3 years ago, the doctoral thesis of Huang Guoping, a 2017 doctoral graduate from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, became popular.
In the thank you letter, he wrote:
"I have traveled a long way and endured a lot of hardships before I can deliver this doctoral thesis to you."
Next, he reviewed his more than 20 years of study. Lu:
His mother ran away from home when he was 12 years old. His father died in a car accident when he was 17 years old. Then his mother-in-law, who had taken care of him for 17 years, also passed away. He and an old dog were the only ones left at home.
In order to pay for tuition, he caught eels at night, fished, raised pigs, and rented out the family's water buffalo on weekends. He barely scraped together enough for tuition.
The suffering behind others can be overcome, but the dignity in front of others is extremely fragile.
I read and write under the kerosene lamp, the roof of my home leaked, I was called out of the classroom by the teacher to talk because I didn’t pay the tuition in class, I walked barefoot on the hot pavement in the summer, and walked down the long aisle in a thin shirt in the winter...
If it weren’t for hard work, He had long given up on the awards and scholarships. After
entered high school, the school waived his tuition and miscellaneous fees. He met a kind-hearted uncle who helped pay for the tuition and got access to computers, which was like seeing light in the dark night.
With his courage, he was admitted to Southwest University, and finally went to the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
went from a small mountain village to a big city, from a rural boy to a doctoral student.
Looking back on his journey, he calmly concluded:
"The ideal is not great. I just hope that when I am over fifty, I will still be a teenager when I return. I hope I will have the opportunity to re-recognize the world and live up to the hardships I have suffered in this life."
Huang Guoping's The story touched countless people.
In this era when it is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family, he used 20 years of persistence to tell us that God rewards hard work still exists.
Some people say that his world has no light, but he lives his life as light.
Some people say that his letter of thanks is the modern version of "Preface to Ma Sheng in Dongyang".
"Preface to Ma Sheng in Dongyang" is a preface written by Song Lian, a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty. The article tells the story of his difficult study process.
This article has inspired generations of Chinese scholars and has become a famous article throughout the ages. It has also been selected into Chinese textbooks.
Even with today's rapid social and economic development, there are more and more rich people.
But we can be sure that heartwarming student stories like Huang Guoping’s are still happening.
They don't have many choices. The pen in their hands is their only weapon to change their fate.
For example, 18-year-old Yao Shengwang, a boy from rural Yunnan, has a disabled father and grandfather.
He was still digging ginger in the ground when the college admission notice came to his door.
Facing the blessings from others, his smile was shy and simple.
Mu Nayuere, a Yi boy who grew up in a remote area, also comes from a poor family and has to help with farm work after school every day.
Relying on personal hard work, he was finally admitted to Peking University.
These hard-working role models are still worthy of praise.
Unfortunately, we can only see these real-life examples in official news during the college entrance examination season every year.
Among the film and television works that most people are most exposed to, there are very few works that positively reflect this kind of characters.
Their image has become that of "nerds", and they often become the background for beautiful men and women to fall in love.
However, in neighboring India, a movie with this theme was released last year. After the screening of
at the Asia-Europe Youth Film Festival, the audience stood up and applauded.
was subsequently listed on imdb. Nearly 50,000 people gave it a super high score of 9.2, the highest score for an Indian film in the past five years. Its score on
Douban is as high as 8.6 points, and it is currently stable at 8.2 points.
Many people commented that this film is the best film of the year in the world in 2023.
This movie is-"Failure in Grade 12".
This film is an inspirational film adapted from a true story.
Many excellent Indian movies are often delayed by their titles.
For example, the familiar "Three Idiots", which everyone thinks of as an Indian musical and dance film, plays and sings for you whenever you disagree with the movie. In fact, it is an inspirational movie with laughter and tears.The same goes for
"Failure in Grade 12".
The title of the film makes people confused. Some translators even mistranslated the original English title "12th fail" into "12 failures".
actually refers to the fact that the protagonist failed in the 12th grade entrance examination. This failure became a turning point in his life.
Manoj is a low-caste Indian man.
The people in the rural area where he lives are tough and bandits are rampant.
Officials oppress the people, and the people eat and wait to die. Life is like a pool of stagnant water.
