When poverty doesn't break your will, life gets better and better.

Karina 2022-04-22 07:01:33

The story told in the film is that in a poor family, the little boy accidentally lost the only pair of shoes that his sister had just mended. After that, the boy and sister tried their best to deal with a series of life problems caused by the loss of shoes. In the film, there is the helplessness of poverty, the tenderness for the weaker, the positive attitude to strive to improve life, the equality between children with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the enterprising spirit to overcome all difficulties.

The mother in the movie is ill, and the father takes on the responsibility of supporting the family. Because of the lack of a better way to make a living, the family can only live in a crowded rental house, facing daily demands from shop owners and landlords for rent. Life is full of feathers, and my father occasionally complains, but my father loves the family from the bottom of his heart and shoulders the burden of life. He would blame his mother for not waiting for him to come back when he washed the heavy rugs and was troubled by the landlord, he would let his younger son Ali play with his employer's children while he was working hard for his employer, and he would also I will keep in mind what Xiao Ali said that he wanted to give his sister a new pair of shoes.

After 9-year-old Ali lost his sister's newly mended shoes, he knew that his sister would go to school without shoes, but he also eavesdropped on his parents' speech and knew clearly that the family could not afford a new pair of shoes. So he tried his best to make up for his sister, sending her new pencils and the prize he got, hoping that her sister would agree to wear a pair of worn-out sneakers with him. When Ali learned that the third runner-up in the marathon would get sneakers as a prize, Ali cried and begged the teacher to let him participate. In the race, he ran with all his strength, and fell to the ground immediately, ran until his toes were blistered, ran until the soles were worn out, and ran until the champion won a non-corresponding prize without knowing it.

When the younger sister learned that she had no shoes to wear, she was actually very resistant. She didn't want to wear her brother's dirty sneakers, but she agreed very sensible. She would run desperately home after school to change shoes with her brother, so that her brother could catch up with class time. But the rain wet the shoes, the shoes fell into the puddles because of running too fast, and all the bad luck caused by not wearing shoes still made my sister shed tears of grievance. Although the younger sister yearns for a pair of her own shoes, even if it is just to retrieve her old shoes, she still chooses to keep silent after seeing that the little girl wearing her shoes is the daughter of a blind person.

The film is very touching. The father finds a better job that will make their lives better and repairs the bicycle to survive. The little boy and sister finally have their own new shoes. Poverty will bring endless sadness to life, but just like the saying "What does not kill me, makes me stronger." When poverty cannot break your will, life will get better and better.

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Extended Reading
  • Houston 2022-01-02 08:01:40

    The kind that is not pretentious at all

  • Jennings 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    It is clean, pure, without selfish thoughts, with some Italian neo-realism flavor, the feeling of lush greenery in late spring and early summer, the environment is very similar to our elementary and junior high school days in the 1990s; the bright eyes of the brothers and sisters, the blind daughter red shoes, clean alleys in the slums, clean gutters, babbling running water, blue paint on the remnant walls, white candy canes, green shades in elementary schools, peeling walls, dirty sports Shoes, glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings in the city, shady trees in wealthy districts, indifferent doorbell calls, barking dogs, bicycles broken by father, a pool of quiet running water, beautiful goldfish underwater...

Children of Heaven quotes

  • Ali: Zahra, I have good news.

    Zahra: What news?

    Ali: I am selected for the race.

    Zahra: What race?

    Ali: Long-Distance Running. The third-best runner gets a pair of new sneakers.

    Zahra: Why the third?

    Ali: The First and Second prizes are something else. If I come in third, I'll give you the sneakers.

    Zahra: But those shoes are for boys.

    Ali: I'll exchange them. I'll get a pair of girl's shoes for you.

    Zahra: What if you don't come in third?

    Ali: I'll be third for sure.