历史系男生

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。

1、
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。

2、
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！

3、
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。

The History Boys，根据剧情，与其说是“历史系男生”或是“高校男生”，不如翻译成“学习历史的大学预科男生”。英国人的校园电影果然好美国人的《美国派》之流完全两样，高中校园里的美国孩子们似乎都是些被牛肉汉堡催熟的发育过剩整天满脑子只想找个大胸MM上垒的单细胞动物；而The History Boys里的高三男生们，个个修养良好，精通文学历史艺术音乐法语等等，都是牛津剑桥都迫不及待要将之招致麾下的精英。当然，有青春少年的地方就有青春的萌动和憧憬。显然，美国派中的美国孩子们个个都是毋庸置疑的异性恋，天天想着大胸MM就是最好的证明么；而The History Boys的英国精英男孩们，则几乎都带点偏阴柔的“玻璃”倾向，恩，可能这和他们的老师有关，那个身体庞大的像一艘航空母舰的胖老头HECTOR，最大的爱好居然是将手伸向坐在他摩托车后座上的男孩的EGG，像他这样体重的老家伙竟然也骑摩托，倒也是一大奇观。貌似温文尔雅的年轻教师Irwin，其实也是一个隐藏的同性恋者，但面对英俊男学生DAKIN的热烈挑逗，他终究还是胆怯的退缩了。由话剧改编的痕迹还是很明显的，男孩们的表演也带有极强的话剧腔。

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

p53
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.

p54
Rupert Brooke - an English poet, most famous for his First World War poetry. Posner here quotes the opening of his poem The Soldier.

p55
"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.

p57
"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

    请原谅我先啰嗦《死亡诗社》~

    很多年前在英语课上看的《死亡诗社》，和我天真可爱心灵纯粹的童学们一齐感动得稀里糊涂，头脑一热，回家还找出剧本来读，后来在豆瓣上看见，四星吧（在我看来，四星是最高的星级了）。

      冷风吹至，热情褪却，发现这电影仍脱离不了那商业性的煽情和那一贯夸张的启承转合。这是不是年轻的好处呢？哎呵，当年的年轻人一个个站到课桌上为Keating送别时，旁观的年轻人也早已热泪盈眶了；而今天，两分钟前，趁着午夜临睡前的异常清醒，我调出了《死亡诗社》的页面，将四星改为三星，只留下句“曾经沧海难为水”。

      狼狼推荐看的《11度青春之-老男孩》，网页上的简介是：“梦想万劫不复，青春内牛满面”。我尚未看过《老男孩》，只是突然觉得这句话换个角度，用来形容《死亡诗社》倒是再贴切不过了——梦想万劫不复，青春内牛满面——今日与青春作别，矫情一把，不愿再内牛满面。

      我真的不是来错页面了，罗里啰嗦，就是因为这部《The History Boys》。

      和《死亡诗社》一样的，《The History Boys》讲述的是一群为升入顶级高等学府做功课的年轻人。

      太平实的电影，没有华丽的剧情或演员阵容，唯有演Hector的老头儿有些眼熟。
      太绚烂的电影，灿若莲花的言谈间 莎士比亚的十四行诗信手拈来，灵活多变的课堂上 天马行空的思想刮起风暴。
      太正经的电影，历史、艺术统统为功课让道，文法、诗歌全权向考试低头。
      太浪漫的电影，缠绵悱恻的歌剧传达着我对你的情谊，羞涩爽朗的拥抱是最好的成年礼。

      一点儿也不意外的结尾。原来后面还有一个太过意外的结尾。
      这，才是真的结尾。
      结尾的结尾，却又有一个黑白默片似的结尾。
      可是这次，好像又不是真的结尾了。

       一直规规矩矩的电影，一反此时此刻的结局，以一种看似嘲弄的眼神盯着我们：嘿，年轻人，这就是人生。（Rudge不是小大人般的说”History is just one fucking thing after another“吗？一乐。）

       电影用欣赏的口吻讲述着这些努力着的、迷惘着的、颓唐着的、纠缠着的年轻人的故事，为Oxford和Cambridge做准备的过程牵动着几多人心啊。命运，你又是否为每个人准备好了一个happy ending 呢？
      对于这个问题，《死亡诗社》戛然而止了，或许，它的立意太高远、太深长，已经不屑于回答这个问题了。
      《The History Boys》也戛然而止了：倾倒的机车像丢弃在路旁的垃圾一般，支离破碎。伴送年轻人离开学园的，不是满载祝福和希冀的欢歌，而是一曲悠扬的“Bye,bye,blackbird"，哀而不伤，可谓至此。
 
