Watching "In the Heights" has mixed feelings, the store manager Usnavi, the college student Nina, the taxi driver Kevin, the correspondent Buuny, the cousin Sonny, the designer Vanessa, the old woman Abuela who yearns for a better life... On them, I always Can see the similarities of being born together and the compassion of being born in this era, none of them are me, and all of them are not me.
· "Paciencia y Fe"
Abuela, the grandmother who treats all the children in the neighborhood as her own,
She always talks about Paciencia y Fe, which means Patience and Faith. This sentence has accompanied her from beginning to end, and it has also inspired countless people who are hesitant, confused, and want to retreat. Tenacity and faith are the sharp knives held by strangers.
Grandma wasn't a grandma in the first place. When she was a little girl, she immigrated from Cuba to New York with her mother, learning English, folding clothes, mopping the floor, working as a maid, huddled in a small room, busy but fulfilling.
At the last moment of her life, her youth, her past, the suffering she suffered, the sweetness she tasted, her dreams and regrets all surfaced one by one, overlapping in a time tunnel full of memories.
"I made it through, I survived, I did it."
This young girl who has crossed the ocean and an old man who is heading towards the end has finished her very good and long life. Thousands of children hold high candles to see her off.
She is the type of person I most likely would be, and I would most like to be.
· "We are one"
Power outages, rent increases, extremely hot weather, no matter how many difficulties and obstacles, under the optimistic and open-minded Latin spirit and enthusiastic singing and dancing, it is not worth mentioning at all!
"Will we Latinos still be afraid of heat?" "Our ancestors have endured enslavement and trafficking. Will we still be unable to endure the subway for commuting?"
“Today's all we got , so we cannot stop !”
Who can sing those scars and mottled blood and tears so witty? Only immigrants who are familiar with tenacity and faith.
Being cruelly treated, but still repaying it with songs.
On the night of the power outage, Benny resisted venting his anger, transformed it into a sense of community responsibility, and directed traffic in an orderly manner through the radio;
Nina continued her studies in the face of misunderstandings and estrangements in the new environment, only to guide everyone to fight for rights and security in order to return to the block;
Sonny went to the DACA demonstration to protest the absurdity of immigration policy with music and dance, "We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin, What about immigration? Politicians be hatin, Racism in this nation's gone from latent to blatant!"
These people who are scattered in foreign places and have the same fate have long surpassed blood, mountains and seas, and become real family members with a common destiny.
· "Where my heart is at ease is my hometown"
After wandering for a long time, you will find that home is a mobile concept. The place where you can get recognition, comfort and love is the hometown you have never met.
There, you are encouraged, recognized, and appreciated.
There is no reporting and exposing, trial and suppression, everything that violates human nature, but it looks like a high-sounding etiquette culture;
You don't have to pay to climb a ladder to see what people want to show and discuss;
Don't worry, because you tell the truth or express reasonable demands, you will disappear from now on, and there will be no news;
Favorite careers, art, movies, games, or others will no longer be banned and blocked because of a certain "sensitivity";
There, your ecstasy and anger, your strength and weakness, are seen, accepted, understood, and loved.
It won't be long now. Any day.
Respect for the courage to go against the current, the wisdom to retreat bravely, and the perseverance to stay where you are. I wish that we will meet in the light one day, and then listen to our block!
ps: The easter eggs are the shaved ice brother who guest starred in "Hamilton" and George IV's you'll be back!
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