Cherish life

Hollie 2022-11-15 19:39:21

In the past 50 years, countries around the world have provided aid to Africa as much as two trillion U.S. dollars. However, some African countries are even poorer than 30 years ago. Could it be that aid has worsened the desperate environment? What is the correct way to rescue? The low-cost film "Love Life", which won the 82nd Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress, provides a new perspective for observing these issues.

The film poster cannot see the cherished five senses clearly. It seems to indicate the universality of cherishing the difficult life. The countless ethnic minorities struggling at the bottom of society are just as easy to be ignored as cherishing. Statistics show that the number of households dominated by single mothers in the United States has increased to 7.5 million since 1990. She became a treasure of single mothers when she was 16 years old. She was tall and illiterate. She almost gathered all the sufferings of African American girls, raped by her father, abused by her mother, and bullied by hooligans on the street.

Zhen Ai's mother ate her food all day long in front of the TV, like a big shark stranded on the sofa. As soon as the film opened, she cursed Zhen Ai for more than 3 minutes, magnificent and utterly violent, cursing Zhen Ai bloody. She stubbornly believes that cherishment seduced her man, leading to his imprisonment and her long-term sexual hunger; on the other hand, she had to rely on cherishment to get relief, and she had to create the illusion of family harmony in front of social workers. The talk show comedian Monique portrayed this tyrannical mother who is both a murderer and a victim into a three-pointer, and he deserves the best supporting actress Oscar.

Darwin published "The Origin of Species" in 1859, and the social Darwinism of "survival of the fittest" came into being. In order to alleviate social conflicts, after Roosevelt's New Deal proposed "freedom from want", President Johnson proposed a huge plan to "war on poverty" in the 1960s, and the welfare system began to be open to all Americans. Today, speaking for the poor and doing things for the poor is deeply rooted in the United States. Buffett, the world’s third richest man, protested that he paid less than his employees’ tax share. The government’s plan to abolish the inheritance tax in favor of the rich was not the poor, but 120 American tycoons such as Bill Gates.

Without the social security and welfare system, Cherish simply cannot support his two children. The biggest drawback of the welfare system is: welfare dependence, leading to welfare recipients lack of self-motivated and self-esteem, do not want to work, increase the tax burden of workers, forming a vicious circle. And the assistance of Western countries to Africa rarely benefits the poor. It is either sacked by the rich and powerful, or returned to the West to buy arms to start a civil war. Research data shows that the actual per capita income of Africans today is lower than that of the 1970s, and more than half of the African population (about 350 million) live on less than one U.S. dollar a day. Nine out of every 48 Africans in the sub-Saharan Desert are poorer than they were in 1960.

The United States reformed its welfare system in the 1990s, hoping to strike a balance between personal responsibility and work welfare, encouraging those who participate in work and receiving job skills training, and emphasized "enabling capabilities rather than giving benefits." The so-called "Teach people how to fish, it is better to teach people how to fish." Welfare cannot afford millionaires. Likewise, Africa will always be the poorest continent if we blindly rely on external aid and do not learn and innovate from cultural and institutional aspects.

In a special school for students with educational problems, Zhen Ai gradually learned to read and write under the careful guidance of Ms. Ryan, and realized that her past was a nightmare. As a homosexual, Ryan is totally different from the homosexuals in her mother's mouth. Ryan did not rape her or sell drugs, let alone call her "stupid" because she didn't learn anything in class. "Bitch", on the contrary, she did everything possible to let her taste the joy of learning.

The film does not deliberately render the cherished suffering to win the audience's cheap sympathy, but uses a natural and smooth lens to show the cherished dullness, kindness and wisdom after receiving education, full of human dignity. Because of studying hard, Cherish received the mayor’s reward. When receiving a gift, he began to learn to use humor to communicate with others: "Is there money in it?" This is for Cherish who tends to be violent and is either silent or angry. , It is a remarkable progress.

The unbearable past has not been spared Zhen Ai, she was diagnosed with AIDS. The road to happiness is still bumpy, but Zhen Ai has every reason to be proud of herself: passing the test of literacy level, you can go to ordinary high school and then college. Faced with her mother, she no longer feared: "Mom, I only really know a little about you until now. We were all stupid before." "The self-helpers, God helps them."


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  • Clareece 'Precious' Jones: [narrating] Sometimes l wish l was dead. l'll be okay, I guess, 'cause l'm looking up. l'm looking up for a piano to fall. Or a desk, couch, TV... Momma, maybe. Always something in my way.

  • Mary: Answer the fucking door! Goddamn it, see what you did?

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