I just finished watching "Harvard Road", the movie is not as "inspirational" as I imagined, the story is simple: it is a girl whose parents are drug addicts, her family is in poor condition, and she is a young and homeless girl. Under the combined effect of talent, he successfully won a scholarship to enter Harvard. The story's ups and downs and emotional depth in the movie are not as good as "When Happiness Comes Knocking", spending a lot of space describing the unbearable family and life of the heroine Lizz when she was young, but showing a little bit of how she worked hard to succeed. Although as an "inspirational movie", it is not as profound and shocking as "The Shawshank Redemption" and "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", but I can still get some insights from the movie.
For example, the different fates of Lizz and good friend Chris in the movie reminded me of the experience of "growing up" that I had experienced by watching CardiB videos before. Once the two girls were all covered in mud, dropped out of school early, and lived on the streets. Although Lizz may indeed be more intelligent, what determines the difference between the fates of the two is actually their different reflections on their lives. When her mother died, the desperate Lizz did not degenerate and stay on the edge of the original world, but survived the Jedi and pushed herself to break through the cage. The courage and will to dominate the fate in this way is something Chris has never considered or even can't understand. However, when Lizz introduced her to the principal and recommended her to enroll, her door to freshmen was already opened. While the opportunity to visit Harvard was dismissed, even scorned, the door to a bright future quietly closed. I deeply believe in what my predecessors often say: only you can decide for yourself, and when I saw this in the movie, I resonated again.
Then, the screen switches to Lizz coming to the Harvard campus. Standing in front of the Harvard Library, looking at the hurrying, confident smiling Harvard people, Lizz asked himself: What's the difference between me and them? Is it from birth? She has an answer in her heart. She knew it wasn't her birth that made Harvard people different, and if they could, so could she. Although she has known since elementary school that she is the most stinky child in the class, she also knows that her background determines that she cannot sit in an ordinary classroom like an ordinary child and be an ordinary person; but now, facing the world Among the Harvard people of the top universities, she did not flinch at all - it was the strong yearning for a better future that pulled her, and the urgent desire to break away from the original environment was pushing her. She said: "At this moment, I feel that I am getting closer and closer to the edge of the world, and I can even touch it." This is a classic and climax of the film, and it is also the place that touches me again.
At the end of the film, Lizz received a scholarship and was recommended for admission to Harvard. In an interview, he expressed his nostalgia for the good family life of his childhood. While the strong Lizz has the courage to open a new chapter in his life, he does not blame his parents for all the misfortunes in the past, but is still full of enthusiasm and love, and misses and appreciates his parents.
The winds and hardships failed to destroy her, but instead infused her with infinite enthusiasm and a supreme sense of responsibility, making her stronger. This is exactly: the world kisses me with pain, and I return it with a song.
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