The film simply tells the story of Frank, an uncle who was originally an assistant professor in Boston, who adopted a gifted niece, Mary, after her sister Diane committed suicide. Mary has an extraordinary talent in mathematics, but Frank only wants Mary to live an ordinary life; however, after Mary's grandmother learned of the child's talent, she will do whatever it takes to train Mary to be a math genius who solves the millennium problem. In the end, the uncle won.
The tone of the movie is always about love and respect and trying to squeeze how parents treat their children. But how do we as children, or we who were children, want to be treated?
1. I
A while ago, my parents had a fight. My mother said, "You can be so cool now because you have an amazing daughter." I was reading a book next to me, and suddenly burst into laughter, feeling like I was considered "The Great Gatsby". Looking back, it seems a bit bitter again.
I can't compare with Mary in the play, I don't have exceptional math ability; maybe it means that I am easier to read than the average person, and my memory is better; in good conscience, I have never tried my best to study, nor did I take the college entrance examination; Once I take the IELTS test, I can get 8 points for practice, and the test is a mediocre 7.5 points (mainly writing an essay without writing a naked test); I participated in various extracurricular activities when I was a child, such as piano, painting, English, etc., and even Up to now, I have played Go faster and better than my peers.
A lot of people will ask how my mother taught me, and she always proudly says, "I never interfere with her." So, I was also thinking, what would happen if my mother interfered with me? Like Mary's genius grandmother, training skills, no puppy love, no casual friends, no playing around. But what about my childhood? It doesn't seem so happy, because it's all up to you. "Mom, I want to play the piano", so my mother found a teacher; "Mom, I'm not good at math", she found a tutor for me; "Mom, I want to read English", I reported a new concept, as if everything was decided by myself, Nothing but good and bad.
2. Movies
In "Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", after the six-year-old prodigy Werther revealed his piano genius, people said to his mother seriously: As a mother, you have a great responsibility. responsibilities of the session. Later, Werther was increasingly suffering from talent, and said to his grandfather, I don't want to be a genius, I want to be someone else, an ordinary person. Grandpa said, "Then you have to give up something first." So Werther would rather jump from upstairs and pretend to be injured and lose his talent than be a child prodigy.
In the Indian movie "Wrestle! Dad", in order to realize his ideal, the father found that his daughter also had wrestling talent, and began to design wrestling tasks for his daughter every day;
However, many people object to the fact that the father trains his daughter to wrestle, because it is a forced choice made by the father for his daughter. The daughter is actually a tool for the father to realize his dream, and many people say that this objection is too sensitive.
3. Reality
Due to the times, most parents of the previous generation were unhappy, coupled with the generally low level of education, many parents passed on their desire to succeed and vented on their children. There are too many examples, just to mention two: Marathon girl Zhang Huimin and piano prodigy Shen Wenyu.
Zhang Huimin's father made his daughter run more than 40 kilometers a day, 1,000 punches, 400 high jumps and 800 kicks every day from the age of three. He said, I have a very deep research on training, sports medicine, nutrition, because I have read a lot of books, magazines, sports medicine, "Compendium of Materia Medica". In 2008, Zhang's father asked his daughter to run from Sanya to Beijing "to welcome the Olympics", which lasted 56 days and a total length of 3588 kilometers. Her father also appeared on CCTV and quarreled with experts, and he was out of the limelight for a while.
Zhang Huimin is 18 years old this year. The news said: After Zhang Huimin was promoted to junior high school, Zhang's father became disheartened and started the breeding business again, no longer forcing her to run. The Olympic dream has been shattered, and his current dream is to be "the world's most distinctive tropical fish breeding and viewing base", which requires hundreds of thousands of funds. So her daughter Zhang Huimin worked and studied part-time to help her father save money.
Shen Wenyu's father's method of cultivating genius is the same as that of his grandmother in the play: "imprisonment".
His father said: "After he learned the piano, I let him live completely in the world of music and isolate himself from the outside world as much as possible, because all successful people have to do one thing with all their hearts and minds, in order to be superb."
When he found out that his son had the hope of staying abroad and drifting away from him, he arrogantly asked his son to drop out of school and return to China. From then on, the prodigy fell into his father's control and lived in the basement playing the piano and recording videos and uploading them online. life.
4. Epilogue
In the film, Chinese parents like Mary's grandmother are blooming everywhere, especially after the post-80s generation began to become parents. The greatly increased income and the rapid development of society have enabled young parents to obtain more educational resources, so many children began to move between various study classes and cram schools. An ordinary childhood has become a Luxury.
Fred's one-eyed cat is an interesting symbol. With its incompleteness, it complements the self-abandoned Frank and the parentless Mary, just like the same kind. Genius is an anomaly, and so is one-eyed.
Monroe said: "If you can't accept my bad side, then you don't deserve my good side."
This story, which happened in the United States, has hit the education problem in China in a solid way.
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