Today to introduce you to a film from the perspective of an eight-year-old child to look at the war, there are almost no bloody scenes, the director uses a seemingly absurd but full of positive energy story as a carrier, referring to the Second World War while portraying the humanity in the war, the movie is called - little boy.
The story takes place in the United States during World War II, according to the regulations, each family must send a male to join the army, the little boy's family sent a young and strong brother, but the brother found out that there are leg muscles that do not meet the conditions for joining the army, can only be replaced by the father, hearing the news, the little boy is more sad than the father, because he is short, he was bullied by other children in the town, the father is his only friend, now the way to go to the battlefield, the little boy not only lost his father, there is no good friend, he hopes that the father can come back early every day, But what awaited was the news that dad had been captured by the Japanese army, which was undoubtedly bad news for the little boy.
One day the little boy went to see the magic and was invited to the stage to cooperate, and the magician asked him to move the bottle on the table with faith, which was normally impossible to achieve, and the people underground were laughing at him. The little boy flinched, and it was a word from the magician also and then she the magician said, "Do you believe you do it?" This was what Dad used to say to him, and he instantly ignited his fighting spirit. At the beginning, he really did the seed in his heart, sprouted in the heart of the little boy, the little boy heard the priest say on the stage, as long as there is still the belief of the size of a rapeseed, he can move the mountain and fulfill some wishes, such as ending this war, the little boy opened his eyes, he saw hope, and firmly believed that he could rely on his own faith to let his father return to his side.
The naïve little boy really went to the supermarket, saw the rapeseed, he could see the god, accidentally bumped into a Japanese Hashimoto, although Hashimoto never participated in the war, but in the eyes of the town's residents, he was the enemy, the little boy and brother vented all the hatred of the war on the bridge itself, they provoked Hashimoto in the store, and at night ran to Hashimoto's house to make trouble, the little boy picked up the stone and smashed it Hashimoto's glass window, and even scolded Hashimoto, the brother lit the wine boutique, wanted to burn down Hashimoto's house directly, But the consequence is that the brother is imprisoned thinking, the little boy is sent to the church for education, the priest asks the little boy to show him the ability to move the bottle, the little boy exerts all his strength, the bottle does not move, he still refuses to stop, this is the priest moved the bottle in front of him, the priest took out an old list and told the little boy that as long as he completes the above task, he can have the belief to achieve everything, including bringing his father back from the battlefield, but the first article of the list is difficult for him.
In order to be able to bring his father back from the battlefield, the little boy accepted this very difficult task, he plucked up the courage to go to the small family that had been bullied by them to apologize to others, Hashimoto did not accept, the second time the little boy spent a little thought, brought a bottle of soda, Hashimoto still did not accept, because the little boy said a very impolite word, the third time under the rapid adjustment of the priest, accepted the little boy's apology, they went out to play together, Hashimoto was lifted up by the Americans, the boy did not stand up, he just wanted to complete the task as soon as possible, Pretending to be friends with Hashimoto, the next task is to visit people in prison. He came to the prison to see his brother, who saw the list and thought it was ridiculous, and in order to get his father back, the little boy did not want to give up, and with The help of Hashimoto, the little boy visited the hospitalized patient, provided a place for the homeless, and knitted clothes for the baby to be born Soon the task on the list was more than half completed. The little boy slowly discovers that Hashimoto is not as bad as he thought it was, everything is going according to plan, and unsurprisingly, he will soon be able to complete the task of the list.
Then you can see your father, but this time is normal, the fat man in the town snatched his list, his faith has become the laughing stock of others, Hashimoto encouraged the little boy to return the list, the little boy thought that he was still young, must not be able to beat people, he flinched. Hashimoto told him the story of a Japanese samurai, telling him to use his will to overcome his inner fears, measuring not the distance from the top of his head to the ground, but the distance from the top of his head to the sky, and the little boy finally smiled, a smile that only appeared when he was with his father, and now he and Hashimoto have become real friends. The little boy found the fat man and directly tore off his list, and pushed her to the ground, but this time the little boy did not flinch, he received the box, and now he was the tallest man in the town, because he was too close to Hashimoto, and kept warning the little boy that if he wanted to do something for his father, stay away from this Japanese, and the so-called list, but the priest instilled in him a fairy tale, the little boy still believed that a strong belief could move the mountain and save his father, the brother could not stand it, forcing the little boy to move the mountain now, so that he would be completely dead.
This skinny boy posed a strange posture at a big mountain, he wanted to move it, everyone around him could see him jokes, suddenly the ground began to shake, the little boy really moved the mountain, since then the little boy became a celebrity in the town, everyone praised the miracle of moving the mountain, no longer take it as a joke, in fact, rational people know, but it happened to encounter a small earthquake, but the little boy did his best, every day he went crazy at the father's photo, he proudly showed the list to the priest, Only the last item left on the list is the burial of the deceased.
Can I also bring Dad back from the battlefield Do you believe that faith can bring people back from afar? This little boy stood on the bench, posed, and faced the sea with all his strength, on the side of the Japanese work, he wanted to use faith to bring his father back from the war, day after day the little boy was thin, had a firm figure, attracted the attention of the whole town, everyone was holding a mocking attitude, as if waiting for a miracle, and finally one day the miracle really happened, the news of the end of the war came from the battlefield, the United States dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan surrendered, and the code name of this atomic bomb is called Little Boy, Everyone said to the little boy: Child, you did it, and the little boy shouted with excitement, but The father still did not come back, and the mother told him that the atomic bomb was not good for the American prisoners, and the little boy fell into sorrow again.
Here Hashimoto also encountered trouble, he is just an ordinary resident who has lived here for more than 40 years, but because he has an enemy face, he is targeted by all the people in the town, late at night the little boy's brother and the town's uncle Sam lurk in the Hashimoto family together, making a mess of the family, Sam said that his son was killed by the Japanese, so he has to make Hashimoto pay the price, the hatred of war will make people lose their minds, Hashimoto was injured by Sam and put in the hospital, the little boy looked at the last task on the list to bury the dead, he was very entangled Do you want to watch your friends leave? He came to Hashimoto's bedside, and suddenly Hashimoto began to convulse, and he was so frightened that he stepped back and said don't say okay? He cares more about his friend than the task on the list, and in the end Hashimoto is saved.
But the news of his father's death came back, the little boy stood in front of his father's grave and cried very sadly, this is the last task on the list, burying the deceased, he never dreamed of burying his own father, the little boy suspected that everything he did was in vain, actually stupid enough to believe a list, but Hashimoto firmly told him, you are not stupid, have faith, it is the little boy who needs courage to press the list on his father's tombstone, which is his usual seven-rapeseed faith to complete, It was filled with all her love for her father.
But the plot suddenly reverses the colonel bringing good news, saying that the little boy's father is not dead, that they are mistaken, that the little boy's faith has created a miracle, and that even his brother, who has always denied her, thinks he succeeded? In the face of war, everyone is a victim, but bears physical pain, the little boy faces mental torture, but this movie allows the audience to see things outside the war, that is, love and faith, in fact, the little boy did not complete the last task on the moon table, but people are willing to believe that it is his faith, and his faith creates miracles.