A. Name: Life is beautiful | Brief introduction: an Italian movie. During World War II in Italy, Guido was a good and kind, cheerful and humorous person. He met and fell in love with Dora, a school teacher; and they got married. It is a very beautiful and sad story. It is a heartrending movie that shows us we should never forget what happened and stand up against war. |
B. Name: Central Station | Brief introduction: a Brazilian movie. A poor and retired teacher writes letters in the Rio de Janeiro train station. Illiterate people pay Dora to write and mail the letters. Ana, one of Dora‘s clients, died in front of the station, and Dora took Josué, to her house. First, Dora had bad intentions, but then she decided to help the boy look for his father. This film shows how both poverty and hope play a role in the lives of Brazilian people. |
C. Name: Gattaca | Brief introduction: a science fiction thriller. It shows the use of genetic engineering in the future to create an almost perfect human. The director of this movie creates a world of the future based on genetic testing and research nowadays. This movie is shocking to society because it creates a believable world of the future based on genetic engineering. |
D. Name: The Net | Brief introduction: a Canadian movie. It introduces us to the main character, a computer programmer totally addicted to the Internet. She spends hours and hours in front of the screen working, ordering pizza, reserving a flight seat, and chatting with online friends. Then comes the sinister aspect of identity theft. The movie is close to our daily life, and those troubles might happen to us. |
E. Name: Harry Potter | Brief introduction: a science fiction movie. The movie concerns Harry’s struggle against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort who killed Harry’s parents and many other innocent people. Harry Potter is the leading role of the whole story. He is a talented, powerful and kind boy with a strong mind. Harry Potter learns more than magic at Hogwarts. He makes new friends and learns to be brave and to do things he used to be afraid of. He also learns about the power of love. |
F. Name: The Truman Show | Brief introduction: one of the Hollywood’s famous movies. It shows us a story of a person who struggles for freedom and fight against fate bravely. The whole movie is full of philosophy. In order to convey the philosophic main idea, this movie based on a very unique setup. Through a show of a real person – his process of discovery, his attempts to escape his situation to provoke us into think. |
时间 | 上周末 |
对象 | 在中国农村教书的志愿者卢安克(Eckart Loewe) |
主题 | 他的志愿者之路 |
基本情况 | 1968年出生在德国汉堡(Hamburg);1990年夏天,短短3个月的中国之旅,让他深深地爱上了广西的乡村。 |
从教过程 | (1)1999年,在广西的一个乡村成为一名志愿者教师; (2)发现中国家长重视成绩却忽视孩子的天性和兴趣。 |
教育理念 | 如果一个人只是为了别人的理念而生存,他就永远找不到自我的方向和力量。 |