The recent news makes it hard not to be depressed.
Whether it is an epidemic or a natural or man-made disaster, it is far beyond our control.
Today, I recommend a movie that heals the mood "Give Me Wings", with a Douban score of 8.7 points. ▼
Adapted from the "Reconstructed Migratory Bird Migration Route Plan" by French meteorologist Christian Moullec, it tells the coming-of-age story of an ordinary boy, about growing up, but also about love and courage.
Healing, warm, tearful. ▼
From Internet addicted teenagers to "bird mothers"
The protagonist of the story is named Toma, a 14-year-old boy in adolescence.
Probably because of his parents' divorce, Toma is not cheerful, he likes to immerse himself in the world of video games, and eating a meal at home requires his mother to ask for three or four times, no different from the children of this age who meet around him.
This summer, Mom decided to send Thomas to Dad's side for a while.
Toma's first reaction was to refuse and just want to stay home by himself.
Dad is an ornithologist who lives in a habitat suitable for birds, which is remote, clean and close to nature.
You can see the beautiful sunset, you can listen to the birds and the sounds of the clams to sleep, for those of us who have lived in the city for a long time, just thinking about it is heartwarming, what a good opportunity to recuperate
But for Toma, there is nothing more boring than nature. ▼
Remote = No Wi-Fi = No internet or games.
Bird's Paradise = The Hell of An Internet Addict. ▼
After staying for just two days, Toma always complained:
"What a broken place."
"I don't want to live here when I die."
"Mosquitoes during the day, rats at night, and a hamster running around my room all night."
The exquisite children in the city come to the countryside, how uncomfortable, how impatient.
However, this impatience began to change with the breaking of the shell of the first bird's egg. ▼
Toma witnessed a crack in a bird's egg in the incubator.
He hurried to find his father, thinking that there was something wrong with the eggs, and it turned out that their incubation period had come to an end.
These bird eggs are going to make cute little goose birds!
Toma, who had been scorning these studies, like his father, put on a strange cotton and linen robe.
The robe was designed to imitate geese, as newborn geese remembered the first sight of life and recognized them as their parents, a kind of "inscription". ▼
Thomas and Dad began "delivering" the little goose.
They peck open their shells, drill out their little heads, and make crisp cries.
Thomas took the little geese, and the new life was in the palm of his hand, so small, so fragile, so alive.
Unconsciously, the high wall called self-protection that had originally been erected in Toma's heart melted away a little.
"From today on you will be its mother," Dad said to Thomas. ▼
In fact, adolescent children are not unable to communicate, they need to be trusted and need to prove their worth.
Raising these baby geese is the beginning of Toma's trust.
Thomas learned to feed them, to take a walk with a rattling horn and to lead the little geese for a walk.
As long as Toma walks in front, the baby geese will follow behind, witty and cute.
Of all the baby geese, Toma has a crush on a small goose bird because it is gray and the other geese are yellow.
Toma named it "Acre".
Aka is another species mixed in with this group of geese, its size is smaller and weaker, and Toma is like Aka's "mother-in-law" who takes extra care of it, always kissing and hugging.
Sometimes his father witnessed his love for Aka, and a sense of shame struck, after all, Toma was reluctant at the beginning of ten thousand, and he didn't expect True Fragrance to come so quickly.
Thomas also learned about Dad's Big Bird Migration Plan.
Dad invented a whole new migration route that was safer, faster, and had a higher survival rate.
Raising these endangered geese is to lead them to fly along new routes, so repeatedly, that they can even save this endangered species.
But can geese really follow these humans as mother birds? Still unknown.
Thomas volunteered to learn to fly a small plane with his father, in fact, at his age, he has not yet reached the age of learning to fly an airplane, but Toma's father is not a "well-behaved" person.
"As long as you help me take care of the geese, I'll teach you two or three flying skills, or four or five."
Thomas sometimes takes geese for a ride on the lake, and as long as he honks his horn and imitates the goose "quacking", the baby goose seems to follow him, as if following the mother bird.
For the first time, Thomas felt needed and depended on by other beings.
After watching the movie, some viewers said: "How to correct children who are addicted to the Internet?" That's about taking him to do interesting and meaningful things. ”
You'll be surprised to learn that toma, who originally complained about East and West, is gone, no longer talking about Wi-Fi and video games, and won't refuse to open up to his family.
Little by little, he became a reliable little man in taking on the responsibility of nurturing a small life.
Lead flocks of birds and fly into the unknown
Halfway through the summer, Thomas's mother came to visit him.
Thomas asked his mother to put on the same cotton and linen robe and excitedly explained to her the knowledge of bird migration and Dad's big plan.
After not seeing her for dozens of days, is this little boy who is tanned, talking about raising birds with his eyes shining, and even giving up his bed for birds, her son? ▼
Nature is really the strongest net center.
Thomas also offered to let him go to Norway with his father to implement the plan.
As the "mother" of the little goose, how could he miss this historic moment? ▼
Mom was surprised by Toma's change and agreed to follow Dad to Norway, specifically telling Dad not to let Thomas fly the plane alone.
