In 2009, the world children's film festival's top prize winner, Rainbow Shine, was an Irish film. The film tells the extraordinary story of a loving mother and a reluctant father who brings a young orphan home. It's a story about the transformation of love, about finding acceptance, about discovering yourself, and realizing that the rainbow is all around us and also within us.
The whole film is not vigorous, tearing heart and lungs, but it makes you cry.
In a dark black-and-white orphanage, a young boy was painting, and inadvertently looked up, and a trapped pigeon caught his eye. Looking at the pitiful appearance of the pigeon flapping its wings, I felt pity. The boy stepped forward, pushed open the window with all his might, and released the pigeon. This annoyed the teenagers, who kicked him off the stool.
In the face of the arrogant reprimand, the boy's eyes were full of fear. Even more excessively, they broke the few brushes he had and gave him a brain. The boy lowered his head, and suddenly saw a figure as bright as an angel, and then he was taken to the principal's office. A beautifully dressed woman, Mel, appeared before his eyes, and from then on a rainbow of colors appeared in his bleak life.
The two take a boat to a beautiful island, and Mel's husband, Eric, looks at the somewhat cowardly boy in front of him with some disappointment. The little boy was also a little afraid of this seemingly serious adoptive father, and he silently followed behind, and his heart was even more uneasy. With Mel's encouragement, he carefully stepped into his new home. Looking at this colorful room, the mood seems to be brighter. In the following time, Mel's enthusiasm and carefulness made the little boy gradually relax a lot. She would humorously teach the little boy how to urge the hen to lay eggs. It was raining, and this cute adoptive mother jumped into the mud pit directly with the little boy and played Peppa Pig's favorite game. Laughter in the rain was soon interrupted by the appearance of his adoptive father. The sensitive little boy immediately stopped and looked in fear at his adoptive father who had hurried into the room, and Mel saw his fear and quickly reassured: I know he looks like a stone, but he is very soft inside, and there is a heart of love, and one day you will understand.
Since then, Mel has always deliberately pulled into their relationship with each other. But still did not change the adoptive father's perception of the little boy, and even complained to his wife: why not pick a sunny and confident child to adopt? And these slightly sharp words happened to be heard by the little boy standing in the doorway. Since then, the little boy's avoidance of his adoptive father has intensified. As soon as he saw his adoptive father appear, he would subconsciously hide.
At the beginning of the new semester, the teacher asked the new little boy to introduce himself. This situation reminded him of the scene of the orphanage. Distraught, he didn't say a word clearly for half a day. But the little boy's well-behaved appearance won the love of the female classmates, and everyone raised their hands to take the initiative to be his tablemates. For the first time, the little boy experienced the feeling of being welcome.
He ran home with joy and joy, trying to share the joy with his adoptive mother, but saw the caretaker of the orphanage. The aim is to observe whether the little boy is fit to live in the family. The little boy impatiently expressed his desire to stay here, but the administrator said that he needed the consent of the whole family. Only then did the little boy realize that his adoptive father had not signed the adoption agreement.
He walked lost to the beach, and Mel followed, carefully enlightening the little boy. Teach the little boy how to talk to seals, and say that seals are messengers of their loved ones and can carry our inner words to our deceased relatives. The little boy, who had been locking his heart tightly, finally said the words to Mel: Mom. The two snuggled happily together. The little boy with his mother unconsciously became more and more sunny and brave.
He dared to try many things that he had been resisting before. The adoptive father also gradually felt the change of the little boy, and the relationship between the two eased up a lot.
One day, his adoptive father took him to the beach to fish. The little boy found a seal cub that had been stranded. The adoptive father said it was a small seal that had been left behind by his mother, and the kind little boy was worried that it would starve to death and wanted to save it. So the adoptive father grabbed the seal's head, and the little boy carefully shoved the fish into its mouth.
In the following time, the little boy would look up and come to the beach to feed the baby seals. Under his careful care, the little seal, which had been dying, gradually regained its vitality. The little boy's responsibility made his adoptive father somewhat accept him.
