Heidi and Grandpa
Heidi and Grandpa is a German drama film starring Anouk Steffen, Isabelle Ultraman, Anna Shens, and others. Adapted from Johanna Sbilee's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Heidi, a naïve and cute little girl who was sent by her aunt to live in the Alps to live with her eccentric grandfather, and she touched and helped those around her with her sincere kindness.
The plot of the film can be divided into three parts:
Part I: Grandpa refuses to accept Heidi. Heidi (Anouk Stephan anuk steffen) lost her parents at a very young age, and was left alone, but fortunately she was taken in by her aunt, but this care could not last, and in the end, Heidi was sent to the Alps by her aunt to run to her grandfather (Bruno Ganz) who lived there. Grandpa and Heidi had never met, so Grandpa was reluctant to adopt Heidi, and he tried to try to send Heidi away through the priest, even if it was to the orphanage, Grandpa never wanted to have a "dragging his legs". But out of necessity, Heidi had to stay at her grandfather's house for a few days. On the first day, Grandpa would not let Heidi into his house, so she could only sleep with Grandpa's sheep; the next day, although Grandpa let Heidi into the house and gave her food, Grandpa did not talk to her, and Heidi could only sit on the wooden staircase to eat, sleeping on the haystack on the second floor.
Although Grandpa Heidi seems to be a cold, heartless and cold-blooded old man, from his series of behaviors, you can see the change in his inner acceptance of Heidi. From Grandpa not letting Heidi in the door to giving Heidi cheese and sausages and agreeing to let her sleep on a haystack, this change of behavior shows that Grandpa also has a little softness in his heart, and his acceptance of Heidi has added a little, even if it is not a lot, but it is enough, after all, Grandpa needs a process from living alone to accepting another little doll that needs to be taken care of by himself.
Part II: Grandpa agrees to take Heidi in. During the few days of living at Grandpa's house, Heidi and a shepherd named Pete help Grandpa herd sheep. Pete, a mischievous-looking boy who often causes trouble, tells Heidi that in the eyes of the villagers, Grandpa is a stubborn and eccentric old man, and that he has killed people before, so everyone respects him. When Heidi learned about it, her legs were shaking when she came home for dinner at night, she was still an eight-year-old girl, she was afraid! After quickly finishing her meal, Heidi said to Grandpa: Tonight I will still sleep in the sheepfold. Grandpa understood why, so he patiently told Heidi not to believe the rumors, but to believe what his ears heard and what his eyes saw.
Heidi is a very warm and sensible girl, of course, she believes what Grandpa said, Heidi put an arm around Grandpa's neck, this scene is touching, moved by Heidi's kindness, moved by Grandpa's patience. Maybe Grandpa was also touched by Heidi. Heidi got up and went to the Alps with Pete, where they herded sheep, and when they got home at night, Heidi pushed open the door and saw that there was an extra chair next to Grandpa's dining table, and Heidi was extremely happy and excited, which of course was a new one that Grandpa had made for her. Heidi's eyes lit up happily, but immediately dimmed again, because Grandpa said that heidi would only stay in his house for three days, tomorrow is the deadline, Heidi did not dare to say clearly, she was afraid that Grandpa really did not want her, tomorrow will drive her away, she asked Grandpa softly and expectantly: Will I go up the mountain to herd sheep tomorrow? "Up the mountain" "What about the day after tomorrow?" "Also on", it was clear that Grandpa had agreed to take her in, that she would never again be homeless, that she would never again be sent to an orphanage.
At this point in the plot, Heidi and Grandpa's feelings have undergone a great change, Heidi has let down her guard, and Grandpa has also opened her heart to Heidi, he is willing to take care of this well-behaved granddaughter, and is willing to rely on little Heidi for the rest of the years. Seeing this, the heart is both excited and happy to smile and moved to tears, this is human nature, as Mencius said, "At the beginning of man, sex is good" and "compassion is good for everyone", even if little Heidi is not his granddaughter, in this case, he will probably choose it this way.
