French cinema has always been known for its romantic dreams.
The film recommended by today's fans is based on real events, but the French have made a different kind of romance.
After reading it, it was as if the whole soul had done a great health care, and it instantly brightened.
This is one of the most healing movies of the year, not one!
"Give Me Wings"
Spread Your Wings
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Douban has a score of 8.7, which is better than 95% of adventure films.
The protagonist of the story is named Toma, an Internet addicted teenager who is addicted to the Internet.
After her mother Paula divorced Toma's father, she has been busy with work and has no time to discipline Toma, who is at home during the summer vacation.
So the mother decided to send her son to her ex-husband for the summer vacation.
Toma's father, Christian, is a meteorologist who has long been concerned about the survival of wild endangered animals.
He found that the number of geese in Europe has been decreasing in recent years, and the reason may be related to their migration routes.
Every year before winter, geese follow the same route, traveling back and forth between Germany and Sweden.
This is the survival instinct of geese, which has not changed for thousands of years.
But in recent centuries, human civilization has continued to expand, and the migration routes of geese and birds have been greatly affected.
Airports, cities, hunting, light pollution and other issues are all leading to a decline in the number of birds in migration, and even gradually endangered.
So Christian came up with a bold plan —
He wants to help the wild geese open up a new migration path.
According to his plan, he will fly a light aircraft, mix into the flock of geese, and lead the flock of geese to follow the route he has planned.
Because birds have "imprint behavior".
What does that mean?
In simple terms, birds follow the imitation of the first moving object they see when they are born.
Christian intends to use this to train the little geese to follow his own flight and cross the new migration route.
The point is --
It only takes the flock of geese to fly once and they will remember this new migration route.
However, Christian's plan was rejected by the director of the Musée de Natura de Paris because it was too avant-garde.
In desperation, Christian had to quietly steal the curator's official seal, stamp his own approval, and privately carry out the plan.
He lived alone in a wetland on the outskirts of the city and found a bunch of wild goose eggs to artificially hatch a flock of small geese.
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It was also at this time that his son, Thomas, came to his father's christian farmhouse.
At first, Toma, who had just arrived here, was very uncomfortable.
There was no internet, no entertainment facilities, and it was difficult to understand my father's strange dress.
Until one day.
Toma spotted wild goose eggs in the farmhouse that were hatching and happened to witness the hatching of the little geese.
Christian told his son:
From today on, you will become the mother of this flock of little geese.
Because for these birds, the first time they see each other at birth, they will recognize who they are parents.
The father was originally just a joke, but he did not expect that the son took it seriously.
The original rebellious teenager was cute by the newborn geese, and could not help but take care of and train them with his father.
From young birds that have just broken out of their shells, to small goose birds that grow into furry geese.
This feeling of watching life being born and growing with one's own eyes is very wonderful for teenagers.
As the geese grew up, a close relationship was established between Toma and the little geese.
Every day, toma would wear a special robe and take the geese for a walk, swim together, and give them names.
He even plays the role of mother birds, teaching them to hunt, running with airplanes, and even dodging hunters' shotguns.
In the process, Christian gradually discovered his son's talent and began to teach him to fly a light aircraft.
The moment when father and son soared together in the sky made them find the long-lost father-son relationship.
Soon, the adult geese were ready to fly, and Dad decided to implement his ultimate plan.
The geese were first driven to Norway in the Arctic Circle, and then flew in a light plane to take them back to France.
In this way, every year in the winter, these geese can find a route back to the south for the winter.
Unexpectedly, the plan was just beginning to encounter problems.
At first, Christian stole the official seal to implement the plan, but the border epidemic prevention department in Norway was found out.
Coupled with the fact that this flock of geese had just been vaccinated, the test for the avian influenza virus also showed positive.
The local epidemic prevention department wanted to confiscate the flock of geese and decided to detain The Christian father and son.
Seeing that the geese he had raised with his own hands were about to be taken away, at the critical moment, Toma quietly started his father's plane.
At the moment of take-off, a miracle happened—
The geese actually flew with the plane into the blue sky.
After training for a long time, I finally succeeded in getting the geese to fly with the plane, and this scene made people cry.
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But for a teenager, it is not easy to complete this adventure spanning thousands of kilometers.
Moreover, this was the first time he had flown alone, and he had to face many difficulties that he had never had before.
On the first day, Toma flew only a short distance and could only sleep in the bushes by the lake at night;
With limited supplies and a route chosen to avoid the city as much as possible, Toma had no way to reach home.
