Forgiveness and Facing Fears, Reconciliation with the World, Others, and Self

Priscilla 2022-03-24 09:03:06

A single mother flees with her daughter to avoid her violent boyfriend. Why would a beautiful woman put herself in such a situation? Guilt? There was a car accident because Jennifer was driving fatigued. She attributed her husband's death to her own fault. Days and nights in the future, I will constantly condemn myself, and it is not myself that I hate to death. The inner world is out of balance, and the outer manifestation is the violent punishment from the boyfriend.
This is really a dark hell, how terrible it would be to live a lifetime like this. Fortunately, there is a posthumous child. her daughter. She pushes her to change. She said, Mom, you promised that if there was one time, we would leave. leave, where are you going? If the inner world does not change, everything is the same. This movie isn't a thriller, it's a warm-hearted movie with my beloved Morgan Freeman. So she made the right decision. Back to my husband's hometown. There is also a brokenhearted person out there who will eventually let go of their anger and remorse and learn the lessons of forgiveness together.
That's the father who lost his son. He couldn't get out, and the pain kept following him. He was lost in this sea of ​​sadness, and his wife couldn't take it and ran away with others. Old Morgan was there, and he took care of old Morgan because a bear was injured.
He did not welcome the woman who killed his son. But the granddaughter is the continuation of the son, they are exactly the same. So he taught girls to drive, do hoops, and be a cowgirl. Everyone needs love, doesn't it? I like this old man. He carefully gave old Morgan injections, shaves his beard, and was reluctant. He also listened to what old Morgan said. He rode a bicycle with a small flag to see the bears, fed the bears, and finally took the risk of letting the bears go. In the restaurant, stand up for the waitress who was bullied by the alcoholic, and drive away the scumbag who bullied Jennifer. How did he redeem himself? I think the answer to redemption is always love.
Give love, receive love. To love and be loved makes people let go of hatred and learn to forgive. He loved the girl, who was taken away by her mother and walked all the way back to find him. In the bear-releasing incident, if the girl didn't press the engine, maybe he wouldn't be hurt, so he understood that everyone makes mistakes, others, himself. That wasn't a reason to hate, just as he thought he was drunk and didn't drive the bear away and hurt old Morgan, maybe old Morgan had reason to blame him. But old Morgan never said a word.
He saw the girl, the girl's mother, and old Morgan as family. Those who are surrounded by love will have a happy old age.
Jennifer had previously acted in a thriller with the same theme. She was beaten, fled with her daughter, learned martial arts, and finally killed the man. This time, the solution is more rounded.
Old Morgan, always appeared in the incarnation of a wise old man. In him, there is love and tolerance,
patience and companionship, as well as the courage to face it bravely, and the open-mindedness of knowing the destiny. The last long shot, overlooking the earth, is like Morgan flying in a dream, everything is at a glance, there is a reason for everything ~

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  • Jean Gilkyson: I flipped a coin. Griffin fliped a coin and I lost. So I was the one who was driving. It was 3 o'clock in the morning and we were both tired. We wanted to make it in time for the rodeo in Great Falls.

  • Jean Gilkyson: I killed him, Einar. Is that what you wanna hear? It wasn't the change in our pockets, or the weak ass coffee, or the rain. It was me. I fell asleep and I flipped the car six times. I killed Griffin. He had no argument from me. You think it's something I forget. You think that I'm not sick with it, that I hate my life? But I tried to keep living, and you haven't. Is that why you hate me so much? You know, you act like I killed you when Griffin died.