After failing the exam in grade 12, Manojie was unwilling to live a life where he could see the end at a glance.
He left his hometown with all his savings and set his sights on one goal - to take the most difficult civil service examination in the world.
During this period, his luggage was stolen, he met three or two like-minded friends, gained sweet love, and even went to work as a worker in a flour mill.
There are only four opportunities for this exam. In order to go ashore, Manojie worked 15 hours a day, studied for 6 hours, and could only sleep for 3 hours.
God paid off, and finally he successfully landed ashore, married Bai Fumei, and became an official of the Indian Police Department.
Just listening to this story is a bit calm.
Because China is a big country with exams, the concept of “one exam determines life” is rooted in the hearts of every Chinese person.
In ancient times, there was the imperial examination system, and there were bizarre stories like Fan Jin's passing;
In modern times, there is the college entrance examination system, which is a single-plank bridge that almost every Chinese has to walk.
In recent years, the popularity of postgraduate entrance examinations and public entrance examinations has remained high. There are too many examples around us of people who have changed their destiny through examinations.
But "Failure in Grade 12" is not the same as the stories we usually hear.
Let’s do some popular science here. India is the real country that takes public exams.
They have more than ten types of civil service examinations, large and small, among which the most valuable is the examination organized by the Union Civil Service Bureau of India, or upsc for short.
.2 million people took the exam, but less than 200 were admitted in the end. The admission ratio is astonishing, making it the most difficult civil service exam in the world.
upsc exam mainly provides talents for the Indian Police Service ips (india police service) and the Indian Administrative Service Center ias (india administrative service). In the
movie, the male protagonist takes the ips exam, and after passing the exam, he becomes a police officer in the Indian police.
The female principal took the IAS exam, and after passing it, she became the mayor or even the deputy county magistrate.
The difficulty of this exam is comparable to the imperial examination system in ancient China.
What's even more rare is that this film is not only a warm and inspirational film, but also reveals the social problems that exist in India while telling the story of the public examination process.
In remote areas, teachers help cheating and schools let it go. The school principal calls it an "ancient tradition" that will continue forever.
Of course those in power are aware of this chaos, but they don’t want to change it.
Because the best way to consolidate political power is to fool the people. When the masses receive education with little knowledge, they will be easily incited and blindly follow those in power.
This is how the votes in elections come. The people at the bottom of India have been living under the shackles of caste and religion for a long time.
In 1942, India's "untouchable" leaders shouted the slogan "education, agitation, organization", which meant that when citizens were educated, it would become a problem for those in power.
Manojie lives in such an environment.
He was destined to be a farmer all his life, until an upright official came to the village. He taught Manoj a lesson - to always stay honest.
Being an honest person has to pay a price, and Manojie missed a lot of opportunities because of this - he failed the
12 grade exam, almost missed true love during the exam, was too honest and became penniless, and even chose to forgive after being stabbed in the back by his friends.
’s final interview session was his last chance to go ashore.
He could have concealed the fact that he "failed grade 12" and successfully passed the exam, but he still chose to be honest and confess his past.
He said, My goal is not just to be an official, but to reform our country.
If I fail, I will become a teacher and tell children not to cheat, study more and live an honest and happy life.
"If I can't be the sun that shines on the earth, I can still be a lamp that lights up my street."
This line became the highlight of the film. It made many people cry. I believe it will be loved by many people in the future. Use it as a motto.
Don’t forget, this inspirational story is not made up, it is based on real people.
In the post-credits scene, the hero and heroine even took a photo with the couple based on the story.
But reality is also a double-edged sword.
On the one hand it makes the story more convincing.
On the other hand, because all characters have prototypes, it is difficult to offend anyone. In terms of character creation in the film, almost every character is beautified.
did not dare to go further in film creation. It is essentially a model drama of an inspirational biopic.
Specifically, it is very similar to Lu Yao's " Ordinary World ".
are all sincere and full of inspiring power.
But deep down, he is still filled with the daydream dream of Phoenix Man wanting to counterattack.
In "The Ordinary World", the two protagonists, Shaoping and Shaoan, both met Bai Fumei and were absolutely infatuated with them. This kind of plot treatment is actually unrealistic.
