刚好是前几天听的lecture里，说的是美国大学的 law in history，提到the most dramatic change is the way teaching was done,which is followed the Socrqtic questioning style，并且一直沿用至今。而在那之前的一个星期，刚好有南周评论版一哥们儿写苏格拉底的死写得风姿勃发。

下午看了《The history boys》，戏剧改电影，演员台词功底实在了得，用词华丽流畅，书袋也吊得无迹可觅，看完了想想差不多题材老美的《死亡诗社》确实够烂，不论老师学生都只能念几句惠特曼的“Oh，captain，my captain”，怪不得欧洲文化中心论到现在也是如此地有市场。

背景是80年代文法男校，出场人物有三位历史老师、八名学生和一个校长。

喜欢在骑摩托车时把手放到后座男生ball上面去的Hector老师为人风趣随和不拘小节，教学方式散漫又无章法，他热衷于培养学生对诗歌修辞的好感，八个学生经常会在法语课上模拟妓院的对话场景以巩固对虚拟态语气词汇的掌握……然而学生并非会被这种慢节奏无绩效的老式教学方式所迷惑——他们的目标是牛津或剑桥的历史系。校长请来了牛津毕业的年轻教师Irwin，这位老师的教学犀利、深刻而充满激情，与Hector的方法刚好形成良性互补，最终八名学生全部得偿所愿。

被我说的若无其事的概括底下大概是一般中国学生难以理解的种种情感及其处理方式。当我将Darkin对Irwin的表白与Clive对Maurice的进行对照时，发现了相类似的各种要素。因此感情是激励我观看然而我却不愿予以多说的东西，我对苏格拉底感兴趣。

Hector的教学方式是苏格拉底式的吗？校长对这个做了肯定的回答，那么看起来新潮锋利的Irwin呢？我倒觉得也是。

片中开头一幕很有意思，也有可能是我想多了：一个学生骑车去了教堂，神父正在说着祷词：“神所赐出人意外的平安，必在基督耶稣里保守你们的心怀意念。全能之主的祝福，圣父、圣子和圣灵，会保佑汝等，并与汝共存，现在如此，今后亦然，阿门。”再看到后面分别出场的三位老师，总有一种隐隐对照着trinity的感觉。刚好三位老师采取的是三种不同的教学方法，于是就想当然了。

Dorothy作为唯一的女教师，她的教学严谨而深具批判意识。Hector则并非是散漫无目的教学方法令学校不能令人接受，相反，校长说过“有效”这样的话，只不过因为他摸ball的动作被女巡查员看到了而被迫退休。新来的Irwin则能够最大地调动学生的求知热情，三个性格、方式各异的老师凑在一起，教出了八个牛津剑桥的学生其实也顺理成章。

Hector是要求在长期的教学中对学生潜移默化，注重文学素养并依赖这样的基础，喜欢吊书袋的他何尝不是在白发苍苍的时候才能够“随心所欲”的呢？他深信时间能够带给人最大的安慰，然而他又确实被时间伤害不浅这样的矛盾体现在他出场发言的每时每刻，并且他是以此为享受的。崇拜安逸是懦夫的行为，他在花甲之龄仍然以一种浮士德式的姿态战斗着，一点儿也不美观，但却让人心生好感——这不能够称之为同情，同情该是对他以及对我们这些心生好感的人的嘲笑。它不会让人愤怒，但它不应该用在Hector的身上，即便他壮士断腕般今朝酒醉明日赴死。Hector是个纯粹的、天生的老师，他不需要用校规或者其他东西包括道德来约束自己，因为他认为对于一个真正的教师来说，“教师”的身份就应该是最大的约束，除此之外，百无禁忌。

Irwin则简单得多，他是个已经被急功近利的现代性给弄得别别扭扭的那种家伙，可是，无奈地，非常招人喜欢。无论是观众还是学生，更或者是万人迷的Darkin。他的尖酸和深刻一样惹人怜爱，犹如他的自信和自卑，那般恰到好处地融合，使他既嚣张又惶惑。凉薄的双颊代表自制，眼镜的遮掩则又精光四溢，每个人都爱他爱得不行，爱到连他漏洞百出的字体也被了解和模仿。Irwin上课时的passion很强大，相当吸引人，赚得的眼球使他既得意又恐惧。以至于到最后，连我都以为他真的会跪在地上，suck Darkin……Irwin是这样的一位老师，他不止像Hector那样简单的传递与索取，更多的时候他将两者融为一体，使自己犹如禁欲的僧侣一般脆弱到不堪一击，而揭开寡陋的面具攻击他的人总是存在。我们都爱Irwin，学生爱，老师同样爱，他自己也爱，所以在最后他对与Darkin之间约会的忘却是那样的无理但含情脉脉。Irwin本身没有做教师的自觉，所以，他越来越是那种需要随时提醒自己有所自觉的讨厌状。他太年轻，经不起考验，故而不如舍弃考验，这一点我们既爱又恨。

