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"The mountains and seas that you love are not even", for the sake of the loved ones, how far can you go? The couple from the United States told us with their actions that for the sake of their beloved son, they are willing to move mountains and reclaim the sea and travel the world. It's an adventurous journey to cure autism, where an American boy who can't communicate with anyone is associated with a Mongolian shaman in a distant country, harvesting a miracle on the steppe with the strong and tenacious love of his parents.
In public, if we see a child who is manic and crying, is not the first reaction to think that the child's parents are not well disciplined. But the truth, maybe not so... For a couple named Rupert and Christin in the United States, every time they take their son Rowan out, it is like an extreme challenge. In the amusement park, some of the amusement park staff often refuse to sell tickets to them, because Rowan's fierce crying makes people feel like a stubborn, wayward bear child. The couple is also often accused of mismanagement by those around them, but rupert and Christin are experiencing a fierce challenge at heart because their son, Rowan, is an autistic child with a nervous system that is different from ordinary people.
Rupert and Christin were originally a happy couple with a happy marriage. Rupert is a journalist and Christin is a psychology teacher at the university, but Heaven seems to have made a joke with them, and his son, Rowan, was diagnosed with autism not long after he was born. Rowan barely talks to his parents, often spends hours on the ground fiddling with interested toys, rejects other people outright, and sometimes loses his temper for hours, and his parents have no way to communicate with them or comfort him.
This is not a story about the tragedy of an autistic family, but a family's transnational crazy adventure. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Rong Eun. His birth should have been another piece of luck for this already perfect family, but everything was turned upside down after Jung Eun was diagnosed with autism. The couple tried almost all medical treatments, but they still did not know how to cure their child's disease. They can only face their son's cries of collapse and the crazy actions of the helpless. In the film, the few minutes of Rong En's illness will make the audience unable to stand his noise, and you can imagine how exhausted his parents should be to accompany him twenty-four hours a day.
By chance, Little Ron ran to a neighbor's house and played with an old horse—one of his few moments of calm. The sun sprinkles on the lawn, Rong En lies quietly on the horse's back, one person and one horse live in peace, perhaps, nature is a key to curing autism?
Dad, who had dealt with traditional medicine, had a new idea — to ask the shaman for help. There were horses and shamans, so he set his sights on Mongolia, half the world away from here, where humans first began riding horses, where there were steppes, horses, and magical old shamans.
This whim of her husband was opposed by her wife, who could not imagine the use of taking an autistic child to a distant foreign country and riding a horse full of grasslands to find a shaman. It is absolutely a crazy idea to turn to ancient witchcraft for help for diseases that modern medicine cannot solve. But in the end, the love for her son still made her compromise, so try again. It couldn't be worse anyway.
When the Mongolian guide Tuga learned of Rong'en's story, he found shamans from all over Mongolia for them, and they would hold an exorcism ceremony for Rong'en on the holy mountain to ward off his calamities. During this ceremony, his parents were asked to kneel to receive the shaman's whipping, accompanied by the shaman's drums, and Ron either cried or laughed as he watched what his parents had done for him.
The ritual seemed to take effect, as if something had really been expelled from his body, and Ron was no longer manic and crying, and even played with the shamans. The first time Jung-eun interacted with someone else like this, not only running to hug a little Mongolian boy, but even becoming friends with him afterwards, these changes made his parents ecstatic.
A few weeks later they returned to the United States. Did this Mongolian adventure have an effect? For Ron, his autism was not cured, but it was gratifying that he learned to ride a horse, learned to use the toilet, and most importantly began to accept the kindness of others. For their parents, their biggest gain was to learn how to communicate properly with Rong En and discover the unique charm he had. Love is a miracle, and they are thankful for everything that fate has given, including suffering.
Another point is our own beliefs. That's also the most important thing. I was really touched to see this pair of parents and children through all the difficulties, with strong faith and courage, which is truly strong and invincible. Is the disease terrible? Is nature scary? The answer is yes, they will make you seem powerless, but the power of your beliefs is also infinite, it allows you to do what you think you can't do, as long as you dare to believe, dare to practice.
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