Deep in the mine, looking up at the stars - "October Sky"
Today, let's talk about the movie "October Sky".
Title October Sky (1999), alias Flying Dreams / Rocket Boys / October Days.
Inspirational movies are an important category of movies and a genre that audiences prefer. Full of positive energy, can convey a positive attitude.
Movie fans also often make lists of genre films. I believe that as long as there are people who have read a certain amount of films, they will never just write some well-known "Shawshank Redemption" and "Forrest Gump" when launching inspirational movie lists. This "October Sky" is sure to make the list.
"October Sky" is adapted from a true American story. The protagonist realizes the transformation of the mountain pheasant into a flying phoenix through his own efforts and persistence.
During the Cold War, after the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into space in 1957, the United States shook up and down. The young people in "Coal Forest", a small mining village in West Virginia, were also deeply shocked and determined to make their own rockets.
From the spirit of that era alone, the audience can feel that it was a better era. Both camps in the Cold War tried their best to show their superiority, desperately developing science and technology, and attracting high-end talents, in order to prove that their national system was superior.
Now combined with the situation and environment, we can feel that it has become a bad era. The presidential candidates of the lighthouse country are desperately pouring dirty water on their opponents, those in power are frantically withdrawing from the group and extorting the whole world, and when they know that the lie of the superiority of the system has been exposed, they fabricate the facts.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Homer. The main job of his small mining village is to dig coal around the mine. There are only two ways out for the boy in the village. One is to become a miner and go down to dig coal, and the other is to become a rugby student and get a college scholarship to leave his hometown.
His father, John, is the mine manager of the small mining village "Coal Forest", and John's wish is that Homer can take over his job in the future. Homer is not physically strong, and his academic performance is not top-notch. No matter how he looks at it, he will go down to become a miner's life.
But the Soviet Union's first human-made satellite during the Cold War inspired Homer's dream. Homer, who had never thought about future plans, looked at the artificial satellites passing quickly in the deep sky, and firmly stated his dream to build his own rocket.
As soon as he said it, Homer quickly pulled in the other three friends around him and began to make his own rocket.
"Thank you to those who believed in us and supported us before we were confident."
Building a rocket is not an easy job, and it's even harder when you don't have a foundation.
They encountered resistance from family, support from school, concern from friends, and the journey was extremely difficult.
It’s not scary to have a dream, and it’s not uncommon to have a dream, but it’s hard to persevere. Imagine if you were in Homer's environment, I don't know how many people would dare to make rockets, and I don't know how many people would be defeated under various difficulties, and finally curl up in an underground mine to spend the rest of their lives.
The title "October Sky" is a literal translation of the English title "October sky". There is no problem with the translation, but I can't express the rearrangement of the letters in English.
Just like the simple letter rearrangement of Muder and Redum in "The Shining", rearrange the letters of October sky to get Rocket boys. Rocket Boy just corresponds to the four protagonists in the film, which is very clever.
Several sensational plots in the film are set just right, instead of trying to earn the audience's tears by deliberately selling miserable, but slowly creating the atmosphere to a suitable point, detonating the audience's emotions.
If the story is not based on a true story, many people would not believe that children in mining villages can become scientists, but the true story is so dramatic.
Homer and his friends eventually walked out of the small mining village and did not confess themselves to the mine. The final subtitle of the film shows the fate of the four friends, Quentin became a chemical engineer, Roy became a car dealer and banker, Dale became a farmer and has his own insurance company, and Homer became a NASA engineer, training for space missions. astronaut.
Even deep in the mines,
Also look up at the stars.
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