The title of the movie has already pointed out the theme. In order to get a better life, the protagonist Demian tried his best, but in the end he lost everything and had to be sent back to China. The ending was not satisfactory, but the story was very healing.
The film tells the story of a father and son. Demian is a homeless person who smuggled into the United States from Mexico to survive as a gardener for others. In fact, it is what we call part-time labor. When someone wants to trim the yard at home, they will find something like this. The short-term workers, the wages are paid daily, and the remuneration is very low. It is such a job, and it is still very unstable. I often have to grab work, but if I don’t grab it, I can’t work. The 14-year-old son, Louis, can only attend the worst schools. He takes drugs, joins gangs, and fights. Growing up in such an environment, and often being ridiculed because of his father's occupation, Louis has become a bad boy and is swimming. On the brink of going astray.
Louis has long been fed up with his father, and sometimes even spreads the grievances from the school on his father. The father never gets angry, and he feels guilty and longs to provide his son with a better life.
His chance came. The person who took him to work before wanted to sell his car and kept persuading him to buy it. If he had the car and the gardening tools on the car, he could be his own boss and find a day laborer to pick up the work. Germany Mi An was moved, and after thinking it over, he decided to borrow a sum of money from his sister who was not in very good condition. In the end, he bought the car with his sister's only private money.
He turned on the music, clenched the steering wheel and drove forward with a smile on his face, as if a better life was just around the corner. "This car is ours now. With it, we can move out of here and you can go to a better school," he said to his son.
"I'm tired and I want to sleep." Louis didn't say much, turned around and went back to sleep, lying on the bed, he fell into reverie.
Seeing that a good life was about to begin, one night, Louis was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door, his father came back drunk, he asked his father in a panic, and Demian said over and over again, "The car was stolen."
In an instant, the dream was shattered.
With nothing left, Demian wants to retrieve the stolen car, and his son Louis decides to help his father solve the problem together.
A road of mutual redemption between father and son begins.
In this car-hunting journey, although the father and son had exchanges and conflicts, they finally opened the gap between them to gain mutual understanding.
The image of the father is also re-established in the heart of the son.
Knowing that the car was sold to the black market by thieves, the father and son came to the parking lot of the black market at night. Demian instructed his son to watch outside and not move. Obediently, he stayed outside. He stared at the car behind the iron net and found his father's car. He was very pleasantly surprised. They screamed loudly, and they immediately drove out the door, leaving the pursuers far behind. There was no danger. With the joint efforts of the two, the car was successfully recovered. The son cheered and said to his father: "You Like a big brother, so handsome."
The father also apologized to his son for his previous inappropriate behavior. The relationship between the two seems to have changed at this moment.
But the long-standing knot in the hearts of the two is not so easy to open, the key is to have a heart-to-heart exchange.
Before going to the black market, the son asked his father, "Why do poor people want to have children, what are they trying to do?" The
father was stunned for a long time, but he didn't answer. Maybe he never thought about this question.
Until, when they met the traffic police on their way home in their car, their father had to be deported back to the country because he had to expose his identity as an illegal immigrant without a driver's license.
The father answered the son's question: "In the small mountain village (Mexico) where we were born, generations have followed the same trajectory of life, found a girlfriend, got married, and then smuggled to America to find a better life, just like them. , I did the same, because I don't know what else to do. When I first came to the United States, my mother and I fell in love with each other very much. However, the rapid environment has brought about changes in people, and your mother has also changed. I don't To give her the life she wanted again, so she left. At that time, I had no job, no identity, no money, and I was very angry, but it was you who made me go through all this hardship. Because I wanted to To take care of you, I want to see you grow up day by day, loving you has become the most important thing to me in this world, I hope that one day you can be a wonderful person, and I can also be in this kind of future. Find yourself a reason to live in the hope of it.”
Not every parent can become Jack Ma and Wang Jianlin to make a good future for their children. Most of the time, our parents are just ordinary people, even lower than ordinary people. They are in ordinary occupations, even low-end occupations, and they cannot become ordinary people. The capital that their children show off, they have nothing, the only thing they have is the child, the child is the continuation of their life, and it is also the hope that supports them in their efforts to live.
No insignificant parents will strive for a better life for their children and give them the best they can give.
It's just that they don't understand, and they still feel "it's really bad to have such parents".
In the film, son Louis gets up every morning and sees his father through the window when he is playing with his yard, showing disdain and disgust. Shouting at his father, "Get your flowerpot," Midan just reluctantly closed his son's door and walked out silently.
When Louis happened to meet his father who was waiting outside in the car after school, and the girlfriend next to him asked "who is that", he didn't tell him directly, it was his father.
When we were young, we loved our parents and blamed them. I don't understand why I have such parents, why I am not someone else.
These questions may haunt us for a long time until we grow up and realize how hard it is to be who we want to be.
Life is not easy, and it is a gift from God that our parents raised us and gave us love.
We can't choose to be born, we can't choose our parents, but we can't give up on ourselves because of it.
One of my elders once said to me: "In our life, we often encounter such people, who talk to you about their misfortunes endlessly. They were poor when they were young, suffered serious injuries when they were young, and their original family was not good enough to make them become Today, there is no way to be successful, unhappy. Why do they say this to you, is it to win your sympathy? Yes, it is on the surface, but in fact, they say this, they are just looking for it to give up themselves An excuse, an excuse to gain recognition from others."
Louis was the same at the beginning, when he beat the thief and his father reprimanded him, he walked away angrily, almost joined the gang with his friends, and completely turned into a bad boy.
However, he did not choose to give up on himself in the end, because he knew that his father reprimanded him for fear that he would get into trouble and go to jail.
He knew that his father loved him.
In the process of searching for a car, the father actually gave his son the best education by demonstrating in person.
When the thief stole his father's car, they connected to his mobile phone and walked along together. They found the thief's residence through the ringtone of the mobile phone, and found that the building was empty. The mobile phone was sold to the thief's roommate for 40 yuan. The thief's roommate learned about the phone. It was his father's, and he gave it back. The father wanted to give him the money, but the son angrily stopped his father not to give it. The father insisted on giving it, but was finally rejected by the roommate before taking back the wallet.
This thief's roommate is an uninformed person and a victim. He should be given money. The father's move is actually teaching his son to be kind.
After taking back the mobile phone, the father promised to pay 50 yuan to the person who brought them to the thief's residence. The son felt that the leader did not know the specific address of the thief at all, and thought he was a liar. He strongly urged his father not to give him money. , "This is a deal", and finally gave the money to the leader.
The father uses his own behavior to educate the son, the correct view of right and wrong.
Although he is poor, he should not lose the principle of being a human being. The father cannot give his son a better life, but he has done everything he can. He was able to sacrifice his life for his son, and gave him all the love and example of being a man.
At the end of the film, son Louis finally got on the right track in life.
This car-hunting journey was actually a redemption between father and son. Although the father could not give his son a better life, he gave him the most precious things of himself, that is, hard work, kindness and love.
This is the most precious thing in life.
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