英语名著读后感
简爱Kent State University's school of theatre and dance performed a rendition of the classic, Jane Eyre this month. The show was a musical with all of the necessary elements to lift you from your seat and submerse youinto a society in nineteenth century England from the time the cell phone shut-off announcement was made until the last note at the curtain call. The recurring arches, darkened, soft lighting, and the use of a classic chorus to go along with them alluded that a sinister underbelly of social status and reputation were present in the performance.One of the first things that an audience member noticed was the grandeur of the set. It was composed of a gothic-style foreground with rustic twigs of a root-like earthy appearance. There were grand arches for windows and entries as well. Also, the background was a large arch with the silhouette of roots. There were also two matching greek-style pillar arches on either side of the stage. They added a lot to many messages of the show. For one, they were grand structures that were barren inside which is much like Mr. Rochester himself. He was a man of high social stature but felt enslaved by his trick of a marriage and his grand yet incomplete (without a true love) home. The arches also suggest the importance of reputation with the same sort of fundamental grand image yet emptiness. The way that people are enslaved yet scramble to ascertain that solid image amongst their peers. The arches were almost inviting the audience to come inside to reveal their secret, the thing that was hidden deep inside that could send the structure crumbling in ruin.昆虫记Insect is a distinguished French entomologist, writer Fabre handed down masterpiece, a monumental work is not only a literary masterpiece, and also a scientific encyclopedia. Insect in detail a number of insects, introduced their instincts, habits, work, marriage, reproduction and death. Fabre has a strong interest in insects, so he's Insect let me read as though he is the one on the sidelines of the insects. Each insect has, like the emotion. Such as: The locusts have already Huang Leshen, complete the 'Sanshiliuji go for the best' forget this trick to go to the back of the head. Reading the Insect, I can even imagine the activities of insects in the picture, the immediate word is no longer boring, but the mystery of nature. Cicadas sing again, and then manage the household crickets, spiders and then capture the food ... ... the mysterious nature has such interesting things, I respect nature and wells, it has a cautious side. Insect not just dip always be awe for life, but also contains some kind of spirit. That spirit is the truth, that the pursuit of truth, seek truth. This is the Fabre spirit. In Insect Records under the guidance, I want to continue to explore the wonderful world of insects
请写一篇英文的罗密欧与朱丽叶的读后感或者观后感(不太长，三段够了)
中文：故事发生在维洛那名城，有两家门第相当的巨族，累世的宿怨激起了新争，鲜血把市民的白手污渎。
是命运注定这两家仇敌，生下了一对不幸的恋人······”在一首概括性的开场诗后，这部流传了几百年的著名爱情悲剧拉开了帷幕。
在这个暑假了，我莫名地爱上了的戏剧，在看过、等后，最可惜没看到这部举世闻名的戏剧，第一次来到图书馆，就盯上了它，下定决心要在3节阅读课上把它读完。
这部书的和其他大不一样，从开头就可以感觉得到。
整部戏剧是用诗一般的语言来书写的，优雅的贵族用诗句来对话，而仆人们却很普通，足以显出地位的悬殊，通篇洋溢着人文的浪漫的基调。
凯普莱特家族与蒙太玖家族是世仇，正如剧本里所描写的，他们一见面就会打起来，势不两立的两个家族的儿女却成了一对苦恋情人，这是不是上帝
“她是天上明珠降落人间
”罗密欧这样形容朱丽叶。
舞会当晚，在月夜的花园里，浪漫的薄纱般的白色月光下，一对情人互诉衷肠，到这儿全局本到了中间部分，正在向高潮推进，他们秘密地结婚，似乎是喜剧的路线却来了个大转弯。
谁也不会想到，在他们成婚几小时后，罗密欧因为朱丽叶的表哥杀死了朋友而把他杀了。
他被放逐了，朱丽叶悲痛万分，因为她的表哥，因为她的丈夫。
祸不单行，准备把“童贞献给死亡”的她又被父母自作主张地许配给了伯爵。
那天晚上，罗密欧偷偷爬到朱丽叶房里。
似乎是他对她的告别，他得在天亮时离开。
不光是男女主角，就是我这个读者，也不希望黎明的到来，希望代表黑夜的夜莺永远唱出婉转的曲调，赶走代表黎明的云雀。
我特别喜欢朱丽叶服安眠药前以及罗密欧在她墓中服毒自杀之前的那大段独白。
其中的最后一句极其相似。
朱丽叶：“我为你干了这一杯
”罗密欧：“为了我的爱人，我干了这一杯
”朱丽叶在不清楚这药到底是什么，会有什么作用之前，毅然饮下了它，她为了她的爱情、她的计划，干了这一杯。
接着她就昏睡过去。
可是，，给罗密欧的信没有送出去，他带着悲痛与疯狂，带着，来到了墓室。
