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"The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly"
Every human life has two paths, one is to walk with the heart, called dreams, and the other is to walk with your feet, called reality. The heart goes too slowly, reality will pale; the feet will go too slowly, and the dream will not fly high. The excitement of life is always not only that the heart walks beautifully, but also that the footsteps can be one with the heart.
"The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" is full of healing power and explains to us life's desire for itself.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the growth and rebellion of a child prodigy</h1>
Witt is an uncompromising prodigy who has displayed outstanding talents from an early age, especially in music.
At the age of six, Witt was able to play the most difficult piano pieces perfectly, and he also liked to read, with a strong curiosity and curiosity. Faced with a son with an IQ of 180, Witt's parents rejoiced in his amazing talent on the one hand, and felt a great responsibility on the other. They took pains to raise Werther, and the mother even quit her original job and took on the responsibility of educating her children wholeheartedly.
However, the young Werther did not fully understand the intentions of his parents, although the 6-year-old Werther did not dare to directly disobey his parents' wishes, but a seed of rebellion has been quietly buried in the depths of Werther's heart, and as he grows, this desire to break through the shackles and soar to the sky is getting stronger and stronger.
Werther's psychology can only be comforted when he is with his grandfather, who is different from his father, an inventor who works in a technology company, and Witt's grandfather is a carpenter full of life wisdom, but also casual and romantic, elf and eccentric carpenter.
The film begins with the scene of Werther and his grandfather making a boomerang together, who reveals his dream of becoming a pilot, and when they throw the good boomerang, the two expect to fly back to the same place according to the established trajectory, but they turn to break the glass halfway through. This kind of accident also seems to indicate that life often has a lot of possibilities that will not develop in the direction of the established design.
At first, Witt's parents were quite free and flexible about Werther's way of educating, but all this changed dramatically after Witt's parents discovered that he was different from ordinary people.
Werther's parents constantly put more pressure on Werther to learn: in order for Werther to receive a better education, his mother replaced his nanny and piano teacher one after another, completely disregarding Werther's personal feelings; the father decided from his own experience that there must be enough pressure to be truly successful. The parents only hoped that Witt could grow up quickly, and hoped that Werther would follow their plan and never ask Werther what he wanted to do.
Driven by the will of his parents, Witt, who has been in a state of high pressure, reached the age of 12.
Witte is not surprisingly good at cashing in: piano proficiency is getting better and better, and he jumps directly into high school.
But at this time, Werther became a reclusive teenager, he had no friends at school, he was always alone, he didn't speak much, once he opened his mouth, he would be snarky and mean, so as not to show mercy, and even the teachers at school couldn't stand him and refused to give him lessons.
For his parents' high-pressure education, Witt also showed increasing resistance, and he refused the guidance of the piano master specially arranged by his mother.
After becoming what his parents wanted, Witt gradually closed his heart and lived in his own world in pain and loneliness.
At this time, Werther is like his favorite bat, with a sensitive sense of hearing, he can feel all the subtle changes in the outside world, he always receives too much information, carries too much emotion, and when he can't stand the expectations given by the outside world and his parents one day, the seed of rebellion buried deep in the heart finally broke through.
On a dark night, Witt climbed onto the roof with his homemade wings on, and then jumped, eager to break through the shackles and soar into the sky, as if all his troubles had vanished...
Since then, the plot has taken a dramatic turn: Witt's earth-shattering leap looks unscathed, but all his talents have disappeared, and he has become a normal person, and he has disappeared!
At the same time, Witt's father fell into a career bottleneck, facing unemployment at any time, and even his always optimistic grandfather was in financial trouble.
Suddenly, Witt's family came to an unknown intersection, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
How will Witt, who has become an ordinary person, help his family get through this? Will he regain his talent? The extremely romantic and bizarre second half of the content surprised everyone, which also constituted the attractiveness and watchability of the film.
"The film is an avant-garde new 'declaration of love', full of the power of being inspired and healed by music. At the same time, it is also the desire of life for itself, and all of this comes from the purest, most vital, most complete and independent beautiful memories of childhood. ”
———— the director of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" Flanders-M. Miro
As director Frandy said, everything in the film stems from the purest and most vital memories of childhood, and the utopian happy ending will convey the power of inspiration and healing to more people.
