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这是一群高智商男生们的故事。二十世纪八十年代，英国北部的一所男子中学里，八个高中生正积极准备着牛津和剑桥大学的招生考试。这几个男生性格各异。有万人迷，自视甚高的Dakin（多米尼克•库珀 Dominic Cooper 饰）；有四肢发达头脑不简单的Rudge（拉塞尔•托维 Russell Tovey 饰）等。他们对课本对知识有属于自己的解读。
教他们文学的是个肥胖，教学方式独特的怪老头Hector（理查德•格雷弗斯 Richard Griffiths饰），他主张学生通过课本获得情感上的共鸣和享受，而不是单纯为了升学而读。与他教学模式相反的则是学校新聘请的老师Tom（斯蒂芬•坎贝尔•莫尔 Stephen Campbell Moore 饰）。Tom的目标则是协助这些孩子尽可能考上牛津或剑桥。两种老师的两种教学模式，究竟孰优孰劣，或许并没有一个标准答案。
长篇影评
1 ) Fusion---校园，师生，断背，历史
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。
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。
2 ) 剧本中的引用与出处
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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(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.
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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
3 ) 意料之外的好看
开始时很惊讶他们在如此一部100分钟的电影里容纳了这么多，没有冗赘的废话或镜头，每一分钟都让我有感想。查了资料才知道原来是话剧改编的电影，这的确解释了很多。首先，个人以为话剧演员的台词功力比单纯的电影电视演员要高，没有太浓重的口音。另一个令人高兴的是表演并没有过多舞台痕迹，不会有那种表演过于用力的感觉，很自然。但就整个电影来说，没有体现电影这种形式的优势，好象就是用镜头带着你去看了遍话剧。镜头变化不多，拍人脸时就一直拍脸，比较固定。好处是能让人更好地欣赏演员的表演。
影片无论从什么角度看，主题、用色、背景……都写着两个大字——英国。影片主线是考牛津剑桥，副线是同性情感问题。
同死亡诗社不同，这里的学生不是需要叛逆的老师来带他们突破陈规陋习，而是需要一个老师帮他们通过大学考试，需要应试教育。这8个学生很努力，每次看到他们下课之后就冲到图书馆借书的情景我都挺感动的，被勤奋的态度感动了。老头主张为知识本身的乐趣而学习，新老师是告诉他们考官要什么。但与印象中的应试教育不同，新老师要求学生把所知道的一切都尽量表现出来，去努力思考发掘别人想不到的角度。而那些学生之所以能背很多诗歌片段，是靠老教师打下的基础。影片让人想到教育界和心理界上困扰很久并将继续困扰的问题：我们如何选拔人才？我们从靠出身靠种族靠血统到现在的靠考试，然后世界就是现在这副样子。无论你是培养学生背诵知识或学会创造还是提高素质（关于什么是素质，那是另一个话题），到最后总是要考试，有考试就有应试教育，这不是中国特色。面对考试的现实，空谈知识的乐趣真的没什么用。英国电影在某种时刻相当现实，但有的时候天真得可笑。