In "Failure in Grade 12", behind the touching feeling, the movie actually cannot withstand scrutiny, and many details are unreasonable.
For example, the protagonist is a dark and thin poor boy from the countryside. He came to the city with all the savings given by his grandma, but in the end, all his money was looted just because of his snooze.
It is indeed not surprising that this happened to people traveling to India.
But people who have been poor will not make this kind of mistake. Money is more important than their lives. This plot is unreasonable.
For example, when the male protagonist is desperate, he meets a kind-hearted rich second generation.
The rich second generation easily told him that he could take the civil service exam, and his fate was directly changed with one sentence.
The biggest difference between the rich and the poor is the information gap. It seems a bit false for a rich second generation to be so generous.
Not only that, during the highway examination, he also met senior students who provided free room and board, and received advice from senior officials.
A beautiful upper-caste girlfriend never left him and proposed to him on the day of his interview.
also told him that whether you are an official or in a flour mill, I will always love you.
The most outrageous thing is the climax scene at the end.
20 years ago, stories like this were often published in "Reader" and "Yilin".
An interviewer went for an interview, and before leaving, he picked up the garbage on the road and threw it into the trash can. This scene happened to be seen by the boss. In the end, out of praise for his good qualities, he was admitted as an exception. Articles like
were very popular back then, but now they are regarded as poisonous chicken soup.
"Failure in Grade 12" still uses this old routine when dealing with the climax scene.
Indian society is full of discrimination against low-caste people, and there is almost zero tolerance for flaws such as "cheating in grade 12 exams."
But just because the male protagonist was honest and told the truth, he impressed the interviewer and let him pass the interview. The processing of
is no different from the chicken soup article in "Reader".
In addition, there are also problems with the depiction of some details in the film.
For example, in such an important exam, Manojie regarded tourism as terrorism and failed in the end. The exam required writing an essay, and Manojie couldn't write 90 words in a long time.
Friends who often take exams may frown upon seeing these details. This is not an Indian musical, it is simply an Indian science fiction film.
The most regrettable thing is that the film only tells the story of Manojie completing the carp leaping over the dragon's gate through hard work.
He did not mention how he worked to eliminate social corruption after landing, and he felt powerless as if he had punched a sandbag.
This is similar to fairy tales that will only tell you that princes and princesses lived a happy life, but will not tell you that life after marriage may be miserable. That is not a fairy tale, but a social ethics film.
In fact, many officials came from poor backgrounds and fought back all the way. After reaching high positions, they often failed to withstand the temptation of sugar-coated bullets and fell down.
It is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it. Those officials who hold the bottom line are even more grateful.
There is another intriguing detail in the video.
After Manoj was named on the gold list, his father heard the news and immediately ran around the village to tell those who had bullied him that my son has become an official, so you should be careful in the future.
Isn't this the reverse version of "My dad is Li Gang"? The weak takes the upper hand, and the relationship between the strong and the weak changes, but the essence of the law of the jungle remains unchanged.
If this was intentional by the director, it can be called a stroke of genius. If
wants to maintain its rule, it is better not to close the upward channel and leave a small opening to allow the people below to get involved crazily. In the end, everyone only cares about trampling on each other, and no one studies the rationality of the system.
Similarly, in public media, sharp social issues are hidden and the poor are allowed to indulge in nipple fun.
If one day cheats on a melon-eating star, and tomorrow one fights over the antagonism between men and women, wouldn’t society be stable?
This is the deep meaning behind the inspirational nature of the film.
When I first watched the video, I only saw one person’s success. After watching the video carefully, I saw more people’s failures.
A rural child who relies on the public examination to counterattack is worthy of respect, but a country obsessed with the public examination needs to be vigilant. This is probably the implication of the director.
I hope this video can be introduced to the mainland.
In China, a country with a lot of examinations, a video like this will definitely arouse the sympathy of many people. The helplessness of the small town question writers needs someone to speak out.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Yi Li Ji
© Original丨Article Copyright: Pippi Film (ppdianying)
Please do not reproduce in any form without authorization
The same goes for"Failure in Grade 12".
The title of the film makes people confused. Some translators even mistranslated the original English title "12th fail" into "12 failures".
actually refers to the fact that the protagonist failed in the 12th grade entrance examination. This failure became a turning point in his life.
