After watching "Little Shoes", you will know what is the dream of the poor. A pair of sneakers, sometimes an electric iron, and the extra luxury is renting a bigger house that can accommodate the next family of five. Ali sent his sister's shoes to mend, and accidentally lost them when he was getting food on credit on the way home. Ali had to discuss with Sarah, the two took turns wearing his sneakers to school, and when she was out of school, he went to school again. On the second day, Sarah accidentally walked in big sneakers, one shoe fell into the ditch, and Sarah kept chasing along the ditch. When they arrived at the alley they had agreed to change shoes, Ali found one shoe was dark and wet, so he had to take off a sock and wear shoes to go to school.
The family is very poor, and it is difficult to sustain life. My father's meager salary is just enough to eat, and the rent and vegetables are owed monthly on credit. Sarah was in the school playground one day when she saw the pair of shoes she had lost and was being put on the feet of another classmate. After school, she followed her classmates home. After Ali came home, Sarah took Ali to find shoes. The door rang, Ali and Sarah hid, and saw that the classmate's father was blind, and the classmate took his father to the market to sell cigarettes. Ali and Sarah stopped asking for shoes and still took turns wearing a pair of shoes every day.
A friend gave Ali's father a set of pesticide spraying tools. During the holidays, his father took Ali on a bicycle to the rich man's villa in the north of the city to find odd jobs as a gardener. After touching many homes, I finally found one that was willing to repair the garden for them. Dad worked very hard, and the master gave some extra money. Dad was happy to take Ali home, looking forward to buying my mother an iron, a cabinet, and new shoes for Ali and Sarah. While he was enjoying himself, the brakes of the bicycle broke, and Dad fell heavily by the ditch of the road, and the hope that had just sprouted was dashed again.
Ali school participated in the long-distance running competition, and the third prize was a pair of sneakers. Ali signed up for the competition for the sneakers and tried his best, but no one expected that he would reach a championship. Physical education teachers, school directors, reporters, and the media all surrounded Ali and congratulated him. Facing the camera lens, Ali did not have a smile on his face, and his tears were full of unspeakable sadness.
In the film, Ali and Sarah are very kind and sensible children. I took up all the housework at home early, and felt sorry for my parents. In order not to add a burden to the family, the two took turns wearing a pair of sneakers. Every day, Sarah ran home from school through the streets. After changing his shoes, Ali ran across the streets to go to school. During the holidays, Ali was riding on his father's bicycle. There were many tall buildings in the metropolis, and the prosperous and quiet wealthy areas were full of curiosity and distance in Ali's eyes. He knew very well that outside the alley where the poor gathered was not his world.
There is often the sound of bombers flying overhead in the background of the film. In the Middle East, wars continue. The gap between the rich and the poor caused by the war, when people in the mosque prayed devoutly and called for the voice of Allah. Ali's father took out a handkerchief from his clothes and wiped his tears as he distributed tea and sugar. Is Allah listening to their cries for help? After Ali's father was injured, his mother told him that the landlord had come again to urge money. Dad said that the next day to go to the landlord to delay for a few days, the mother said, but you have no money. Dad said in a low voice, don't worry, God will arrange it. Off-camera, Ali was lying on the side of the wall, listening to his parents discussing their livelihood in a low voice. Silent and silent, there is a sad and sensible silence on his small face.
Ali burst into tears several times. The first time I lost my sister's shoes, I was anxious and sad, and I didn't dare to tell my parents. The second time was due to being late for changing shoes with Sarah, and was ejected from the school by the director. The third time was eager to participate in the running competition, wanting to get the third runner-up sneaker reward, and kept begging the physical education teacher to give him a chance to sign up. Every time I see Ali's eyes filled with tears, and when I see Sarah sensible and well-behaved wearing her brother's old sneakers to school, I can't help but my eyes heat up, and I can hardly bear to watch it any longer. The feeling of powerlessness and helplessness has been passed from the computer side, just a pair of shoes, a dream that Ali and Sarah tried their best to have.
In the film, Ali and Sarah wash the sneakers together. The two of them blow the soap bubbles in their hands and wash the sneakers white while laughing. When Ali accompanies his father as a gardener, he plays with the host's little boy with various toys, laughing all the time. I just saw the innocence that a nine-year-old and a seven-year-old should have. They should not bear the pressure of life too early, should not face the cruelty of life and the humility brought by poverty so early. Shouldn't be so precocious and sensible, it's heartbreaking to endure.
What he got was the championship, and Ali went home silently. The sister understood his frustration and walked away sadly. Ali sat down and took off his cracked sneakers. His feet were covered in blisters and bruises from running. He dipped his feet in the pool and buried his face between his knees. The sun shone brightly on the lotus-red goldfish in the pool, and they swam to Ali's feet and touched him gently. At this time, my father bought some food and daily necessities at the market, and there were two new pairs of shoes for Ali and Sarah on the back seat of the bicycle.
Little Shoes is no stranger. Whether in newspapers or on the Internet. Any Project Hope site has tons of great kids in need. I remember that some time ago, Nanjing News Channel broadcasted a mother's request for help. She is a single mother, her son is very sensible, and her family is poor, and her son never asks to buy clothes and other things. A boy in sixth grade still wears his mother's old shoes. My grades in reading are particularly good. No matter how hot the day is, I don't blow the fan. In order to save electricity, I always get up early in the sky to read and do my homework. I have just been admitted to Nanjing No. 3 Middle School, and I have not yet reported and found out that I have a very serious illness. Helpless, the mother called the media for help. This mother doesn't look very old, but because of fatigue and poverty, she looks prematurely old. When the reporter interviewed her, she didn't cry loudly in front of the camera, she just kept holding back her tears, so she held back her voice not to tremble. She described some things about her child, his condition, and said that he especially yearned for middle school. Want to keep reading...I don't know what's going on with that little boy and his mother now. Did you get help and go back to school? Or is it getting worse? The media did not continue to report.
I think the more children who grow up in poverty, the more pure and upward spirit they have. Because there is not much material, their world is extraordinarily simple, and reading may be the only fun and the only place they can compare with other children. The teacher said in class that the poor children in Zhibei School said, I will not compare with your parents, I will compare your grades with you, and I will compare your future with you. This statement is both uplifting and inspiring. You can't believe it, that's what a bunch of kids say. There are many poverty-stricken places in Tibet, and the environment for children to grow up is also much simpler, with blue sky and white clouds, yak and Gobi. The school was built in a mountain nest, with mountains in the front and back, and there were only a few tents in the early days. However, under such conditions, children study hard and are very happy. It is a different happiness from the children in the city, pure, simple, satisfying and sensible. They are friendly to each other, without suspicion, and their little hearts are not polluted.
"Little Shoes" was filmed in Iran in 1997 and was nominated for Best Picture at the Montreal Film Festival in 1998 and Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars in 2000. The reason why it can impress countless viewers and judges, can become a classic film, can be watched and watched by many people. I think it awakens our desire-numbed hearts in our increasingly materialistic lives. The poor always understand the poor very well, and most of the people who truly care about others more than themselves are also poor. They have true wisdom and understand the true meaning of "less desires and contentment".
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