The protagonist of the movie, Mikke
Author: Ade
Images: Web and personal screenshots
After watching a high-scoring Italian movie "Hearing Heaven" last night, while being touched by warmth, I suddenly began to think: Who is restricting our freedom to find ourselves and express ourselves?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Mico Mancassi, a blind sound engineer at the Italian National Treasure</h1>
"Hearing Heaven" is based on the story of director Cristiano Burton based on the story of his long-time work partner, the famous Italian blind sound engineer Mico Mancassi. During a small talk, the director learns that Miko grew up in an isolated school because in Italy in the 1970s, blind children could not go to school with normal children. Losing sight is not only physical pain for a child, but also suffering injustice from society: losing sight is losing hopes and dreams.
The director was touched by Mikke's story, so he filmed the film "Hearing Heaven", hoping that through this story, blind people can not only face physical defects calmly, but also build self-identity in the process, and can listen to the world in another way, express their hearts, and create dreams.
Thus, we saw this warm and touching story "Hearing Heaven", which tells the story of a ten-year-old boy, Mikke, who went blind due to an accident and was forced to be sent to a school for the blind, in which he tried to overcome the frustration and confusion brought about by the loss of vision, and tried to express his inner imagination and love for the world with his voice.
Finding yourself and then expressing yourself is something that many adults can't do, but Miko has done it.
Mikko after blindness
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > self-restraint: dreams have a voice, as long as you are willing to listen</h1>
Helen Keller said: Disabled is inconvenient, but it is not unfortunate.
For Michael, the loss of vision left him disheartened for a time. He was forced to leave school, to leave his parents, and to be sent to a school for the blind, with many rules and a lot of life. Here, Miko fell into a deep state of confusion and helplessness, he loved film and nature, but had to learn textiles and Braille. How it's like the lives of our adults: we love and have to do what we hate for the sake of life.
The difference, however, is that we choose to be obedient, but Miko chooses to resist.
He toppled the braille tool to the ground, saying he could see it, which was his initial revolt. Because from the bottom of his heart, he is unwilling to admit that he is blind, and to admit that he is blind is to admit that he cannot live completely and experience the world completely. So he refused to learn Braille, and instead chose to use a tape recorder to complete his homework.
The tape recorder allowed Miko to find another way to feel the world, people have five facial features, why should we only use one way to feel it? As a result, Miko shuttled through various sounds, using simulated wind and rain sounds to show the world of his inner imagination.
Nature is not only in our eyes, but also in our hearts. We can lose our eyes, we can lose the freedom to see, but we can't give up the freedom to perceive the outside world and express our hearts.
Unlike Miko, who insists on his freedom of expression with his voice, other children have gradually been smoothed out of their expectations and imaginations of a better world.
For example, Felice is often bullied by the bully Villio, and can only hide in a tree. Strong as Vilio, but only strong on the surface, but the heart accepts the reality that he is a blind man, so when Mi can use the tape recorder to hand in his homework, he will say: Bed bugs, less self-righteous, you better make it bigger, let them send you home.
Innately, we all have the urge to explore, the desire to express, but in the long-term domestication, we have mostly compromised, but this does not mean that this is the norm.
Because we believe that no one should give up their imagination and freedom.
Gorky said: By nature, everyone is an artist. Wherever he is, he always wants to bring beauty into his life.
A person's life is a process of self-searching and self-expression. Freedom should not be bound by reality, and imagination does not need a cage.
As Mikke said, "Everyone can go to the theater, even the blind, but everyone can understand it, because there is a voice and a dialogue." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > social constraints: expressing one's feelings and leaving no regrets</h1>
If children are restricted from their freedom of thought and expression because of education, then adults are silenced by life. Teacher Tang is to the principal as we are to the leader.
Many people say that Miko can hear heaven with his voice, and it is inseparable from the care and help of Teacher Tang. In fact, on the other hand, without meeting Mikke, Teacher Tang may not be able to save himself and regain his freedom of expression.
Teacher Tang is gentle and patient, respects the nature of children, and knows how to love education, but Teacher Tang has also watched other children become blind, why? Because he was powerless to rebel against the headmaster.
He disagreed with the principal's educational philosophy, and in addition to making the children weavers and operators, he also wanted the children to have their own talents, persistence and dreams. But this resistance is like an undercurrent, weak in strength. When Miko was ordered to withdraw from school by the principal for violating school rules, he once again resisted, and once again resisted and failed, so he could only helplessly complain to the maid: What is the meaning of education?
Instead, the maid woke him up with a word:
It's important to say how you feel, and don't let yourself regret it for the rest of your life, even if others aren't happy.
