This is the second time I've watched this movie, and now I think about it, the first time I watched it, the only pictures left were Dicko who was polishing his shoes, playing a football game with his friends, and cleaning the kitchen with his mother, which ended up provoking the players. , I played a game with my friends wearing ill-fitting sneakers, and finally had a conversation with the coach at the train station. Instead, the last moment of glory is not remembered.
Watching "The Birth of a Legend" again may be because of my different identities. I learned Portuguese and learned a little about football and Brazil, and I have a different feeling than before. What impresses me the most is still little Dicko and his mates playing football without landing on the muddy road. That was Pele’s childhood, Pele’s carefreeness, and Pele’s initial pride in football.
In order to play a game, the teenagers naively bought sneakers that were not suitable for them, and put on team uniforms cut from sheets in order to become "players" on the field. Bit by bit, the score was lost, and they took off their ill-fitting outfits and, despite losing the score, finally cheered for themselves. This is the bud of the "self" in the hearts of the first teenagers. Dicko must have thought about going out amid the applause, he must have been thinking about it, thinking about winning another championship for Brazil, thinking about his father pulling the people out of the town and pulling Brazil out of the shadows. I am full of self-confidence, especially when I am surrounded by cheers.
But Thiago died, indirectly because of him, he felt so. He can't make trouble anymore. He should follow his mother's words, study hard at school, and go to the hospital with his father to work. I can't play football anymore. It killed my father and Thiago. Who will be next? But his father was not happy at work, he was working in a low voice, and Dicko was not reconciled. He still missed football.
Father understood him and taught him what is dormancy, what is natural, and what is accumulation step by step. His mother also began to understand him. Although he was reluctant, he let the coach take Diko away. From then on, Dicko embarked on the road of becoming Pele, with "Jenga" football.
Instead of direct success, Dicko walked out of town to direct defeat. The football coach does not recognize "Jen Jia", although Dicko is very good among the players, but the coach does not recognize it. Coach Brito told him that it was not the coach who disagreed, but that Brazil did not dare to agree, and the world was not ashamed of it. But maybe he can start again with "Ren Jia".
It is not "Jen Jia" that is lagging behind, but the failure that has been imprisoning Brazil, dragging Brazil, exhausting Brazil and the Brazilians, and losing their authenticity and freedom. In the face of the defeat on the field, the ridicule of the opponent, the teammates said: We are poor, because we are imprisoned, we cannot play in the way we are familiar. Because the coach asked them to use the "orthodox training method" in Europe, and Brazil from South America felt very uncomfortable and uncomfortable. . There is no orthodox and unorthodox football, no noble and rustic, only suitable and unsuitable. If it must be classified, then let the "noble" people play the "noble" ball, from the original Brazilians, they must find themselves in the "country". Brazil and the people need someone to break this shackles, they need to get back on their feet.
Dicko, who was born in a small town, did it. He brought the "Ren Jia" full of "rural flavor" and stood in front of the world. In the face of uncertainty, Dicko hesitated, his father encouraged him behind his back, his friends in the town encouraged him, and Jose, who nicknamed him, told him: Renga is beautiful, only you can bring it out.
Dicko finally became Pele, that is time of Pele. All the spectators in the stadium shouted Pele to congratulate him, and he took Brazil to win France and Sweden to enter the World Cup. Brazil has regained self-confidence and regained itself. Pele and Jenga have completely reconciled, Brazil has also reconciled with Jenga, and the world applauds Brazil.
In the original words of the movie: We play football differently and look different, but that's who we are.
Blindly imitating won't win you success, finding yourself is the real winner. The boy from Bauru, with the real Jenga, brought Brazil back to life.
(Very unprofessional personal understanding from Cecília who doesn't understand football.)
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