"Miracle Boy" is full of chicken soup, touching, warm, and healing. After watching the movie, it seems that the whole world has become beautiful. At the same time, "Miracle Boy" is also very routine, with many traces of deliberate design, which may be for professional film critics. It's not so good, but it is definitely tear gas for ordinary audiences, which makes people cry from beginning to end.
The protagonist Augie was born with a deformed face, so he was discriminated against.
With the help of himself, his family, and classmates, Augie gradually walked out of the haze, lived a life of ordinary people, and brought joy to everyone.
There are two prejudices in the film. The first prejudice is to deny everything about Augie because of his appearance; the second prejudice is self-centered, taking what he sees as the truth and ignoring what he hasn't seen.
Both of these prejudices are essentially the same. They only see the surface of things without looking at the problem comprehensively.
The first kind of bias is the most intuitive and the easiest to find.
"It's wrong to judge people by their appearance" is a truth that everyone knows, but everyone knows the truth, but it's really hard to do it.
Although many adults treat Augie kindly, most children are not good at hiding their thoughts, and thus cast an unfriendly look at Augie.
Time is the best medicine. After a long time of contact, many classmates discovered that Augie was a kind and friendly little boy, so they reunited with him, and even the least educated Julian apologized to the principal.
In the face of discrimination, Augie usually bears it on his own and loses his temper at most, but never uses violence to curb violence, never insults the other party in turn, and never vents his distress by hurting others.
He put aside his hatred and used his great love to influence his classmates. He suffered unfair treatment, but passed on kindness, love, and friendship to everyone, which is why he was awarded an award in the end.
After all, not only to bear the hurt, but also to show tenderness, which is too rare for a little boy.
Facial deformity is just a feature. It can be replaced with many things, such as disease, skin color, height, obesity, poverty, unemployment, sexual orientation, physical disability, intellectual disability, sex reassignment surgery, the bottom of society, and so on.
No one is perfect, everyone has more or less external flaws, and we are likely to be one of the above-mentioned disadvantaged groups. And many times, we are not only disadvantaged groups, but also bystanders.
For bystanders, letting go of prejudice and discovering the good in each other can make the world a better place.
For disadvantaged groups, anger will only lead to greater anger. If you retaliate with virtue like Augie, you may be treated friendly. After all, if you want to be respected by others, you must first learn to respect others.
Just like the lines in the movie: If I were to choose between right and kindness, I would choose kindness.
Someone said:
The most time-wasting thing in the world is to tell young people about experience. Saying 10,000 words is not as good as falling on your own. Tears teach you how to be a man and regret helping you grow. Pain is the best teacher. In fact, one meter is indispensable for life's detours.
Just like the second episode of the fourth season of "Black Mirror," parents overprotecting and spoiling their children will only harm the children.
Auggie hated him at first, his father secretly hid his helmet, so Auggie had to try to get along with people, so as to grow faster, and finally reconcile with himself.
As a disadvantaged group, you must learn to accept yourself, face yourself, face yourself bravely, and you must not escape from what you should face.
Dad's actions made Augie grow up, and mother's encouragement made Augie confident.
Encouragement and strictness are not enough. Combining encouragement and strictness will have better results.
The second kind of prejudice is to start from one's own perspective, which leads to one-sided cognition.
There are many movies with the main theme now, it is usually easy to make people feel too fake, because the protagonist’s perspective is often one-sided and there are visual blind spots, "Miracle Boy" circumvents this problem, and adopts a similar "Pumped Heart" to expand from multiple angles. Presenting the psychological activities of different characters through different perspectives makes the plot and character descriptions more comprehensive and full.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, Jack treats Augie very well, but then we discover that this is what the principal and mother told him to do.
For example, Wei Ya found out that Miranda, a good girlfriend, had become indifferent to herself, and mistakenly thought that she didn't like herself; in fact, Miranda pretended to be Wei Ya at the summer camp, so she felt embarrassed and guilty.
