＂High Class＂： Korean primary schools, so involed.

Note: This article has spoilers.

The tvN moon fire drama "High Class", starring Cao Rujing, kim Ji Soo and Park Shizhen, which is called "the city of the sky in primary school", premiered this month.

The play was translated into "Top Universities", but it is not accurate. Compared with "City of the Sky" broadcast by JTBC in 2018, the story described in "High Class" is still the life of 0.1% rich wives in Korean upper society, but the difference is that this story focuses on a top international primary school in Jeju Island, not a "university".

"High Class" poster

At the beginning, Song Ruwei (Cao Rujing), a partner lawyer, suffered the tragedy that her husband committed suicide by jumping into the sea after she fell asleep on a private cruise ship. With more suspense films, what is hidden in the ladies’ cabinets may really be a "skeleton" thriller.

My son Yi Can argued with his classmates at school because of the rumor that "mom is a murderer", but the teacher stood on the side of the unreasonable parents of the other students. At that time, Song Ruwei just received an anonymous recommendation letter from an international school, so she took her son to Jeju Island to attend the final interview for transfer …

Feel this school reading room comparable to the library ↓↓↓

In this high-class Korean society, everyone has to cram their own children into the primary school. English is only the foundation, and there are golf, horseback riding, orchestra and ballet courses …

"High Class" slammed on "City of the Sky".

In the play, the cram school teacher consulted by the hostess before the interview called "City of the Sky" a "successful record of the college entrance examination for the middle class" in South Korea, and dismissively said: "The era when doctors and lawyers earned more money is over."

At this time, it is necessary to praise Cao Rujing’s acting skills.

Hearing this mockery of the profession of lawyer, she bowed her head and smiled helplessly, then turned her head slightly to one side, immediately put away her wry smile and looked up and smiled politely. In less than a second, the three expressions changed, bringing embarrassment, bitterness and forbearance into full play.

When the other party noticed, she resumed her standard business face frankly and calmly replied: "I am a lawyer."

Well, as long as I’m not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.

South Korea’s educational involution starts from primary school, children have to be interviewed, and parents have to follow it on three sides. After all, "a place that spends 100 million won a year" can’t come if you want.

Every car parked at the gate of the cram school has its own direction and a price tag that has already been marked.

It’s useless to have money in your pocket. The eighteen martial arts of children and the connections between parents, schools and consortia are the key points of the entrance examination.

No matter how high-ranking members of parliament, game company CEOs, media tycoons, or wives of hospital directors, they have to come to Jeju Island to participate in this ultimate battle with examiner 1v3.

The most interesting thing about High Class is that you can get a glimpse of these high-class ladies in Korea.

Here, the three universities of South Korea’s "SKY system" (Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University) are classified as female entertainment stars in the contempt chain.

In her view, it is serious for her son to successfully inherit his father’s game company when he grows up. Anyway, "the owner of the fried chicken shop in the community also graduated from Seoul National University."

The wife of the media tycoon wanted to talk English and knelt down. Finally, she took a mouthful of poor English with the taste of kimchi and counted all the experiences on her husband’s resume.

The seemingly decent congressman’s wife’s words represent the voices of some parents who have been working day and night-

"Although there is no need for a phoenix in the crow’s nest, no parents want their children to be crows."

If this passage is leaked out, I wonder what will happen to her congressman’s poll …

Of course, there are also parents whose eldest son is the president of the students, who have long understood the way of speaking. This time, they are PTA(Parent-Teacher Association) parents’ representatives who are the second child in the family to interview. "Mianba" parents who can actively explain in English together with the translation mistakes of the biography ↓↓↓

Back to the final round of the hostess, she didn’t choose to hide it, but honestly told the reason why she brought her son to the interview-

"I hope he can go to school with a smile."

In response, my son Yi Can’s answer to this question is surprisingly consistent with his mother’s: "I want to see my mother smile."

No one can tell, but I admire Song Ruwei for educating his son’s values. Some adults like to distinguish children’s minds simply by age, but she can see the delicate and sensitive side of children.

For a simple example, her son was bullied by his classmates in the previous school, and she went to negotiate with the teacher and the other parents-

In the face of parents’ arrogance, she will argue for her son: "Even if they are young, they all know what they should know." In the face of the teacher’s prejudice, she was neither humble nor supercilious: "I don’t want to be called a teacher who thinks the child is abnormal and evaluates him."

Especially in the face of the teacher’s prevarication, she hit back at hit the floor.

When getting along with her son, she chose to communicate actively and timely, understand the statements of all parties and sort out the facts, instead of jumping directly to the conclusions that everyone saw at first sight. Mother and son have established absolute trust in communication.

A similar example, in the case of the drone being damaged after the transfer, is the same: if anyone does something wrong, he should apologize; But if you don’t do something wrong, you can’t be splashed with dirty water.

This personality of convincing people by reasoning is probably the instinct of lawyers.

Compared with Joon-hee’s mother, who secretly poked her rhythm and made her daughter pull out skillfully, she stood up and saw it.

Back at home, the hostess switched to the mode of "maternal love is greater than heaven" for her son’s psychological counseling of missing his father.

"As long as we remember, he will not disappear." A word is warm enough. People who have lost their loved ones know that.

Although she played a stay-at-home mom who was also in the upper class in the movie Parasite, Cao Rujing’s interpretation of Song Ruwei in High Class was completely different.

The scene that impressed me the most was that the hostess wore a long dark green dress to attend the parents’ party held at school. Familiar mothers have already built a group, and she knows nothing about it and is excluded.

Lively, it is theirs; I have nothing.

I remembered the first time that Sugiyama took part in F4 cruise party.

This party is described by Zhang Haozhe’s description of the workplace in Talk Show Conference: "If a place has more than 60% parents, then no matter what this place used to do, it is now a battlefield."

Spit can drown people.

What is even more chilling is that my son played hide-and-seek with his classmates and was locked in a locker, which almost killed him. The woman can only pick up a high-heeled shoe, hammer the door lock with the heel and save her son.

Here is a detail that the author likes very much, that is, when she pried the door, she did not forget to remind her son to cover her ears. At a critical juncture, she can take care of her son’s psychological state for the first time and is a reliable and good mother.

Villa in Jeju Island, big home, cold and empty; The campus with bright windows during the day can only be redeemed by itself in the middle of the night rainstorm. "Welcome" written in lipstick on the window; White bouquets and vague cards sent home by strangers late at night; The mysterious mobile phone left in the villa; The warmth between single mothers is also hidden, which is not very reliable and may collapse at any time …

Just like dying message waiting to be unlocked.

I remembered F4′ s red note posted to Chinese fir.

"High Class" is about those things in Korean primary schools, but the educational content reflected is a copy of the adult world after all. Even the mothers in the same small group, the small abacus in their hearts, do not ring in one place.

The only thing that makes the author somewhat dissatisfied is that some mothers described in High Class still seem to stare at women from a male-dominated perspective. The design of female stars still stays at the stage of "beautiful girls have no brains, only know ambiguity and giggle"; A beautiful single mother, who is busy with her children alone, is easy to be pointed at; The chain of contempt between female roles is always based on the husband’s occupation and property status; Even the property where the woman lives in Jeju Island is a villa left by her husband to her son …

Stereotype.

It’s a long way to go if you want to break through the cocoon.

What’s more, it’s too easy to guess the next step, so it’s boring. How to break away from this fixed pattern and tell stories is the biggest test for screenwriters.