Today I would like to recommend a Canadian movie "Mo Di", also known as "Painted Heart World".
It is a film based on a true story, depicting Maud Lewis, a folk artist in Canada with severe arthritis, who pursues art and lives an inspiring life with her husband and selling works for a living.
Before telling the story, I can't help but share Mo Di's paintings with everyone.
After reading it, I don't know how everyone feels?
Does it feel so beautiful, so simple, so calm, so gentle?
I want to live in her paintings!
So what kind of author should you imagine that can draw such a picture?
Ding, the author is here!
This is the real Maud Lewis.
If you look closely at this picture, you will find that her hand deformity is actually very serious, and you are even worried about whether she can hold the paintbrush? However, it was such a pair of hands that painted one picture after another, the beautiful world and time she imagined.
This movie tells her story.
This is the male and female protagonists in our movies!
In fact, this is a very simple story:
The heroine, Mo Di, suffers from congenital rheumatoid arthritis, which makes her fingers stiff, incapacitated, and looks rickety and ugly, and the adults and children in the town regard her as a monster. Her parents died and she had to send someone to live under the fence to live in her aunt's house, but her mean aunt picked and chose her every day, and Mo Di lived a very hard life, desperately wanting to escape from such a life.
The male protagonist, Louis, is a stray fishmonger who has lived in isolation for many years, middle-aged, single, orphaned, grumpy, and rude.
It just so happens that the fishmonger wants to find a maid to help clean up the house, and Mo Di wants to get rid of her aunt's self-sufficiency, and the two are marginalized people in society, bumping into each other and starting a common life: Mo Di cleans, cooks, takes care of pets, helps Louis keep accounts, accompanies him to deliver fish... In her spare time, she kept painting, she painted all the places where the house and windows could be painted, and she liked the colors, plants, animals...
Slowly, their home became like this:
Later, a lady who was looking for Louis to buy fish found and liked Mo Di's paintings and was willing to pay for them. Gradually, Mo Di became famous, and many people came to the cottage to buy paintings, and even nixon, then vice president of the United States, wrote a letter asking for Mo Di's paintings.
Later, Mo Di's fame grew, which made Louis begin to feel inferior, and the two had a quarrel, but soon Louis took his wife back from home. Louis sincerely opens her heart and tells Mo Di that he does not deserve her, but Mo Di says that Louis gave her everything she wanted, and the two untied the happy knot and finally reconciled.
In the end, the two returned to their small home and lived a quiet, indisputable life. Mo Di did not stop the brush in her hand until she died of lung disease and passed away peacefully in the company of Louis.
The whole movie is very soothing, the director tells the story lightly, and the audience quietly watches the story.
The protagonist Mo Di's persistent love for art, as well as the optimism and vitality that have softened the years, unconsciously reach the hearts of people, and the moisturizer is silent.
"Floating everything, I framed it into the painting", this is the proverb in the film. Born with a disability and ill-fated Mo Di, with his paintbrush, he fictionalized an ideal world. In her paintings, you see only pure beauty, as if she were the beauty itself, the world kissing her with pain, and she singing in return.
In the movie, a friend asked Mo Di: Where did she come from when she lived in this small house all her life? Her answer was that as long as there was a window, just pick up the paintbrush, she forgot about other things.
She just picked up the paintbrush with her almost deformed hand and couldn't put it down anymore.
After her paintings became famous, she also sold her paintings to earn living expenses, but she and her husband still lived in the small house of a few square meters. There is no higher demand, having your own lover, having a home, being able to paint, enough.
Compared with the people who still feel extremely empty in the world of flowers and flowers every day, it can be seen that love is enough to resist the long years.
Let's talk about her love affair with Louis.
Two marginalized people in society are in love with each other, and there is no sweet talk:
You fish and chop wood, and I'll cook soup for you at home;
If you like to paint, I will make money to buy you paint;
The paintings I draw also bear your name, for I am yours;
I can complain that you don't work just by painting, and others laugh at your paintings, then I will fight with him;
If you are disturbed by mosquitoes while you paint, then I will install a screen window for you.
They cling to each other, no matter how sinister the world may be, they still get love from each other.
There is also a touching point in the film: Louis takes Mo Di to see the residence of her daughter, who was secretly sold in her early years and is now grown. Louis said to Mo Di, "Look, how perfect she is", which gave Mo Di, who was watching from a distance, a comfort to her heart.
Love what you love, even if it has nothing to do with me.
In short, it is a very warm and positive movie, pick a leisurely afternoon, and your husband nestled in the sofa to watch it.
Perhaps it is worth reflecting on our own lives:
Arriving at happiness seems simple, and we all seem to be a little overexerted;
As long as the sunshine lives in the heart, even the barren life can blossom;
If the hand disability can't stop Mo Di from painting, then what power can stop your love?