"Miracle Boy" is full of chicken soup, touching, warm, healing, after watching the movie as if the whole world has become beautiful; at the same time, "Miracle Boy" is also very routine, there are many traces of deliberate design, it may not be very good for professional film critics, but for ordinary audiences, it is definitely tear gas, making people cry from the beginning to the end.
The male protagonist, Auggie, is born with a deformed face and is therefore discriminated against.
With the help of himself, his family, and his classmates, Auggie gradually came out of the haze and lived the life of an ordinary person, and brought joy to everyone.
There are two kinds of prejudices in the film, the first is that auge denies everything about him because of his appearance; the second is self-centered, taking what he sees as the truth and ignoring what he does not see.
Both of these biases are essentially the same, both see only the surface of things, and do not look at the problem comprehensively.
The first kind of prejudice is the most intuitive and the easiest to find.
"It is not right to judge people by their appearance" is a truth that everyone knows, but everyone understands the truth, but it is difficult to really do it.
Although many adults treat Auggie well, most children are not good at hiding their thoughts and thus cast unfriendly glances at Auggie.
Time is the best medicine, many classmates in the long contact found Augie is a kind, friendly little boy, so they reconciled with him, even the most uncultured Julian apologized to the principal.
In the face of discrimination, Auggie usually bears his own responsibility and loses his temper at most, but he has never responded to violence with violence, never insulted the other party in turn, and never relied on hurting others to vent his bitterness.
He let go of his hatred and used the great love in his heart to impress his classmates. He suffered unfair treatment, but he passed on his kindness, love, and friendliness to everyone, which is why he was awarded in the end.
After all, not only to bear the hurt, but also to show tenderness, which is too rare for a little boy.
Facial deformities are just one feature that can be replaced by many things, such as disease, skin color, height, obesity, poverty, unemployment, sexual orientation, physical disability, mental disability, gender reassignment surgery, social underclass, and so on.
No one is perfect, everyone has more or less external flaws, and we are likely to be one of the above vulnerable groups. And many times, we are not only vulnerable, but also bystanders.
For bystanders, letting go of prejudices and discovering the good side of the other person can make the world a better place.
Anger only leads to greater anger in the case of vulnerable people, and if you complain with virtue like Auggie, you may be treated with kindness. After all, if you want to get the respect of others, you must first learn to respect others.
As the line goes in the movie: If I had to choose between right and good, I would choose goodness.
Someone once said:
The most wasted thing in the world is to talk about experience to young people, it is better to talk about ten thousand sentences than to fall by yourself, tears teach you to be a person, regret helps you grow, and pain is the best teacher. The detour that life should take, in fact, is indispensable to a meter.
Just like The Second Episode of Black Mirror Season 4, parents who overprotect and dot on their children will only harm their children.
Auggie hated himself at first, and Dad's approach was to secretly hide his helmet, so that Auggie had to try to get along with people, so that he could grow faster and eventually reconcile with himself.
As a vulnerable group, we must learn to accept ourselves, face ourselves squarely, and face ourselves bravely.
Dad's approach made Auggie grow, and Mom's encouragement made Auggie confident.
It is not enough to encourage and only to be severe, but a combination of encouragement and severity will have a better effect.
The second kind of prejudice is to start from one's own point of view, thus generating one-sided cognition.
Now there are many main theme movies, usually it is easy to make people feel too fake, because the protagonist's perspective is often one-sided, there are visual blind spots, "Miracle Boy" avoids this problem, using similar to "Heartbeat" from multiple angles to unfold, through different perspectives to present the psychological activities of different characters, so that the plot, character portrayal are more comprehensive and full.
Jack, for example, is nice to Auggie at the beginning of the movie, but then we find out that it was the headmaster and his mother who told him to do it.
For example, Via finds that her good girlfriend Miranda has become cold to her and mistakenly thinks that she does not like herself; in fact, Miranda pretends to be Via at summer camp, so she feels embarrassed and guilty.
