"Because my mother used to call me that." The little boy in the film said this repeatedly.
The title shows a scene of a single mother living with her child. The mother is often very drunk. The child's room on the top floor is full of beer cans after the mother has emptied, and the walls are painted by the child. There are smiling faces, there are fathers, there are mothers, they are all smiling.
The kid has a homemade kite with a superhero on it, his dad "Big Zucchini". It was a cloudy day, the child stepped on a small bench to complete his tall "beer can building blocks", and on his feet stepped on a kite string with "Dad" tied to the legs of the bench, because the wind was blowing outside the window, and a heavy rain was coming. , the small bench that blew also swayed, and when the last beer can was put on, he staggered and fell to the ground, the kite also fell back into the house, and the beer cans scattered again...
The loud noise alarmed the mother who was drinking downstairs. Her usual good temper disappeared. As she walked up to the attic, she viciously threatened to clean up the small zucchini. He was terrified, and when he saw that the flap was about to be opened, he snapped it down and ducked to the side. However, the sound stopped abruptly at this time, and he crept up to the front of the flap, opened it, and showed a shocked expression.
So Zucchini became an orphan and was taken to an orphanage by a police uncle.
Every child here seems to have a "secret", some of them are normal on the surface, but desolate inside. The red-haired bully always likes to laugh at others and be the boss; the yellow-haired girl always uses half of her hair to cover her face, because there is a scar under the eye; the round-faced brown-haired boy is always a god babbled and muttered to herself; the little dark girl ran to the door every time someone came to the orphanage, yelled "Mama", and returned disappointed; the brown-haired boy always had a Little Doll.
One thing is the same, they are all children in abnormal families.
When the children saw other people's children being cared for by their mothers in the snow, their eyes were full of disbelief and envy.
When the police uncle said that he would adopt zucchini and the new girl to show them the room he had carefully prepared, they were surprised and moved, and wept in earnest.
Children seem to understand the adult world, but in fact, sometimes their memory and imitation skills are very strong. The events of childhood play a crucial role in a person's growth process, and some even play a decisive role. .
As the saying goes, "three years old sees old age", the shortcomings and advantages formed in the early stage of the child determine the future direction of the child from some aspects.
Orphans are a huge group. They have all kinds of secrets and different experiences, but these experiences don't seem to be smooth, and some are even thrilling. Ordinary adults will be surprised when they hear it. These experiences will affect children's lives. The western world always likes to make some "schizophrenic" films, most of which may have some negative influences from childhood, or they are also orphans, or single-parent families.
"Loss of love" is the most prominent feature, low self-esteem, self-blame, contradictory, eager to be understood, but also afraid of being noticed, silent and introverted, always timid. However, once such children grow up, they may do some extreme things. For example, in the process of getting along with boyfriends and friends, such children will ask a lot of love and care from each other because of their instinctive need for love. When you arrive, either you will return to your own world and you will not dare to love again, or you will die and you will lose both.
I really hope that in today's world with such a rapid development, we can see the society's care for the disadvantaged groups and the improvement of the welfare mechanism. I also hope that there will be some educators with a conscience who can act as a part of the life of these orphans, and let the children in the future. Looking back on their childhood, they would say, "There was a group of teachers out there who really cared about us."
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