Dorothy的出场份额短暂但并非无效，她对历史的看法犹如历史自身一样地充满了偏见但使人不得不敬畏。她是隐者，但并不低调，她在合适的时候绽放，容易教人忽然陷入无所适从地尴尬，因为她居然那么简单又真实，就好像近代史手册一样，却又最容易受到无数观点的左右而易于摇摆。Dorothy应该起调和的作用，但事实上她往往最为激动，学生记得这样的老师的存在，正因为记得她偶尔的雷霆万钧。

三位老师其实共同体现的都是苏格拉底的智慧与责任，因为这一点避无可避，又因为——there it is。短短两个小时的电影，反映出了如此多的道理，却并不拥挤逼仄，相反倒有一种天性的诗意缓缓淌过，简直是最好的英式教育白皮书，不得不感叹，一个好的戏剧，张力的确能够做到文学性与表演性的极致，或者说是能够找准那个最佳平衡点，从而在任何情况下赢得时间和空间。

电影看完了，有人醒悟说，原来自始至终强调的居然不是那句“history is just one fuckin' thing after another.”而是Hector说的，education needs “Take it, feel it and pass it on”。

所以，这部影片其实从头到尾都是在向雅典公民苏格拉底先生致以最崇高的敬意。包括那无处不在的洋溢在年轻与老朽的肉体之中的爱与责任。

"The best moment in reading are when you come across something...a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you'd thought special, particular to you, and here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And...it's as if a hand...has come out...and taken yours."-- From Hector.

一个六十岁的老男人，是一所中学的老师，和八个年轻的男孩在一起念诗歌读文学。唯一的安慰，可能就是每次借带他们回家的名义，给他们自己的“benedictions".
他原本想有一辆装满书的车，环游世界。却最终在一次车祸中离开人世。或许，这就是他的一生。
求而不可得，漫无边际的孤独，唯有书本能给自己安慰。
可是，那始终不是柔软的，有温度的，真实的手，不是吗？

1、The History Boys讲述的是一群英国高中生，也就是一群非常鲜嫩活泼的青春肉体，在那个骚动、迷惘、正在逐渐建立起自己人生的价值观、寻找自己的种种人生角色、并为了未来而全情努力的高考阶段的故事。这部电影涉及了很多议题，有迷惘青春的私密成长，有同志身份的认同与隐瞒，有对教育制度、教育观的审视与对抗，中间穿插了文学与历史的思辨、诱惑、赞美与传传承，通过两代人饱含机智、幽默和脉脉温情的交锋，传递了对生命、价值的思考。

2、电影上映时间2006年10月13日（英国），戏剧原作上演时间2004年5月（伦敦利特尔顿剧院）2006年4月23日（美国百老汇）。话剧获得2006年6项托尼奖，包括最佳话剧奖、最佳导演奖、最佳女配角奖、最佳男演员奖,、最佳美术设计奖和最佳灯光设计奖。托尼奖在戏剧界相当于电影界的奥斯卡，美国戏剧界最高奖项。

3、导演Nicholas Hytner是英国国家剧院经营人，话剧导演。剧作者Alan Bennett艾伦班尼特，英国著名剧作家，文化名人，在英国家喻户晓、获奖无数。爸爸是个屠夫，牛津大学历史系出身，留校任教中世纪历史几年后，转为专职写作。从1960年代开始投身剧本创作，并以自身担任导演及演员的经验为基础，写出许多精采佳作。他以《The History Boys》赢得戏剧界最高荣誉托尼奖，并曾以《疯狂乔治王》（The Madness of King George）入围奥斯卡最佳改编剧本。他也出版散文集《Writing Home》及自传作品《Untold Stories》等。他1997年身患癌症，当时开始撰写Untold Stories，抱着离世的心情写作，自传中首次透露了他的同性恋身份（他之前跟女性也有过关系）。后来他的癌症得以治愈，自传正式出版。目前他与他的男伴已经相处了14年，一直居住在伦敦。他最近的一本散文集《非普通读者》，虚构了一个英国女王迷恋读书之后种种疯狂行径的故事，在英国大受好评，目前相继在台湾、大陆出版了中文译本。


