"When people ask me which goal is the best, the most beautiful, my answer is: next!"
- Bailey
From the perspective of someone who loves movies, this movie is really unremarkable.
The plot is cliché and the characters lack charm. The whole movie is quite satisfactory. As an inspirational biopic, it does not have the kind of shaping of the whole soul of Queen as in "Bohemian Rhapsody", showing their confusion, degeneration, and finally becoming a god in the hustle and bustle. Bring excitement to the audience.
In the film, Bailey is like a marionette, motivated and guided by the various people he meets on the road, toward his own road to the championship.
From the perspective of a Portuguese language learner, what impresses me more is the love of the entire Brazilian nation for football, and the people of the whole country are desperate and suspicious because of the failure of the World Cup; Ancient Brazilian sex.
I also saw that in the slums of Brazil, those children did nothing but play football to change their destiny, as if they did nothing to change their lives. Some of Bailey's childhood "Barefoot Squad" friends died unexpectedly in caves, some were robbed and jailed, and some were wandering the streets wondering where tomorrow's lunch would be.
Compared with the children of rich families, they are pitifully small. Apart from playing football, they have no way to get the respect they deserve.
But in the eyes of a football lover, this movie is really amazing.
This film shows us the story behind the football king Bailey and several wonderful games.
Pele is regarded as the best player in modern football history. He played 1,366 games and scored 1,283 goals in his career, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1957, he was selected for the Brazilian national team. In 1958, he represented Brazil in 92 games and scored 77 goals. He won the World Cup that year, and won the World Cup again in 1962 and 1970.
Such remarkable achievements made him world-renowned and became a god in the hearts of many football fans.
In his final monologue, he said: "When I finally opened my eyes, everything in front of me was like a dream. I was only 18 months away from home, but it felt like years. I will never forget that 1958 Years, I became Bailey."
The film opens with a cross-montage to show the 1950 World Cup and Brazil's domestic scene. On one side, the crowd watched nervously at the stalemate at the World Cup, and on the other, children juggled football on the streets of Brazil's favelas.
Brazil eventually lost the game 1:2, which is unacceptable bad news for the whole of Brazil.
It was a disgrace, and all the Brazilians seemed to languish, and the young Pele was wet with tears when he stole the result from the rooftop.
Pele grew up in a slum, his mother was a nanny for a wealthy family, and his father was a former professional player who retired from injury and could only live by cleaning.
When a team coach went to the place to select reserve players, Bailey began to show his amazing football talent in the game against the professionally trained Kings.
Bailey and his mates formed a "barefoot squad", who wore ill-fitting shoes from the sale of stolen peanuts, and colorful jerseys woven from sheets, against the bright and tall the Kings.
The ending is self-evident, and they were far behind in the beginning.
Those taunts and the pain of defeat seemed to fuel Bailey's fighting spirit, and he threw away the ill-fitting shoe and began his moment of glory. He is the shortest on the field, but at this moment no one can ignore this boy who is like a miracle.
One, another... Bailey single-handedly chased the score from 0:6 to 5:6, and the crowd chanted Pele's name and chanted to witness the birth of a football genius.
However, Bailey did not start his football career smoothly.
A heavy rain, a chase, and the collapse of a cave made Bailey watch his friend Thiago die. Thiago had said to Pele before the hole collapsed, you'd have a bigger stage.
Thiago's death suddenly plunged Bailey into depression and self-blame. and a dazed fear of the future.
Bailey also started helping his father clean at the hospital and stopped playing football.
Pele's father knew his son, he was born to love football. His father continued to inspire Bailey, and together with Bailey, he used fruit instead of the ball to teach him skills and methods.
In a few years, Bailey grew up with his father's original play. His mother contacted the coach of the year when he bumped into the father and son practicing football.
Fifteen-year-old Pele left the slum with the coach and came to the Santos team.
Here, the coach teaches European-style football. In 1954, Brazil failed again in football, so that the Brazilian people no longer believed in the original Brazilian football, and turned to learn the winner's European football.
Growing savagely from a young age, Bailey, who has not received formal training, is out of place in this style of play, and he can't even play football anymore.
Extremely frustrated, Bailey packed his bags and came to the station, wandering about leaving and giving up.
At this time, another noble person in Pele's life-the former coach, Mr. De Brito, appeared again, affirming the meaning and value of "Renga" in Brazil's original football, this kind of kicking method integrated into Brazil's bone and blood.
A train stopped in front of Bailey, opened, closed, and left.
Bailey didn't move, he dragged his luggage back again.
In the later training, Bailey ignored the coach's shouting of European play, but continued to gallop on the court with the wonderful "Renga" play time and time again. He was born a champion.
Bailey became the youngest player in the national team with top performances in training games. At that time, he was only sixteen years old.
Amid the national uproar and tension, the 1958 World Cup in Sweden began.
Malicious Western media mocked Brazilian players maliciously and gave them humiliating nicknames, and the whole world looked down on Brazil, which has lost twice in a row.
Before the game, Bailey injured his knee, but was still rushed to the competition. Round after round, players from the Brazilian team were injured one by one, and Pele had to be forced to play after his injury improved slightly.
When playing against the French team, everyone despised this short young man, but Pele, in pain, showed the world that Brazil's football is immortal by playing the game of janga.
In the end, in the game against the home team Sweden, he also turned the tide. The playing skills he showed made the world know Brazil again, the original football of Brazil, and this amazing teenager - Pele.
This has since created countless legendary names.
In the movie, several ball games were shown very wonderfully, which made people excited; Bailey's bumpy growth path also made people sigh.
After Bailey's glory, there are all kinds of noble people's encouragement all the way, from the four-eyed boy who died in the cave, to the father who accompanies him to practice, the mother who contacted the coach for him, the coach who encouraged him to insist on playing the game, and even the coach who accompanies him. In the end, the locker room before the game finally woke up and persuaded Bailey's former enemy...
The teenage Bailey was not so determined, and also had daze, pain, and confusion, but all these were dispelled step by step, and finally achieved his glory and legend.
The name Bailey has also changed from a disgraceful nickname to a supreme glory.
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