This unexpected reversal, the joy of willow and dark flowers, takes the film to a higher level.
In real life, we often make such mistakes, because of preconceptions and misunderstandings.
For example, if he does not reply to his WeChat, he begins to wonder whether the other party does not like himself, or whether he has provoked the other party to be angry, in fact, the other party may just be that the mobile phone is out of power.
For example, when you brush the circle of friends, you see a classmate association, but no one notifies you, you begin to feel isolated, in fact, everyone may just think that other people have informed you.
A leaf obscured the eyes, and tarzan was not seen. Subjective, narrow, incomplete ideas, many times is not a good thing, it will bring negative energy, will affect our mood, thus affecting our lives, but also misunderstand, hurt others.
Via thinks that her girlfriend doesn't like her anymore, and Auggie thinks that Shamo is only good to her because she listened to the headmaster's instructions... These good points are misunderstandings, and the bad points are self-righteous, deeply believe in their own ideas, and finally hurt others and hurt themselves.
Obviously, Shamo is really friendly, but Auggie thinks that she is in a bad mood, which not only affects her mood, but also hurts Shamo's heart. Isn't that a bias?
Discrimination refers to the fact that people treat people with unequal eyes on a certain defect, defect, ability, and origin, so that they can be damaged to varying degrees.
The "limited cognition" mentioned above is also looking at others with the wrong eyes.
This is of the same nature as "disgusted by Auggie's appearance" and is essentially prejudice.
Discrimination against vulnerable groups, and peeping in the tube, taking subjective judgments as the truth are all biased, only seeing the surface, not seeing the other side.
After a long period of contact with Auggie, people discover that he actually has a good heart and make friends with him.
In the process of communicating with Summer, Auggie discovers that she is indeed not instructed by the headmaster; as time goes on, Via and Miranda finally freeze their previous suspicions and reconcile.
Judging people by appearance and subjective judgment are all prejudices, and the way to lift prejudice is to look at the problem from another angle, spend time and energy to feel the heart of the other party, and discover the advantages of the other party.
As Auggie said in his final speech: To truly understand a person, you must look at the other person carefully and comprehensively.
There is also a way, which is education.
Julian was the least polite, but he had also had a heated chat with Auggie about Star Wars, indicating that he was not a completely bad boy.
In the second half of the movie, Julian's mother is not inferior and aggressive, but Julian apologizes to the principal, so that we understand that Julian is not bad in nature, the problem is in the parents, it is his mother's education that makes him like this.
And Jack's mother, who taught Jack to treat Auggie well. Although he hurt Auggie halfway through, he eventually corrected his mistake.
Children are like pure white paper, and parents can add things to it at will, which can be goodwill or violence.
When parents discriminate against vulnerable groups, children will follow; parents respect vulnerable groups, and children will follow suit. Therefore, education is very important for people to be kind to the vulnerable.
In addition, the emotional communication in the film is very delicate, and the display of youth is also quite moving.
Grandmother said that too many people already loved Auggie, so she chose to love Via the most, warm and touching.
The love between the black boy Justin and Via is also sweet, and there is a feeling of excitement.
Justin is handsome and polite, mingling with Auggie the first time he meets him, and doesn't blame Via for lying.
He was romantic, and the routine of "practicing the kiss scene on page 110 of the script" was simply sweet to the teeth.
He has a good heart and has always supported And encouraged Via, cheering her on when she is lost.
The person who truly loves you will never only accept your happy side, but will be able to bring you happiness.
In addition to the excellent script, the performance of each actor is also remarkable.
Izabela Vidović, who plays Via, and Danielle Rose Russell, who plays her girlfriend, are so beautiful that they were born in 2001 and 1999 respectively, and look forward to more works in the future.
Julia Roberts also interpreted her mother's maternal love just right.
In 2015, Jacob shocked four people when he appeared in "The Room", and this time he brought excellent performances, which will become a great instrument in the future.
Finally, may all people be treated tenderly by the world.
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