I watched this movie while I was busy, so what did I see from this movie?
1. Drugs, violence and disease, the things that destroy life the most
Through this film, I saw that apart from disease, a factor beyond our control, the things that destroy life the most are drugs and violence.
The little boy Sam's mother is young and beautiful, but she is a drug addict who lives in a trailer and doesn't work. From time to time, she leaves for ten days and a half months, and entrusts her child to the neighbor's grandma Vivian, who is too old to be allowed to drive. After returning from home once, the whole person's mental state was particularly poor, as if he was in a state of serious illness. Taking drugs, without a job, the mother and son are often disliked by their boyfriends, and even the boyfriends say some unpleasant words to the children. In a courtroom scene, in order to prevent the child from being handed over to the Child Protection Bureau, she dresses up very energetically and looks like two completely different people. But the drug addict couldn't do it. After returning to the trailer, he returned to a state of decadence and uncontrollable self-control. Although he loved his children very much, he never beat or scold his own son. Do this, do that, and be no worse than Palmer. But everyone knows that it is impossible. All of this is because of drugs, and the result is that although she loves her child very much, she is unable to give him the love he wants to give, not even a normal life. In the end, because of love, she chose to hand over the custody of her child to Palmer, and her right to live with her child, her child and her mother, was deprived by drugs.
Palmer, a teenage football star who earned a scholarship to Louisiana State University, was injured in a game, unable to continue his athletic career after surgery, and ended his studies. Here, the first link of changing fate is a disease, but it has not yet reached the level of destroying life. However, in reality, it is needless to say how terrible the disease is. After returning to his hometown, he got caught with drugs, because the drug money and other friends conspired to go to one of the friends' house to steal and was caught by the friend's father. Palmer seemed to be delirious because of drug use, and used a bat to kill the friend's father. He nearly died and ended up in jail for it. Since it was a felony, he was no longer a teenager when he was released from prison. When a felon returns to society, he will inevitably encounter many setbacks. No employer is willing to hire a violent felon ex-convict. Palmer is more fortunate. Because of his grandmother's good reputation in the church and the community, there is an elementary school principal who is willing to give him a second chance. So he got a job as a school cleaner, but it was still a probationary period, the supervisor was reluctant to give him the keys to the school, and the principal, knowing that Sam was living with him, feared he might hurt the children - couldn't be trusted. The root cause is still drugs. This time there are some more violent factors, but what I want to say is that in real life, it is not only drugs that lead to violence, but also impulses. When I was watching the movie, when Palmer was going to beat someone because one of his friends bullied Sam, several people in the barrage were saying the word "criminal mind", which was super impressive to me. The so-called criminal thinking should be when encountering something that makes people angry, the first reaction is to find the person who committed the crime and beat it. Everyone is worried that Palmer's criminal thinking is likely to lead him to prison again. This kind of thinking is too tragic. Fortunately, the design of the movie did not put him in jail again, but if it is real, once the police and him are not friends, and the person who was beaten is a stranger, the parole will definitely be revoked, and returning to prison may have to add new ones. criminal record and sentence. Although the starting point is justice, the result is really tragic. Although Palmer in the play finally returned to society and gained the trust of the supervisor, the supervisor gave the school keys that he could master as a cleaner, which seemed to stabilize the cleaner's job, but the process was undoubtedly very painful and difficult. , and not everyone is so lucky to get through it. If there were no injuries, no drugs, and no serious injury to others with a bat, it must be a different life.
So, disease is uncontrollable, but drugs and violence must be kept away.
2. Church is a very important part of American life
If you drive on the highways of the United States, you can see to the naked eye that there are churches everywhere, and it seems that there are no less than schools. Interested friends can find any place on the map to see the density of the church. Grandma Vivian goes to church on time every weekend and is one of the most respected members of the church, which is why the principal is willing to give Palmer a job as a cleaner. Some friends in the barrage are surprised, does the church still provide free food and drink? It should be, providing free food seems to be an important activity of the church in addition to worship. Other activities of the church that I know of include English classes, psychology classes, etc. In the process of studying American trust law, will law, and doing practice problems, it is common to see Americans leaving or partially leaving their property to the church. In the film, Vivian's probate attorney informs Palmer that Vivian has left the land and house on the ground to the church for re-verification, a very common practice in the United States. I don’t have any religious friends around me, and I haven’t done any research on religion, so I only have the above observations on the appearance of American churches. I hope that I will have the opportunity to have a deeper understanding in the future.
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