"The Journey of the King" is a movie released in 1993, with a Douban score of 8.1. The little boy in the film, Josh, was originally a little baseball player, because of a chance that made him fall in love with chess. Known as a gifted child, Josh, with the support of his parents, has won multiple tour competitions. When another talented little chess player appeared, Josh began to fear that he would lose his father's love because he could not win the championship, so he began to treat the game negatively. In the end, he won the championship because of the love and encouragement of his parents, the help of his friend Vinnie, and the guidance of his teacher Bruce.
In real life, Josh Witzkin is a genius prodigy, as said in the movie, began to play chess at the age of 6, won the national chess championship eight times as a teenager, and won the title of chess master at the age of 13, this film only tells the story of his childhood, there are several characters in this period who have the greatest influence on him, and there are three parts that impress me the most:
Mom and Dad's encouragement, support and understanding of Josh
Josh's mindset about winning and losing on the way to becoming a king
The spark collision of the teaching methods of the teacher Bruce and the little bastard Vennie
<h1 class="ql-long-14316844" >01.Compared with the parents of other children in the arena, Josh's parents respect their children more, know how to respect their children's interests and understand their children's needs. </h1>
<h2 class="ql-long-14316844" > (1) respect Josh's interests. </h2>
As introduced at the beginning, Josh was originally a baseball-loving boy, and no one knew that Josh could play chess. Mom discovered Josh's talent for chess because when she and Josh passed through the park for the second time, because of Josh's request, Mom paid $5 to the old man in the park who called himself "defeated Tal" and explained to him that her son wanted to play chess with him.
Then Mom told Dad that Josh could play chess, and Dad wasn't sluggish, so he went home and found out that chess wanted to play with Josh to find out if Josh could really play chess. After Josh wins his father, his father takes Josh to the chess club and wants to find him a teacher and start his path to becoming a king.
Suppose mom ignores Josh's request to play chess in the park, then they won't discover Josh's talent. When he learned that Josh loved chess, his father immediately helped Josh find a suitable teacher. Josh didn't ignore Josh's love of chess because he was training in baseball, nor did he let Josh give up baseball because he was learning chess. This is a rare thing, mom and dad are good at discovering their children's strengths and helping him develop.
<h2 class="ql-long-14316844" > (2) Respect Josh's playful, kind nature. </h2>
When Dad first invited Josh to play chess with him, Josh seemed reluctant at first, so he asked Dad, "Why?" Dad replied, "For fun." This made Josh easily agree to play chess.
Later, because Josh repeatedly won the chess game, his father thought that the chess courses in private schools would allow Josh to play his strengths better. But josh's concern for the new school was: "What about playgrounds?" The father who did not understand could only answer perfunctorily.
It can be seen that although Josh is a small chess king, he is also an innocent child, and it is one of his natures to love to play. Just as Josh fell in love with chess at the beginning because it was fun, the subsequent games did not erase his playful nature.
In the film, the mother mentions Josh's discussion twice, once when Josh proposes to let the homeless Vinnie come to the house to sleep on his top bunk, and the mother does not strongly object to it but tells Josh that he has the most beautiful thing in the world - kindness.
The second time, when the mother disagreed with the teacher Bruce and Dad's too strict way of teaching, she told the father that Josh was not afraid of losing or being weak, he was just afraid of losing his father's love, and that was because Josh was a kind child. Moreover, Mom said that she firmly disagreed with anyone changing Josh's kind nature.
As Mom said, kindness is another nature of Josh. Mom has always been protecting Josh's kindness and not letting him fall into a complicated and difficult world too early, and it is precisely because of Mom's firm attitude that Dad calms down and no longer insists that Josh do what the teacher Bruce asks to do, and take Josh back to his lost love of chess.
<h2 class="ql-long-14316844" > (3) respect Josh's wishes. </h2>
Bruce, the teacher, pointed out to his parents that josh would stop playing chess in the park, believing that what josh had learned there was only tactics and no strategy, which would not only help him but also make him lose the game. Mom thinks that playing chess in the park is Josh's love, his life, and should not be stopped.
It seems to me that Mom knows Josh's thoughts very well, and without any harm, Mom allows Josh to do what he wants to do as she pleases, and she doesn't want Josh to be unhappy.
Loving children is an instinct, and respecting children is a kind of upbringing. ——The famous philosopher Zhou Guoping
In real life, to love children, we must first understand children, and to understand children is to see and respect the needs of children. As a parent, only by understanding the characteristics and ideas of children can we give corresponding education and guidance, and can we truly help children become unique themselves.
<h1 class="ql-long-14316844" >02.Compared with children, parents are more likely to fall into the dilemma of winning and losing, and forgetting the child's original intention makes it easy for children to lose themselves</h1>
<h2 class="ql-long-14316844" > (1) Dad's feelings affected Jonson's play. </h2>
When Dad invited Jon to play chess, Jonson seemed reluctant and later promised Dad with mom's encouragement, but Josh soon lost to dad. At this time, it was the mother who saw that Qiao Sen had deliberately lost the game, because she was afraid that her father would be angry.
