I saw this movie for the first time last year, and I remembered the story, but the movie didn't impress me too much. Recently, I read the original novel "Harvard Road" by the protagonist, and I dug up the movie and watched it again.
The story itself is very inspiring, you may just need to know that this is a girl who is constantly working and fighting and finally changing her destiny and escaping the world she was destined to belong to. The movie is very simple and plain, or the director wants to use this calm surface to hide the turbulent way to make the audience more spiritually shocked, maybe the director just wants to use the simple narration of Nirvana to tell us Behind those extraordinary things are actually ordinary enough to stick to.
I can't say that the movie is bad, but it didn't give me the kind of strong shock I had expected. Compared with the original book, the film has been greatly adjusted, without a strong sense of expression, without telling her very deep love for the family, without telling her paranoia about friendship, without telling her that she is almost a re-enactment of the tragedy of her parents Love, she was dirty, she always skipped school, then went homeless and homeless, wanted to change, then she went to Harvard as a matter of course and got a scholarship, there was no excitement and twists and turns, just she wanted it, so she worked hard and finally got it . This is a typical American story. But when I heard lines like "His words don't seem to reach me, his words seem to fall to the ground", and seeing Liz desperately lying on her mother's coffin clutching her last thoughts, I was still stunned. Moved, don't forget that she was always a child.
This kind of story can only happen in the United States. She lives in a slum, and her family has no source of income, but she still has subsidies, at least she can barely survive. She has a social worker to supervise her going to school to complete her education. There are sisters who take care of all special school children and can still make money.... .Imagine if she was in China, she had to live either to beg or to do illegal child labor, and to risk being kidnapped, trafficked, run over and killed without anyone caring, even if she went to school and waited until the college entrance examination, the regional differences in the college entrance examination will make you Even if you work hard to the death, you may not be admitted to Tsinghua University.
Maybe it's not just an American story, miracles can be created. As long as you want to change the current situation, have a clear goal, push yourself into a desperate situation and make yourself nowhere to go, and when you can't hold on, try hard to make yourself persevere, and the success you want will not be far away.
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