The film begins with Jim Green and Cindy telling the adoption agency staff about a magical experience...
Jim Green and Cindy are a loving couple living in the fairy-tale forest town of Stanleyville. Jim works at the Stanleyville Pencil Factory and Cindy works at the Crozdaff House Pencil Museum. The two people entered the marriage hall from childhood sweethearts and lived happily, but the fly in the ointment was that they never had a child. After the Nth time cooperating with the doctor's treatment to no avail, the doctor frankly confessed that he was powerless. The young couple soothed their grief by fantasizing about their child's beauty, burying notes in the garden jotting down their hopes for the child. Then, a miracle happened.
That night, a little boy calling himself Timothy came to Jim Green and Cindy's house in a muddy rainstorm. Jim Green and Cindy were astonished to find a big hole in the garden where the note was buried, and the little boy whom they affectionately called Mom and Dad, the boy they gave their dream son with the same name on his calf, had ten feet on his calf. Get a fresh green leaf. Surprised and joyful, they believed that Timothy was the best gift God had ever given them.
In fact, Timothy is as lovely as Jim Greene and Cindy dreamed, and in Timothy, one by one, there is a miraculous confirmation that Jim Greene and Cindy once buried the note on the soil. Expectations: "Never give up", "Be kind-hearted", "Have a sense of humor like Uncle Bob", "Honest", "Be honest with mistakes", "Can rock", "It's Picasso with a pencil", "Optimistic character", "knowing how to love and be loved", "kick the decisive goal".
Jim Green and Cindy are incredibly proud of Timothy and excited and nervous about being parents for the first time. On the one hand, they are familiar with the role of parenting in the process of making mistakes and correcting them; on the other hand, perhaps neither Jim Green nor Cindy has noticed that their expectation of Timothy is that they gradually lose or lack courage. The selves they seized, they learned from Timothy about honesty, tolerance, understanding, persistence, love and being loved, and they also gained a better version of themselves.
When spring and autumn come, Timothy looks at the fallen leaves with a lot of thought. Every time he fulfills the expectations of Jim Green and Cindy, a leaf falls off his leg... The film tells a story that is happening every moment through fantasy. Reality: Parents are the two people in the world who are willing to go out of their way to protect their children. Although they occasionally make mistakes, they love their children beyond imagination. On the other hand, every child is Timothy. They are gifts from God to their parents, and they all come with their parents' expectations. They are all forgiving of less-than-perfect parents who keep making mistakes. In the strange world that I met for the first time, I gave myself completely to my parents who were also often flustered. In the time when parents and children spend a short time together, parents give their children their hard work and youth, and the children are also carrying out their own efforts to approach their parents' expectations, using their childhood and youth time.
Therefore, the touching part of the film is not only in the performance of the parents' dedication to their children, or the children's return and fulfillment to their parents, but also in the call for mutual cherishing, understanding and tolerance between parents and children. The imperfection of "love" must be made up with "love".
In addition to the emotional line, the natural beauty of the film is also worthy of praise. Under the blue sky, the large forests change from the lushness of spring and summer to the gorgeous and colorful autumn, which makes the film full of romance. Nested in the film, the plot of "The Greens created leaf pencils inspired by the love of wood as a child to save the Stanleyville Pencil Factory" conveys the local concept of "being proud of forest trees, protecting nature is caring for future generations".
There are joys and regrets at the end of the film, but it is very real...
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