既然故事发生在文法男校，考虑到现在同性恋这么流行，不拿出来实在浪费素材。李银河的以同性恋和虐恋为主题的著作都举了英国男校的例子。我一直有一个想法，历史越久远的国家就越开放，比如欧洲比美国开放，更能接纳事物。毕竟，太阳底下没什么太新鲜的，很多现在不能接受的新想法，有着古老的根源。
Hector，和学生讨论哈代文字的美妙，在放学路上骚扰学生，衰老肥胖的同性恋，像所有知识分子一样悲观，喜欢动名词结构，就是这么一个存在。我相信的他教学很有用，因为天知道哪些东西会对你有用，所以学什么都一样。只是在考试前，他显得不合时宜。影片不没有关注于他的教学，只是很精彩地提了几笔，但他的私生活才是真正的噱头。每天放学都要顺路带学生，然后边骑摩托边性骚扰……在质疑他的人格之前，我想先肯定一下动作的难度。毕竟对一个超过200斤的人来说，一手扶车把一手向后伸不是一件容易的事。为什么他会这样做？他用“给予”来为自己辩护，听起来实在像变态连环强奸犯。这些人都是把犯罪看成自己在做好事。所以连他的同事都听不下去这种拙劣的辩解。但就学生而言，他们对他的骚扰是什么态度呢？答案是：并不特别厌恶。毕竟乡间小路上狂飚时的同性按摩，对17、8岁的男生来说是很刺激的体验，我猜。而且很明显，有的不能理解这件事的学生，他不去碰。也还算有起码的道德吧。这是不是同性的方便之处？试想如果是男老师骚扰女学生或女老师骚扰男学生？事情就大了吧。在这方面，学生对他的评价是：一个笑料。
Irwin，表层性格与真实自我有很大差异。作为一个教师，他犀利、激进、不择手段；作为一个人，他小心谨慎，不愿表露自我。他可能是Homo也可能BI，没有明确表示，但他不太在乎，他接受对他有吸引力的人。作为教师的他博学而且很有魅力，人气高的花花公子也在努力取悦他，努力到连字迹都和他相似。他开始时就喜欢Darkin，但只是像老师喜欢有趣的学生，直到对方用二战的开始这种来向他暗示和表白，相当不一般的方式。但他显然明白了那暗示，而且他的表现说明他喜欢他，一个人对另一个人的喜欢。最后Darkin来和他挑明时，他却假装羞怯，非要让人逼到眼前才答应。我想，是因为他有太多秘密要保守，所以要塑造另一个自我。据说话剧里这个角色更狡猾，和Hector老师的冲突更激烈，不像电影里这么讨人喜欢。
Darkin，在学校里男女通吃，一边和校长秘书鬼混一边企图引诱老师，混乱，迷惑，只能用青春期来解释了。虽然他是主角，但我现在还挖不出太多，可能是因为他太典型。
小犹太，绝望地喜欢着Darkin，自卑，敏感，但有勇气。他冲着Darkin唱歌的样子像天使。演员完美地展现了他多方面的性格特点。
基督徒，从我的审美来看，挺帅的。他有趣的地方在于，作为一个虔诚的宗教人士，他和一个犹太同性恋最要好，对大屠杀集中营更敏感。他可以接受坐在Hector的后座，我猜是因为他的信仰要求他不能自慰，所以他就另找出路了……他特别八卦大概也是因为这个。
Totti老师，影片有台词的两个女性之一。据说在这部话剧在美国上演时，她凭这个角色拿到了TONY奖。这真让我想看话剧，在影片里她表现的地方太少了，虽然很有力量但还是太少。
其他学生在电影里没什么表现，因为时间的原因，删减了很多。我相信原作应该很有趣，有打扮很嬉皮的，有大胖子，有运动特长生，黑人与穆斯林也不应该像电影里这样只是作为多元性的符号存在。
真希望能看到话剧，毕竟这些人不可能一直演下去，不是什么年龄都能演高中生的。
4 ) 历史的唯美主义
在影片的结尾处，在弥漫着忧伤的毕业典礼上，男孩们温柔的唱起了那首悠扬的《Bye Bye Bird》，他们身后的幻灯片上，赫克特(Hector)和蔼的微笑显得那么温暖……
赫克特这个人物交织了很多矛盾，一方面，是个才华横溢的教师；另一方面，他逾越了道德界限，做了令人不齿的事——性骚扰他的男学生。乍看这部电影仿佛落入了俗套：道貌岸然、道德败坏的男教师的故事?
