Sometimes the light only appears outside the window.
This is a movie I watched at home during the Spring Festival of 2019. It has been nearly three weeks since today. Gus Van Sant, who directed "Mind Catcher", can see that there are indeed similarities between the two in "Mind Visitor". For example, they are all about rare friendships, doubts and fears about the future, and hesitations about facing the window of world society. Fortunately, they opened the window.
Taking the story of a 16-year-old black boy, James Wallace, as the main line of the film's narrative, attracted me deeply. "If there is a black, it must be surprising" has become the reaction I look forward to when watching movies, and it's not true. James has a literary talent that is extremely inconsistent with what he seems to be. The encounter with William Frost also originated from an unintentional prank. Later, I went to the door of William's house to apologize, to the "difficult essays" that William arranged for him, and then to the formation of a tacit understanding between the two.
James learned how to feel and incorporate words from William: writing. Write first, think later. (This point is really very different from what I understood before.) What I'm talking about here is not to prevent you from making an outline. Instead, it tells the writer that when creating text, he must be able to give his heart to the text, trust him, and believe in the text. Be friends with him, or blend in with him.
The other is about the society we face all the time.
You must know how difficult it was for a black child to enter a private university in that era. As a basketball specialty student, literature can give him significantly more. Since his fluent and beautiful "counterattack" in class, his teacher has started to trouble him. In the eyes of adults, a sixteen-year-old child seems to have only the choice to be obedient. And this school did not give him a good window to face the society.
For birds, the shell of the bird is the world. If you want to get out of the shell, you must destroy the world first.
James didn't compromise, so he kept his promise, so he didn't prove that his article was not plagiarized. He was brave, he did not fear the authority of William that the world feared, but as an equal friend, he truly told William the William he saw as a friend.
Some people hesitated because they were afraid of failure. On the contrary, he did not dare to imagine success.
William is grateful for James who appeared in his life, otherwise it may take him several years to see another himself. After giving the "speech" and walking out of the campus and riding a bicycle on the road, I also saw a brave and calm figure.
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