Because they firmly believe: Nothing can stop us to pursue our dreams. I
started to watch Front of the Class last night (the Chinese name is translated as "Call me the first name"), but then because of the class, I didn’t finish it. I watched it again, and I shed tears several times during the process. After watching it, I couldn't calm down for a long time. This is a classic inspirational film (it is said to be an adaptation of a real thing), the picture is clear and smooth, and it always gives people a positive feeling. The music inside is lively, touching, and makes people feel very warm and comfortable.
The protagonist in the film is a patient with Tourette Syndrome who suffers from voice spasms. He always makes some strange noises uncontrollably, and his body trembles unconsciously. Most people who don’t understand think he is here. Deliberately messing up, even his dad. Disease troubles, inner torture, people's incomprehension, Brad Cohen defeated all of these and finally succeeded. I really like Kathleen York's excellent performance, which plays such a lifelike image of a Brad Cohen role. What impressed me the most was his smile, confident that it could melt all the warmth of ice like sunlight. And his crying after being hurt, crying with a kind of self-blame also deeply moved me. Of course, Brad Cohen in real life deserves our admiration. His efforts and achievements have inspired many people.
After watching this film, the first thing that reminded me was a little boy from Henan I met by chance before, a little boy with leukemia who had to drop out of school and received chemotherapy after entering junior high school. Although he often talked to me happily, calling me elder sister affectionately, I knew he was suffering from illness all the time. This film also reminds me of many other people, both healthy and unhealthy.
For the disabled like Brad Cohen in the film, the second grade elementary school students can understand, but many people in our real society cannot. When they are secularized, they will only reject people who are different from everyone else. Many of our teachers also just want to make the students behave like well-behaved.
Everyone has everybody’s flaws. Some are visible, some are not. In fact, none of us are healthy, but we have defects of a similar degree. We are troubled because we can't stand the real suffering, and we are even complaining about our life, or enjoying happiness that is not our own in the ivory tower. But we all think that people with visible defects are weird. Is not it? We have seen too many people with physical disabilities. We have seen that we are used to it, numb, and finally can accept it slowly. So, condolences, subsidies... are all superb, but the real public facilities are not. Consider them. What about someone like the protagonist? We don't see much, so we will exclaim, so we must be surprised, how can they have their own big dreams? Our society’s tolerance and public opinion have a greater impact on individuals than the United States. We should learn to be more tolerant. It is true that Brad Cohen sometimes disturbs others, but he did not deliberately do it. He should be treated fairly by society. Our society needs a kind of understanding and tolerance. In fact, we are all the same. We have to face our defects and fight with them all the time. Only in this way can we make progress.
This movie is so ashamed to watch, really. As healthy people, we actually choose to hurt others most of the time without even thinking about it. Like most of the teachers the protagonist met, they all firmly believed that the child was deliberately trying to make trouble. Most of the principals he interviewed also denied him because of prejudice. But this kind man always thinks not to hurt others. Of course, he also doesn't want others to hurt himself.
I don’t know if there are many patients like the protagonist in China, but I sincerely hope that the day when the public will have a tolerant heart will come as soon as possible, so that all the sick will be able to work like all the people. The normal days of getting married and having children, instead of dropping out of school early and being isolated from society early.
Nothing can stop your right to chase your dreams, whether you are disabled or not. This sentence should make us sound people feel ashamed. I found that people with a better life are more likely to destroy their dreams. Many people often say that dreams are difficult to achieve. Because of this, because of that, what you think is different from what you can do. It is precisely those who have difficulties in their lives, the more brave they are to approach their dreams. I really admire those who have disabilities but can still live well, no matter whether they succeed or not, in short, they have overcome our unimaginable difficulties.
Maybe we also have to learn to see the world occasionally with a child's innocent eyes. Unlike adults, children only have what they want to do, not what they can’t do first. Therefore, when we were young, we were busy dreaming, and when we grew up, we were busy destroying dreams-whether it was our own or someone else's. Brad Cohen's narrator said: Children see the world with a different vision than adults. They will say "what I want to do" instead of "what I can't do", so I do the same. Children’s immature thoughts also reveal a kind of simplicity that we gradually lost in the process of growing up. People living in society have learned the sophistication and become smooth and easy to give up when things happen. And what Brad tells us is to be like a child, don't give up lightly, and strive to pursue your dreams. Perhaps we can also learn to be as simple as children and to make everything simpler.
After watching this play, I searched the Internet for a little bit about Tourette's disease, and saw the information that there are 100,000 to 200,000 people suffering from Tourette's disease in the United States. This is really a terrible number. I have never heard of this disease before, and I don’t know how many people in China suffer from it. I saw that in the film forums of Hong Kong and Taiwan, many netizens said that they also suffered from this disease. Without exception, although Brad Cohen was disabled, love saved him. He has always positively encouraged him to love his family, a principal who knows how to inspire children to be good, and a social person who can understand him.
The mother in the play, the spirit of never giving up, deeply moved me. The deepest thing in my memory is to join the rescue team for the disease. I originally wanted to come here to find spiritual comfort, but all I saw were parents who gave up their children, and those who self-pity and don't believe they can. The mother took him away immediately. She was unwilling to give up his child, as she often said to Brad: Why should disease prevent your right to pursue your dreams? Nothing can stop you!
A good teacher can influence the life of a student. The protagonist of the film was moved by the principal’s tolerance. He pushed aside the dark clouds like a big hand, which made Little Brian’s later student life full of sunshine and finally moved firmly. Education. In our real life, many teachers look at students with tinted glasses, and they always sternly teach students who are mischievous, and even think that students "cannot teach, there is no way to save". They didn't know that many students would be deeply shocked in this way, low self-esteem for a long time, and even change their life's destiny only because of a word or action by the teacher, consciously or unconsciously. This is why I often want to be a teacher. I hope to change the way of education so that every child who receives education can get the same treatment, at least in school and in front of the teacher. Of course, this dream seems a bit remote, or even unrealistic, but I always think so often.
Brad Cohen is lucky. He has a good mother, met a good principal, and the people around him. He taught us a lot, "Don't let anything stop you from pursuing your dreams." "I won't Lost to Tourette's disease!" Persistence, love, and the support of relatives and friends are all these that helped him realize his dream. In fact, there are these people around us, but sometimes we don’t want to believe, we don’t care enough, and even neglect to contact. Therefore, always keep in touch and communicate with relatives and friends. It is helpful to yourself and others. Even if you don’t do this, you can keep in touch if there is nothing to do, and life can be much happier.
We should all watch this happy inspirational film. In this way, you will know: It turns out that there are still such a group of people who are deeply troubled by this disease. On the surface, they can live a normal life without pain, but in fact they have to endure the mental torture that others bring to them all the time. They will hurt, but it hurts in their hearts. I hope that when you see someone like this or a little weird in the future, don't look at other people too much, because even one more look will make him more nervous and harder to control himself. I also hope that everyone will not give up their dreams easily. If you don't even have a dream, then don't abandon anyone around you who loves you or who you love, and don't abandon anything worthy of you to do.
Maybe in the days to come, we should all smile confidently, just like Brad Cohen, and strive to pursue our dreams, no matter what challenges we encounter, no matter how much trouble there will be. At any time, be positive and optimistic, in order to love you and the person you love. I hope everyone can understand: Whether it is life, work, or love, nothing can stop us from reaching our dreams.
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