只是，这真的是《历史系男生》要表达的主题吗？不！影片中多彩而美妙的配乐，纯熟而毫不拖沓的节奏把握，那一个个饱满而丰实的人物，那一段段令人应接不暇的精辟睿智的对白，绝不是用来讲述这样一个关于道德批判的滥白故事。
一、传递“包裹”
在一堂文学课上，赫克特表达了他独特的教育理念,他告诉男孩们学诗歌的意义：即使诗歌大多是关于没有发生在我们身上的事，即使现在不能理解，即使与考试无关，但只要你现在去学习它，理解它，总有一天你会懂，那一刻也许是痛苦、快乐的时候，也许是弥留之际，而此时“你已经有解药了”。
赫克特总是这样，用诗意唯美的方式，娓娓道来，向你传授这些凝练的感悟。
在指导普斯纳（Posner）鉴赏《鼓手霍奇》这部作品时，赫克特的教育理念展现得淋漓尽致。
《鼓手霍奇》是关于一个无名小卒在战争年代的故事，默默无名的鼓手霍奇死去，被孤伶伶地埋葬在遥远的异乡。此时，60多岁的赫克特刚刚遭受了被迫提前退休的打击，突如其来的变故使赫克特对人生产生了怀疑与悲哀，而《鼓手霍奇》作者托马斯•哈代孤独落魄的一生仿佛与此时的赫克特同病相怜。
于是，前人的思想情感在赫克特心中强烈地共鸣着，与个体的经历、际遇交融，带上了个体的深刻烙印，然后，赫克特作为传播“介质”，像传递“包裹”那样,把前人的思想情感通过语言的表达，在普斯纳心中同样引起共鸣。情节发展到此处，象征着赫克特这个人物已经完成了他的使命——也就是他所说的“传递包裹”，人类文明和历史在本质上就是这样经过传递而被继承下来的，穿越时空，从一个心灵到另一个心灵。教育，也就是一种“传递”。正如赫克特所说的，接受它，感受它，传递它。这才是赫克特想让男孩们明白的“比赛（Game)”，而不是仅仅为了应付考试。普斯纳后来继承赫克特的衣钵，成为一名教师，把赫克特递过来的包裹传递下去，更是印证了这一主题。
也许，这才是《历史系男生》想讲述的。
二、违背道德？？
无疑地，赫克特珍视他的事业，不然他也不会因为被迫提前退休而如此黯然神伤，不知道是什么驱使赫克特冒险逾越了道德的界限，侥幸心理？还是轻视道德？或者两者兼有？我们也许无从得知。
不过，有趣的是，对于赫克特的“骚扰”，男孩们的态度值得玩味。不同于校长认为这是一桩“极不体面的事情”，男孩们最多只是觉得赫克特是个笑料，一直以来都和赫克特亲密无间；达肯（Dakin）说赫克特的离开某种程度上不得不说是遗憾，最后甚至用小花样迫使校长收回赫克特的辞退令……
这使我想起另外一部电影《十诫》里的一个故事，一个男人为了追求“纯粹的”自由，，于是在周末邀请友人到自己家里举办一丝不挂的“裸体Party”，别误会，他们只是想自由自在地阅读、听歌、烧烤，讨论音乐，没有其他。虽然这和赫克特的行为有着质的区别，但同样让我们萌发了一些思考：毫无疑问，道德对于维系人类社会的存在和发展有着巨大的意义，但是，我们又该如何定义某一些处在道德边缘的事情呢？特别是当人性与普遍道德价值产生摩擦的时候，比如同性恋、安乐死……
三、尾声
不管怎样，赫克特还是优雅的赫克特，还是那个想买一辆货车装满书本，开上无尽的公路周游世界的可爱老头子……圆满的结局似乎已经来到，当男孩们的前途都有了好归宿，赫克特也不必提前退休的时候，他却突然去世了……纵然令人措手不及，但未尝不是一种美好的解脱，把一切的争论和喧嚣都抛在身后，愿他充满诗意的灵魂安息……
历史，由始至终都是《历史系男生》展开叙事的线索。对于赫克特的死，Dakin问道：“历史是怎样发生的？”；桃乐丝（Dorothy）老师说，历史是女性提着花篮跟在无能的男人们身后；Rudge说，历史是一件又一件该死的事情……虽然是由舞台剧改编的，但人物、对白、情节，一切都很自然，没有造作的痕迹，没有过度的渲染。80年代英国校园的宁静葱郁，学院建筑的宏伟深沉，诗歌的优美雅致，男孩们惟妙惟肖的角色模仿，扑鼻的青春气息……还有令人印象深刻的那一幕：赫克特曾感慨地谈起阅读的愉悦，当你读到某些独特的文字，感悟到了什么，就像坐在某人身旁，然后有一只手握住了你……
充满历史感的唯美，过目难忘。
赫克特这个人物交织了很多矛盾，一方面，是个才华横溢的教师；另一方面，他逾越了道德界限，做了令人不齿的事——性骚扰他的男学生。乍看这部电影仿佛落入了俗套：道貌岸然、道德败坏的男教师的故事?
