PAY IT FORWARD, the literal translation is "let the love spread out", and I prefer to translate it as "love formula".
The male lead is Haley Joel Osment, a young big-name star. The little boy in AI (artificial intelligence) is also the child who plays Forrest Gump's son in Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump). Here, he is a kind and ordinary junior high school student Trevor.
His sociology teacher, Kevin Spacey, assigned a homework assignment on how to make this chaotic world a better place. So, Trevor came up with the love formula. He decided to help 3 people and gave them a huge help that they couldn't do on their own. Then these 3 people must help the other 3 people, so that the love will spread slowly, and the world will get better and better.
The idea is very good, but things are not so smooth, he helped a homeless man, but the homeless returned to the life of drug addiction after receiving the help; he helped his teacher, but the teacher had a hard time crossing his heart. When he was about to give up, a reporter from another state found him, and this is, they realized that the love had spread and many people had already participated in it. When we all thought that this bad world should be better for Trevor, when Trevor was helping his beaten classmate to complete his third goal, he was stabbed in the spleen by the knife of the older child and left. this world. Trevor is gone, but the love has spread, and in the final scene, his mother opens the door and the house is filled with people, each holding a candle in their hands, praying for the child. The camera zooms out, and there are countless lights flickering towards Trevor's house.
Some film critics will say that this is very utopian, yes, it is a very idealized story, where we load our wishes into a story and hope that the world can be a little better.
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