At the end, I cried when I saw the rocket flying into the sky. I watched it fly up like people in Coal Town, and people who live underground finally look up to the sky. A typical inspirational film, but the director did not choose to strengthen Homer's persistent efforts on the road of personal struggle, but spent a lot of pen and ink to describe his people, family, friends, teachers and principals. These people shaped his character and drove his development. Growth, which distinguishes it from ordinary inspirational films
The father in the film stubbornly wants Homer to dig coal, and the contradiction between Homer and his father is also a more prominent contradiction in the film. In fact, Homer has always respected his father without knowing it. He is proud of his father saving people in the mine. He wants his father to watch him launch a rocket, hoping to get his father's approval. When his father picked him up from the police station, he was disheartened by the phrase "ashamed" and gave up his rocket dream because he didn't meet his father's standards. The reason why he hates his father and thinks that he loves the coal mine more than his family is because he has not experienced the unremitting pursuit of his dream at that time, he cannot understand his father's persistence in order to keep the dream of the coal mine town, and he does not know what it takes to fight for the dream. sacrifice required. When Homer studied rockets day and night and came back with the award, he realized the similarity between himself and his father, that is, they were both stubborn protesters. At this time, Homer had reconciled with his father in his heart.
Regarding the father's obstruction of Homer, a father cannot necessarily let his son dig coal just because he likes it. The father is a doer, a doer who sees nothing but the sky, and he doesn't want Homer to be an unrealistic dreamer. And when the son pointed out his resemblance to him, he was also awakened. Homer directly allayed his fears, he realized that Homer was already a stubborn, even "stubborn" doer like him, so he went to the launch site of the last rocket and looked up to the sky for the first time.
The emotional intensity of the whole film is handled very well. There is no father who slaps the table and scolds when he is angry, and his mother does not shed a single tear. The family quarrel was mediocre, the decibels were controlled, and Homer did not cry at the bedside of the terminally ill teacher, but it was still deeply moving.
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