只是，这真的是《历史系男生》要表达的主题吗？不！影片中多彩而美妙的配乐，纯熟而毫不拖沓的节奏把握，那一个个饱满而丰实的人物，那一段段令人应接不暇的精辟睿智的对白，绝不是用来讲述这样一个关于道德批判的滥白故事。
一、传递“包裹”
在一堂文学课上，赫克特表达了他独特的教育理念,他告诉男孩们学诗歌的意义：即使诗歌大多是关于没有发生在我们身上的事，即使现在不能理解，即使与考试无关，但只要你现在去学习它，理解它，总有一天你会懂，那一刻也许是痛苦、快乐的时候，也许是弥留之际，而此时“你已经有解药了”。
赫克特总是这样，用诗意唯美的方式，娓娓道来，向你传授这些凝练的感悟。
在指导普斯纳（Posner）鉴赏《鼓手霍奇》这部作品时，赫克特的教育理念展现得淋漓尽致。
《鼓手霍奇》是关于一个无名小卒在战争年代的故事，默默无名的鼓手霍奇死去，被孤伶伶地埋葬在遥远的异乡。此时，60多岁的赫克特刚刚遭受了被迫提前退休的打击，突如其来的变故使赫克特对人生产生了怀疑与悲哀，而《鼓手霍奇》作者托马斯•哈代孤独落魄的一生仿佛与此时的赫克特同病相怜。
于是，前人的思想情感在赫克特心中强烈地共鸣着，与个体的经历、际遇交融，带上了个体的深刻烙印，然后，赫克特作为传播“介质”，像传递“包裹”那样,把前人的思想情感通过语言的表达，在普斯纳心中同样引起共鸣。情节发展到此处，象征着赫克特这个人物已经完成了他的使命——也就是他所说的“传递包裹”，人类文明和历史在本质上就是这样经过传递而被继承下来的，穿越时空，从一个心灵到另一个心灵。教育，也就是一种“传递”。正如赫克特所说的，接受它，感受它，传递它。这才是赫克特想让男孩们明白的“比赛（Game)”，而不是仅仅为了应付考试。普斯纳后来继承赫克特的衣钵，成为一名教师，把赫克特递过来的包裹传递下去，更是印证了这一主题。
也许，这才是《历史系男生》想讲述的。
二、违背道德？？
无疑地，赫克特珍视他的事业，不然他也不会因为被迫提前退休而如此黯然神伤，不知道是什么驱使赫克特冒险逾越了道德的界限，侥幸心理？还是轻视道德？或者两者兼有？我们也许无从得知。
不过，有趣的是，对于赫克特的“骚扰”，男孩们的态度值得玩味。不同于校长认为这是一桩“极不体面的事情”，男孩们最多只是觉得赫克特是个笑料，一直以来都和赫克特亲密无间；达肯（Dakin）说赫克特的离开某种程度上不得不说是遗憾，最后甚至用小花样迫使校长收回赫克特的辞退令……
这使我想起另外一部电影《十诫》里的一个故事，一个男人为了追求“纯粹的”自由，，于是在周末邀请友人到自己家里举办一丝不挂的“裸体Party”，别误会，他们只是想自由自在地阅读、听歌、烧烤，讨论音乐，没有其他。虽然这和赫克特的行为有着质的区别，但同样让我们萌发了一些思考：毫无疑问，道德对于维系人类社会的存在和发展有着巨大的意义，但是，我们又该如何定义某一些处在道德边缘的事情呢？特别是当人性与普遍道德价值产生摩擦的时候，比如同性恋、安乐死……
三、尾声
不管怎样，赫克特还是优雅的赫克特，还是那个想买一辆货车装满书本，开上无尽的公路周游世界的可爱老头子……圆满的结局似乎已经来到，当男孩们的前途都有了好归宿，赫克特也不必提前退休的时候，他却突然去世了……纵然令人措手不及，但未尝不是一种美好的解脱，把一切的争论和喧嚣都抛在身后，愿他充满诗意的灵魂安息……