他杀了伯爵，原本温文尔雅的罗密欧为了爱情显得多么疯狂，他服毒就像喝普通饮料一样毫无差别。
正在这时，朱丽叶醒了，她看到自己的爱人死在身边，手里还握着毒酒杯，正伤心拔出他的匕首，殉了情。
可恶的时差，我在心里咒骂着，如果朱丽叶早点醒来该多好。
一对情人的死，换来了两个家族的融合，他们成了朋友。
维洛那城里竖起了罗密欧与朱丽叶的金塑像，象征着自由、浪漫的爱情，它终于冲破的世俗的阻碍，冲破了家族的仇恨与矛盾。
一对青年的牺牲，换来了两个家族之间的春天。
英语：The story takes place in Verona city, there are two huge doors first significant group, the scores aroused a new struggle between the white blood to the public sewage ditch. Is doomed to the fate of the two enemies, gave birth to a pair of unfortunate lovers, a general in the opening poem, the film has been passed down for hundreds of years of well-known tragedy of love began. In this summer, I fell in love with a nameless to Shakespeare's drama, in reading Hamlet, King Lear and so on, the most unfortunate not to see this world-famous drama, the first time to the library, on the mark on it, determined to read in three classes to finish it. Book and other writing style are very different, can be felt from the beginning. Drama poem is written in the language, the aristocratic elegance to the dialogue with verse, and the servants are very general, sufficient to show the status of the poor, and full of filled with the romantic tone of the humanities. Montague family and凯普莱特Jiu family feud, as described in the script, they will fight a meeting, the two irreconcilable family of sons and daughters has become a lover, this is not God people get good luck ? She is the pearl of the sky to land the world! Romeo Juliet described. Dance the night garden in the Spring River, romantic white tulle like the moonlight, a pair of Valentine's aware that certain , the overall situation here to the middle part of this, is to promote the climax, they secretly married, it seems that the line is a comedy but to a big turn. No one would have thought that after a few hours in their marriage, because Romeo killed Juliet's cousin and friend to the homicide. He was banished, and Juliet great sorrow, because her cousin, as her husband. Misfortunes never come singly, is prepared to dedicated to the death of virginity, she was betrothed to the parents a free hand to the count. That night, Romeo Juliet secretly climbed room. She seems to be his farewell, he had to leave in the morning. Not only is the male and female, that is, my readers, it is hoped that the arrival of dawn, I hope on behalf of the nightingale will never sing the night of tunes indirectly, on behalf of the dawn lark off. I am particularly fond of sleeping pills before Juliet and Romeo in her suicide by taking poison in the tomb before the big monologue. Which is extremely similar to the last sentence. Juliet: I did the cup for you! Romeo: To my love, I did the cup! Juliet in this medicine is not clear what is in the end, what role will be before it took a drink, she love for her, she plans to do the Cup. Then she sleeping past. However,to Romeo not to send out the letter, he with grief and madness, with poison, came to the tomb. The homicide count, the original Romeo gentle how crazy it is for love, he is like drinking poison, like there is no difference between an ordinary beverage. Just then, Juliet woke up, she saw his wife dead in the side, also holding han dsCup, is pulled out his dagger sad, devadasi the situation. The time difference between hateful, cursing in my mind, if Juliet nice to wake up as soon as possible. A pair of lover's death, in exchange for the integration of the two families, they became friends. The city of Verona Romeo and Juliet put up a statue of gold, a symbol of freedom, romantic love, it finally broke through the barriers of the secular to break the family's hatred and conflicts. A pair of young people to sacrifice in return for the spring between the two families.