4、影片背景设置在1983年英国谢菲尔德一所男子高中文法学校。为什么要设置在这个年代呢，这跟英国的高考制度有关。概括地说，英国高考称为A-LEVEL考试，有几十项科目可以选择，学生至少学习三门课程，只要在两门课的考试中取得E即可达到一些普通大学的入学标准，较好的大学要求学生3门课的成绩均达到C以上。而一流大学如牛津、剑桥等名校则要求申请学生3门课的成绩达到AAA或AAB。而在1983年那个年代，牛津和剑桥有专门的入学考试，拿到3个A的学生，还要开始一段为期一个月、所谓的seventh-term，主要针对某一科目进行深造，以应对牛津和剑桥的考试。此后不久牛津和剑桥就改变了入学考试方式，废除了所谓的seventh-term，所以影片设置在1983年。
本片中这所男校中有8个学生拿到了3个A的成绩，他们回到校园，继续学习，他们选择的科目是历史。一心追求名校升学率的校长，生怕原有的历史老师不够资格、太保守，不能应付牛津的考试，因此聘请到一位新的历史老师，这位老师据说出身牛津，充满活力，并且了解牛津要什么样的学生。校长希望新历史老师的专门辅导能够帮助他们登上牛津剑桥的宝座。The History Boys的故事由此展开。

5、电影版演员与戏剧版首演演员完全一致。老师阵营为谢菲尔德男校校长、历史老师Mrs Dorothy Lintott、语文与常识课老师Hector海克特（Richard Griffiths）、历史老师Irwin欧文（Stephen Campbell Moore）等。学生主要有Dakin、Posner、Akthar、Crowther、Lockwood、Rudge、Scripps、Timms。
Hector扮演者Richard Griffiths是英国著名演员，饰演多部莎剧丑角，《哈利波特》电影中扮演哈利的姨父。老爷子对戏剧有很高的崇敬，比如有次演出，有观众手机铃声响了6次，他忍无可忍，终于中止表演让该观众出去。2008年新年接受女王授勋。
Dakin扮演者Dominic Cooper，1978年生，伦敦音乐戏剧艺术学院科班出身。主演过妈妈咪呀等剧。今年5月刚跟女友分手。目前跟HISTORY BOYS里中扮演Timms的胖子住在一起。曾登上2008年7月号英国版Attitude杂志封面，此为著名同志杂志。
Posner扮演者Samuel Barnett，1980年生，自幼表演，同样是伦敦音乐戏剧艺术学院出身，平日最爱去国家剧院酒吧，爱读科幻小说，如菲利浦普曼的《黑暗元素三部曲》，他也主演了这部话剧。他还是哈利波特和魔戒的爱好者，最爱读狄更斯。

Quotations and References: Act One

(Page numbers refer to the 2004 paperback Faber & Faber edition. List compiled by Tudor Economic Documents.)

p5
"All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use." - Hector
A.E. Housman

"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now." - Hector
A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman

p6
"Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!" - Hector
Othello, Othello, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 2

"I have put before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." - Hector
Deuteronomy 30:19

p7
"Look up, My Lord."
"Vex not his ghost. O let him pass. He hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer."
"O, he is gone indeed."
"The wonder is he hath endured so long.
He but usurped this life..."

"...I have a journey sir, shortly to go;
My master calls me, I must not say no." - Hector
"The weight of this sad time we must obey
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
- Edgar (Posner), Kent (Timms/Hector), King Lear, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 3

Hymns Ancient and Modern - a Church of England hymnal.

p9
Renaissance Man - answers.com: "A man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences."

p12
Although the script does not make it clear, Posner here sings the chorus of L'Accordéoniste, a song popularised by Edith Piaf.

p13
La Vie en Rose - 1946 song, Edith Piaf's signature song. (lyrics)

p23
The Catcher in the Rye - a novel by J.D. Salinger.