历史，由始至终都是《历史系男生》展开叙事的线索。对于赫克特的死，Dakin问道：“历史是怎样发生的？”；桃乐丝（Dorothy）老师说，历史是女性提着花篮跟在无能的男人们身后；Rudge说，历史是一件又一件该死的事情……虽然是由舞台剧改编的，但人物、对白、情节，一切都很自然，没有造作的痕迹，没有过度的渲染。80年代英国校园的宁静葱郁，学院建筑的宏伟深沉，诗歌的优美雅致，男孩们惟妙惟肖的角色模仿，扑鼻的青春气息……还有令人印象深刻的那一幕：赫克特曾感慨地谈起阅读的愉悦，当你读到某些独特的文字，感悟到了什么，就像坐在某人身旁，然后有一只手握住了你……
充满历史感的唯美，过目难忘。
5 ) 不一样的校园片
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.
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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.
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6 ) 《历史系男生》的星空
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英国电影《历史系男生》根据荣获英国戏剧托尼奖的伦敦国家剧院经典剧目改编。从它诞生的那一刻起，便以其妙语连珠的对白、古典与现代交融的英伦风、别开生面的历史课堂、古希腊风格的同性理想，引发观众热烈的反响。为了保留戏剧语言的精髓，电影将原著极具张力的台词贯穿在师生互动的过程，以此呈现师生不同的个性风貌。八个男生形象洒脱文采飞扬，他们对历史、社会与人生的思维碰撞激荡出炫目的火花，从而构成本片主要的看点。
对普通观众而言，《历史系男生》最大的吸引力来自传统历史学习思维的革新。初生牛犊不怕虎的青年人质疑传统的历史价值观，他们的目光也绝不拘泥于写在书本上的观念，现实人生的规划、青春期的苦恼、情感取向的困惑，都被融入思辨话题并据此展开讨论。
这样的角度让我想起儒家孔子向老子的问礼。老子的赠言是：子所言者，其人与骨，皆已朽矣。大意是，你崇尚经典，可是古代写书的人早已化作白骨，请勿执着于字句表面啊。学问的真谛不在名（形式），你得用自己的头脑去消化你的所学，把理论变成与你的生命融汇贯通的一部分。知识不是死的，而是有生命的。对于一个聪明的求学者而言，知识是点亮黑暗的灵光，是你望着星空发出的天问，而不是干涸的枯井。
开通包容的学习氛围为八个男生开创了一片个性成长与重塑自我的广阔天空。学生们尚在青春成长的关键时刻。勇气是年轻人求知最可贵的品质，但光有胆量还不够，对于学生们来说，智者的教导与点拨至关重要。胖乎乎的老教师Hector便幸运地扮演了这样一个引路人的角色。
Hector之所以能得到学子们的爱戴，最重要的并非他如何知识渊博，而是源于他富于启发性的教学态度。他打破了传统刻板的教学方法，将戏剧、诗歌、音乐与历史结合起来，寓教于乐，将他的课堂变得灵光四射生气勃勃（这点倒是和古代中国文史合一的学术传统一致）。电影中有这样一段：为了让学生体会到创作的乐趣，Hector老师为他们开设了一堂生动的话剧表演课。他尊重年轻人的意愿，将维多利亚时代的青楼场景搬到课堂上来。学生们分角色扮演妓女和嫖客，在开怀的纵情欢笑中学会古典词汇的灵活表达。这样不拘一格的教学方式，不禁让人对这位慈祥憨厚的老人刮目相看。