Manoj is a low-caste Indian man.
The people in the rural area where he lives are tough and bandits are rampant.
Officials oppress the people, and the people eat and wait to die. Life is like a pool of stagnant water.
After failing the exam in grade 12, Manojie was unwilling to live a life where he could see the end at a glance.
He left his hometown with all his savings and set his sights on one goal - to take the most difficult civil service examination in the world.
During this period, his luggage was stolen, he met three or two like-minded friends, gained sweet love, and even went to work as a worker in a flour mill.
There are only four opportunities for this exam. In order to go ashore, Manojie worked 15 hours a day, studied for 6 hours, and could only sleep for 3 hours.
God paid off, and finally he successfully landed ashore, married Bai Fumei, and became an official of the Indian Police Department.
Just listening to this story is a bit calm.
Because China is a big country with exams, the concept of “one exam determines life” is rooted in the hearts of every Chinese person.
In ancient times, there was the imperial examination system, and there were bizarre stories like Fan Jin's passing;
In modern times, there is the college entrance examination system, which is a single-plank bridge that almost every Chinese has to walk.
In recent years, the popularity of postgraduate entrance examinations and public entrance examinations has remained high. There are too many examples around us of people who have changed their destiny through examinations.
But "Failure in Grade 12" is not the same as the stories we usually hear.
Let’s do some popular science here. India is the real country that takes public exams.
They have more than ten types of civil service examinations, large and small, among which the most valuable is the examination organized by the Union Civil Service Bureau of India, or upsc for short.
.2 million people took the exam, but less than 200 were admitted in the end. The admission ratio is astonishing, making it the most difficult civil service exam in the world.
upsc exam mainly provides talents for the Indian Police Service ips (india police service) and the Indian Administrative Service Center ias (india administrative service). In the
movie, the male protagonist takes the ips exam, and after passing the exam, he becomes a police officer in the Indian police.
The female principal took the IAS exam, and after passing it, she became the mayor or even the deputy county magistrate.
The difficulty of this exam is comparable to the imperial examination system in ancient China.
What's even more rare is that this film is not only a warm and inspirational film, but also reveals the social problems that exist in India while telling the story of the public examination process.
In remote areas, teachers help cheating and schools let it go. The school principal calls it an "ancient tradition" that will continue forever.
Of course those in power are aware of this chaos, but they don’t want to change it.
Because the best way to consolidate political power is to fool the people. When the masses receive education with little knowledge, they will be easily incited and blindly follow those in power.
This is how the votes in elections come. The people at the bottom of India have been living under the shackles of caste and religion for a long time.
In 1942, India's "untouchable" leaders shouted the slogan "education, agitation, organization", which meant that when citizens were educated, it would become a problem for those in power.
Manojie lives in such an environment.
He was destined to be a farmer all his life, until an upright official came to the village. He taught Manoj a lesson - to always stay honest.
Being an honest person has to pay a price, and Manojie missed a lot of opportunities because of this - he failed the
12 grade exam, almost missed true love during the exam, was too honest and became penniless, and even chose to forgive after being stabbed in the back by his friends.
’s final interview session was his last chance to go ashore.
He could have concealed the fact that he "failed grade 12" and successfully passed the exam, but he still chose to be honest and confess his past.
He said, My goal is not just to be an official, but to reform our country.
If I fail, I will become a teacher and tell children not to cheat, study more and live an honest and happy life.
"If I can't be the sun that shines on the earth, I can still be a lamp that lights up my street."
This line became the highlight of the film. It made many people cry. I believe it will be loved by many people in the future. Use it as a motto.
Don’t forget, this inspirational story is not made up, it is based on real people.
In the post-credits scene, the hero and heroine even took a photo with the couple based on the story.
But reality is also a double-edged sword.
On the one hand it makes the story more convincing.
On the other hand, because all characters have prototypes, it is difficult to offend anyone. In terms of character creation in the film, almost every character is beautified.
did not dare to go further in film creation. It is essentially a model drama of an inspirational biopic.
Specifically, it is very similar to Lu Yao's " Ordinary World ".
are all sincere and full of inspiring power.
But deep down, he is still filled with the daydream dream of Phoenix Man wanting to counterattack.
