The summer vacation is coming, your mother asked me to bring back a set of "Harry Potter" or some classic animation discs, after finishing the daily homework, you can watch it when you have time. You're in sixth grade for the fall semester, and it's time to watch classic children's movies. As an uncle who is a veteran pseudo-movie fan, it is his duty to recommend good movies to his little nephew. However, in addition to Harry Potter and Hayao Miyazaki, I would also like to introduce an Iranian film "Little Shoes", which has another childhood that you can't imagine.
Just like you, the little protagonist in "Little Shoes" has to go to school every day, and is reprimanded by adults from time to time. Unlike you, they need to pay for their food on credit, they can’t pay the rent and worry about being evicted by the landlord, and they have to go to work in a wealthy area with their father on weekends. These are lives out of your sight, almost as far away as the world of magic. If you ask me why, there is only one answer. Absolute poverty, or material deprivation, causes the children in the film to live in a world that you have never experienced before.
At the beginning of the story, the 9-year-old little protagonist Ali encountered a big problem. He lost the shoes that his sister Sarah had just mended. For you, it doesn't matter at all. You lose your shoes by accident, and mom can always hit the street and buy a new pair. Ali and Sarah couldn't do it, and they didn't even dare to tell their parents the truth, because that would only make things worse for the embarrassed family. The father's income is meager, the mother is sick in bed, and there is another baby waiting to be fed at home. Poverty is hard and omnipresent, and the family has no spare capacity to buy a new pair of shoes, even if this is what Sarah must use to go to school.
Therefore, the children's tears and smiles in the film are entangled with a pair of seemingly insignificant shoes.
The elder brother went to look for shoes, but his father scolded him harshly because he thought he was having fun. The younger sister had no choice but to put on those big and dirty men's sneakers to go to school (they were male and female schools, Sarah went to school early in the morning, and Ali was at noon. The way they solved the problem was to take turns wearing sneakers), a flashing shot Two tears could be seen on her face - she must have cried for a long time before she reluctantly accepted this last resort, feeling that she was out of place and too embarrassing.
There are a lot of crying and tearing scenes in the movie, and I'm not going to give you any further spoilers for that. You've learned the word "poverty", but after watching Ali and Sarah's tears, you may know how cold it is in real life and how terrifying it can be.
If the movie cries all the time, you can't help but yawn and lose the desire to watch very quickly. Although the little pair of lost shoes shrouded the siblings like a cloud from which they could not escape, occasionally the sun shining through the gaps in the clouds illuminated their smiling faces. For example, when the younger sister attends physical education class and wears sneakers, she is unexpectedly affirmed by the teacher; the elder brother is praised by the teacher for his good grades, and he gives the prize - a ballpoint pen - to the younger sister as a gift, etc. At this time, the smiles on the two people's faces are warm and warm. good. One of the reasons I love Little Shoes and firmly think it's a good movie is that it doesn't deprive children of the gift of joy in suffering.
As you may have realized, this is how our lives are, with mixed joys and sorrows, with joys and sorrows constantly wrestling. Tears and laughter appear alternately in the film. One moment we were worried about the tears of the little protagonist in the film, and the next moment we accompany them to smile and laugh. Professionally speaking, this is that the arrangement of the narrative sequence is very rhythmic, which makes people feel the emotions of watching the movie one by one, so you will not feel boring and dull when watching this movie.
Don't complain that you can't understand what I'm talking about, I'll recommend you a wonderful clip from the video.
One day after school, sister Sarah rushed to meet her brother Ali to change her shoes. Her small feet couldn't wear the wide sneakers, and the shoes fell into the ditch while running. Sarah hurried away, leaned over, and reached for the shoes, once, twice, three times...a beat each time, watching the fast running water take the shoes away. In the short cuts, you can see that the little girl's face is full of fear. I've watched this movie no less than five times. Every time I see it, my heart rises. Will Sarah fall down and get hurt? This sneaker is also lost. What should she and Ali do? You know, they only have this pair of shoes left to go to school, and if they lose it, it's almost the end of the world.
So, despite the lack of magic, the flying dragons and terrifyingly evil wizards make Little Shoes as thrilling as they are. And Sarah crouched helplessly under the tree sobbing, you must be wondering what to do. We breathe a sigh of relief when a kind old man helps her fish for her shoes.
That's how the movie revolves around the shoes in general, throwing a puzzle that forces Ali and Sarah out of tears; then it's over and over, they get through it, smiles on their little faces, until the next puzzle comes head-to-head... ...The film is full of small and trivial life events, but with the roller coaster of emotions, it appears ups and downs, I am sure you will watch it with relish.
However, you may ask again, even if the plot of the movie is arranged more swayingly, there will be an ending after all, do they always take turns wearing those tattered sneakers to school?
As mentioned above, Ali and the others did not dare to tell the truth to their parents, fearing that their overwhelmed father would be more distressed. Father, who works part-time as a gardener on the weekends, is injured in an accident, and his hopes of buying new shoes for the children come to nothing. Ali can only rely on himself to fight for a pair of shoes. So he cried and begged the teacher to let him participate in the inter-school marathon, because the prize for the third place was a pair of sneakers.
You guessed the outcome of the race, and Ali would definitely win. Yes, although he was malnourished and looked weak among his peers from wealthy families; despite the shady tricks of his despicable opponents, pulling him to the ground, the running to school day by day honed his foot strength, plus With the tenacity of Shangku's child and the thought of his commitment to his sister, Ali won the competition.
The most poignant scene of the film comes. Ali, who won the championship, shed tears uncontrollably when he faced reporters' cameras. The teacher, who was laughing from ear to ear, thought he was crying with joy, completely unaware that Ali just wanted to run for third place. The pair of sneakers behind him is a mockery of the hard work of a child in this cruel world.
In this world, some children are lucky enough, like you, who did not grow up in a wealthy and noble family, at least they don't have to suffer the bitterness of tears because of a pair of shoes. There are also unfortunate children, such as Ali and Sarah in "Little Shoes", who feel the impermanence and malice of scarcity prematurely at a young age. But, one day, you will meet the unkindness of this world by accident. The reason why we are obsessed with movies is not only because we can see the joyousness of the nine days, but also because we can see how people struggle in the cold mud. Sometimes the latter is more important. After all, if you learn to look directly at the other side of the world, you will be like Ali and Sarah, who will not forget to smile after crying again and again.
Don't worry, Ali and Sarah's problem, the movie finally gave a complete solution, after all, this is a warm children's movie. As for how they were "saved", I won't spoil it, I'll leave some suspense for you to watch the movie.
May you enjoy Little Shoes and all the good movies.
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