I believe that, at the very beginning, everyone was sure that one day his dream would come true by perseverance. However, with growing up, things are going to be more difficult and complex. Sometimes, when you are coming to the fork of a road, the light at the end of a tunnel lost. Then, people no longer have accesses to achieve what they wanted before. It is true for both the real life and the life in the movie Les Choristes. While, difficulties never stop brave guys seeking the true, the good and the beauty. To me, I always believe the beauty of glorious ideals and elevated minds.Clement Mathieu was a musician with super talent, while it lacks scope for his ability since he was in French rural areas. One day, Mathieu who failed to achieve his ambition, came to a school regarded as “the bottom of a pool” and found that boys living there have kinds of problems. To make mat ter worse, the headmaster was very indifferent. He was used to abuse his right to use corporal punishment frequently. Monsieur Mathieu began to try to change the situation. But, all of his ways turn out useless. Finally, he turned to the music. He has found that those boys are interested in singing something, good or bad,or funny or relaxing. They just love singing. So he began to train them with professional method. I have to say that it really is an amazing choir—Boys sing beautiful and bright songs written by Monsieur Mathieu; they also managed to perform those songs perfectly. Boys’ hearts seemed to be melted and purified by the power o f music as well as MonsieurMathieu’s patience. Change was in the air of this “bottom of a pool”, and it was just a question of when. Everything seemed so hopeful again. In the end, unfortunately, Monsieur Mathieu was fired by the mean headmaster in the name of an accident. On his way of leaving, there were lots of paper planes free falling from the window of classroom. They were from those boys. Even though there were no names on paper planes, our dear teacher knew exactly who did that. At the same time, boys locked the angry headmaster out of the door and sang their song to say goodbye to their teacher.Therefore, I think it is the true essence of education as well as the true meaning of life. Can we say that? As for me, there is still someone like Monsieur Mathieu I really appreciate. They are teachers in my high school. Of course, they needn’t rescue me from troubles as bad as those in the movie. But they actually taught me many crucial things—how to think, how to adhere to my principles and what kind of values I should keep. Conspicuously, spiritual guides for a teenager who were almost lost are definitely great.Then, I guess this kind of good education is life-giving spring breeze and rain. Besides, the beautiful heart stands for brilliance of humanity. No matter how dark the situation is, the great heart will always decorate the world and make lives different.幽晦的“池塘之底”“池塘之底”是一所专为“再教育”问题少年们而设置的寄宿学校的名字。
一如其名，学校拥有阴森古陈的建筑、笨重重叠的大门，灰色斑驳的教室以及幽暗闭塞的氛围。
夏丏尊曾说：“教育没有了情爱，就成了无水的池，任你四方形也罢，圆形也罢，总逃不了一个虚空。
”处于池塘之底，那就意味着幽晦如地狱，没有阳光温暖心灵；意味着井底之蛙，笼中之鸟，没有湛蓝的天空任意飞翔；意味着冰冷如冬，污秽丛杂，没有真情实爱的润泽。
在这里，我们看到教育的“理念”——“行动—反应”原则，如果有孩子触犯了纪律，全校师生立即集合，肇事者将受到严厉的惩罚。
设若三秒内找不到肇事者，所有人都要关六小时的禁闭，轮流进行，取消所有娱乐活动，禁止任何外来探访，直到肇事者自首或被揭发为止；在这里，有着严格的客人探访条例，只可以在规定时间段亲子见面，其余时间都处于鞭子与辱骂的凌威之下；在这里，缺乏公义、尊重、爱心……哈珊校长，自私贪婪、刻薄威严而又刚愎自用。
曾经是鼓号手的他，也有过梦想与激情，可是面临教育的异化，逐渐将自我的心灵扭曲变形。
为了向同业委员会争取经费，为了晋升和荣誉勋章，他可以不择手段，任意掠取马修的艰辛努力。
为了逃避自己的责任，他可以把蒙丹送进监狱，可以宣告合唱团解散，可以解雇马修。
在他眼里，惟有绝对的权威，才能控制消极行为的发生，抑或惩罚消极行为。
他不再关注学生的灵魂生长，不再倾听教师的善意建议，只在寻求通达的路径，只在解决经费的来源。
面对学生的种种变化，他无法认识到音乐的育人功效，认为音乐带来的纪律改变只是凑巧。
学校的教师个个行为乖戾，面目可憎，令人匪夷所思。
他们忘记了说笑，也就失去了生活的情趣与品位。
在他们眼里，看什么都觉得是坏事，这几乎成了职业习惯，或者说思维定势。
每天如临大敌，与学生没有任何情感的交流。
正因为如此，学生敌视教师，与教师形成敌对壁垒。
在马修刚出现的时候，大家讽刺辱骂他“秃子”、“光弹头”；因为哈让没收了穆东的香烟，而被剪刀所捅人；被视为无药可救的孤独的灵魂纵身跳楼自杀；随时准备阴谋袭击教师；蓄意报复教师的批评惩罚；课堂创作漫画羞辱校长；远离家长，叛逆心理极其严重……马修，一个落魄的艺术行侠，一个仓皇的生活男人，一个另类的学监教师。
在所有领域经历了系列挫折后，他终于跌入人生的最低谷。
音乐创作的梦想，爱情诗意的浪漫，年少意气的轻狂都被卷入生命的池塘之底。
在阴雨霏霏的冬末，马修将孤独的身影写进另一方“池塘之底”。
悲哉，同是天涯沦落人！马修看到在校门翘首南望、苦等周六的战争孤儿佩比诺；看到跪地洗刷、冷漠敌意的被罚者……爱，在理解的尽头第一次与学生生命相遇，马修便遭到重重戏剧。
远远地，就听到教室内喧闹沸腾，推开木门看到骷髅嘴里叼着点燃的烟头，刚上讲台就被滑倒，飞出的皮包被学生四下抛传。
直到校长的出现，教室才恢复了本该的平静。
然而，马修还是用善良的谎言，宽容了这群孩子，在双双惊谔的目光中开始了师生生命的对话。
首先，马修要求打伤马桑的乐格克承担责任，可是乐格克在侥幸规避校长的三秒后，又遗憾地错失了马修宝贵的十五秒，即使在送往校长的途中企求马修发发慈悲以求宽恕时，也未得到谅解。
然而，当马修看到乐科烈被禁闭三天后又被抽打得声嘶力竭后，他还是意识到可以另外的人性化方式私下处理——去医务室照看马桑，以感觉生命的脆弱，直到康复为止。
马修实在不忍心一个孱弱幼稚的心灵，遭到校长无情地鞭笞与践踏。
他申请进行教育实验，请求校长答应三个要求：取消禁止娱乐的禁令；允许他来惩罚肇事者；允许不透露孩子的姓名。
面对这个自负的家伙，校长有意让他“碰壁”后的苏醒，便含糊地答应了。