But in Norway, setbacks ensued.
First of all, these geese do not fly with Dad's plane, even if Dad holds up the horn to "quack" to pull, the geese still turn around and swim away;
Then there is the bird avian influenza test that does not pass the standards of the Norwegian local authorities, because they have just been vaccinated and will have such a natural reaction in the body after taking effect;
Most deadly, Dad's plan implementation documents were investigated and approved by himself, and the government did not allow him to do so.
In short, these geese will be taken away by the authorities.
As the managers prepared to catch them, Toma ran to the small plane and called out to the geese as they launched.
Something miraculous happened, and the geese who didn't fly with Daddy anyway actually flew with Toma!
It turned out that it was not that they would not follow the plane, but that they identified Toma.
They have formed a deep "imprint" with the children who take care of them day and night.
Dad and the managers were stunned, while Toma led the geese to the unknown alone. ▼
Fly with geese
This is the first time Toma has flown a small aircraft alone.
At first, it was only in a hurry, in order not to let the geese get caught, but really away from the danger of being caught, Toma realized that a new challenge was coming.
The dangers of flight, the strangeness of the route, the unpredictability of the climate... And he was just a 14-year-old boy who had never flown alone, and if he accidentally fell from a height.
Toma could only console himself that it was okay, it was okay.
Without the help of parents, all problems need to be solved by themselves.
He struggled to keep himself calm, recalling the driving skills his father had taught him while checking the status of his flight:
Thomas made a judgment after analyzing the current situation: since everything is normal, the migration plan should be carried out by himself instead of his father.
Toma hung up the call from his father, switched the phone to airplane mode in order to save power, and began to "fly with geese" alone. ▼
This flight with geese is like a coming-of-age ceremony for Toma.
He was leading the geese towards migration, and it was also the process of his first true independence.
No one would have thought of how capable the boy who at first had a delicate little oil head and didn't look like anything.
Toma sometimes flies with geese and crosses mountains and rivers. (By the way, the visuals of this movie are truly stunning, and the natural landscapes are so beautiful that they make people cry.) ）
When he was tired of flying, he settled down by the river, and even had to make a fire by himself. ▼
Good thing there was a sleeping bag in the backpack and it was possible to sleep in the wild.
Sometimes when encountering wild beasts on the mountain, Toma can only roar with courage to scare off the beasts.
In the most thrilling of all, the Toma flight encountered a storm.
He flew out of the rainstorm layer with all his might, and the flock of geese behind him also broke free from the danger one by one, and even the skinny Aka, who he was most worried about, flew out with full force.
When the plane ran out of gas, Toma flew to a port where there were people to communicate with passers-by in unskilled English and ask for some gasoline.
Passers-by asked him, "What's your name?" ”
He replied, "My name is Nils." ”
Nils is the name of the protagonist in the fairy tale "Nils's Goose Ride".
In this story, Nils rides a goose through all kinds of dangers, fights bad people, and eventually changes from a naughty boy to a righteous and brave teenager.
Isn't this a true portrayal of Toma?
Toma was photographed flying with geese on social media along the way, and it suddenly became popular.
In the newspapers and on television, it was all reports of Toma, and the crazy parents finally learned of his whereabouts from the reports. ▼
Thomas was still flying with geese, but suddenly there were many more people to accompany him.
On the ground where he passed, someone drew a huge "Toma Awesome" inscription.
Everywhere he went, locals greeted him, spontaneously brought him food, and helped him fill up the plane. ▼
People were shocked by a 14-year-old's determination to protect endangered species, and even more shocked by his bravery.
"The kid with the bird, he really did it." ▼
The media, which were originally dismissive of environmental reporting, said that "the story of protecting wetlands is too boring for no readers to want to see."
And now the place where Toma landed, a large number of "long guns and short guns" were gathered.
Later, Toma's flight ended because he was physically weak, and returned to human society, where Toma's skin was tanned a lot and frostbitten.
His parents, who were worried about him, realized the great growth of their son, and he could already be alone.
They didn't blame Toma for flying alone, and mom, who had originally ordered Toma to fly, even encouraged his next flight.
To be trusted, to be given a sense of responsibility, and the next step is to let him fly boldly.
Mom and Dad chose to follow Toma on the ground in a car, both to ensure his safety and not to restrict his freedom.
Because that's what he wants to do, what reason is there not to let him do it?
It's a story of geese migrating and a boy growing up.
From the breaking of the shell, to the first time into the water, the first flight, to the successful migration of the Arctic Circle, it is not the process of Toma's independence.
Looking at that restless and rebellious little boy who learned to love the world and love all life, what could be more gratifying than that?
We can't stop a young shoot from growing toward the sun;
Nor can we ask how a child grows.
Love, responsibility, freedom, bravery.
The secret of these eternal and unchanging good qualities is not in indoctrination, but in trust, in companionship, and in letting go at the right time.
The sky is high and the water is long, and this beautiful world is the source of all beauty.