"Let each child that's in your care-"
"Have as much neurosis as the child can bear." - Hector and Mrs Lintott
W.H. Auden, Letter to Lord Byron

Hecatomb - like holocaust, a word associated with sacrifice. In this sense, 'holocaust' refers to an animal sacrifice by fire.

p24
"...since Wilfred Owen says men were dying like cattle, [hecatombs] is the appropriate word." - Dakin
Referring to Wilfred Owen's famous WWI poem, Anthem for a Doomed Youth.

Trench warfare - static lines of defence in war, with each side basing soldiers in trenches as a means of defence.

Haig - Field Marshal Douglas Haig, nicknamed 'Butcher of the Somme', one of the more controversial figures in WWI.

"The humiliation of Germany at Versailles." - refers to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, a formal peace treaty with Germany at the close of WWI. It included that Germany take full responsibility for the war and imposed several restrictions of territorial, military and economic matters.

"Ruhr and the Rhineland." - refers to the Ruhr Crisis. France sent forces to occupy the Ruhr, an area in the north of the Rhineland, in an effort to force Germany to once again make reparation payments, which they stopped in 1923. Britain and the United States did not support this action.

"The collapse of the Weimar Republic" - in the late 1920s and early 1930s, towards the beginning of depression in Germany, the Weimar Republic saw the rise of the popularity of the Nazi party.

p25
The Cenotaph - The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London is where the national ceremony takes place on Remembrance Sunday (11th November, the day hostilities ceased in the First World War).

The Last Post - a bugle call used to commemorate those who have died in war. It is sounded on Remembrance Sunday following the two minutes' silence.

Passchendaele - refers to the 1917 battle of Passchendaele. Dakin is referring to Haig's controversial campaign, in which damage was inflicted to the German Army at great expense to the lives of British troops.

The Somme - refers to the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Exact casualty figures vary, but several hundred thousand were killed in battle, a large proportion of these on the first day. Again, blame was laid upon Haig's leadership.

The Unknown Soldier - the Unknown Soldier is an unidentified soldier killed in battle, buried with full military honours as a symbol of all the unidentified soldiers killed in battle. The British tomb dedicated to the 'Unknown Warrior' is found in London, and contains the body of an unidentified soldier killed in the First World War.

Siegfried Sassoon - an English poet famous for his anti-war poetry.

"If any question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers lied." - Irwin
Common Form, Rudyard Kipling

Rembrandt - Dutch painter, 1606 - 1669.

p27
"Those long uneven lines
Standing as patiently
As if they were stretched outside
The Oval or Villa Park,
The crowns of hats, the sun
On moustached archaic faces
Grinning as if it were all
An August Bank Holiday lark..."

"...Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word--the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again." - Scripps, Lockwood, Akthar, Posner, Timms.
MCMXIV, Philip Larkin.

p28
Western Front - the term used in WWI and WWII to describe the frontier between the Allied Forces and Germany.

p29
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - 1940s song with lyrics by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rogers. Features in the musical Pal Joey.

p30
"O villainy! Let the door be locked!
Treachery! Seek it out." - Hector
Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 2

The Trial - a novel by Franz Kafka, about a man arrested and charged with a crime he knows nothing about.

"The person from Porlock" - a reference to the story of the visitor to Coleridge during the writing of Kubla Khan, resulting in the poem's incomplete status.

"Don Giovanni: the Commendatore" - Don Giovanni is an opera by Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte. Il Commendatore is a significant character in the work.

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock." - Scripps
Revelation 3:20

p31
"Did the knights knock at the door of Canterbury before they murdered Beckett?" - Hector
Thomas Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1162 - 1170) was assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral. He was later canonised in 1173.

Now, Voyager - a 1942 film starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid, about a woman who falls in love whilst in therapy after a nervous breakdown.

p32
"The untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." - Hector
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman.

p33
The Carry On films - a series of British comedy films, parodies of famous historical and literary events or people. They are famous for their excessive use of double entendres in dialogue and slapstick comedy.

p34
George Orwell - an English author and journalist, who was famous for his political and social commentary in his essays and novels.

p35
Stalin - First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Part from 1922 to 1953, effectively becoming a dictator by the late 1920s.

Henry VIII - Second Tudor King of England, reigning from 1491 - 1547. Responsible for the introduction of Protestantism to England.

"Mrs Thatcher" - Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1975-1990. She was the first (and, thus far, only) female Prime Minister in Britain.

Pearl Harbour - the attack on Pearl Harbour took place in 1941, when the Japanese attacked the American naval base at that location. Franklin Roosevelt, the President at the time, delivered the Infamy Speech condemning the attack.