Hector老师这样解释他的教学方式。他说他要培养学生们探索历史的乐趣。他希望青年学生能在最美好的年华发现文学艺术与历史星空的浩瀚璀璨，“而不是要等到他那样的年纪才后悔生命的虚度”。“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”。 他把他的课堂变成一座生机盎然的艺术殿堂，他认为激发学生思想的活力才能产生头脑风暴，哪怕得用书砸他们的脑袋。
与Hector老师注重启发性的历史教育方法不同，另一位青年老师Irwin则是校长聘请过来，专门为学生进行牛津/剑桥入学前的考试辅导。Irwin老师更看重学生们的作业和论文写作。相较于Hector，他的课堂少了一些灵活的表达方式，但观点新颖的历史讨论同样在充实着男生们的心灵和大脑。
就这样，电影通过两位历史老师生动的历史课堂为中国学生打开了一扇全新看待历史的窗口。对中国的同学来讲，高中课程就是教科书为你预先设置的标准答案。《历史系男生》却告诉我们，历史是无比美妙的，历史课绝不是无法提问的死记硬背。历史要让你知道，任何一件事情都有它所在的坐标系，就如星座之间某种看不见的联系，没有一种人文现象是孤立存在的。学习历史，可以让你发现更为浩瀚的星空。
Irwin老师在教导论文写作时也说，Knowledge，pursuit it for its own sake。关于那些公认的史实，课本上千篇一律的东西，没有死记它们的必要。千篇一律的就不要去写了，能够说出不同观点，反向思考的才是论文。历史是史学家站在局外人的视角对过去或现在的记录与诠释，这种看法在时间长河的流逝中也在悄然发生改变。不同时代的人对同样一件事或同一个人为什么会有不一样的结论呢。从这个角度来讲，历史的观察与分析也可以变得非常有趣且重要。
How does histry happen？History is just one fucking thing after another, nothing special, ordinary stuff.有趣的是，这句令人捧腹的台词出自被认为“四肢发达，头脑简单”的运动健将Rudge之口。饰演Rudge这一角色的是众多基友心中的男神：英挺桀骜的出柜演员小狼拉塞尔·托维。显然，Rudge的感悟来自Hector老师的戏剧模拟。
历史系男生之小狼
在戏剧表演中，虚拟时态的用法是Hector孜孜不倦的一个传授方式。Hector老师是想通过虚拟时态的练习与表达为学生开创一片想象力驰骋的天空：一边练习句法，一边在头脑中设想过去将来历史发生的各种可能性，从而明白历史虽然是一连串偶然发生的“狗屎”事件，但这些偶然性事件最后却能形成一个结果：看似偶然的历史中也包含着某种无法抗拒的特定规律。
就这样，学贯古今的性情中人Hector老师与严谨理性的Irwin老师以他们不同的历史教学风格在八个学生间展开一番较量。男生们的学习场所也绝不局限于狭小的课堂，老师们会将他们带到更为开阔的天地。不列颠岛早期人文遗址、文艺复兴时期的教堂，剑桥与牛津大学庄严优美的气象……都留下了男生们探索思想的脚印。置身于有着深厚历史积淀的场所，彷佛也能听到遥远时空传来的隐隐呼唤。
