When I was wandering on Weibo yesterday afternoon, I accidentally saw the introduction of this movie, so I went in and watched it out of curiosity. I was interested in this movie because I was worried about my still broken English. I wanted to see if there was anything in this movie that resonated with me or found a good solution to my broken English, or motivated me. I am actively facing the status quo, and the motivation to study hard.
The protagonist of the story, Shahi, is a traditionally industrious Indian housewife who seems to have a favorable family condition. She has a good husband who works hard to earn money to support the family, a eldest daughter who has excellent grades and eccentricity, and a youngest son who is innocent and innocent, and she can also cook her favorite desserts while taking care of the housework. DU Ball earns some extra money. To outsiders, she should be doing well. But as a housewife, she also has her own difficulties. She is often ridiculed by her daughter because she does not speak English, and it is considered embarrassing to hold a parent meeting with her teacher because she does not speak English, and her husband sometimes loves her a little bit. Ignore her, thinking that her value is only to do some food and housework. We can find her anger and loss from the many scenes of her children and her husband's conversations. She paid for the whole family but did not get the respect of the closest relatives around her.
The turning point in the story comes when Shahi gets the chance to go to America. Because Shahi's niece in the United States is getting married, she needs her to help with the marriage. Going alone to a country where she doesn't speak her native language, Shahi was a little overwhelmed and a little scared to face it alone. When she first arrived in the United States, she could not speak the language, and some embarrassing things happened. For example, when eating at a relative's house, everyone communicated in English, and Sahi couldn't understand it. Her relatives used what she said in Hindi to joke with her prospective niece-in-law in the United States, and she nodded in agreement. The most impressive part is that she went to the coffee shop to order and didn't know how to order it. This is also the most disturbing part I saw in this movie. Shahi was helpless, didn't know what the waiter was saying or what was on the menu. And when the waitress was aggressive, she not only threw the money out nervously, but also knocked over the things in the hands of other customers, and then fled.
Later, she found out that there was a four-week fast English class, and she secretly went out to study every day after her family was gone. The scenes of her going to class every day are repeated in the movie. From the very beginning, she didn't know how to use the subway card, and she didn't know how to take the bus to the place where she went to class. After that, she was familiar with the road, and she smiled with the flight attendant at the subway ticket gate. , reflecting the changing process of her mentality. From being afraid of fear to being familiar with it. Later, when she was eating out and ordering food again, she was able to say the food she wanted smoothly, and she was startled.
By the end of the story, at the wedding of Shahi's niece, she was invited to speak for the newlyweds. Her husband just stood up and said, my wife's English is not good. And Sahi just gently grabbed her husband's arm and stood up. Although this scene seems calm, it makes people feel the power and inner strength. Shahi said that she hoped that her niece and her husband could treat each other equally and be humble to each other. The people closest to you will not expose your scars. Shahi's husband and daughter were amazed that Shahi could speak in English with such confidence in front of everyone, and they were ashamed that she had not respected the person closest to her before.
The original intention of Shahi learning English was to gain the respect of her husband and children, so that they would feel that she was not worthless, only a housewife who could only do housework and do duraball. At the same time, it was also because of the unbearable experience when she came to the United States that she was determined to change herself.
In fact, when I was watching this movie, I always affirmed an idea of my own, that people still need to keep walking. Go to different places and encounter different things. Maybe you don't need to travel in such a hard way like many poor backpackers, but you must develop the ability to throw you in a strange place and you can live a good life with peace of mind. People can't stay in their warm shell all the time, it's easy to become ignorant and lazy, and it's easy to be caught off guard when encountering some new things.
And there is continuous learning. Learn all kinds of things, absorb all kinds of knowledge. Of course, we are still young, and we are always learning. However, after watching this movie, I kind of understand why there is a phrase called "to live to learn to grow old". If you don’t learn new knowledge or go to the outside world, you will be eliminated by this society. This is why I think it is necessary to go out for a walk frequently. Traveling is also a kind of learning with great insight.
Finally, the most important point is to learn from the protagonist Shahi in this movie, that is, self-improvement and self-love. People who are not self-reliant and self-love are difficult to gain respect from others.
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