When I was in a low mood, I wanted to find an inspirational movie to fight for myself. I found that I have watched many mainstream inspirational movies. This step is considered a "fish that slipped through the net".
The movie itself is not particularly amazing, the standard Hollywood inspirational film "starting and turning" plot setting, based on real events, slightly enhanced, but not enough for the film to reach the five-star standard, for me personally, at least satisfied It meets my need to beat myself up.
An important point of inspirational movies is to make the audience empathize, resonate with the protagonist, and imagine that they are the protagonist in the movie. Even after the movie is over, this "fantasy" still lingers in the mind. The experience of the male protagonist really reminds me of myself when I was a child, and even my younger brother (now an adult) when he was a child. He is very curious and can study things he likes without sleep or sleep, regardless of the objections of his family and the ridicule of others.
When I was in elementary school, my father transplanted the grapefruit tree from the back hill to the front of the house. I had a whim (perhaps I saw it on TV) and felt that a fence should be built around the grapefruit tree, but there were no bricks and cement, so I called a few. A small friend pulled a cart to pick up a lot of abandoned broken bricks near the brick factory a few kilometers away, and then went to the mountain near the brick factory to dig a few carts of loess for cement. It took a few days to build a circle of about half a meter with mud and broken bricks. The guardrail, the grapefruit tree at the door is still there, and after years of wind and rain, there are not many bricks and yellow mud next to it.
While watching the movie, I asked myself a question in my mind: what made me who I am today? Why was he full of spirituality at the beginning and now he is dumbfounded?
When Homer's father kept saying that he was born to dig coal, the words that his parents repeatedly nagged in his ears reappeared in his mind: go for the civil service exam, go to be a teacher or a doctor, anyway, find a stable job . I also began to ask myself "Am I born for a stable job? If not, what is it for?" This is a big question, but I have to think, of course, there are many people who avoid or simplify this question .
At the end of the film, the male protagonist made a very emotional speech, similar to thanking CCTV, from friends, family, and teachers. So the question is, with personal efforts, the help of friends, the support of family members, the encouragement of teachers... Can you realize your dream? If the goal of success is not achieved, is it because of the lack of the above conditions? It seems that the answer to both questions is yes, but it is not necessarily. It should be based on statistical significance, with probability, even 99.99% probability, rather than mathematical certainty. It can only be said that with the above conditions, the probability of realizing the dream is greater.
Let's answer the first question above: Why did you change from childhood spirituality to adult stupidity? One possible answer is: because life is limited.
At first, Homer's two friends thought that getting a scholarship or something had nothing to do with them. They were born to dig coal. Obstruction from Homer's father (family), reprimand from the school's principal (or dean?), ridicule from workers and classmates... This is the limit of the external environment.
Thinking back to growing up, every time we had a strange thought out of nowhere, it was like the family's reaction when Homer suddenly said "I want to build a rocket" at the dinner table, "As long as you don't blow yourself up". Time and time again, we hope to come up with fantastic ideas, and we are poured cold water by family members, friends, teachers, and finally, we ourselves believe that all the wildest imaginations are wishful thinking, all fantasies are nonsense, and then we don’t. No need for others to intervene. Whenever a novel idea pops up in my mind, I can take the initiative to kill it after thinking for three seconds. In the end, we also become like our parents, friends, and teachers, and become a "dream". Terminator. If this cycle is not broken for a long time, the whole society will lose its vitality, lack the sense of innovation and the spirit of unlimited.
However, it can be clearly felt that the concept of parent education in China is changing now. When they raise some strange or difficult answers to their children, they no longer scold or block their children's "questioning mouth" with food, but consciously guide them. They look for answers. Under the cycle of this mechanism, "a generation is stronger than a generation" may become a reality.
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