This movie can be said to be relatively small, although it is an Oscar-winning movie, there are few movie reviews haha.
A very soothing and idyllic movie. It doesn't have an obvious educational theme like other shocking movies, but every character in the story can arouse your emotions and are contradictory. They deal with things and choose life. Behind the way of the road, all aspects of the characteristics of the World War II era are reflected.
The male protagonist always resisted being called a doctor when he was in the orphanage. Probably because he was abandoned by his parents, he was unwilling to face more parents who abandoned their children. In his opinion, those parents were very irresponsible. . Although the old doctor has been painstakingly nurturing him, he is confused about what he wants and where he wants to go. The loving environment in the orphanage has not really cultivated the great love in his heart.
It was not until later that he left the orphanage, experienced a fruitless love outside, and saw the tragedy of the lives of black people at the bottom of the society. He gradually grew up and realized that there are too many helplessness in life, especially the people at the bottom. They have no culture, If you are illiterate, even if you have the consciousness of self-determination, the anger of being oppressed, and the desire to break through the cage, there is nothing you can do, and even slip into the abyss of degeneration step by step.
The power of the times is powerful, and the individual is so insignificant, even the captain of the apple manor is just a victim in the war of capitalist turf division. Not to mention the black people who have been oppressed and discriminated against?
It is precisely because of seeing deeper suffering and tragedy that the male protagonist has more compassion for people, and realizes that abortion is not necessarily cruel.
So the male protagonist chooses to return to the orphanage. At this time, his eyes are no longer confused, but firm and full of love. He has found the direction and value of life, and that is to dedicate his life to these abandoned children.
At the end of the movie, the male protagonist repeats the mantra of the deceased old doctor to the children, indicating that at this time he really understood the old doctor's compassion and infinite kind love, and decided to continue this kind of love.
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