Produced by Netflix, adapted from real life, a 13-year-old genius in Malawi. During the Great Famine, with his persistent dream, he built a windmill under extremely simple conditions and finally saved the entire village. A very good story. Inspirational film.
In "Doctor Strange", Baron Mordor's actor Chevat Egarford wrote, directed, and acted as a feature-length feature film debut. As a very pure original ecological film in poverty-stricken areas of Africa, there are many highlights that are worth watching.
It was the first time I heard about Malawi. The level of poverty in Malawi in 2001 was completely beyond my cognition. The movie shows that this country with chemical fertilizers, radios, and even true and false democratic elections, the level of farming technology should not be much better than ours in the Han Dynasty. Not to mention cattle farming, no plows, and turning the ground with a hoe is not much more advanced than slash-and-burn farming.
Although the life of the little boy William's family is difficult, the family loves each other warmly and harmoniously. Father used his meager income to pay a part of the tuition fees for William, so that William had the opportunity to enter the school.
The movie is divided into several chapters. On the one hand, the title is related to farming, but on the other hand, it is a metaphor for William's life. The title of this part is Seeding, which means that the harvest of life begins with the seeding of knowledge.
All the living creatures in the dry land of Africa are looking forward to the rainy season, but when the rainy season comes, because the ignorant villagers sold the only woods to the tobacco company, the precious rainwater turned into raging floods after the vegetation was destroyed.
The floods reduced crop yields drastically, and the William’s family’s harvest was only two months’ rations for the family. The whole family wanted to survive a year with these grains, but after the nationwide famine broke out, hungry people rushed into William's home and took all the grains.
William was kicked out of the school by the principal because his family could not pay all the tuition fees. However, from his own little scientific knowledge, William insisted that as long as he can make wind power generation equipment, he can pump out groundwater for irrigation with electricity. The crops will be changed from one crop per year to two crops per year to help the whole family. overcome obstacles.
The father who worked so hard to feed the whole family was very angry with William, thinking that he was just daydreaming, and the father and son had a fierce dispute. A DC generator removed from the bicycle rekindled the fighting spirit of William, who was in a desperate situation.
The vague words "China" on the generator are really eye-catching.
When William used waste materials discarded by the tobacco company, a father's bicycle and wooden sticks to build a windmill, the whole village struggling on the death line finally saw hope.
A very good inspirational film, the protagonist's environment is far more difficult than my imagination. The emotions expressed in the film are sincere and restrained, without too many hoarse condemnations and shouts, but behind the seemingly calm narration there is a lot of thought.
What William has worked so hard to produce is not such a tall wind power equipment, at best, it is a large windmill with a wooden frame. The construction cost is more than 5,000 yuan. In the movie, William’s village was bought by a multinational company for tobacco, and it is not a barren land isolated from the world. Such a simple set of equipment can keep a family away from hunger. Without it, many people may starve to death. In the end, it was built by a 13-year-old boy.
For a 13-year-old ignorant boy, this is a miracle. But for well-known power equipment manufacturers, it may be just a trivial production link on the assembly line.
The true story of the movie took place in 2001. The family survived a catastrophe because a windmill drove two old car batteries. In the ending tidbits, it can be known that William's parents will never go hungry because of this windmill.
Assuming that a mid-range wind power generation equipment costs 10,000 U.S. dollars, it can provide enough food and clothing for ten people. The cost of an F15 is as low as 30 million U.S. dollars, which can solve the food and clothing problem of 30,000 people for 20 years. And making a fighter is just for fighting, and it may not be used if there is a chance. The planes are a little better, because every one has flown. After the atomic bomb was invented, the Japanese suffered two bad luck. For decades, they would be in a hurry.
Some people in this world are working hard just to live, while some people are working hard to kill others.
Many years ago, when I played Great Voyage 4, I wondered why it was a colony, and the gap between Africa and the Americas would be so large in a few hundred years. Of course, people with IQ and experience like me can't think of any definite answers. Among the N kinds of thoughts that are difficult to justify, one of the most evil is that the aborigines of Africa have not been almost completely killed or caught by the flu like the Americas. Infectious diseases like dysentery can die.
At the end of the movie, the character prototype of William is said, because the windmill was funded to complete his studies, and later he studied in the United States to start a new life. This is a very pure black movie, as if there is no white character in it. I don't know what the black director Spike Lee, who left the room because of the "Green Book" winning the best film, thinks of this film. There should be no white god in this movie, but the road for black brothers to save black brothers is still very long. So many of my compatriots are struggling to get a bite of a stick face, and they have no time to control. All day long arguing and arguing with Trump in the United States has nothing to do with cleansing up those useless.
Don't be a god in vain, political correctness is indisputable, but whether you already have a black god is also very important.
Dad’s famous saying is to worry less about other people’s affairs. Fortunately, we don’t have the racial problems of bitterness and enmity, so we are fortunate to have gone to bed earlier.
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