On the little boy's birthday, his adoptive mother gave him a fishing rod. His adoptive father promised to teach him to go fishing at sea. Just when the little boy thought he could live happily ever after, a silent pain shattered the calm, and the sick Mel had been feeling a little tired lately. The wife's weak appearance made her husband very worried, often let her go to the hospital to see, and helped her make a bed. Like Mel said, he was a very soft man at heart.
The next day, the little boy excitedly planned to go fishing with his adoptive father, but his adoptive father was called away by his friend, and the result was a day. Looking at the hungry little seal not far away, the little boy was a little disappointed. Just then, some of the weak mothers came out and took him out to sea to fish. At dinner, Mel had an unprecedented quarrel with her husband, asking why the husband had not done what he promised, which would hurt the child's heart. But the hard-mouthed man is more concerned about why his wife wants to go to sea? The two broke up unhappily.
After school this day, the little boy just stepped into the house, he learned the news that his mother was going to be taken to the hospital, and he hoped with red eyes that his mother would not leave. To appease her son, she took out a red handkerchief and wrapped a smile and gave it to the little boy. After that, the little boy moved into a neighbor's house. But every day he hoped that his mother would come back soon. He also used the relics left by his grandmother and exchanged them for a colorful napkin as a gift for his mother.
Yet the real world is always so heartfelt.
Soon after, the little boy finally came to the hospital and met his mother, who was thinking about it day and night. Mel stroked his face and said he might be leaving. Encourage him to live optimistically. The little boy was a little excited, and before he could send the gift, he was taken out by the doctor.
The priest outside accompanied the little boy in prayer, and when the priest said that Mel was going to throw himself into God's arms, the little boy ran into the ward and cried: Mom, can't go, they haven't done their best to save you, you can't go.
At night, he held his mother's red handkerchief and burst into tears. But seeing his adoptive father, who had been drinking all day to dispel his sorrows, the little boy decided to get back up. With the help of two close friends, he learned the recipes taught by his mother before he died and cooked a favorite dinner for his adoptive father. But these delicacies that he once loved the most made him more emotional. Without a bite to eat, I went back to the bedroom. But the little boy did not give up, and took the initiative to help the family share the housework every day. But one night, when the little boy found that his adoptive father had burned all the items his mother had used before his death, he rushed up angrily to try to regain those good memories.
Looking at the burned-out precious relics, the little boy hysterically looked for his adoptive father to theorize: Her death is all your fault, and it is because of you that she accompanied me to the sea. Although it is not because going to sea has aggravated Mel's condition, the little boy has always blamed himself very much for this, and blames his adoptive father's words for not believing.
After school that day, when the little boy looked at the adoption agreement that had not yet been signed, he gave the red handkerchief to his drunken adoptive father and told him that it had his mother's smile and full of love. At night, the adoptive father holding the red handkerchief slept soundly for the first time in the world.
The next day, the sun rises, and the little boy packs up and decides to leave here. But before he left, he had to send the poor little seal back into the sea. Subsequently, the adoptive father also woke up from the dream, and soon found that the little boy had run away from home, so he chased him to the beach. I saw the children rowing in the sea, but the next second, the calm sea suddenly changed its face, and the hull began to shake. The adoptive father immediately rowed to the rescue, but the rough waves still knocked the little boy into the sea. At this time, the nearby seals also jumped into the sea, and the adoptive father was impatient, struggling to shout the name of the little boy, and finally saw him on the edge of a reef, and it turned out that the seals had saved the little boy.
When they got home, they spread the colorful cloth on the dining table together, and the whole room was once again rejuvenated.
But the little boy also saw the caretaker who had come to pick him up outside and asked his adoptive father: You didn't sign the document, I still have to go. The adoptive father said: I will not sign unless I have your permission.
The things that happen around us may not necessarily have a perfect ending, but as long as we keep our hearts pure and tenacious, the rainbow will surely shine. If it backfires, please believe that there must be other arrangements.
Some people are like a rainbow, even if it appears for a few short years, it changes the lives of the people around them.