放牛班的春天英文观后感
1“”“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 intelligence--apparently 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 world--just 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 ways--Mr. Holland's Opus, Dead Poets' Society, Billy Elliot and scores of similar films come to mind--The 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.2Delightful, uplifting, beautifully acted film that fully deserved its Oscar nominations for both Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song.The BackgroundChristophe Barratier’s The Chorus (Les Choristes) was an unexpectedly huge hit in France, to the point where it has reportedly reawakened a national interest in boys’ choirs. It’s doubtful that its influence on British audiences will be quite so profound, but it’s a hugely enjoyable film that plays like Le Societe de les Poets Morts meets L’Opus de Monsieur Holland.The film was deservedly nominated for two Oscars (for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song) and although it lost out on both awards, it did at least provide le grande spectacle of Beyoncé Knowles singing the main song at the Oscars, in French. Ooh, and indeed, la la.The StoryBased on an obscure 1945 French film, La Cage Aux Rossignols (A Cage of Nightingales), The Chorus is predominantly set in 1949. However, the film begins in the present day when a famous conductor, Pierre (Jacques Perrin) is visited by an old schoolmate, Pepinot (Didier Flamand) and together they relive the arrival at their reform school of new teacher Clement Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot).The young Pierre (Jean-Baptiste Maunier) is always in trouble, not least from the stern headmaster, Monsieur Rachin (Francois Berléand) and Mathieu takes him under his wing, particularly when he starts a choir for the boys and discovers that Pierre has a heavenly singing voice.The ActingJugnot shines as Mathieu, despite (or perhaps because of) his occasional resemblance to Mikhail Gorbachev. His scenes with the children (particularly the young Pierre and Pepinot) are extremely moving, as is his unrequited crush on Pierre’s attractive mother (Marie Bunel). The scene where he learns that she is in love with someone else is heart-breaking.There is also excellent support from the rest of the cast, from Berléand’s performance as the sadistic head to Gregory Gatignol as the school thug and Jean-Paul Bonnire as the kindly old school caretaker.However, the stand-out performance belongs to Jean-Baptiste Maunier, who really does have -as the script says- the face and voice of an angel. Maunier was allegedly plucked from a choir group having never acted before and has now become something of a sensation in France.The FormulaThe Chorus conforms neatly to the Dead Poets Society template, even down to the O Capitain, mon Capitain scene. This is no bad thing, however. The film is extremely well made and enhanced by an intelligent, witty script. Beautifully filmed by Carlo Varini with realistically austere sets, it benefits greatly from its use of original music, written for the film by Barratier and composer Bruno Coulais.In short, if you’re looking for a feel-good arthouse flick then The Chorus is the perfect film to while away the winter blues. Highly recommended.3Teaching 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 profession4Audiences love films about underdogs that overcome. One of the most beloved sub-genres in film history involves a seemingly controversial or unorthodox schoolteacher sparking the inspiration of students to rise above and achieve greatness. It's a familiar story that translates to nearly any era, setting, and subject. We've seen the effect of literature on a group of boys at a New England prep school in Dead Poets Society. Inner-city teens found confidence through calculus in Stand and Deliver. And then there's the transforming power of music, as shown in movies like Mr. Holland's Opus and Music of the Heart.The French film Les Choristes (The Chorus) follows in this tradition and last year met with incredible success in its homeland, outperforming Harry Potter and other big budget film imports. Pretty impressive for the first feature film by director and composer Christophe Barratier, who adapted the screenplay from a little known 1945 film called The Cage of the Nightingales. The new movie's soundtrack features choral music by leading French composer Bruno Coulais and also became a surprise hit, contributing to an unexpected resurgence in classical youth choirs in France.Clement Mathieu (Gerard Jugnot) brings light and life to a dark placeLes Choristes is set in post-World War II France, a time of social restructuring and economic recovery from German occupation. Not many movies have adequately dealt with what the French faced in the aftermath. Considering how many children were orphaned as a result, it's not surprising that the government instated correctional houses designed to discipline with military strictness—Spare the rod, spoil the children.Gerard Jugnot, as Clement Mathieu, directs the boys choirOne such school is L'Fond de L'Etang, which literally means Rock Bottom, an old French castle that looks very much like a prison. When mild-mannered Clement Mathieu (popular French actor Gerard Jugnot) arrives to take a position as the new assistant teacher, he is immediately plunged into an educational system nightmare. His colleagues humorously introduce themselves by giving the names of the worst troublemakers. Headmaster Rachin (Francois Berleand) has the cold, hard demeanor of a warden, delivering swift punishment to anyone caught inciting trouble. And the boys behave as if discipline were an alien concept, pouring their efforts into driving the new teacher away for the next one in line to arrive.However, Mathieu is not like other teachers (after all, who else would want this job?) and he sees great potential in the students. All they know is Rachin's disciplinary motto, Action, reaction. But instead of resorting to similar violence, Mathieu demonstrates patience and love, using their taunts to teach. When he finds that the boys have some ability for singing through their schoolyard chants, he reawakens his abandoned passion for music and decides to begin a choir to promote unity and harmony. Jean-Baptiste Maunier, as Morhange, has an angelic voiceLes Choristes is a film of great beauty and sweet intentions, offering a strong theme of grace vs. punishment—compassion of the heart in contrast to the hard discipline of the law. How one seemingly small act can transform so many lives, treating the kids like people instead of criminals. The film starts off well enough, appropriately building tension between Mathieu and both the children and the headmaster. Jugnot gives his role the necessary sweetness and believability, easily allowing the audience to want to see Mathieu succeed with his good intentions and gentler methods.Unfortunately, the movie has a sloppy flow that relies too heavily on little clichés. This is a movie about transformed lives, yet the film cuts corners when it comes to the process of transformation. Mathieu decides to start a choir, and we see the first day of practice. From there, the choir's progress is generally detailed with Mathieu's occasional journal entries, and we're to believe that a group of boys go from complete inexperience to Vienna Boys Choir in a matter of two months, which for the film audience is a change from ragamuffins to star attractions in less than 30 minutes. Missing are scenes of Mathieu truly connecting with the kids, watching them light up with newfound musical passion.