This unexpected reversal, and the fun of the willows, raised the film to a new level.
In real life, we often make such mistakes because of preconceptions and misunderstandings.
For example, if he didn't reply to his WeChat, he began to wonder if the other party didn't like him or whether he made the other party angry. In fact, the other party may just have a dead cell phone.
For example, when I saw a classmate meeting when I was in Moments, but no one notified me, I started to feel isolated. In fact, everyone thought that others had already notified you.
A leaf blinded, but Taishan was not seen. Subjective, narrow, and incomplete thinking is often not a good thing. It brings negative energy, affects our mood, and thus affects our lives. It can also misunderstand and hurt others.
Weia thought that her best friend didn’t like herself, and Ogi thought that Shamo was good to herself only after listening to the principal’s instructions... These are misunderstandings to say that they are nice, and they are self-righteous to say that they are good. They believe in their own ideas, and finally hurt others. already.
It was clear that Shamo was really friendly, but Augie thought she was hypocritical, which not only affected her mood, but also broke Shamo's heart. Isn't this a prejudice?
Discrimination refers to the unequal treatment of certain defects, shortcomings, abilities, and births from person to person, resulting in varying degrees of loss.
And the "limited cognition" mentioned above is also looking at others in the wrong light.
This is the same in nature as "disgusting Augie because of his appearance", and it is essentially a prejudice.
Discrimination against disadvantaged groups, as well as peeking into the eyes and taking subjective judgments as the truth, are all prejudices. They only see the surface but not the other side.
After people had been in contact with Augie for a long time, they found that he actually had a kind heart and made friends with him.
In the process of communicating with Summer, Augie discovered that she was indeed not instructed by the principal; as time went on, Via and Miranda finally settled their suspicions and got back together.
Judging people by appearance and subjective judgment are all prejudices, and the way to remove prejudice is to look at the problem from another angle, spend time and energy to feel the other person’s heart, and discover the other person’s strengths.
As Auggie said in his final speech: To truly understand a person, you must look at the other person with your heart and a comprehensive view.
Another method is education.
Julian is the most rude, but he has also talked enthusiastically about Star Wars with Augie, which shows that he is not exactly a bad boy.
In the second half of the movie, Julian’s mother spoke insultingly and aggressively, but Julian apologized to the principal, which made us understand that Julian’s nature was not bad. The problem was with the parents. It was his mother’s education that made him like this.
And Jack's mother taught Jack to treat Augie well. Although he hurt Augie halfway, he corrected the mistake in the end.
Children are like pure white paper. Parents can add things on it at will. It can be kind or violent.
Parents discriminate against disadvantaged groups, children will follow the discrimination; parents respect the disadvantaged groups, children will follow the respect. Therefore, education is very important for people to treat disadvantaged groups well.
In addition, the emotional communication in the movie is very delicate, and the show of youth is also quite moving.
Grandmother said that too many people love Augie, so she chose Weia the most, warm and moving.
The love between the black guy Justin and Wea is also very sweet, and there is a feeling of throbbing heart.
Justin was handsome and polite, and he got in touch with Augie the first time he saw him, and didn't blame Weia for lying.
He is very romantic, and the routine of "practice the kiss scene on page 110 of the script" is simply too sweet.
He is kind-hearted, has always supported Weiya, encouraged Weiya, and cheered for Weiya when she was down.
People who truly love you will never only accept your happy side, but can bring you happiness.
In addition to the excellent script, the performance of each actor is also remarkable.
Izabella Widovich who plays Via, and Danielle Rose Russell, who plays as a girlfriend, are so beautiful. They were born in 2001 and 1999 respectively. I look forward to their performance in more works in the future. .
Julia Roberts also performed her mother's love to the right degree.
In 2015, Jacob shocked the four when he emerged in "The Room". This time he brought an excellent performance, which will become a great achievement in the future.
Finally, I hope everyone can be treated tenderly by this world.
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