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And of course, what Pink Floyd song would be complete without spoken lyrics to represent the idiocy, sadism, and ridiculousity of the situation? "Wrong, do it again! Wrong, do it again." I believe that in the movie, this is the part that deals with the teacher trying to subjugate the protagonist's will by ridiculing the poems that he writes instead of listening to his math teacher.
Money get back.
I'm alright, Jack.
Keep your hands off my stack.
New car,
Caviar,
Four star daydream.
Think I'll buy me a football team.
In the movie, the students are all lined up in single file just marching through the halls of the teachers. While the students march or sit at their desks, they all wear the disfigured masks that the school has implanted on their faces, and the thing toward which the students are marching is a meat grinder. The students eventually rebel. The school is burned down, they make a bonfire of books, and they throw in the most evil of all the teachers. Then, the protagonist snaps out of his dreams, and he is back in Maths class. The next scene is of the phone ringing when he is older. This is an awesome use of film.
Oh man, i know how it used to be with the rigid system of that age's education. But is it better now that the students have the ultimate freedom? Now it's like the teachers need to wear the difigured mask and walk into the meat grinder, at least this is the way i feel before i enter a class i have to teach. I'm the very essence of another brick in the wall, yet i try to keep it pure in my silent heart.
ReplyDeletei don't know how awful this sounds...
Learning by rote! My granny used to have to do it.
ReplyDeleteThis album, then the film (that most kids weren't allowed to watch, of course!) - and, from another time, The Little Red Schoolbooks.
All this sedition! It was all banned from school premises of course at one time and other and got help your backside if you were the one they caught with it!
Banned?
ReplyDeleteOnly at middle class schools.
Middle class?
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