英文歌曲中的 the intro， the verse ，the chorus 是什么意思
括号里面是对这首歌的小备注，intro指前奏，chorus是高潮部分，也就是副歌，verse并不是韵文，而是verse 1 verse 2那个verse，就是指第一段第二段高潮前面那一部分。
括号里面的意思是说前奏、verse（我觉得翻译成主歌比较好，反正是那一段）、和高潮部分是有吉他合奏的。
三篇英文名著读后感。
70词。
初一水平
1“”“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 intelligence--apparently 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 world--just 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 ways--Mr. Holland's Opus, Dead Poets' Society, Billy Elliot and scores of similar films come to mind--The 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.2Delightful, uplifting, beautifully acted film that fully deserved its Oscar nominations for both Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song.The BackgroundChristophe Barratier’s The Chorus (Les Choristes) was an unexpectedly huge hit in France, to the point where it has reportedly reawakened a national interest in boys’ choirs. It’s doubtful that its influence on British audiences will be quite so profound, but it’s a hugely enjoyable film that plays like Le Societe de les Poets Morts meets L’Opus de Monsieur Holland.The film was deservedly nominated for two Oscars (for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song) and although it lost out on both awards, it did at least provide le grande spectacle of Beyoncé Knowles singing the main song at the Oscars, in French. Ooh, and indeed, la la.The StoryBased on an obscure 1945 French film, La Cage Aux Rossignols (A Cage of Nightingales), The Chorus is predominantly set in 1949. However, the film begins in the present day when a famous conductor, Pierre (Jacques Perrin) is visited by an old schoolmate, Pepinot (Didier Flamand) and together they relive the arrival at their reform school of new teacher Clement Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot).The young Pierre (Jean-Baptiste Maunier) is always in trouble, not least from the stern headmaster, Monsieur Rachin (Francois Berléand) and Mathieu takes him under his wing, particularly when he starts a choir for the boys and discovers that Pierre has a heavenly singing voice.The ActingJugnot shines as Mathieu, despite (or perhaps because of) his occasional resemblance to Mikhail Gorbachev. His scenes with the children (particularly the young Pierre and Pepinot) are extremely moving, as is his unrequited crush on Pierre’s attractive mother (Marie Bunel). The scene where he learns that she is in love with someone else is heart-breaking.There is also excellent support from the rest of the cast, from Berléand’s performance as the sadistic head to Gregory Gatignol as the school thug and Jean-Paul Bonnire as the kindly old school caretaker.However, the stand-out performance belongs to Jean-Baptiste Maunier, who really does have -as the script says- the face and voice of an angel. Maunier was allegedly plucked from a choir group having never acted before and has now become something of a sensation in France.The FormulaThe Chorus conforms neatly to the Dead Poets Society template, even down to the O Capitain, mon Capitain scene. This is no bad thing, however. The film is extremely well made and enhanced by an intelligent, witty script. Beautifully filmed by Carlo Varini with realistically austere sets, it benefits greatly from its use of original music, written for the film by Barratier and composer Bruno Coulais.In short, if you’re looking for a feel-good arthouse flick then The Chorus is the perfect film to while away the winter blues. Highly recommended.3Teaching 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 profession4Audiences love films about underdogs that overcome. One of the most beloved sub-genres in film history involves a seemingly controversial or unorthodox schoolteacher sparking the inspiration of students to rise above and achieve greatness. It's a familiar story that translates to nearly any era, setting, and subject. We've seen the effect of literature on a group of boys at a New England prep school in Dead Poets Society. Inner-city teens found confidence through calculus in Stand and Deliver. And then there's the transforming power of music, as shown in movies like Mr. Holland's Opus and Music of the Heart.The French film Les Choristes (The Chorus) follows in this tradition and last year met with incredible success in its homeland, outperforming Harry Potter and other big budget film imports. Pretty impressive for the first feature film by director and composer Christophe Barratier, who adapted the screenplay from a little known 1945 film called The Cage of the Nightingales. The new movie's soundtrack features