In "The Ordinary World", the two protagonists, Shaoping and Shaoan, both met Bai Fumei and were absolutely infatuated with them. This kind of plot treatment is actually unrealistic.
In "Failure in Grade 12", behind the touching feeling, the movie actually cannot withstand scrutiny, and many details are unreasonable.
For example, the protagonist is a dark and thin poor boy from the countryside. He came to the city with all the savings given by his grandma, but in the end, all his money was looted just because of his snooze.
It is indeed not surprising that this happened to people traveling to India.
But people who have been poor will not make this kind of mistake. Money is more important than their lives. This plot is unreasonable.
For example, when the male protagonist is desperate, he meets a kind-hearted rich second generation.
The rich second generation easily told him that he could take the civil service exam, and his fate was directly changed with one sentence.
The biggest difference between the rich and the poor is the information gap. It seems a bit false for a rich second generation to be so generous.
Not only that, during the highway examination, he also met senior students who provided free room and board, and received advice from senior officials.
A beautiful upper-caste girlfriend never left him and proposed to him on the day of his interview.
also told him that whether you are an official or in a flour mill, I will always love you.
The most outrageous thing is the climax scene at the end.
20 years ago, stories like this were often published in "Reader" and "Yilin".
An interviewer went for an interview, and before leaving, he picked up the garbage on the road and threw it into the trash can. This scene happened to be seen by the boss. In the end, out of praise for his good qualities, he was admitted as an exception. Articles like
were very popular back then, but now they are regarded as poisonous chicken soup.
"Failure in Grade 12" still uses this old routine when dealing with the climax scene.
Indian society is full of discrimination against low-caste people, and there is almost zero tolerance for flaws such as "cheating in grade 12 exams."
But just because the male protagonist was honest and told the truth, he impressed the interviewer and let him pass the interview. The processing of
is no different from the chicken soup article in "Reader".
In addition, there are also problems with the depiction of some details in the film.
For example, in such an important exam, Manojie regarded tourism as terrorism and failed in the end. The exam required writing an essay, and Manojie couldn't write 90 words in a long time.
Friends who often take exams may frown upon seeing these details. This is not an Indian musical, it is simply an Indian science fiction film.
The most regrettable thing is that the film only tells the story of Manojie completing the carp leaping over the dragon's gate through hard work.
He did not mention how he worked to eliminate social corruption after landing, and he felt powerless as if he had punched a sandbag.
This is similar to fairy tales that will only tell you that princes and princesses lived a happy life, but will not tell you that life after marriage may be miserable. That is not a fairy tale, but a social ethics film.
In fact, many officials came from poor backgrounds and fought back all the way. After reaching high positions, they often failed to withstand the temptation of sugar-coated bullets and fell down.
It is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it. Those officials who hold the bottom line are even more grateful.
There is another intriguing detail in the video.
After Manoj was named on the gold list, his father heard the news and immediately ran around the village to tell those who had bullied him that my son has become an official, so you should be careful in the future.
Isn't this the reverse version of "My dad is Li Gang"? The weak takes the upper hand, and the relationship between the strong and the weak changes, but the essence of the law of the jungle remains unchanged.
If this was intentional by the director, it can be called a stroke of genius. If
wants to maintain its rule, it is better not to close the upward channel and leave a small opening to allow the people below to get involved crazily. In the end, everyone only cares about trampling on each other, and no one studies the rationality of the system.
Similarly, in public media, sharp social issues are hidden and the poor are allowed to indulge in nipple fun.
If one day cheats on a melon-eating star, and tomorrow one fights over the antagonism between men and women, wouldn’t society be stable?
This is the deep meaning behind the inspirational nature of the film.
When I first watched the video, I only saw one person’s success. After watching the video carefully, I saw more people’s failures.
A rural child who relies on the public examination to counterattack is worthy of respect, but a country obsessed with the public examination needs to be vigilant. This is probably the implication of the director.
I hope this video can be introduced to the mainland.
In China, a country with a lot of examinations, a video like this will definitely arouse the sympathy of many people. The helplessness of the small town question writers needs someone to speak out.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Yi Li Ji
© Original丨Article Copyright: Pippi Film (ppdianying)
Please do not reproduce in any form without authorization
