In the movie with disability as the theme, the first thing that is paid attention to and exposed by the plot is the native family of the handicapped. What kind of attitude the family members take when facing the disability of the family will affect the psychology of the handicapped in the future. An important factor in whether the state is healthy or not is because the starting point of life comes from the family. Before accepting social experience, the family composed of blood has the function of protecting and shaping people's character. The original family of the protagonist Christie belongs to the low-status working class. The social concept of many children and grandchildren allows Christie’s parents to have 13 children in total, while Christie’s father can only earn money by working hard on the construction site. With a meager salary, it is not easy to feed the young children born one after another, so the family economy has always been in a very tight situation. Christie’s father is grumpy and often gets drunk. He thinks Christie’s birth is unknown and shameful, but Christie’s mother treats him as an ordinary child, with love and strictness, and also cultivated brothers and sisters to treat him. His attitude is caring rather than discriminatory, which affects Christie's character in the future. We can say that his mother is the person who knows Christie best and has become the greatest support force in his growth process.
In addition to the far-reaching influence of the family on the physically and mentally handicapped, the opinions of others around them mostly play a negative role in the movie, causing misunderstandings, bullying, and discrimination against the physically and mentally handicapped. Taking this film as an example, Christie, who was paralyzed, was given a strange look by his neighbors since he was a child, and his inability to express himself in words made others subjectively believe that besides physical disabilities, he must have intellectual problems, and even regarded his unsound limbs as evil. The symbol of Christie, when Christie’s mother fell from the stairs and fell into a coma, although Christie hit the door with his left foot to attract neighbors to save his mother, but he was pointed out as the accidental perpetrator. In fact, Christie is clever, and he was very unconvinced by the insults from others that he was an idiot. When he tried to answer a math question with a chalk on his left foot, Christie found a way to communicate with the outside world, proving that he was forbidden. The soul in the mutilated body is fluid, which changes his father's view and truly regards him as a member of the Brown family.
The education of the physically and mentally disabled has always been a very important issue, and the sooner they can receive special education services, the more help they will be. Christie was not good at exercising. He could not go to school normally, and family financial factors could not afford expensive wheelchairs. He relied on a dilapidated wooden cart to move around when he was a child. Growing up in such an environment, Christie did not accept special in the early days. Education and physical rehabilitation, verbal communication skills are neglected, and he didn't start speaking vaguely until adolescence in the film. As for the complete treatment, when Christie was nineteen years old, his mother finally pooled enough money to buy a wheelchair for him, and indirectly led the Dublin doctor Erin to discover that she had never received medical assistance, but could use her only left-hander. Big boy with feet painting. Erin initially suggested that Christie go to the big hospital in the city for rehabilitation, but all the disabled people around were children. He felt embarrassed and could not bear it, so Erin turned to take care of Christie at home. , Language communication practice. Receiving special education services can enable the physically and mentally disabled to learn the skills to adapt to the social environment, develop other unrestricted abilities, and "communicate" with others across obstacles.
Another issue worthy of attention in the film is how to open up the emotional world of the physically and mentally handicapped. Do people with disabilities always have to be rejected and unable to develop their emotional lives? When they fall in love with someone, should they protect themselves from injury, or should they bravely pursue without fear of failure? Christie’s love began to sprout from adolescence. He once drew pictures to confess his love to a woman, but was turned down face to face. This made him feel inferior in love and withdraw. When he found out that he liked the gentle Dr. Irene, Christie shut himself in the room and saw no one. He was afraid that he would be more disappointed if he was expecting something. At the end of the plot, Irene was about to get married, which represented Christie and fell severely on the road of love. , The extreme setbacks and injuries made him lose his courage and even thought of suicide. However, people with disabilities are no different from ordinary people in the face of love. They must have the courage to let go, to overcome their physical and psychological barriers, to give themselves and each other opportunities, let alone the disabled, this kind of courage is even in you and me. Both are rare. After two failures, Christie met Mary at a charity banquet. He finally understood that bravery is everything. Under his resolute invitation, Mary agreed to date Christie and became his wife in the future.
"My Left Foot" made me feel the importance of "communication" most deeply. For the male protagonist, the body is like a prison for the soul, and it is necessary to find a way to communicate with the outside world (left foot, words) to open the closed Inwardly, break free from the loneliness that no one knows.
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