Life is Beautiful

The autumn of 1964, Oregon, USA. In order to earn money to complete his career, Glen Holland, a composer with lofty ideals, found a job as a music teacher in a middle school. He did this as a last resort, and the burden of family life forced him to face reality. On the first day he went to school, students with poor music foundation gave him an embarrassing insult. Not only did they play their instruments out of tune, they had never even heard of the famous classical composer Bach. Holland's confidence was shaken, and the headmistress Jacob also made many well-intentioned criticisms to him. When her husband encountered setbacks in his work, his wife, who was engaged in photography, patiently advised and comforted him. His good friend Bill Meester, a physical education teacher, also used his own personal experience as a teacher to prove to Holland that teaching students requires selfless love and sufficient time. Under Holland's careful training, white student Gertrut Lang and black student Louis Russ, who originally knew nothing about music, learned the clarinet and bass drum respectively. Just when Holland was obsessed with teaching life, his son was born, who turned out to be a child who was congenitally deaf. This heavy blow caused Holland to shift his focus on family, becoming negative and hesitant and beautiful.