《历史系男生》不仅给我们上了一堂妙趣横生的历史课，它还是一首关于人性情感的美妙诗篇。电影借助诗歌与音乐表达男生们真挚的心灵诉求：师生情谊的深刻联接，男生之间悄然萌动的爱欲。
Posner是一个藏不住心事的文弱男孩，他有一双如小鹿般澄澈透明的眼眸。另一个英俊聪颖的男生Dakin似乎对他构成致命般的吸引力。Posner对Dakin的爱慕也被同学看在眼里：当他在课堂上吟唱爱情诗篇之际，他的目光会不由自主地追随Dakin。同性倾向的苦恼也在折磨这个对未来感到忐忑不安的男孩。他问Irwin老师，书上说同性爱慕会在青春期少年中弥漫、流动，这种情感真的只是青春期阶段性的迷惘吗。他拿不定主意要不要让这种情感过去。一方面，他恐惧未来的不确定性；另一方面，Dakin放浪不羁、我行我素的行事风格也在影响他。Dakin不仅是他爱慕的对象，也是他面对未来的勇气源泉。即使得不到Dakin的回应，Posner也情愿在心灵一角为他留下永久不可取代的一席。
与之形成鲜明对比的是胸襟潇洒的Dakin，Dakin天生一股蔑视权威的风度与敢于挑战禁忌的气质。他敢太岁头上动土，泡校长专宠的小蜜，敢对拥有实权的漂亮女秘书大吼一声：别以为我会像别人那样绕着你转！当Hector老师因“性骚扰”的罪名要被校长辞退之际，Dakin身先士卒地闯入校长办公室，以校长和女秘书的秘密来威胁校长，最终迫使校长收回了对Hector老师辞退的声明。
Dakin最具魄力的一面表现在他对Irwin老师的理解。在发现老师对自己暗藏的心事之后，他直面戴着眼镜的Irwin老师：“请把你的眼镜摘下来。”潜台词是：请把你的面具取下来。
毕业前夕，Dakin用毫不遮掩的目光盯着Irwin老师，道出藏在彼此心里的秘密。他说：也许你该请我喝一杯。不，我们不用那种说法，说实话，我想让你给我口交！——Dakin的这句告白足以吓退所有名牌大学的教授们。但这个男生的狂妄并非因为他缺乏教养，而是来自他赤子般纯真的心性。这样的对话场景也只能发生在Dakin这样独一无二的男生身上。
电影的最后，Hector老师因车祸离开了他热爱的课堂，离开了一直爱着他的学生们。他的学生们并没有因为这个“同性恋”老师曾对他们施加的“性骚扰”而轻视他。正相反，这个老师以他对教育发自肺腑的热情，以他对学生如慈父般的坦诚与关爱，赢得了所有学生对他的尊敬。八个男生之中的“同志”Posner则继承了Hector老师的理想，成为了一名中学教师。联想起电影中提及的文艺复兴艺术家的同性倾向，以及古希腊文化所推崇的男风，我不禁猜想电影编导是否在告诉我们，是同性恋老师将英伦历史文化的教育理想继承了下来。
我想起postner曾为HECTOR老师念过的一首诗，这首诗也是在对老师的一生做出最生动的诠释和缅怀： 鼓手霍奇被扔进坑里掩埋， 正如找到时那样，没有棺材： 他的坟地是南非的一座小山， 把周围的平原稍稍撕开； 这坟墓上空的每个夜晚， 异国的星座在西边摆开。 刚从威塞克斯老家来到这里， 年轻的鼓手霍奇弄不明白， 灌木丛丛，沃土扬尘， 广阔干旱的高原意义何在？ 昏暗的黑夜茫茫一片， 闪烁的星座好生奇怪。 正是这无名平原的一角， 霍奇将要长眠，永不离开； 他将长成一棵南方的大树， 带着北方质朴的头脑、胸怀， 任凭星星闪烁陌生的眼睛， 把他的命运永远主宰。
无聊到我看一半睡着了
美少年多啊~~
“恰同学少年,风华正茂,指点江山,激扬文字!”国情决定了我们只有羡慕的份儿~~
记得一篇介绍上有这么一句话：这里有英国最好的两样东西，同性恋和男校