Later, Jonathan's appearance made Jonathan begin to lose confidence, he was afraid that he would lose to Jonathan, afraid that he would not be able to win the championship and disappoint his father, so he deliberately lost to an opponent who was far inferior to himself in a group game, and his father was very angry and blamed Jossen.
Qiao Sen cared about his father's feelings, whether it was playing chess with his father or participating in a game, he did not want to make his father unhappy. Therefore, Dad's early reaction made Josh pay more attention to the win or loss of the game, and Jonathan's appearance made him panic, forgetting that his original intention was to enjoy playing chess.
<h2 class= "ql-long-14316844" > (2) Jossen almost lost himself in the glory of victory. </h2>
Since Jonson won one game, he has officially started playing one game after another and has a good record. But at the same time, Josh's school teachers believe that Josh has abandoned his studies because of chess, and that he is somewhat out of place in his dealings with his peers. But Dad insisted that Josson was a genius and that playing was something he had to do, so he planned to transfer to Josh. This put Josh in a difficult situation, not knowing what to do.
Josh has been staring at the chessboard eager to win the championship, but gradually drifting away from the life track that he should have entered at his age - going to school, meeting friends, playing. Children actually need appropriate competition, but they can't have the psychology of insisting on winning, which will make him immersed in the joy of victory and unable to extricate himself, so that he is afraid of failure, and more afraid that what he values will disappear after failure.
<h2 class="ql-long-14316844" > (3) After experiencing a low ebb, Josh looked down on winning and losing and surpassed himself. </h2>
After Mom and Dad quarrel over whether Josh should train the way his teacher Bruce did, Josh cheered himself up, cleaned up his room and began to study the chess game on his own. So his father, who wanted to persuade Josh to give up chess, took Josh to the park to play chess with Vinnie again, so that Josh could regain happiness and confidence.
Finally in the national finals and Jonathan's final match, before the end of the game, Josh has seen through himself as the winner, but he still wants to make peace with his opponent, but the opponent Jonathan does not agree, the ending is as Josh expected, he won the championship.
When Josh returns to the park to play against Vinnie, it is also the time when he rediscovers his original pure love of chess, which is not only his own thinking, but also inseparable from the support and encouragement of his parents.
Sometimes when parents cultivate their children's strengths, the first thing is that the child is interested in that one thing, so that he can continue to learn. And when children begin to achieve achievements in a certain aspect, sometimes adults fall into the dilemma of winning or losing, which affects the child's original intention - because of love, so insist.
<h1 class="ql-long-14316844" >03.On the road to growth, mentors and good friends are indispensable. </h1>
Coach Bruce and friend Vinnie's teaching and influence on Josh seem to be incompatible, but in fact, they have their own springs and falls, and for Josh, both of them have something worth learning.
Bruce is a respected chess teacher, and his systematic teaching method is to let Josh learn how to take one step in the game and predict ten steps, which makes Josh, who likes to play and yearns for freedom, increasingly boring. Bruce's original intention was to let Josh develop in the direction of world chess champion Bobby Fairshall, and to teach Josh to learn from Bobby Fairsha to despise opponents, but Josh repeatedly showed Bruce that he was not Bobby Fairsha, but simply wanted to get the chess master certificate.
Josh is still afraid of Jonas before the final battle, but bruce's appearance gives him confidence, saying that Josh is already a chess master in his mind, affirming Josh's efforts and achievements, giving Josh the courage to fight the final battle, and promising to accompany him all the time.
Bruce spent his life pursuing a life like Bobby Filscher, and he initially agreed to teach Josh chess, also because Josh had Filscher in him. But in the end, influenced by Josh's kindness and his dad's intentions, he knew that Josh wasn't exactly Bobby Filscher. In the film, it can be seen that he loves Josh, a little apprentice, but he takes wins and losses too seriously, and inadvertently treats Josh harshly beyond the scope he can bear.
Josh and Vinnie's encounter begins when Josh picks up a chess piece in the park, and Vinnie wants to swap baseball with him, but Josh refuses. Later, because Josh often went to the park to play chess, he became good friends with Vinnie. It was Vinnie who comforted Josh when he was overwhelmed, and Vinnie who reinvigorated him when Josh was in trouble. Josh also invited Vinnie to accompany him to the national finals, which shows that Josh attaches great importance to Vinnie's friend.
Vinnie is a small in the park who makes a living by gambling chess. But since meeting the kind Josh, because of the same love of chess that makes the two people good friends, the chess tactics he taught Josh are the opposite of what Bruce taught, and they are also the tactics that Bruce resists. But in the final battle, Josh defeated Jonas by combining the tactics and strategies taught him by Vinnie and Bruce to become the championship.
In real life, various learning styles have their advantages, and we can't blindly stick to one way of learning. All we have to do is for children to find a learning style that suits them, so that they can think about how to extract the advantages and combine them into their own learning methods.
Conclusion: Although there are many technical terms about chess that we do not know, but the respect and encouragement of Josh's parents to Josh, Bruce's teaching to Josh, and Vinnie's help to Josh are worth learning.
I hope that every child can have the company of parents, teachers and friends on the road to growth, and eventually become a better self.