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* BreakTheCutie: Zsofi, at the beginning. She's very excited to join the choir and earn the approval of Miss Karen, only to be told that she's not good enough to perform with the others. This makes her extremely upset, but due to Miss Karen's imploring to not tell anyone, she feels unable to tell Liza, her best friend, leading her to break down in tears.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Zsofi and Liza are able to convince the entire class to mime singing, due to the unfairness of what's happening to their classmates, in contrast to Miss Karen, who cruelly tells Zsofi to stop singing instead of just ''teaching her how to sing'', which is her job!
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* TheReveal: When Liza realizes that Zsofi is far from the only student who's been ordered to not sing.
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''Sing'' (''Mindenki'', "Everybody") is a 2016 short film (25 minutes) from UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}}, directed by Kristof Deak.
It's set in Budapest in 1991. Zsofi, a girl of maybe 10 years old, has moved to a new elementary school. When asked what activities she'd like to pursue, Zsofi says she likes to sing. Zsofi is placed in the award-winning school choir, and becomes close friends with Liza, another girl in the choir. Zsofi's enjoyment of choir is ruined when the choir teacher, Miss Karen, tells Zsofi that she isn't good enough to actually sing. Instead, Zsofi is only to pretend to sing, merely mouthing the words.
Zsofi dutifully complies. One day Liza, who actually is an excellent singer, notices that her friend isn't really singing. When Zsofi tearfully confesses, an outraged Liza resolves to take action.
Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'', an animated feature that also came out in 2016.
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!!Tropes:
* CherubicChoir: And a rebellious one.
* CuteButCacophonic: Zsofi, or so Miss Karen seems to think.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miss Erika cares only about winning that competition and getting that free trip to Sweden. When the kids are all miming rather than singing on the stage, Erika says "You can't do this to me!"
* SadistTeacher: Miss Erika is only too willing to demean and humiliate the kids in her class. When Liza calls her out on what she's doing, Erika makes all the kids who aren't really singing raise their hands.
* SeriousBusiness: Middle-school choir competitions are apparently a big deal.
* SpoilerTitle: If you speak Hungarian, the title kind of gives the ending away.
* TitleDrop: Several times of course, but most notably at the talent show at the end, when an enraged Miss Erika hisses at her class to "Sing!"
It's set in Budapest in 1991. Zsofi, a girl of maybe 10 years old, has moved to a new elementary school. When asked what activities she'd like to pursue, Zsofi says she likes to sing. Zsofi is placed in the award-winning school choir, and becomes close friends with Liza, another girl in the choir. Zsofi's enjoyment of choir is ruined when the choir teacher, Miss Karen, tells Zsofi that she isn't good enough to actually sing. Instead, Zsofi is only to pretend to sing, merely mouthing the words.
Zsofi dutifully complies. One day Liza, who actually is an excellent singer, notices that her friend isn't really singing. When Zsofi tearfully confesses, an outraged Liza resolves to take action.
Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'', an animated feature that also came out in 2016.
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!!Tropes:
* CherubicChoir: And a rebellious one.
* CuteButCacophonic: Zsofi, or so Miss Karen seems to think.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Miss Erika cares only about winning that competition and getting that free trip to Sweden. When the kids are all miming rather than singing on the stage, Erika says "You can't do this to me!"
* SadistTeacher: Miss Erika is only too willing to demean and humiliate the kids in her class. When Liza calls her out on what she's doing, Erika makes all the kids who aren't really singing raise their hands.
* SeriousBusiness: Middle-school choir competitions are apparently a big deal.
* SpoilerTitle: If you speak Hungarian, the title kind of gives the ending away.
* TitleDrop: Several times of course, but most notably at the talent show at the end, when an enraged Miss Erika hisses at her class to "Sing!"
