Two days ago, I watched the movie "Our Story" made by Singapore to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and found that when Singapore was founded in 1965, it was still a small agricultural country, and it took more than 10 years to achieve industrialization and urbanization around 1977, which was simply a drastic change.
This is a series of 3 films. The first two films, represented by a large Number of Chinese villagers in Singapore, surrounded the family for three generations, including elderly parents, three adult children, grandchildren, and a Malay and Indian family with close relatives and friends, showing the simple environment and hard life in Singapore at that time, the conflict and reconciliation of ethnic groups, old and new concepts, and the changes in social governance.
The film chooses the perspective of the people at the bottom, and strives to show the real life scenes and the mentality of the characters, such as a large family eating, worshiping gods, quarreling, experiencing floods, being oppressed by the underworld, and even forced by poverty and superstition, helpless to give children to others, there are many sorrows and helplessness, but they always help each other, work together to overcome difficulties, usher in the light.
The heroine of the first two films is the eldest daughter of a Chinese family, who has lived all her life in the shackles of the concept of favoring sons over daughters, endured humiliation and burdens, and endured hardships and grievances, and the male protagonist is her brother, the eldest son of the family, who is the pearl and hope in the palm of her parents, but she is lazy and evil, vulgar and greedy, and sees profit and injustice. Such a stark contrast is truly breathtaking. Parents' excessive expectations and excessive spoiling of their children, no matter what social era background and family conditions, are not conducive to the growth of children. The eldest daughter, who is not spoiled, who does things early and helps her parents take care of her two younger brothers, always gets the help of relatives and friends and bravely faces setbacks again and again. People who don't have to win in life have to create by themselves.
Today, Singapore is a garden city and one of the developed world trade and financial centres. This film may also be a reminder to Singaporeans not to forget the hard work, solidarity and fraternity, and positive optimism of the people in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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