Francis Bacon - English philosopher, knighted by James I in 1603.

p36
"Turner, then, or Ingres." - Irwin
J. M. W. Turner was an English painter in the Romantic movement. Jean Ingres was a French painter working in the 1880s.

"About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters...
how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window..." - Timms
Musée des Beaux Arts, W. H. Auden.

p37
"Breaking bread with the dead, sir. That's what we do." - Akthar
- from the statement "Art is breaking bread with the dead", by W. H. Auden.

The Mikado - an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, first opening in 1885.

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
Pensées, a philosophical work by Blaise Pascal.

p38
"We're not just a hiccup between the end of university and the beginning of life, like Auden are we, sir?" - Lockwood
Auden was a schoolteacher.

"Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm." - Dakin
Lullaby, W. H. Auden

"England, you have been here too long,
And the songs you sing are the songs you sung
On a braver day. Now they are wrong." - Lockwood
Voices Against England in the Night, Stevie Smith

Not Waving But Drowning - a poem by Stevie Smith, published in 1957.

p40
Brief Encounter - a 1945 film starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, telling the story of a couple, both married, who meet in a railway station and soon fall in love. This scene takes place at the end of the film, when Laura (Celia Johnson) returns to her husband, rather than the man she has just fallen in love with.

p44
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - a hymn written by Isaac Watts.

p45
Matins - Early morning or late night prayers, a feature of many Christian denominations.

"A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the Baptized God.
The wilderness is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete." - Scripps
Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service, T. S. Eliot

Piero della Francesca - an Italian Renaissance artist.

p47
Nietzsche - a German philosopher, writing in the 1800s.

p51
"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" - Hector
Gerontion, T.S. Eliot.

p52
"The tree of man was never quiet:
Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I." - Hector
On Wenlock Edge, A. E. Housman

"To think that two and two are four
And neither five nor three
The heart of man has long been sore
And long 'tis like to be." - Hector
A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman

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Plato - an ancient Greek philosopher, who wrote about the teachings of Socrates. The notion of Platonic love is found, in one example, in his discussion of the relationship between Socrates and the young Alcibiades.

Michelangelo - Italian Renaissance artist. He is famous focus upon the aesthetic of male beauty and the homoeroticism which may be found in his work.

Oscar Wilde - English playwright and poet of the nineteenth century. He was famously tried and sentenced for his homosexuality.

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Rupert Brooke - an English poet, most famous for his First World War poetry. Posner here quotes the opening of his poem The Soldier.

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"The Zulu Wars" - a reference to the war between the Zulus and the United Kingdom in the 1870s.

"The Boer War" - refers to either the first or the second Boer wars, fought between the British Empire and the Boer Republics in the late 1800s.

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"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo." - Hector
Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene 2

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from: http://www.subjunctive-history.co.uk,是这部剧的专门网站

上世纪八十年代初的约克郡文法学校，8个背景不同的学生、3个方法迥异的老师、1个刻板的校长，妙语连珠，教学相长，构成了一出难得的校园喜剧。 类似国内中学追求升学率和高考状元，英国的学校也有拿奖学金进牛津剑桥的硬指标。校长(Clive Merrison)认为，这些天才男孩是他刷新校绩的好苗子，但基础科教师Hector (Richard Griffiths)却专注于文学品位和趣味。 对Hector而言，“不存在什么通识，只有特定的感悟，而且知识不以掌握多少和好坏为衡量标准”，在他的法语课上，学生可以模拟妓院的场景，引用著名诗句来演绎艳遇。 他不希望等学生们人到中年再领悟文学的魅力，他让孩子们在青春年少时就体尝到创作的乐趣，哪怕他们把音乐剧改成杂耍和闹剧。“阅读中最大的乐趣，就是你突然领悟到什么，一种思想、一段情感、一个视角，和一个未曾谋面的人有了共鸣，就像有人握住了你的手”，他在诠释Thomas Hardy的诗歌时，分明是在注解自己的人生。他认为激发孩子们的活力才能产生头脑风暴，哪怕得用书砸他们的脑袋。 校长自然认为Hector不适合搞应试教育，就聘用了一个新人Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore)来做考前集训。Irwin认为答题越奇葩越好，不论观点对错、是否属实，你去证明斯大林是个大善人更容易脱颖而出被名校录取。 本片编剧Bennett爱反讽爱狡辩爱唱反调，Irwin的离经叛道自然冒犯了Hector的道德标准，而Hector的行为不检点又突破了大众的道德底线。Hector认为“知识的传播本身就带有色情意味”，不幸的是他把这个信念付诸行动，在摩托车上抚摸那些男孩。 在多角度的辩论中、在青春的荒唐中、在分析成人世界的过程中，孩子们也悄然成长。那种青涩的机智和懵懂的热情也是此片的魅力之一。 在片尾他们成年后的命运让人感慨，我们也见证了一场人生酸甜苦辣的悲喜剧。 校长说：“Hector作为老师不合时宜，他是个启蒙者，但他的成就却无法以成绩来定量”

