People always seem to envy what they don't have. Ordinary people will envy geniuses for their brilliant minds, I don't know if geniuses envy the lives of ordinary people, because I have never been a genius, so maybe.
Human genes determine that each person's intelligence is destined to be different. Mary, the little girl in "Genius Girl", was extremely smart at the beginning, and she was very different from children of the same age. Sharp eyes and sharp words are not what a 6-and-a-half-year-old child would think. She is just in the first grade at this age, and she just started to learn 1+1 equals how much? But she can quickly figure out what 57*137 is. Ordinary six- or seven-year-olds are having fun, and she's already reading the works of great mathematicians that the average adult doesn't even know about.
Because of the child's extreme intelligence, a custody battle was triggered. After discovering Mary's mathematical talent, her grandmother came to fight for her custody. He did not hesitate to take his own son to court. We know from the movie that Mary's mother Diane was also a math genius, but her short life seems to exist to solve a certain equation. She didn't have a favorite sport, she didn't get into high school, she didn't go to the prom, and she only had math in her life. The only first love was also killed by his own mother. Her life has been cracking equations.
Diane's mother inherited the gift of mathematics to her, and gave her a vacuum-like protection to immerse her in the world of mathematics. Everyday life is nothing but understanding equations. She is like a problem-solving machine without her own real life. Until she became pregnant and gave birth to a child, she committed suicide after solving the equation. Looking back on her short life, there seems to be nothing to be left behind. Entrusting his children to his younger brother, he would rather commit suicide than live.
Sadly, today's parents still let their children learn all kinds of skills and get all kinds of high scores in exams, regardless of whether the child is really willing to accept it or not. Whenever they see in the news that teenage children jump off buildings or commit suicide, they feel very uncomfortable. It should be the most brilliant time of their youth, but they don't know how to go about their lives. What we should do most as parents is to teach them how to live, to enjoy the joys of life, and to endure the setbacks in life. But in reality, many people are chasing the bottom line, and most importantly, they don't teach their children.
From the very beginning, the movie evokes the idea of "letting the child be a child". Even if Mary is a gifted girl, the most important thing is to let her go to school and live like an ordinary person. She needs her own friends, her own hobbies, her own life circle, just like a normal person.
Although her uncle frank couldn't provide her with good material conditions, such as a house with a swimming pool and a comfortable bed, he gave her the most important quality of life: respecting people and considering other people's feelings. Although Mary knew that the famous professor's title was wrong, she didn't point it out in person, and the professor asked her why she didn't point out the mistake. She said, "Frank said I shouldn't correct my elders. No one likes smart people."
Frank did a great job of treating the child as an adult. Respect her ideas and let her know. Tell her how the case was going until she knew her real father had come to where they lived, but didn't come to see her. It is unacceptable for the child, why does her father not want to see her, why does her father not love her. There's really no answer to this. Frank didn't lie to hide it, but let her face the truth.
But he will comfort her in the most human way. Frank took her and neighbor Robert to the hospital to wait for the moment when the baby was born, and let her see the joy of the family when the baby was born. Although she didn't have a father waiting outside, frank loved her, and frank was happy when she came. Just as happy as any normal family welcomes a new member. Mary was also moved. Although she didn't have the love of her parents, the love of her uncle and Robert would not make her feel that anything was missing.
Frank defends her. On the school bus, I saw a 12-year-old boy bullying a 7-year-old classmate and destroying his zoo model. No one offered a helping hand, but she bravely stood up to help him. Although it is wrong to hurt people, her bravery and justice must be affirmed. This is the basic principle of being human.
Reminds me of the boy in another movie "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman". He clearly knew that he could clear his suspicions by confessing to the person who destroyed the school supervisor's car, but he still insisted on his principles despite the risk of being expelled. He did not sell out his classmates in order to choose scholarships and his own future. This is also the basic principle of being a human being. It may seem that he does not care about the overall situation and does not calculate his own interests, but this is the most basic quality of everyone.
When it comes to children's growth, we can't help but start thinking, what's best for them? What is the most important? Good material conditions? Achieve achievements, be famous in history, or grow up healthily like ordinary people? There seems to be no answer to this question. In the process of growing up, there is happiness, sadness, anger, and cuteness, all of which are normal. Do you want what your child wants? Although they are your children, they are more independent people.
Like frank's worst fear, he was afraid of not being able to educate Mary well, and he was also afraid that what he did would bury Mary's talent. This mathematical talent is truly one in a million people. In the end, it's up to the child's choice, to trust the child.
Mary likes her grandmother, because her grandmother is very similar to her mother, and maybe she can feel maternal love in her grandmother. But she also honestly told Frank that she didn't like grandma's bossiness.
Just like a normal child, if she doesn't ask for something, she will get angry and say something insincere, whether it is an adult or a child, we can't take every word the other person says seriously. If you don't get the piano you want, you will be angry and say that your uncle is a bad uncle. Broke the agreement between them, and embarrassed the uncle on the date, and the uncle would also be angry with Mary. This is human nature, and this is also a normal state of life. Although we live together as a family, we must also have our own separate private space. We don't have to hide our true inner feelings, this is the normal human emotion.
In order to regain custody of Mary, Frank told his mother that his sister Diane had cracked the equation, but chose to publish it after her death. This was ironic to his mother. For what she wanted most, she had indeed exchanged her daughter's life for it. Or her mother didn't even know that her own tyrannical behavior had cost her own daughter's life. When facing her granddaughter, would she still want to repeat her daughter's old path?
His mother looked at Diane's manuscript of the calculations and began to cry at the thought of those who had passed away. This is the most irreversible thing. It can only be saved if you live, but everything is over when you die. Perhaps at this moment, she has a trace of regret in her heart.
At the end of the film, Mary goes to high school and takes math classes with people of her age, but at the same time she is still a child, participating in the Girl Scouts and enjoying the fun and childhood that a child should have. She still lives with frank in a crowded low-cost house full of cockroaches, but she's happy, she's not stuck solving equations all day. She would follow Frank to repair boats, go out to sea, pick up shells on the beach, and sing with Robert every Saturday for a fun weekend.
The whole film basically completes the theme "Let the child be a child", but when facing special children, we should treat them in a special way. This can be regarded as a real teaching according to aptitude. If you have such a gifted child around you, this movie may be a lesson for you.
Her life has just begun, her future is immeasurable, she may be a genius or an ordinary person, but what does it matter? This is the most real life, at least the current life is what everyone thinks is better.
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