This comedy bridges generations through universal humor while challenging educational rigidity. The director’s live action and animation hybrid crafts a transcultural visual language, resonating globally through Chinese storytelling. Adapted from a seminal graphic novel, the work embeds sharp sociocultural critique within absurdist comedy, surreal classroom transformations, and allegorical designs dissecting Asian academic pressures. Its brilliance lies in a dual-layer construction: colorful slapstick engages younger audiences while meticulously crafted details encode reform commentary.

Lanhua Ma is an emerging international award-winning filmmaker and one of China's most notable young female directors. Her short film, There is Honor among Thieves, won the best experimental film at the Chinese First International Film Festival and the Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019 and went to Tokyo Image Forum Film Festival (Japan) and the Seashorts Festival (Malaysia) in 2020.