校园片的一个特点就是励志,肯定有一位春风化雨的老师,这是必需的,然后肯定还有一位代表顽固实力的校长或是训导主任之类的反派角色.而学生方面,肯定都是内心期望着变革,可是肯定是毫无勇气挑战传统的,直到那位老师来了之后,革命的暴风雨也为之降临,而结尾毫无疑问的是,那位优秀的老师在传统的势力下默默的离开,然而他却赢得了学生的心.
但是这部戏却恰恰相反,学生们居然是一群渴望得到高分的学生,对于原来老师的春风化雨式的教学方式很不买账.认为诗歌只类不过是一种浪费时间的课程,他们需要的,是可以让他们得到大学录取通知书的课程.这一点就是让人大吃一惊,还有这么势利的学生.
这里面的老师也是非常的奇怪,两个用来作对比的老师有一个同样的特点,都是同性恋.只不过,一个经常对男学生动手动脚,采取很明目张胆的方式,结果,被人起诉了.而另一个,却是掩饰自己的取向,让自己看上去没什么两样.而且,他的教学方式是激进的,是直接指向目标的,却和他的生活态度也有了很大的反差.
学生除了上面说到的势利之外,根本没有以往电影中那种对于传统的反叛,他们一个个的都很正常.知道什么时候该做什么,一心用功在学习上.一次次看他们从图书馆借了厚厚的一摞书,然后拼命用功的样子,真是让人感到振奋,自己的高中时代不也是一样.有一个不同的就是,他们的感情问题也是出了问题,其中一个居然爱上了自己的好朋友,当然了,也是男的.然后他向同样是同性恋的老师倾诉,当然了,没有俗套的爱上了老师,只不过老师让他从容面对而已.虽然少了情节上发展的空间,不过显得更加真实.
这群男生的组合也相当的多姿多彩,传统的小白脸之外,还有一个开朗的大胖子,简直就是那个老师的翻版,而且还很愿意学女生,真是别具一格;一个运动方面的专家,说萨特非常擅长高尔夫;一个犹太人,不能自慰,而且对于集中营的惨剧认识很深;还有一个穆斯林,却被人与印度人混为一谈;还有一个黑人...总之,不是传统的白人天下,这么多的男生,总有一款适合那些女观众吧.
最后的那个结尾,虽然我认为有点悲惨,一个皆大欢喜的结局难道不好?但是,当镜头慢慢的拉开,用一种回忆的语气谈论那些男生之后的生活时,一种沧桑感突然的涌上了心头,突然间,这部喜剧有了深度.它所说的不仅是大学录取前的补习课了,更变成了,一个优秀老师对于学生影响的很好的诠释.这点和其他的校园片没什么两样,可是,这样不好么?
还有,这部电影的台词真是太赞了.让我们顺便体验了一下英国诗歌的美.

有一个疑问,为什么同样是大学的入学考试,斯国的可以如此的多姿多彩,反身自顾,我操.真希望中国早日有这么一部影片出现,而且还是现实主义作品.
http://tin1016.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!49A79B57DDF65AA1!1238.entry

浑浑噩噩的熬夜看完由同名话剧改编的影片《历史系男生》。作为一部在伦敦国家剧院票房火爆、风靡百老汇，并一举取得多项托尼奖的话剧，妙语连珠的台词无疑为其叫座叫好立下了汗马功劳。摘抄几句，留个爪印。

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As for truths, scripts, forget it.
Knowledge, pursuit it for its own sake.

