Dormitory 206

This film (drama)Also known as庙，is aMainland ChinaProducerwomen sex，At2013Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating7.5(For reference only)。

A few boys about to graduate live in Dormitory 206. They spend their youthful days eating, chatting, playing cards, and using their phones, all just to obtain a high school diploma. Finally, they graduate from high school, but where does the future lie? Should they work or continue to muddle through at a vocational college? Facing such students, teachers find it hard to show enthusiasm for teaching. The grades can’t possibly be good, the pay is low, and they just get by, waiting for the school relocation to happen soon. Only Teacher Hou diligently wipes the bulletin board, as always. Teacher Hou isn’t good at socializing, and spends most of his time in life sitting alone and not speaking. The original site of Duancun Middle School in Pingyao County was an ancient temple from the Ming Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, a community school was established here, and in the early years of the Republic, a primary school was set up. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, a county-run junior high school was founded, followed by a county-run high school in the 1980s. In 2001, the high school expanded enrollment, reaching over 1,400 students, which led the school to build a new teaching building on the playground. By the summer of 2011, more than 150 students from the school merged with two other high schools and moved to a new campus in the city. Grass grew on the playground, and watchman Old Mi and his family continued to live in the teaching building. Director's Profile Guo Hengqi was born in Shanxi, China, in 1979. In 2007, he participated in the post-production of Ai Weiwei’s documentary "Fairy Tale" as an editing assistant. In December of the same year, he edited Wang Bing's documentary "Crude Oil"; in January 2008, he edited Zhang Chi’s feature film "Lunch Box." From February 2008 to August 2010, he shot the documentary "New Castle," which won the Best Documentary Award in the Wide Angle section at the 2010 Busan Film Festival and was officially selected for the 2011 French Real Cinema Festival, Canada’s Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, Yunnan Documentary Image Exhibition, and Taipei Film Festival. Documentaries 2008-2010 Director "New Castle" 2007 Editor "Crude Oil" Director's Statement Pingyao County Duancun Middle School is a rural school, originally an ancient temple from the Ming Dynasty. My grandfather, father, and younger brother all studied here. When I heard that Duancun Middle School was going to move to the city, all the teachers and students cheered and eagerly awaited this day so they could embrace urban life. The teaching building on the playground went from newly built to abandoned in just ten years; yet, this has been a school for nearly a hundred years and a building for almost five hundred years; however, no one cares about these things. When I was a student, we held great respect for all teachers. Now that I am a teacher, students on the other side, with cigarettes in their mouths, say to me maturely, “Who would become a teacher if they have real ability? Right?” In thirty years of economic development, what else have we changed? "A school is the origin of enlightenment." It can "be applied to the virtues of filial piety and brotherly love," and can "cultivate oneself and guide others." However, now no school possesses these qualities; instead, it has been replaced by ideological and political education, with exams being the sole purpose of education and learning. In rural schools, faced with meager salaries and unruly students, teachers are disheartened and unable to impart knowledge, leading to a loss of respect for the teaching profession. Students are fed up with studying, skipping classes, aimless and confused, restless, squandering their youth, yearning for urban prosperity, dreaming of a day when they can reap without toil. But are these problems merely the result of educational failure? The more crucial reason stems from the influence of this society on them. Their understanding of the world is inseparable from the environment in which they live, the geographical area, and the social class, among others. Just as their textbooks mention: "Consciousness is the brain's reaction to the objective world." Their speech, behaviors, mental states, and value recognition are a true reflection of the current rural society. They are the future of rural society; however, from a factual perspective, they are likely to become idle vagrants in society. Behind the dilapidation of a century-old school is the dissolution of the rural social and cultural value system. From then on, "seeking etiquette in the wilderness" has become a luxury.