I want you to go wherever you want to go, it's your own decision, Michael, it's your own life. - "Weakness"
Released in 2009, Weakness is an American inspirational film in the traditional sense, but it also has the background of a true event adaptation, making it a "meaty" chicken soup movie.
The film is about Michael Oher, a tall, athletic African-American boy who grew up homeless and met the Taussi family after numerous escapes from their adoptive family.
Michael gradually changed from the previous closed and introverted, became cheerful, and his grades gradually improved, and finally with his talent in rugby, he won a rugby scholarship from the University of Mississippi.
In the film, the male protagonist Michael has experienced a total of three turning points in his life, and this article will talk about the "price" of love and kindness from these three turning points.
At the beginning of the film, Tony, the father of Michael's previous adoptive family, brings his son and Michael to the church school, hoping to get the two children into the church school through football coach Cotton.
Cotton was reluctant, but when he saw Michael playing, he exclaimed, "Oh my God! "
Later, when the principals met to discuss, in the face of the opposition of the teachers, Cotton still strongly recommended Michael, and said: "This has nothing to do with sports, this is the spirit of Christ, and it is the right thing to admit him." "
The film sees here, there are two kind people, one of them sent Michael to the door, one led Michael into the door, but is this really selfless? Is it really just out of the "spirit of Christ"?
Not really, or not all of them.
After Michael enrolled in school, he still had to go back to Tony's house to sleep at night, and one day, he heard a conversation between the Tonys:
Dee: "I'm tired of someone living in our house all the time, and I'm tired of him eating everything." " Tony: "Is it okay to show some Christian spirit in this matter?" " Dee: "Let others express the spirit of Christ, let others take on this responsibility." "
For a family that can only be said to be ordinary African-Americans, raising their own children alone is enough to make the Tonys feel difficult, not to mention raising a Michael who is one size bigger than the average person.
We can believe that the Tonys were absolutely kind and well-intentioned when they first adopted Michael, but they have always raised him, and the Tonys are also powerless, and if they do not send Michael away, the price will be to drag down their own family.
What about Coach Cotton?
Coach Cotton initially swore that this was the spirit of Christ, which made people look at him with admiration and think that he was a coach with a sense of justice and responsibility.
But in fact, there is something impure in his good intentions.
In the middle of the film, Coach Cotton reveals for the first time his true thoughts: he has a crush on Michael's physical talent and wants him to join his football team and make the team stronger and win the championship, thus playing a role in promoting his coaching career.
At the end of the film, after Michael signed a contract with the University of Mississippi, Coach Cotton also got a position at the University of Mississippi as he wished.
Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine in the United States, once wrote a book called "Free: The Future of Business", which mentioned the business model of free services, and one of the most important points was "cross-subsidy".
This means that if a company wants to make a profit through a free business model, it must have other aspects of income to subsidize the expenses of the free part.
Coach Cotton's kindness in the film is like this, "selflessly" helping Michael, fully promoting Michael's enrollment, and teaching him rugby, seemingly providing services for free, not asking for returns, but in the end Michael brings him much more value than that. This is subsidizing the current "free" with future "gains".
And Tony has no other way to get "subsidies", just blindly help Michael for free, the usual family conditions, in this case, the final result can only be "bankruptcy".
Michael's second turning point in the film occurs on a rainy night when he has left Tony's house and become homeless again.
On that rainy night he was preparing to go to the slightly warmer gymnasium for the night, when he happened to run into mr. and mrs. Taussi on the way.
The Taussis then took Michael home and gave him a couch to sleep on for the night. The next day, Michael wants to say goodbye, but is found by Mrs. Taussi and invites him back for Thanksgiving.
In this way, a tall and strong "Big Mike" gradually became a new member of the Towsy family.
In the ensuing plot, Mrs. Tausy takes Michael to buy new clothes, eat at a high-end restaurant, get a driver's license for him, buy him a car, ask him for a tutor, and even because Michael, Mrs. Taussi wants to run charity activities and fund charity projects to help more people like Michael.
All of this is based on a strong economic foundation. It is mentioned in the film that the Tawsys have 85 properties in the city, and they can have a lot of income without going to work.
According to Anderson's theory, this is actually a form of cross-subsidy, and the Taussis are willing to pay and afford to because they have a lot of income elsewhere.
This is the last twist Michael goes through in the film and a twist in this article. At this time, he was facing the dilemma of choosing a university, and too many universities looked at Michael's rugby talent, and Michael finally chose the University of Mississippi.
I say this is a twist because the selection process is not so smooth.
Remember the female investigator who appeared before the article? It was she who told Michael that Coach Cotton had been offered a position at the University of Mississippi.
Not only that, but in the first conversation, she also told Michael that the Taussi couple and the tutor Miss Sue were both graduates of the University of Mississippi, had donated to the University of Mississippi, and were so-called "supporters."
The female investigator believes that everything the Taussis did for Michael, all the food and clothing they gave Michael, was to use Michael to work for her alma mater, the University of Mississippi. Michael was devastated and went out to argue with Mrs. Taussi before "disappearing".
Maybe goodwill needs to be calculated at a "cost", but true love cannot be measured by a "price".
The Towsy family accepted Michael at first because of kindness, but as the time they spent together increased, they had already become a real family, and between the family, it should not be called "kindness", it should be called "love".
Mrs. Taussi doesn't just spend money on Michael, she also does things that Michael used to do only to her children, such as telling bedtime stories, encouraging him, teaching him how to behave, and even having Michael's place in family photos.
In addition, the youngest son of the Towsys has always called Michael "brother", and the eldest daughter of the Toussi couple has also sat down with Michael generously despite the strange eyes of others.
None of this can be explained by the word "cost."
This is love.
Perhaps having figured this out, Michael took the initiative to call Mrs. Taussi and called out the word "Mom" for the first time.
Mrs. Taussi then meets with Michael and has a conversation about family, about choices, which is definitely the essence of the whole movie.
At the end of the conversation, Mrs. Taussi said a passage that was the introduction to the beginning of my article: "I want you to go wherever you want to go, it's your own decision, Michael, this is your own life." "
So the second time Michael met with investigators, he gave his own answer: he finally chose the University of Mississippi, regardless of the plot of interests, and he was not used, just because it was where his family went to school.
We often use economic principles to analyze human behavior, which is useful in most cases, but there are times when people's behavior is unexpected. Love is such a special time.
We often calculate gains and losses in life, and we are eager to take everything into account, even the kindness we give every time. But when we face true love, we are still desperate.
Love, which is free, is the most expensive because it is priceless.
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