚睡觉前进行合唱训练。写出了《看看你经过的路上》《风筝》等作品。而在他的合唱团终于得到伯爵夫人的赏识时，成功的果实却被院长独吞了，院长说组建合唱团是他的主意，还想靠这个去发财、晋升。然而，由于老师和神父带孩子们出去玩，学校被烧了，院长的一切如意算盘落了空。气急败坏的院长一怒之下把马修老师解雇了，还不允许他再见孩子们一面，在他要离开的时候，孩子们用折纸飞机的方式，献给了他的最后礼物。善有善报，恶有恶报。院长的阴谋终究被揭穿，他也被解雇了。而那个执着的孩子贝皮诺打动了老师，让老师带着他一起走，并托老师的愿望把他的日记带给了莫翰奇。最后老师还是没有成名，他在日记的最后说他是一个失败的音乐家，一个失败的学监。可我认为他不完全是。他努力地创作出作品，难道不是一个好的音乐家吗?他通过自己的努力使孩子们不再调皮了，难道不是一个好的学监吗?看完这部电影，我一直在思索着，这部电影教会了我们什么?是梦想吗?是的，一开始，老师让每个孩子都写下自己的梦想。是宽容吗?是的，老师一次又一次的宽容同学，使他们不被校长所虐待。是努力吗?是的，老师和同学们都分别通过自己的努力，收获了自己所希望的成果。那么如果你有梦想，请让它尽情释放;如果你有梦想，请向着这个梦想努力;如果你有梦想，请你无论在什么时候，都不要忘记这个梦想!。
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