      所以，这部电影，永远不会让我内牛满面。我反倒常不经意的笑场：在Cripps喷饭的笑容中、在Dorothy帅气的谈吐中、在Ponser清澈的眼神中、在Hector的不拘一格中、在Rudge口齿不清的谬论中、在Irwin的保守和洒脱中……
      不胜枚举的细节，有如蜡炬燃烧时一点一滴流下的滚烫泪珠，铸成了一个堪称完美的故事。

      没有一枝独秀的Keating（朋友曾感叹几世福分才能修来一个这样的老师，现在想来那时的我们真可爱呀），Dorthy、Hector、Irwin都是中规中矩的英国教育体制下普通普通再普通的教师，可谁能否认有这样一个组合的老师不也是一种幸运呢？

      《死亡诗社》告诉我们：一个不寻常的老师带领一群无知的学生做不寻常的事情。

      《The History Boys》告诉我们：一群寻常的老师带领一群有所知有所不知的学生做一件寻常的事情。

      孰优孰劣，无从分辨。我只知道，我会一直为《The History Boys》情不自禁的笑出声来，却再也不会为《死亡诗社》内牛满面了。

      不走寻常路，你将无路可走。
      ——随着《死亡诗社》中的Keatingl老师激动一把，实乃误人子弟、谋财害命耳。

      走好寻常路，你将不再寻常。
      ——伴着《The history boys》的课本论文考试中规中矩一次，迎接我们的是无悔的青春、无限的人生。
 
      这次，真的结尾了，悠扬清朗的歌声再度响起：
      Bewitched, bothered and bewildered~
      am I……



P.S.题外题内的话：

      恰同学少年，
      风华正茂；
      书生意气，
      挥斥方遒。

      指点江山，
      激扬文字，
      粪土当年万户侯。
      曾记否，
      到中流击水，
      浪遏飞舟？
      
      数风流人物，
      还看今朝。

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。

抽了一个下午看完，完全没想到有同志主题，据说原版话剧很棒，应该没错，那每一句台词，别说听，光是看字幕也是享受．

英伦的男同志片之多，质量之高，男色之美（Hugh Grant, Jude Law），恐怕是美国所难以企及的．同是校园题材，饱受好评的＜死亡诗社＞中师生关系展现得是如此的＂清教徒＂，如此的悲怆．那部片中的老师迫于学生自杀的压力只得离开，让人不禁悲从中来；而这部片里那胖胖的Hector交通意外身亡，都没有把人煽出眼泪来．当老师被还原成一个普通人之后，似乎不太容易引发悲剧，一切他个人的笑或泪都属于我们，一切他个人的好与坏也都会在我们身上找到，这时候被解放的不仅仅是老师本人，更是我们自己．

尽管剧中人都说着难听的约克郡英语（比曼彻斯特的略好点），不过瑕不掩瑜，无论是对话还是穿插其中的钢琴伴奏清唱都美不胜收。不过，英国式幽默的确不太好理解，特别像我这种泡在美剧里的要换个脑子还不那么容易。

剧中最出彩的除了胖子Hector以外当属女历史老师了。在帮助学生预演入学面试的那一幕中，她提醒学生考官可能有女性，然后激情昂扬地发表了一篇“女权主义”的历史批判：Can you for a moment imagine how depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude? Why do you think there is no woman historians on TV? I'll tell you why because history is not such a frolic for women as for men. Why should it be? They (women) never get around the conference table. In 1919, they just ... arranged the flowers, then gracefully retired. History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is woman following behind with a bucket. 如果说这是西方女性对于西方历史的“女权主义”解读，那么我不知道就我所知的中国历史如果让我来解读是否应该是 History is women obliterated, exploited, destroyed, distorted, manipulated and manipulating men from behind. 客观一点来看，真如莫文蔚所唱的：男人大可不必百口莫辩，女人实在无须楚楚可怜。

如今的时尚是“混搭”，不仅仅是服装，还有美食，讲究fusion cuisine，电影也是如此，要么把不同族群的人混搭起来，要么把不同的元素揉在一起，成为一个美妙的大疙瘩。