This choice was mocked by the townspeople, especially Homer's father John, who said that even though I don't have a diploma, they all listen to me, I know coal mines as much as people, and I was born for it . For John, digging coal is a career that he is proud of all his life, and his outlook on life is blocked by this. He hopes from the bottom of his heart that his son Homer can be like him and become a good coal digger in the coal forest and pick him up. class, continuing his legend. As a result, his father became the biggest obstacle to Rocket Boy's dream of flying to the sky.
The background of the story is the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union launched the world's first orbiting satellite. The Americans expressed great jealousy. This jealousy was imprinted in Homer's mind, seeing that their own rockets had not been launched. The current situation of bombing first, compared with the silhouette of the "Mate" across the sky in October, Homer has a strong desire to build a rocket in his heart.
Homer wants to build a rocket, his brother laughs at him, his father firmly opposes him, and his mother is just playing around with him, but he is serious, so he teamed up with the freak Quentin to read documents, build a safe house, and pry the rails to collect money, A story of experiment failure after experiment.
On the road to failure, support and obstruction go hand in hand.
The support first came from Homer's two besties, then Quentin, who the tech nerd just came in handy, he provided the greatest technical support for Homer's dream, the foursome demonstrated the power of a team, and nothing could do it alone. It is more presentable than teamwork.
Berkowski was the first person to help them. He risked losing his job by welding pipes for them. Of course Berkowski was just a worker who kept his duty. His simplicity reflected the beauty of human kindness. quality, which also added a strong tragic color to the subsequent underground accident.
It is not only Berkowski who is tragic, but also Mr. Riley, who is suffering from lymphoma. Teacher Riley is the biggest supporter of the group of four. What she provides is not material, but spiritual support. She defuses Turner's repeated difficulties for Homer, and encourages the four to participate in the county's science fair, and then go to the school. The National Science and Technology Exhibition pointed out a bright avenue for the four.
Although the road is good, there are too many obstacles.
Homer's rocket first blew up his own fence, and then nearly injured the workers in the mine. Later, the four Homer were accused of burning the forest, and they were taken to the police station in front of everyone to announce that they had built the rocket. From the appearance of being mocked to the actual daydreaming, they became the negative teaching material for the small place of Coalwood, and after coming out of the police station, they destroyed the safe house. The accident in the coal mine completely wiped out the possibility of their comeback. It was equivalent to another heavy punch from the opponent when the boxing ring was shaky. Homer had no choice but to compromise.
According to his father's wishes, Homer put on the miner's lamp, went down the mine, and carried the mine shovel under the dark pit to carry the proud banner of his father and the whole family.
But Homer is a child after all, and the development space given to him is very broad. One or two difficulties cannot crush the strong desire in his heart. He works silently in the well. He is not happy, and after his father is injured, the burden of the whole family is also He doesn't have to carry it, he can still chase his dreams.
This time, it was Mr. Riley standing behind him again. As a deceased person, she said something that contributed to a huge turning point in Homer's life. She said that sometimes people should not blindly listen to anyone else's gossip, but should listen to own heart. So Homer woke up and restarted the rocket dream.
Of course, his hurdles have yet to be cleared.
First of all, Homer cleared the suspicion of arson for the group of four through parabolic reasoning, and returned his innocence. Secondly, it is also the most important part of the film. Homer was furious, and he shouted his heart out in front of his father. He said, the coal mine is your life, not mine. I want to go to the sky, there is nothing here. It's nostalgic, the coal mine is in decline, the whole town is in decline.
Thinking about it carefully, Homer's words are not unreasonable, but John can't hold back, his self-esteem is very strong, and he can't accept the child's disobedience to him. Maybe this is the generation gap, which is the difference in the concept of life between two generations. It is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong, but some things are outdated. The field of thinking should be broadened, not limited to the present, the world is changing, the value of people can be more manifested.
Of course, Homer made the right call, he succeeded, and his relationship with his father was reconciled. In fact, John is not partial to his two sons. Maybe he has a better attitude towards his brother on weekdays, because his brother is good at football and can go to college with his special skills. This is one of his father's normal plans. For Homer, his father hopes that he can inherit his father From the perspective of his father's emphasis on coal mining, he has put his expectations on Homer's arrangement. Coal mining is equivalent to his father's family treasure. It can be seen that his father has no lack of love for Homer.
Homer needed cement to get to the launch pad, but his father didn't seem to help him, but he finally told Homer where some of the waste cement was. In a touching moment, the Homer quartet launched a rocket in the town for the last time. Although his father still said he couldn't go away, he went anyway. Under the watchful eyes of the whole town, he pressed the switch, and the rocket took off and took it with him. With Homer's dream, with the glory of the whole town, soaring into the sky.
The beginning of the dream may be useless, but when it has withstood the ridicule and broke through the obstacles, the dream will be as beautiful as the blue sky.
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