How much like ourselves, middle-aged, subservient, we just think about how to make the leader happy, how to make others happy, but are we happy ourselves? We also have dissatisfaction, we don't recognize the wrong decisions of leaders, we also have dreams and bottom lines, so what? We need this job to guarantee survival, and freedom and dignity are extravagant.
As employees, we lost the freedom to express our feelings from the beginning, and we left ourselves too many regrets in order to make others happy.
At the end of the film, Teacher Tang learned to express his feelings, and the principal stepped down. But real life is not so beautiful, as migrant workers, we are still forced by life, have to give up the freedom of self-expression.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > educational constraints: what you like to do and what you can do</h1>
To a large extent, I think the presence of principals not only represents school education, but also represents the family education of many parents.
The principal is also blind, but not congenital, but blind after the age of 30. Therefore, for the loss of vision, he is absolutely unacceptable from the bottom of his heart. It is precisely because he cannot accept that he has gone from complete to incomplete that he despises the blind, which is ultimately because he cannot accept his true self.
The representative figure of the psychoanalytic school, Donald Winnicott, once proposed the concepts of "real self" and "false self", "real self" can "spontaneously" express and present his true state, maintaining internal and external consistency, while "false self" is an effort to disguise the most real self, like wearing a personality mask.
For the principal, he fantasized about an ideal self in his heart, did not lose his eyesight, and did the work he liked. Such a fantasy made him begin to dislike his original self, that is, his true self. He then transmits this sense of disgust and oppression to the same group of people, the blind.
Therefore, he will say to Miko's parents and Teacher Tang: It doesn't matter what he likes to do, what matters is what he can do.
This is the subconscious idea of many blind family leaders, after all, no parent is willing to accept a disabled child from the beginning, but they have to accept it. This will cause parents to develop a sense of self-avoidance, abandon rebellion, accept the worldly definition, and think that their children are crippled.
Therefore, they will think that the child can perform like a normal person, which means that the child is normal, and this self-deception idea is an escape, and it also makes the child feel that he can only passively accept "what I can do" instead of "what I like to do".
Just like my parents frantically urged 30-year-old singles to go on a blind date, they firmly believe that a girl getting married and having children is the right way, otherwise it is unhappy, it is to humiliate them, and they will be laughed at by the villagers.
Many times I have bravely expressed my disgust, but they have threatened me again and again with affection. Fortunately, however, I have not lost myself, but there are so many women who rush to an unhappy marriage because of the persecution of their parents.
School education as principals and family education as parents are often imposed on children, never asking us what we like, but blocking our right to freedom of expression again and again with "what should you do".
Enlightened education allows children to be the only one among all, and ignorant education makes children change from being the only one to being the other.
Teacher Tang
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > institutional constraints: freedom of expression</h1>
Barkin said that the reason I write is not because I have wisdom, but because I have feelings.
In other words, we need to express not because we have wisdom, but because we have thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and the freedom to express as human beings.
What is freedom of expression?
Within the scope of the law or recognition, citizens use various media or methods (including newspapers, magazines, paintings, sculptures, etc.) to receive information and disseminate their own thoughts, opinions, opinions, opinions, beliefs, beliefs, opinions, etc. to others or societies without unwarranted, illegal interference, restraint or punishment. (From Baidu Encyclopedia)
It follows that freedom of expression presupposes that laws and institutions confer on citizens this right. In the film "Hearing Heaven", the first thing that restricts children's freedom of expression lies in the constraints of the system. When Miko went blind in an accident, the doctor told Miko's parents that he could no longer complete his education with other normal children, which is Italian law, which stipulates that blind children cannot attend the same school as normal people. From this moment on, Miko was deprived of the freedom of expression at the level of civil rights.
He can't go to school, he can't play, he doesn't have the same opportunities as normal people, including the opportunity for freedom of expression. How can we gain freedom of expression? That requires the guarantee of the system and the recognition of the law.
Thus, in the film, the director integrates into social movements, allowing students and laborers to flock to the streets to protest unreasonable policies, reflecting the pursuit of freedom. Similarly, blind Italians and steel mill workers managed to oust the principal through game demonstrations. Finally, in 1975, Italy abolished the law that blind people could not be in the same school as normal children.
In fact, whether it is Mi hearing heaven through the tape recorder, or Teacher Tang bravely expressing his feelings, or the abolition of unequal laws, this conveys a common idea:
No matter what state they are in, everyone has the right to pursue their dreams, and everyone has the freedom to express themselves.
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Hopefully, each of us has the freedom to express ourselves.
I'm Adey, welcome to follow.