Irwin所倡导的学习历史的方法，反映出东西方教育的本质差异。

对公认的史实，没有任何记诵的必要，因为所有人都知道。学习历史的方法是，选择一个新的角度，用新的方法，新的逻辑来重新观察、挖掘、分析和思考。从同一段历史中，找到不同的地方，这样的研究才具有价值。

Irwin的主张与国人惯常理解的“历史就是死记硬背”完全是背道而驰的。历史是浩瀚宏大的，没有任何人能够真正全面的看得清楚。保持开放的心态，不断的研究；或者盖棺定论，僵化为教条，这便是区别。

背诵，教科书上记录着的唯一真理。对于人文学科，这样的学习方式等同于毁灭。

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Take it, feel it and pass it on.

历史的意义在于传承。从一个人，到另外一人，再到另外一些人。从地球上的一个地方到另外一个地方，从线性时间轴的一个时间段到后续的另外一个时间段。文化在重复的被解读着，变化着，传递着，这个就是历史的意义。文化的价值，就是这样靠一个个人传递下去而逐渐积累起来的。

Hector动情的说着，当你读书的时候，与另外一个的人相遇，被他捕获。他抓住了你，你感受到他。这就是文化的传递，需要沉下来，慢下来，用心，去接受。然后，它又会以你的方式传播出去。

在大发展的年代，我们每个人不甘落后的高速奔跑着。文化，正在被忽视和遗失。急功近利的人是浮躁的，To Feel，也许可以是一个很短暂瞬间，但是To Feel，需要把心真正的平静下来。这个传递的过程，光靠互联网上晃几眼八卦新闻是做不到的，努力背几本的教科书或者附庸名家大作也是徒劳。

国人就要成为贫穷得只剩人民币了！

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How does histry happen？History is just one fucking thing after another, nothing special, ordinary stuff.

历史由一连串的偶然事件组成，这些偶然最后形成一个结果。像蝴蝶扇动的翅膀，或者王佳芝心里打起的小鼓，这些无法确定的因素共同导致一个结果。无所谓对错，发生了的都叫做必然。而过程当中，任何一项的改变，都可能形成别样的结局。

这个论断中学课本告诉过我，并无新意，不过Hector的教学方式很有新意。虚拟形态——Hector用这样的语句来设想过去的种种可能，以及结果。课堂上的角色扮演应该是很有趣的教学模式，学生可以沉浸到历史里面，享受时空变换的戏剧体验。角色和道具，一连串的事件和选择下来，最后形成历史。

于是更加深刻的体会到，一切存在的种种都是可变的，所以，将来永远都是不确定的！哪怕是半小时以后也是不确定的。只有发生过的偶然才叫做必然，只有过去的才是真正已经确定的东西。

在过去的那么多偶然，那么多巧合，那么多选择之后，才有了今天。
再从今天走向变化莫测的将来，那里还有无数的偶然在等待着发生。
原来，我们的今天竟是如此的珍贵！

我一定会好好珍惜和把握现在的。

I'm wild again
be geld again
a simipering,whimpering child again
bewiched, bothered and bewildered
I'm on...
couldn't sleep. I wouldn't sleep
when love came and told me I shouldn't sleep
bewiched, bothered and bewildered
I'm on...
lost my heart
but what of it
he is cold I agree
he can laugh but I love it
although the love saw me
I'll sing to him
each spring to him
and worship the trousers that cling to him
bewiched, bothered and bewildered
I'm on...

17、8岁的聪明学生，算得上真正意气风发，就要为实现人生第一个目标努力，结果也清晰可见。有那么点小烦恼小困惑，是今后无数烦恼困惑的开始和演习，但此时都还没有那么痛只是有点痒。

再来看看大人们的情况：Hector教学方法这样新奇，鼓励学生为兴趣而活，结果呢已婚的男人却是同性恋者；Irwin激发大家说得新奇，一击即中，但扯谎说自己来自牛津；Dorothy的大脑容量驱不散“History is woman following behind with a bucket”的想法；校长是所有被升学利益诱惑的典型。

人不管到不到中年都开始有自己的隐痛，哪像自以为成熟的孩子们样样都可以摊开来在阳光下晒，活得透明。回头看看走过的二十年，一开始也都个个明媚笑得灿烂，生活不知几时开始把每一人运送进不同轨道。或者，每一人不知几时开始把生活搞糟。

那又怎么样呢？这就是人生吧，要你尝遍每一种滋味，然后才有所体会，什么是酸什么是甜，还有所谓bittersweet，要你领会快乐总是比痛苦长存。