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Original Film Title: The Pen
Director’s Name: Xiaoyi
Writer’s Name: Xiaoyi
Producer: Xiaoyi
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Runtime: 5 minutes
Film Description:
This story comes from my own experience in middle school. I have verified too many students who have been ruined because of a small misunderstanding. In our education system, “moral character” is often simplified to a label that is not black or white. Once he is labeled with some negative labels, the whole personality of this person will be denied.
What this short film wants to present is not only the story of a misunderstood middle school student, but also a process of how the “truth” is ignored and discovered. In this story, everyone is “right”: classmates uphold justice, teachers uphold order, and mothers uphold family reputation. But it is precisely this “correct” superposition that has caused the biggest mistake. The pen was always there, but no one really looked for it. By letting the master play all the roles, what I want to show is: how the victim internalized the accusation against himself and how he repeated the trial in his heart. He is both the plaintiff and the defendant, both the judge and the criminal. This division is the final result of the discipline of power. The appearance of the pen at the end is not salvation, but irony. The truth came too late, and the harm has been caused. The gap between the corners of the table, like those neglected things in our society, the truth is often hidden there, but no one is willing to bend down to look for it.
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