choral music by leading French composer Bruno Coulais and also became a surprise hit, contributing to an unexpected resurgence in classical youth choirs in France.Clement Mathieu (Gerard Jugnot) brings light and life to a dark placeLes Choristes is set in post-World War II France, a time of social restructuring and economic recovery from German occupation. Not many movies have adequately dealt with what the French faced in the aftermath. Considering how many children were orphaned as a result, it's not surprising that the government instated correctional houses designed to discipline with military strictness—Spare the rod, spoil the children.Gerard Jugnot, as Clement Mathieu, directs the boys choirOne such school is L'Fond de L'Etang, which literally means Rock Bottom, an old French castle that looks very much like a prison. When mild-mannered Clement Mathieu (popular French actor Gerard Jugnot) arrives to take a position as the new assistant teacher, he is immediately plunged into an educational system nightmare. His colleagues humorously introduce themselves by giving the names of the worst troublemakers. Headmaster Rachin (Francois Berleand) has the cold, hard demeanor of a warden, delivering swift punishment to anyone caught inciting trouble. And the boys behave as if discipline were an alien concept, pouring their efforts into driving the new teacher away for the next one in line to arrive.However, Mathieu is not like other teachers (after all, who else would want this job?) and he sees great potential in the students. All they know is Rachin's disciplinary motto, Action, reaction. But instead of resorting to similar violence, Mathieu demonstrates patience and love, using their taunts to teach. When he finds that the boys have some ability for singing through their schoolyard chants, he reawakens his abandoned passion for music and decides to begin a choir to promote unity and harmony. Jean-Baptiste Maunier, as Morhange, has an angelic voiceLes Choristes is a film of great beauty and sweet intentions, offering a strong theme of grace vs. punishment—compassion of the heart in contrast to the hard discipline of the law. How one seemingly small act can transform so many lives, treating the kids like people instead of criminals. The film starts off well enough, appropriately building tension between Mathieu and both the children and the headmaster. Jugnot gives his role the necessary sweetness and believability, easily allowing the audience to want to see Mathieu succeed with his good intentions and gentler methods.Unfortunately, the movie has a sloppy flow that relies too heavily on little clichés. This is a movie about transformed lives, yet the film cuts corners when it comes to the process of transformation. Mathieu decides to start a choir, and we see the first day of practice. From there, the choir's progress is generally detailed with Mathieu's occasional journal entries, and we're to believe that a group of boys go from complete inexperience to Vienna Boys Choir in a matter of two months, which for the film audience is a change from ragamuffins to star attractions in less than 30 minutes. Missing are scenes of Mathieu truly connecting with the kids, watching them light up with newfound musical passion.
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Whether you read for the beauty of language or for the intricacies of plot, you will easily fall in love with David Wroblewski’s generous, almost transcendentally lovely debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. This is a tale set in rural Wisconsin in the first half of the 20th century, on a farm where the Sawtelles raise a fictional breed of dog. The dogs function like spirits in Shakespeare, or the chorus in Greek tragedy: They color the text with larger meaning yet remain tangibly real, deeply believable as dogs. Edgar is the mute boy who raises them, a mesmerizing fictional hero, primitive and wise. There are passages of language here (A pair of does sprang over the fence on the north side of the field-two leaps each, nonchalant, long-sustained, falling earthward only as an afterthought...) that make you pause and read again with luxuriant pleasure. Wroblewski's plot is dynamic – page by page compelling – and classical, evoking Hamlet, Antigone, Electra, and Orestes, as Edgar tries to avenge his father's death and his paternal uncle's new place in the affections of his mother. The scope of this book, its psychological insight and lyrical mastery, make it one of the best novels of the year, and a perfect, comforting joy of a book for summer.
