People need to learn to be grateful. Invisible hatred is a shackle. You hate all the injustice and suffering in this world, but it can't help you get rid of them. I thought it was an inspirational film as the title said, but I didn't expect it to mainly depict the family. Drug addiction, violence, indifference, it seems that these are the most common things in a little girl's home, but she is still indifferent and grateful, which makes people admirable - we can't choose our parents, they give us life, It is the most precious thing in this life that can't be compared with anything else. Hatred and grievances never solve the problem, and it seems that as soon as we are let down, we start imposing childish hatred on our loved ones. She said she remembered that her mother treated her very badly, but she also had good times, she took her down the long slope with her, and they all laughed at that time. Just this scene can wipe out her repeated drug use and violence - she knows she loves her, even if she is more like her mother, when she is no longer young and more decadent, her eyes become blind and drunk When she was mature, she was still her right-hand man.
So I really admire this girl, she can sleep in the subway station all night, she can wander around and be a despised thief, she can beg for a living without even a place to rest, but she never resented own parents.
But I don't like this story. People learn something slowly as they grow up. She doesn't look like a child, and she is too precocious, so that it seems like a deliberate arrangement rather than a natural way. Who hasn't hated? Who would accept and tolerate such a situation so generously? Is there really such a selfless person in the world who forgives all sins and wrongs and understands all injustices and contempt?
This is a fairy tale in the movie, it can teach us a lot, but it itself is a nihilistic reality sketched out by the Defenders.
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