We were all in the gutter, but there were still people looking up at the stars. - Wilde
The film I'm introducing to you today is Academy Award-winning "Weakness" starring Quinton Aaron and Sandra Bullock. The film is based on Michael Lewis's novel Weakness: The Course of the Game, which tells the story of the youth of American football star Michael Ohe. The superb acting skills of the lead actor convey a profound human truth, making this film more attractive.
The film's protagonist, Michael Oher, a black boy known as "BIG MIKE", has been living as an orphan, with a tall physique but zero koko scores. After meeting him by chance at her children's school, Mrs. Taussi decided to take him home and adopt him to become a rugby player. Under the warmth of the Taussi family, Michael gradually integrated, and with the help of the tutor Miss Sue and his younger brother Sean Jr., he successfully entered the University of MissIssippi and changed his life.
Michael had a plastic bag containing all his belongings—a change of clothes. His mother lived in a black area, he did not know his father, and from an early age he was run from family to family under the administration of the government. He was not intelligent, taciturn, did not communicate with people, and seemed doomed to a life of wandering. Such a child, in every corner of the United States, is ridiculed for having black skin and having nothing in his pockets. Obviously, this is not Michael's own life, this is the life of a group of children.
Anne said she had seen a news in the newspaper that a black boy had ended up dying in a gang fight, and before that, he had shown outstanding athletic talent, and what would have happened to his life if he hadn't dropped out of school because of his grades?
What really moved me about the film was what made Michael powerful. His opponents are strong for the sake of his father's show-off, so that he can laugh at others. And Michael is strong because of protection, because Anne drags every player to him, they are me, they are Sean, they are every member of the family, you have to protect them, just like protecting us. Every time Michael competes, he fights for his family, like a warrior putting on his armor, always for his homeland.
Michael is a boy who can surprise people, and when the team is in crisis, he bursts out with amazing ability to protect his coach, his teammates. You know, before that, his coach described him as "looking like a tiger, actually a hello kitty." He can tolerate any insult or provocation from his opponent, but he does not allow the referee to bully his coach. This sensitive and vulnerable boy is actually strong and brave. As the film says, "He's like an onion, you can only peel one layer at a time." ”
Anne's appearance was a light in Michael's life. Until then, he had lived in the dark until the mother brought him back to her home late one night, raised him like her own biological son, took him to the mall to shop, at a restaurant, and hired him a governess.
Anne really went into the boy's heart, so that every time Michael could not grasp the coach's meaning, he could teach him in his own way, telling him that the players he wanted to protect were his family, and he wanted to protect them as if he were protecting his family.
Anne's love for Michael is inclusive. When Michael injured Little Shawn, she did not lose her mind and blamed Michael to find out that Michael actually saved Little Sean. When Michael mistakenly believed that he was adopted because they wanted to raise a child to his alma mater, Anne was still not angry, and even ran to the black area to find him and reprimand others for him. All Anne did was a mother's love for her child, not asking for anything in return, willing to give.
Without her, the world would have had one more wanderer and one less legendary rugby player.
Michael's biological mother was a poor woman who lived in a black neighborhood. She didn't even have any guarantees for her own life, let alone raising children. She could not care about her own life, but when she heard the news of her child from another woman,she burst into tears. She was deeply in love with the boy who "would run over to see me and take care of me wherever I was." "It was a responsibility she couldn't carry, it was her guilt. But all she could do was be quiet and not disturbed.
It reminds me of the mother in the American drama "Good Doctor". In the face of Sean Murphy's autism, she was strong for more than a decade, but had to abandon her son because of her cancer, and even in the final parting moment, she firmly let him go. When he turned around, tears fell like rain.
Every seemingly "hard" mother actually has the softest heart. They never show weakness and pretend to be indifferent, just to reduce the harm to their children when they are powerless.
Anthony Mmesoma Madu from Nigeria completely changed his life with a scene where he danced ballet in the rain. The little boy was a student at the Pure Public Welfare Dance Academy, and his teacher was just a ballet lover and had no professional dance training. Anthony Mmesoma Madu was the only boy out of twelve. His appearance shattered the fact that ballet was danced by girls and shattered the impression that there was no ballet in poor areas.
No one knows how much the boy has been trained in the dirt of Nigeria, in the rain. But what we can see is that he can dance like a swan. Anthony Mmesoma Madu has now received an invitation from a ballet school to start his professional ballet career.
There are always people in this world who grow secretly, waiting for the opportunity, and the light is full of light.
Whether it's Michael or Anthony Mmesoma Madu, they all have shiny qualities, and these beautiful things have been hidden by the background environment that cannot be rejected. Most people see their "weaknesses", which are defined in a conventional light. However, there will always be people who will discover their advantages and help them become dazzling beings. They have been silent, but they will never be dusted.
At the 2009 NFL draft, Michael Oher was selected by the Baltimore Ravens with the 23rd pick in the first round.