Part III: Heidi is forced to leave Grandpa. After Grandpa promised to take Heidi in, the old and the young unloaded their guard and relied on each other for their lives. But the good times did not last long, heidi was forced to leave her grandfather, and was forcibly taken to the home of the rich lady Clara (Isabelle Ultraman) in Frankfurt by her money-hungry aunt to be her playmate. Clara's legs are unable to walk due to childhood illness, and her personality is introverted and eccentric, Heidi's arrival opens the door to a new world for her, and finds a long-lost happiness. Although living in the homes of the rich that countless people aspire to, Heidi is not happy. In this rich family, all her behavior was restrained, she had to use the tableware correctly when eating, she could not chat with the servants, she could not make mistakes in spelling and pronunciation when speaking, she had to follow Clara to learn to read from the tutor, etc., and there were no mountains everywhere in Frankfurt, not even if she climbed to the tower, and most importantly, there was no grandfather who depended on her. She missed Grandpa, Pete, and Grandma Pitt all the time, and she remembered that Grandma had bad teeth and couldn't bite the hard bread, so every time she ate, she always asked for one more bread, one for herself, and one for Grandma Pitt.
Heidi misses her grandfather in the Alps too much and sleepwalks a lot at night, even the rich man thinks it's haunted. Clara's father faces a conflict when he discovers that the sleepwalker is Heidi: Heidi stays in Frankfurt and is mentally ill; Clara is even more unhappy when Heidi returns to the Alps. The person who reconciles The conflict between Clara and Heidi is Clara's grandmother, a woman with a wealth of wisdom in life, a woman who understands both the mysteries of nature and the laws of children's physical and mental growth. She advocated that Heidi return to the Alps, to her grandfather's arms.
In the arms of the Alps, Heidi drinks fresh goat's milk, runs barefoot in the mountains, and lies on the grass bathed in the clear sun. Nature has once again given Heidi a vibrant vitality and a grinning face. Little Heidi, who returned to the Alps, still could not forget her good friend Clara, fortunately she had learned to read and write at Clara's house, otherwise her thoughts of Clara could not be conveyed to her, and in a letter to Clara, she wrote, "My greatest wish is that you can come to the Alps to see me." Clara's grandmother asks Clara to go to the Alps to find Heidi, untie the clothes that bind her body and mind, and return to a simple, primitive natural life.
As educators say, nature is the best teacher for children. The most effective medicine to cure children is of course to return to nature, Heidi returned to grandpa to restore the happy look of the past, the grass warbler fly in the Alps healed Clara's trauma of losing her mother, rejuvenated, her feet can walk on the ground, and the wonderful natural life once again gave Clara hope and happiness in life.
The reason why the movie "Heidi and Grandpa" is popular around the world, in addition to the beautiful natural scenery and the protagonist Heidi's innocent and beautiful heart and smile, the biggest influencing factor is inseparable from the ingenious structural design - opposition. The opposition between the region- the Alps and Frankfurt is actually the contrast and conflict between nature and modern urban civilization, and the director constructs the contrast between the darkness and heaviness of rankfoulk's picture and the brightness and cheerfulness of the Alps; the opposition between the characters Heidi and Clara, one is Heidi who is free and has not received any education, and the other is Clara, who grew up in a wealthy family, and has been suppressed by good tutoring and proper etiquette for a long time. The Eighteenth-century French Enlightenment thinker Rousseau said: "Born free, but always in chains."
The purpose of the film's design structure is to show the contrast and conflict between nature and urban civilization, so that the audience realizes the nature of children yearning for unfettered nature, and urban civilization is the shackles that bind the body and mind. Therefore, in terms of children's education, in order to make children grow healthier and more comprehensively, parents should let go of the traction rope in their hands, give children full freedom, feel everything that nature has given us, and let children grow better!