英语被他们说得口齿留香。
这简直就是腐国的精华啊，诗歌与搅基双管齐下。对白犀利，语速惊人，信息量让人目不暇接，言语之物也是那般深刻，宗教信仰、身份和性格带来的小幽默还都是点到即止，那种只有过来人才懂，会心一笑之后当成一个荤段子，比如基督小哥自告奋勇坐上胖老师的摩托车享受同性按摩。★★★★
history is just one fucking thing after another
如此大胆勾引老师，不愧是立志考牛津剑桥的小朋友。
自然发光的男孩们把我的心都萌化了~~~~
读诗歌，读文学，读历史，读所有看似奢侈无用的东西，都是为了有一天，当一切发生在自己身上时，当别人感觉天崩地裂时，你已经手握着解药。
跟他们一比，我们跟白痴有神马两样，这种课堂、这种教学方式我们连想都不敢想，这差距，他们在想什么，我们在想什么，真是浑身冷汗.........PS：英国男生唱歌都这么好听吗？本·巴恩斯在《水性杨花》里的歌声也是把我萌翻了~~~~还有这英音............啊啊啊~~~
Why does Hector have to die at the end? to make the movie look 'deeper'? oh well, it'll fly out of my brain in six months anyway, never mind
关于英国最美好的两样事物：男校和同性恋。
7/10。虚拟语态、文学互动下确凿的史实被颠覆和解构，学生戴金用虚拟时态向欧文表示，哈利法克斯去看牙医的决定影响了二战英国的胜败，就以一个偶然的因素表达历史和人生的无常，而当赫克托向学生讲述哈代反映祖鲁战争的诗歌里的鼓手的时候，他把自己的遭遇同那个被埋于无名荒野的鼓手联系在一起，同性恋的赫克托在学校中始终被剥夺话语权，也是历史话语的偏见的受害者。历史无正解，它是一件接一件狗屁事，也是女老师愤愤不平谈论历史是男人的无聊论调，截然不同的两人也难以给出明确答案，赫克托独特教学方式不会空谈知识的乐趣，天马行空地借历史教授诗歌、戏剧和电影桥段，欧文则拘泥于名校的规则，面对学生赤裸裸的表白求欢也不敢逾越出界，完全没有课堂上教授学生逆向思维的离经叛道，假冒牛津毕业的声誉，实际上摧毁了自己非名校毕业的知识潜力。
珠连妙语很多，但还有很多没看明白
“死亡诗社”的另一诠释，英美差异显露无遗。英国人的高人一等幽默风趣僵硬严谨智慧闪耀，Hmmm……我更喜欢英国制造。女教师关于“历史无女人”那段太犀利了。我爱Rudge直板板的抛弃牛津去铺地毯的气质，我爱小受老师僵硬的举止闪烁的眼神苍白的嘴唇，我爱色老师浪费生命的教学方法，我爱小天使 posner的眼神和歌声，念诗那段太美了！最后——换掉男主！受不了一群天使围绕着一个自大白痴丑男主！我要舞台版的Jamie King！
好像很久很久前看的，只记得看完后，我突然用功了几天~汗
这是一部会让中国高中生郁闷致死的片子，大致是这样的。
就在我沉醉在随时从他们几位即将自由开展人生使用身体的年轻人嘴里冒出的诗句反观自己不说英国文学就是在中国古典文学面前也只有跪舔的份儿时，Hector在Posner这个少年时的自己背诵哈代一首关于“正名与归宿”的诗结尾后讲出了真正的文学意义——不在于你记住了多少诗句，而在于它是否抓住了你的手。
男孩子们滔滔不绝的精彩对白让我慌了神