But the creators of miracles did not come to impress you, nor were they born to impress you. Their greatness may lie in reminding us that life really has endless possibilities. If one day when you really feel like you're in trouble, you can think about it, and you can create a little more choice for yourself, and once you have more choices, the predicament won't be a dilemma.
This is the nourishment we can draw from the miracles of life created by others.
My Left Foot is one such biographical work, based on the autobiographical novel of the late Irish genius writer and painter Christy Brown.
Christie was born with cerebral palsy and is physically disabled. Except for one left foot that can move as normal as a normal person, all the rest of the body can't move, and she can't take care of herself at all. You can imagine how much life this is for an ordinary working family. burden.
My father is a construction worker, and my mother is a housewife. I have older brothers and sisters, younger siblings, and 8 children in total. The economy is not well-off. When my father loses his job, the whole family can only drink gruel. There is nothing special about education. He was listening under the stairs while his sister was doing homework exchange exercises; he was one of a group of kids playing football in the yard.
If there is any difference, it may be that his mother has given him more preference. Even if the whole family drinks gruel, he will not use the special "fund" for wheelchairs that is deposited for him one by one. Later, it was discovered by the whole family by accident. Although everyone vomited and protested after drinking the porridge, the family acquiesced and accepted the decision of his mother, and finally bought him a wheelchair, which gave him a larger radius of action.
Perhaps it is this environment of indiscriminate treatment of growth, this atmosphere of respect and acceptance as a normal person, that is an important reason why he is physically disabled and mentally normal. The whole film does not have any sensationalism, and does not deliberately show any plot of his difficult life or study hard, but fully presents the troubles, impulses, desires and pursuits of an ordinary young man in the growth process.
Although only his left foot has mobility, he still falls in love with girls and has the same desire for a better life. His brother was just as excited as he was kissing the girl next door on the street corner. Expressing love by drawing pictures for the girl next door, without feeling inferior and self-pity. The therapist Ai Lin taught him the language for free. He fell in love with Ai Lin. After being rejected, he pretended to be strong, depressed and decadent, just like a normal person; , can make a normal person feel ashamed - without a hint of softness, he just let a girlfriend who had already promised to date someone else accept the rose from his left foot and become his beautiful bride.
Such biopics do not exaggerate suffering to earn sympathy, and the tone is not the gloomy gloom of the gloomy fog, but the ordinary life, the warmth of daily life. If someone must be his angel, it must be his tough mother, the fat Irish mother.
Difficult life, a child who is different from ordinary people, she accepts whatever God gives her—either as a special test, or as a normal child to be raised—without hiding him at home, but as an example. Take him to church meetings, tell stories bit by bit, and encourage children to take Christy with them when they play. This kind of calm must have a profound impact on the children. Brothers and sisters go out to play and always take him with him. When playing football, he is also a player on the field, and he does not even pull him down to pick up girls.
Later, Christie was rejected for courting Elaine, although her mother knew that he would suffer a double blow, both physically and mentally, after realizing that he was in love with Elaine, but she did not stop her. It's just that when he gave up on himself, he said to Christie that the decisive victory is in his heart, even if you give up, I haven't.
Then she came to the patio, brought in cement bricks, and announced that she was going to build a separate studio for Christie. Because there are eight children in the family, there are only three rooms, and the four children are squeezed into one bed. Christie painted, only when the brothers were away, and the finished painting was only stored under the bed.
The rude and irritable-looking father didn't say a word when he came back from work. He pulled up his sleeves and called the whole family to work together. I think when Christie was 7 years old for the first time, he picked up chalk with his left foot and wrote "mother" stroke by stroke with a cracked mouth. The son of the Browns, he was a genius, and this scene must have struck Christie's memory.
Although he speaks loudly and speaks well at home, his mother sometimes pays him to go to the bar in order to keep him from losing his temper, but he works hard to support a complete home by himself. When the whole family was starving, and the money that his mother had secretly saved to buy a wheelchair was discovered, he didn't ask to use it. His love was typical of a father's, taciturn, deep and rough.
Therefore, it is understandable that when the father passed away and heard disrespectful remarks against him in the bar, the family would smash the bar angrily - it was an expression of love for the father, and efforts were made to maintain the dignity and honor of the father .
Ordinary family, ordinary education, normal growth, simple and friendly family atmosphere, and equal love that is neither discriminatory nor based on sympathy are the biggest differences between this film and other similar biopics. Christie does not have much psychological inferiority complex and autism. Usually, normal people are also trapped in this, which brings about mental internal friction. This should be the biggest inspiration for us - true respect is equality, It's about treating him like a normal human being, not condescending sympathy - Ellen used to take him to his hospital for treatment, but only one day he asked to go home because he was treated like a sick person there - all the people to take special care of. It is the weak, and it is the normal who can treat each other as equals - this kind of physical integrity and spiritual strength is the real source of strength.
And this is exactly what we normally need. Although we have a thousand reasons to talk about how busy we are, how busy we are, how we have no time, or why we have difficulties and weaknesses, and cannot make up our minds, society does not guarantee everyone's success. Destiny never pays attention to this, it just silently watches everyone's performance, and occasionally gives compliments based on their efforts.
This kind of optimism and calmness shown in the film is what really touches people's hearts. There is no scene of the mother crying with joy because of her son's grades, and there is no scene of the family celebrating and cheering. Christie's painting and writing are usually like ordinary people's work. Family members may provide support and help, but they are not careful and take care of them in every possible way. Everyone can be happy with your achievements, but they do not look down on others or look down on others because of this. Still that Christie, our family. A hero is not judged by success or failure. I love you only because you are a relative. This point is very, very valuable.
Finally, when it comes to Daniel Day-Lewis, the actor who plays Christie, it is no exaggeration to say that if you have not seen Lewis before, you will definitely think that he is a patient with cerebral palsy. It is truly unprecedented to be so realistic. Words can no longer describe his acting skills. It can only be said that without his performance, this film would be a mediocre work, but because of his performance, this film has become a first-class film. He himself Therefore, he won the first Oscar statuette in his life.
The power of the Tao is limited, but the power of the will is unlimited. The meaning of man is not what he finally gets, but the course of struggle; the nobility of man lies not in what he has, but in how much he can make use of what he has.
When you see what you have, one left foot can also be fully alive, creating miracles;
when you see what you don't have, you complain like sound limbs and have nothing.
May you cherish what you have and create abundance!
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