The first impression this movie gives is: Liz's life is really too bitter.
Her mother was raped by her grandfather when she was young, and after she gave birth to a heroine, she took drugs together with her father. The house was as dirty as a dog kennel. Both parents were insane due to drug addiction, and both had AIDS. The mother had no choice but to take the heroine's sister back to her grandfather (accepting her fate) and soon died. The heroine's sister also contracted AIDS (probably related to her grandfather), and the heroine's best friend was raped by her father at the age of seven.
The environment they are in has been reinforcing their perception that we are the dregs of society. When the heroine told her father that I love you, the father said: I am not a human being, and talking to me is a waste of energy. What can you feel in this sentence? He realized that his actions were wrong, but he was powerless to change and could only let himself rot.
Most of them ended up being the mothers of Liz's friends, Liz's mother, Liz's sister, and they accepted their fate and fell completely. Rape is just a symbol. What's scary is not being raped, but after being raped, after struggling, he returned to his original position and said, "Keep raping me."
Helpless and sad is the main theme of the fate of most people in that social environment. Just as the heroine sat on her mother's coffin and thought: so what? This is not the real world, we only live in each other's hearts.
Kris is lucky, because crossing the gap between classes requires not only her own efforts and smart minds, but also encountering noble people and excellent opportunities in her life.
As far as the story line is concerned, without the encyclopedia given to her by Grandma Iwa upstairs, without the care, encouragement and even tough measures of the elementary school teacher, without the care and guidance of the principal of the private high school, if any part is missing, Liz may fall. Now, she could become a scavenger, she could become a prostitute, she could be a drug addict, she could be caught in an endless cycle at the bottom. These people are her nobles in that big environment. So that after her mother died, when she wanted to change, there was still Iva who could help her.
Being taken to a social institution for adoption changed many of her bad habits and made her acceptable to people in the society (at least clean and tidy), depending on the parents' inability to continue raising and not going to school, the primary school teacher and the police, and the mother died just right. Let her have no burdens and can rush forward without hesitation. This is the opportunity.
Of course, these opportunities also depend on some qualities of Liz herself, such as being able to read a lot of books without going to school and have good test scores. It is because of this that the nobles will lend a helping hand to her. Bar.
When faced with an opportunity, you can only seize it when you are well prepared.
So let's take a closer look at the most important quality or ability that Liz can cross the hierarchy. I personally think it's "self-control".
Self-control can make Liz read many books seriously, think carefully and master it, answer it in exams, and incorporate her own thinking when others ask; self-control can make Liz be on time and not late; self-control can make Liz Complete the four-year program in two years; self-control allows Liz to persevere and move across classes.
Some people will talk about why education is useful? Because education teaches you self-control and makes you professional. The difference between the so-called professional and amateur is not that the professional does better than the amateur, but that the professional performance is very stable every time.
Self-control is the foundation of class leaping.
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