In the movie "Life is Beautiful", what impressed me the most was the contrast between before and after. The rhythm of the first half of the film is brisk, that is, the process of Kito's pursuit of Dora to set up a family. It is funny and humorous, and the happy feeling of a family of three riding a bicycle is also passed on to every viewer. That moment was a wonderful time when the clouds were light and the sun was shining.
Movies based on the background of war can always teach people to look at life and dignity more rationally, and also teach people how to cherish all the good times they have.
As the war progressed, the family inevitably entered a spooky concentration camp. Dora is separated from Chidu and his sons. In the dark and despair they hope for a miracle.
At this time, the optimistic Kito began to look like a director in life. Every day, he seemed to be compiling a fairy tale to give his young son Joshua confidence and fun. Even in this fairy tale everyone is involved, the people who know and the people who don't know; the good and the bad. They all became characters in Geddo's fairy tales. The entire concentration camp is like a big game field, and the people inside are all working and resting according to the rules of the game, no one fouls, otherwise there will be no good results. Joshua believed everything his father said. In his eyes, there was only curiosity, no fear, and no life-threatening and painful feelings. This was especially precious to a child's life at the time.
All of this was given to Joshua by Gidu.
He left despair to himself and gave Joshua the hope of life.
It is also the most sublime and selfless love a father can give his child in such a situation.
Keto is also a good man and a good husband. In such a gloomy atmosphere, when he saw the opportunity, he could sneak into the radio studio to play a piece of Dora's favorite music, and then ventured to pass on the news to Dora that their father and son were alive on the radio. This made Dora, who was sad and longing, pleasantly surprised, seeing hope and firm confidence to live.
Everyone has the right to make themselves or others feel happy, no matter what their living environment is. Although happiness may become difficult to find, the more difficult and frustrated times are, the more people should have the state of mind to pursue happiness. Because that's what motivates you to deal with difficulties and setbacks in the future. Otherwise, when you don't even have the ability to make yourself happy, other abilities will also be lost. What a horrible thing this would be.
Most of the people won't accept the way Keith chooses. Because that is like self-deception, a white lie to the child. If telling a lie is a lie after all, then it will always be exposed one day. However, driven by more selfless love, the lie also needs firm belief to support it, so that it will become a reality one day.
Another movie about the background of war, "The Ninth Day", is a story about faith. The protagonist is a missionary in the Vatican. The Nazis released him from the camp and gave him only nine days of freedom on the condition that he persuade the cardinal, including himself, to convert his faith and belief.
For these nine days, he lived and felt silently. Bread, milk, the smiles of loved ones have become so precious; never before has freedom, family, and the good life been so powerfully shocking. However, in the end, he did not change his beliefs. On the ninth day of his release, he still returned to the concentration camp.
Between freedom and death, he chose the latter; he chose despair, but left his beliefs and beliefs intact to more people.
Blaming all disappointment on pain and poverty is a common feeling in modern life in times of peace. With pain and failure, we can moan and wait quietly, but don't indulge in painful aftertastes, because hope is given by ourselves. Even if hope is dashed, there is still life to go on; life goes on and there is hope. As the passage in "The Spiritual Life of Grandmother" said:
"Loneliness is not lonely, poverty is not poverty, weakness is not weakness, if you welcome them day and night with joy, life will radiate like flowers and herbs. The fragrance of it—making it richer, more radiant, more immortal—that is your success."
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