One of the scenes that impressed me the most in the movie is that after participating in the first game and failing, Coach White took the players to a field full of piles and asked them to make mountains on piles of piles covered with plastic film. train. Thomas knew what the little hill under his feet was. He couldn't hide his anger.
"We're not runners, we're pickers. We'll always be pickers. Every day we get up and do the same thing, over and over. You can make us run a hundred, a thousand times, and nothing will change. Do you know what's under this? It's an almond shell. Do you eat almonds? All you see are beautifully packaged, right? It was harvested. You use it for mountain training.
" A passage from Will's diary.
In the winter of 1936, Orwell saw a girl running down a pipe in the cold wind at Wigan Pier. As the car passed, the girl looked up and Orwell looked at her.
"The moment I saw her, the look on that face was the most desolate look I've ever seen in my life. I was shocked when we said 'their tolerance for this kind of thing is different We're not the same", when people who grew up in slums can't imagine the world outside the slums, we are wrong. Because what I see in her face is not the pain of animal ignorance. She is very aware of her situation - like I also clearly realized what a terrible fate it was to kneel on the slippery floor in the slum alley and stab the dirty sewer with a stick in the face of such severe cold.”
I finally realized that pain is only Get used to it, but never get numb. In the face of fate, how many people have struggled, tried hard, and how many people have never even had the opportunity to struggle, just like most of the pickers in McFarland, have no property, no status, no sense of national identity and belonging Feeling, immersed in the endless farmland and orchard for a lifetime.
But Coach White showed up. Whether out of selfishness or responsibility, he eventually led these picker kids out of McFarland, to the finals in California, to a beach they had never been to before. The most beautiful moment in the whole movie is when the children are cheering and dashing to the sea.
Watching this kind of film based on real events, I pay special attention to the introduction of the current living conditions of the protagonist prototype at the end of the film. All seven of McFarland's children went to college, and with the exception of Jose, who is currently serving in the military, the remaining six returned to the town, teaching, working in the community, and Thomas became the track coach for McFarland High School.
Honestly, it's not what I expected. In my superficial imagination, a few children should eventually have a better way out and direction than going back to where they started.
But what is a better direction?
Is it not the best ending to have tried your best to prove yourself, no longer doubt and bewildered, and find your inner identity and sense of belonging?
Jose said, When we run, we are the gods.
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