As a result, the next morning, Toma encountered a bobcat.
Although Thomas was very afraid in his heart, in order to protect the geese, he still had the courage to scare away the beast.
At this moment, he is no longer a 14-year-old child who needs the wings of his parents, but a parent who has the ability to guard the endangered geese.
But for Toma, who travels long distances, sleeping in the wind is not the biggest difficulty, but also how to replenish.
Because of lack of sleep, I almost fainted.
When the gasoline ran out, it was necessary to find various ways to find supplies, and even fell into stealing gasoline from other people's homes.
Fortunately, Toma also met many well-meaning people on the road.
He borrowed gasoline and food from a kind girl and was able to continue flying.
Before leaving, the girl took a video of Toma's flight and uploaded it to the Internet.
Soon, Toma's video was on the hot search, and triggered a lot of public heated discussion and admiration.
Toma's parents learned of their son's safety from the video and decided to drive together to find their son along the migration route.
Along the way, Toma's parents went from complaining to each other at the beginning to gradually learning to understand each other.
And his son Thomas also completed a great feat in this continuous adventure.
He soars in the blue sky with geese and birds, overlooking the beautiful scenery on the earth from the air;
Occasionally in bad weather, Toma can also calmly fly the plane and fly out of the sea of clouds with geese.
Sometimes, geese flew in front of the toma, and he would stroke their wings from time to time;
The most romantic scene -
When Toma, soaring above the blue sky, turned off the plane's engine and let the plane glide in the wind.
At this time, Toma opened his arms, as if he also had a pair of wings, and could fly over thousands of mountains and rivers.
Such an adventure, probably every boy has fantasized about it.
When Toma's journey came to an end, many people came to the end to witness this great feat of Toma.
But Instead of landing amid the cheers of the crowd, Thomas sailed the plane to his father's farmhouse opposite.
Because, there are their parents waiting.
This flight is no longer an adventure of Toma alone, but also a bond between the family.
At the end of the film, in the spring of the following year, Toma returns to Norway again with his father.
There, Toma met the geese that had migrated for another year...
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The film is directed by the famous French director Nicolas Vanier, who has touched countless audiences with "Shirley the Greyhound".
As an environmentalist, Nikolai's works are mostly based on the theme of calling on humans to protect the natural environment and wildlife, and he is particularly good at telling the relationship between humans and animals and showing family affection.
So his films are always very healing and warm, and this "Give Me Wings" is no exception.
The film is based on real people and stories based on the famous French meteorologist Christian Mulek.
In 1996, the French meteorologist Christian made an unprecedented move -
In order to protect the endangered white-fronted geese, he decided to try to change their migration routes.
So he flew a light plane and took the wild geese to migrate with them, helping the birds find a safe route.
This unusual move touched many people at the time and also won the attention of society.
Today, 60-year-old Mulek is still working on the protection of migratory birds.
He once said:
The most beautiful thing in the world is to soar in the air with these angelic migratory birds.
The film is based on Mulek's story, which the director adapted into a family adventure film from the perspective of a child, adding themes of growth, family and family affection.
Although the film does not have strong dramatic conflict, nor is it deliberately sensational, and does not even have the so-called villain role,
The director just told a story like an urban fairy tale, which was moving enough to make people tear up after watching it.
I was touched by the growth and adventure of my youth, and I was also amazed by this harmonious symbiosis between humans and animals.
In particular, the cinematography of the film is excellent, and you can make wallpaper with every frame at hand.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the story of the film is easily reminiscent of the American movie "Flying With You" with the same theme.
The film tells the story of a 13-year-old girl who, led by her father, migrates with a flock of migratory birds.
Coincidentally, FlyIng With You also has a prototype, an inventor named William Lisman. He had experimentally led sixteen wild geese from Montreal, Canada, to Virginia, in 1993.
After the film was released, it inspired meteorologist Christian Mulek to make a human-bird migration plan, which was eventually made into the movie "Give Me Wings" many years later.
The adventure story of one man, made into a movie.
It influenced others, and more adventures and stories were spawned.
As an art of dream-making, the charm of film may lie in this.
At the end of the film, the director tells the audience a fact with a narration:
Europe has lost more than 420 million birds in 30 years.
Therefore, the core of the film is to arouse the public's attention to environmental protection and remind us to cherish nature.
As the old proverb quoted in the film says:
Land is not inherited from our ancestors, but borrowed from our descendants.
This sentence should be remembered by each of us!