Don't criticize anything deliberately. Before we fully understand the truth and meaning of things, we'd better choose to study and listen.
Many people in the picture
say that "Homeless to Harvard" is not well shot, and I can't refute anything. After all, different people's perceptions of the same thing may vary greatly or not. So I just want to talk about my opinion, if you don't agree, ok, I won't feel any pity, and I won't force your applause. I just want to pass on an idea, whether or not that idea brings you new thinking about it.
【Firstly】
In the first fifty-one minutes of the film (one hour and twenty-seven minutes in total), the background is introduced. The attention to detail is extremely meticulous
, which is why many people think the movie didn't live up to their expectations.
Modern urbanites are busy with work, and the society advocates a high-efficiency and high-paced life. So much so that today's teens, (yes, including me) so-called "dream-chasing" teens, place too much importance on the outcome of things. What is the result? When we start to do something, what we think about is not what we can gain in the process, what kind of positive effect we can play, not what I can change through this experience, but whether I can meet expectations , whether you can get a satisfactory answer and the desired outcome. As a famous saying on the Internet, "As long as the result is good, you can make me cry in the process".
This is a sick mentality. Yet this mentality is deeply rooted in almost all of us. "Everyone is drunk and I wake up alone", so instead, the values advocated by this kind of purposeist are promoted as the mainstream, misleading and even blinding us.
The first fifty-one minutes are not reserved for such purposeists. Besides, as non-professionals, we are making comments with the so-called "bad shooting" mentality. I don't understand. Has anyone thought about the reason why this film was so successful in Europe and America? Is it because it's "badly shot"?
【Second】
The client, Liz Murray, I don't think she didn't review the script before the film started, and she didn't watch the movie before it was released to the public. So the question is, why she approves of the filming and the director's plot arrangement.
It takes up one third of the film to tell the background. Why does this arrangement, which is spurned by domestic "purposeists", have different voices abroad? I think it's still values.
Our so-called "inspirationalists" advocate making a movie an inspirational movie, oh, you might say, "It was originally an inspirational movie, and the movie's tags and category settings are displayed that way." So among us Most of the people just accepted it without thinking at all. So "inspirational movies should use all the time to inspire and inspire the audience." This makes sense.
My personal opinion is that the core of this movie, its spiritual direction, is not simply telling the story of a poor girl's nirvana, nor is it telling you a realistic version of an ugly duckling that turns into a swan, it should bring us a story. A kind of life attitude, a kind of self-positioning and breakthrough self-positioning.
You think Liz is fooling around with her friends, begging on the street, going to a shelter, these are all negative and not achieving the "inspirational" purpose you expect. But all of this is meaningful. It is these so-called "experiences" or "experiences" that are the bits and pieces in life that have contributed to her qualitative change. Yes, including her mother who played a big role in it.
[Third]
At the beginning and end of the film, the phrase "I Love my mother, all the time" appears repeatedly. Chinese people pay attention to the point before and after, highlighting the key points. I don't know how Europeans and Americans see it. But it makes sense to put the words from that speech here, as well as the line "I want my family back" when Liz got the scholarship.
Don't take it as a pure inspirational movie. Can't you see the emotion brought by family love? Can't see a kind of human kindness? When society "kissed me with pain", I "repaid it with a song". Our so-called concept of success often depends on whether the person has a house and a car, but real success is not material. The house and car are very important to us, but is it important to them? The concept of success is distorted and misunderstood by us. In a complex society, no one pays attention to your heart. Liz's success lies in her inner quality, not "with a grade point average of 96, completed two years of high school in four years, and entered Harvard".
[Fourth]
I mentioned Liz's struggle, most people can't see its actual effect, most of them think "I am deeply moved and shocked because of this girl's story, and I also want to know how I can become like this, How can I be successful". So your "purpose" is back.
What are the intrinsic qualities of Liz? Why most of us can't be like her. Almost all of us live a life that is a hundred times better than she used to (after all, we are reading this post on mobile phones, computers and other smart products), but we can't do it, we are impetuous, passive, short-sighted, eager to go to the sky . What exactly are we missing?
I don't want to hold Liz high. After all, she has sane hands and once shoplifted in supermarkets and begged on the street. I don't agree with what others call "forced by life".
[Fifth]
There is an excerpt from the movie "My Fair Lady" in the high school English text. Three months of transformation can make people look brand new. What is the reason? A desire to change from the bottom of my heart.
Liz's qualities also include such hope. The death of her mother made her feel deeply about her own situation, homelessness, gaps in her studies, and lack of knowledge. There is a saying that "the essence of poverty is laziness", I want to fall down, accept the reality, and admit that the essence of failure is also because of laziness. The inertia of human instinct. The difference is that some people overcame, but many more gave in.
Remember Liz's reaction when he was invited to Boston? "I can't make it into the top ten at all," she said. Is she not confident? What I can't see, I think she has enough self-confidence from her attitude of answering questions in class and her attitude of holding a handout and asking the teacher to revise it after class. The reason why she said this was because she was just doing her own duty. She didn't say "you must be first in the test" or "you can't go to Harvard", she was just "getting rid of ignorance" according to her own ideas ". The reason why she took four years of school to complete in two years is also because "I don't want to be twenty-one before I graduate from high school."
Do your job safely, without worrying about the results. "No matter how hard you work, you will reap the rewards, not necessarily; if you work hard, you will reap the rewards." Take it step by step, and the joy you harvest will no longer be limited to the results.
If what I say or feel goes against your values, or if you don't agree or accept it, then please close this window silently, because no one forces you to agree with other people's opinions, you can continue to be yourself and treat me Everything that is said is clear from your head. I hope no one is swearing here. After all, Tieba is a place where multiple thoughts exchange and collide.
One o'clock. Now I'm going to turn off the computer and go to bed because I have to get up early tomorrow. Other ideas, I will find time to post them. If you support me, I don't really appreciate it, I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you so much.
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