Two legends

Saul 2022-01-10 08:02:42

Black and white film, the story of Helen Keller's childhood education. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was also blind. At the beginning of the film, she was very sunny and speaking loudly. Teacher Sullivan is of course an extremely important person to Helen, who Helen calls “the person who reshapes life”. In the description of "If You Give Me Three Days of Light", Sally's difficulty in teaching Helen does not seem to be as deep as the movie.
The film only shows the difficult process of Sally Wen teaching Helen's language, and Helen's subsequent growth and achievements are well known in the world. In Helen's autobiography, it was only written that Teacher Sullivan patiently taught her spelling, and it took him a few weeks to realize that everything has a specific name. The most in-depth description of the movie is the teaching of Helen's behavior. The young Helen was irritable because of her disability, unable to do things like ordinary people, even the most daily meals. In the silent and lightless world, she does not grow up like a person. She hurts others without feeling. She grabs other people's plates with her hands when eating. In the movie, Sally Wen teaches Helen to sit and eat with tableware. Helen resists again and again, while Teacher Sally insists again and again. The whole is a fierce battle. Helen thus became disgusted with Sullivan.
How can I reach you? How to get into Helen's heart and have an intimate relationship with her is very difficult. Teacher Sullivan is not so sure, she has been asking questions, anxious. What is rare is that she did not give up. Before teaching Helen the language, she wanted to teach Helen to be a "person".
Sullivan is a model of a teacher. What makes a teacher is not knowledge, but care for people. I admire the patience shown by this care. Repeated and exhausted, when Helen finally understood that everything had a name, the sense of accomplishment and relief was enough to cry. What a teacher desires most is to see the progress of his students.
When Sullivan first kissed Helen, Helen had no idea that this behavior contained emotion; when Helen kissed her teacher in the last scene, her heart had been resurrected.

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  • James Keller: Maybe you ought to put her away, Father.

    Kate Keller: What?

    James Keller: Some asylum. It's the kindest thing.

    Aunt Ev: Why, she's your sister, James!

    James Keller: Half-sister. Half mentally defective. She can't even keep herself clean. It's not pleasant to see her about all the time.

    Kate Keller: Do you dare complain about what you can see?

  • Aunt Ev: Why, this child has more sense than all these men Kellers, if there's ever any way to reach that mind of hers.