I happened to see the film "The Eighth Day" with a class of fourth grade students and together with the third year of high school. In both cases, the film has been appreciated and, besides having an immediate emotional outlet, has given way to open an important discussion on the syndrome Down (Georges is a terrific actor with Down syndrome), the sense of helping relationship, respect for differences and the need for normality of Georges. It can be so well used as a moment of reflection of a group class that is preparing to welcome a fellow disabled.
begin with a brief reconstruction of the plot.
Plot
Harry, estimated teacher training company of Future Bank, teaches the path of success for future managers, based on a philosophy that summarizes in a few rules: Always smile and above all to imitate the other person, tics, attitudes and language. Why do people hate the other. It will meet very soon ... It is instead a "her day" with her estranged husband to take her children, but so absorbed in his work will eventually forget it and get to the station when the girls have now decided to go back. While reflecting on what his busy day at the wheel of his car, at night, Harry is caught by a gust of sleep and causes an accident has invested a dog. Now comes forth his alleged master, Georges, a young boy Down lost and delirious, fled the Institute which was relegated after the death of his mother. Feeling guilty about the death of his dog, Harry will try to remedy dealing with Georges. This leads, therefore, the first police station, where, however, will collide with the chicanery of the agent on duty. He does not just have to take it in their accommodation of "singles" and offer the only available bed, her. Several fruitless attempts to get rid of Georges, including the right to take him where his sister lives, Harry began a path towards human Georges that will take him to see the world from a new perspective. Until, having to be away for a moment the car in which he left, no longer Georges: rose on the terrace of the building, it was stuffed with chocolate - to which has a dangerous allergy - he lost his balance and fell down .
The course, after watching the film, could provide some demand-stimulus such as
1. What do you think is the meaning of the title of the film?
2. Because it is hosted by the Institute runs Georges?
3. How do you evaluate the meeting between George and Harry?
4. What changes in Harry?
5. What are the most difficult times for Georges?
6. What would have allowed a happy ending for Georges?
After this first stage of starting the discussion, one might propose a study, by linking the findings from the questions-stimulation with some key concepts:
- normal '"sick": this is the normality of Harry, a man in career estimated corporate trainer, which sells its infallible method that facade of smiles and optimism, optimism and smiles for a break before the failure as a husband and father. The film is like if you put a game out of the scene / background where the facade of fake good mood following the merciless portrait of a hopeless human failure.
- NEED normal 'OTHER: Georges runs the Institute, when his companions depart Institute misfortune to spend a family vacation: he has no family, no one who did not expect it, although later in the film you will discover the existence of a sister who has "removed" Georges (the unexpected appearance of Georges front of his house has its own flavor of return of the repressed). Georges "run", but in fact he goes to that space of normality represented in the film vanished from the family home is now empty.
- THE MEETING WITH THE DIFFERENCE 'AND co-evolution: the seemingly random encounter with Harry Georges (the impression of two objects that is overwhelmed by the waves of fate - in the film represented symbolically by the storm - to go on a crash 'etc.) will change both their lives, particularly Harry. What looks like a helpful one-way relationship (Harry helps Georges) will be transformed, in a dialectical reversal unexpected, the possibility of redemption and redemption of Harry. He will indeed learn to look at the world from an unusual perspective on the world, to look through the eyes of Georges, a look still full of wonder for the world. This new look will take him to regain his lost humanity. Georges will turn a house in Harry, that piece of normalcy so desired.
- THE EIGHTH DAY: "the eighth day" in addition to being the film's title is the title of the cosmogonic myth and antropogonico told by George that revisits the biblical myth: << in principio non c’era niente si sentiva solo la musica. Il primo giorno fece il sole che pizzica gli occhi. Il secondo giorno fece l’acqua: è bagnata, e bagna i piedi se ci cammini dentro. Poi fece il vento che fa il solletico. Il terzo giorno fece l’erba, quando la tagli piange: le fa male, bisogna consolarla, parlarle con dolcezza. Se tocchi un albero diventi albero. Il quarto giorno fece le vacche , quando ansimano è caldo. Il quinto giorno fece gli aeroplani , se non li prendi puoi guardarli passare. Il sesto giorno fece le persone: gli uomini, le donne, i bambini , io preferisco le donne e i bambini perché non pungono quando li baci. Il settimo giorno, per riposarsi, fece le nuvole; se le guardi a lungo ci vedi disegnate le storie. Allora si domandò se mancava niente: l’ottavo giorno fece Georges e vide che era buono.>>. This myth invites you to think of the difference as a natural event. In the film, this "difference" clashes with the law without love the community: one part to the inherent right to exist as each other and, secondly, the law of the city that wants to confine the difference in the precincts of the Institutes. Georges is a conflict that leads to failure, to leap into the void. As a matter of normal there is no place for him ...
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