Based on this, the happy ending of the film's talent recovery and help the family tide over the difficulties, and finally reconciling with his parents and himself, was naturally accepted by the audience.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the cultivation of children, rational guidance and emotional support are indispensable</h1>
There is a scene in the film where Witt visits the grand pianist Gina with his mother, Gina asks Werther to play a piece of music for her, but Witt in turn asks Gina to talk to him first, the two are deadlocked, Gina said: "When you want to play music, you can only become a great pianist if you have a calm rationality and a warm heart."
This sentence tells the story of Witt's upbringing and the way his parents were raised. To raise a child, especially a child with certain talents, it is necessary to have both rational guidance and emotional support.
In the film, parents play the role of rational guidance.
Witt's father was most concerned with rational questions such as what he would do in the future, and his father always warned Witt to plan his life and career.
Werther's mother represents another kind of rationality that is the driving force that constantly pushes Werther forward. On the surface, his mother cared for Witt and looked forward to it, and even gave up her job in order to nurture him. However, this motivation is not out of respect for Werther's own needs, but from her own expectations of Werther, and it is also that she hopes that Werther can become the person she wants to be!
Werther's parents never listened to Werther's own thoughts and emotional appeals, and always wanted Werther to do what they expected, so we always see Werther closing the door again and again in the film, and at the same time, Werther's heart.
Although Witt's parents bear the responsibility of nurturing him, in the process, the parents ignore Witt's emotional appeals, resulting in Werther even though he is a genius with an IQ higher than ordinary people, but in terms of EQ, he is still a child, or even less healthy than other children.
In addition to Werther, Werther's grandfather is the soul of the film. Grandfather represented a completely different attitude and education style from Werther's parents, and he represented a free and open education, which was the most important emotional support for Werther's growth.
The German early educator Schiller once proposed the theory of reconciling people's "rational impulses" and "emotional impulses" through "game impulses", that is, "aesthetic education": people have a game instinct, which can help people get satisfaction and harmony in both physical and mental aspects.
In the film, Werther's stressful and extremely regular life can only be relieved and rested when he works with his grandfather in carpentry and talks. We saw the two of them making boomerangs and wooden bat wings together; the two even sneaked up on a neighbor's wall to pick flowers for Witt's mother; and Witt's grandfather dreamed of becoming a pilot, so he was also fascinated by flight simulations.
In terms of personality, Witt's grandfather was an open-minded man of true temperament.
After The death of Witt's grandmother, who had been living on his own, Witt asked him, "Don't you feel lonely?" Grandfather smiled and replied, "When you are lonely, you write love letters, which used to be written to your grandmother, and now to the beautiful women you meet on the train, the sparkling lake, the skaters on TV, and the shade under the trees."
Through these activities and conversations, Witt's grandfather told Werther:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > thoughts brought about by the film</h1>
This film describes "life's desire for itself", and also shows us the education and expectations of parents for their children, which can be regarded as an educational film related to family affection and growth
Many of the clips and dialogues in the film are worth savoring, such as when Witt fell from the building, the doctor told Witt's mother that everything was healthy except for IQ, but the mother was still unwilling to accept her son's "invisible crowd", the doctor said: "I don't know what you have to be sad about, you are luckier than many parents, after all, your child is healthy and normal."
Their own children are "prodigies", which is a fortunate thing for many parents, but if they fall into the trap of vanity and show off, projecting their unattainable wishes onto their children, it will bring great pressure to their children.
Replacing the child's own interest with the wishes of parents is something that all parents should take as a warning.
In addition, when Witt returned to the campus as an "ordinary body", he did not know the teacher's question, but he said that he could check it, and then asked the teacher, did he necessarily know more than him?
The film seems to imply that Werther did not lose his IQ, but from another point of view, it is also a challenge to the teaching of modern teachers. With the development of science and technology, all kinds of common sense counseling has long been available everywhere, if the teacher is still stuck to the rules, think that they must know more than the students, not only can not reach the real respect of the students, but also more likely to stifle the imagination and creativity of students.
"Disciples don't have to be inferior to teachers", in today's era, teachers do not have to know more than students, the key is to know how to stimulate students' imagination, creativity, and enthusiasm.
"The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" tells us that in the bottom of everyone's heart, there is a desire for emotion and freedom, and in the utilitarian and quick-acting life, we will retain a pure land of our own for life, and we will become a complete and harmonious person.
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