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Chapter 1631 Life kisses me with pain, but I repay it with song

Although some people lose interest in "children's films" like "Little Shoes" after hearing about them, it also has its advantages.

In particular, many people in the education field have recommended this movie.

“When you want to calm down and find inner peace in your busy and stressful study life, this movie must be your first choice.

The famous writer Rabindranath Tagore once said: "Life kisses me with pain, but I repay it with song."

The whole movie "Little Shoes" revolves around little shoes. The story begins with Ali losing his sister Sarah's shoes. The two agreed not to tell their parents about the lost shoes. After that, the two took turns wearing Ali's sneakers to run to school. Then Ali participated in a long-distance running competition to win a pair of sneakers for his sister, but he missed the sneakers that were the third place prize because he won the championship. Fortunately, their father bought shoes for both of them in the end.

"Little Shoes" conveys simple but touching warmth to us everywhere. Love does not have to be expressed by gorgeous clothes and countless money. Love is when Ali found that Sarah's pencil was too short for her little hand to hold it, and he silently put his pen in front of her. Life is hard, but with the mutual comfort of kind people such as brothers and sisters, neighbors, landlords, and shop owners, it seems to filter the suffering, making people feel the warmth everywhere.

As long as we have firm faith, everything will be fine. In this film, we see the warmth and faith under the hardship of life, which are the strength that supports us to live. Life teases us with black humor, but love finally gives us the most perfect ending.

The brother and sister had clearly found their lost shoes, but when they saw that the little girl was in a more difficult situation than they were, they did not have the heart to take back their shoes. Although they were also suffering from difficulties that most people could not bear. The brother did not get the sneakers he wanted in the sports competition, but the story of the little shoes tells us that as long as we persist in the quality of kindness, life will definitely leave us a ray of light. In the end, when both of them were emotionally lost, their father bought them new shoes.

I remember wanting a bicycle when I was little, from the first grade of primary school. I mentioned it to my parents many times, but it never came true. Then I rode second-hand bicycles in junior high school and high school. When I became rich and capable, I lost my original desire. Now I am still a young man with low desires. On the other hand, adults are trying to satisfy all the desires of children nowadays, or giving them conditions that are higher than their own desires. I don't know whether that kind of life is right or wrong.

But from the movie, a series of things happened between the two siblings. It is very similar to my low desire when I was a child. I didn't have any toys. My winter cotton shoes/padded pants and some clothes were all made by my mother. I was taught from a young age that my things are my own and others' things are others'. My parents are upright, which has always influenced my words and deeds.

Living conditions and ideological education from childhood can really influence a person's life. Parents are really the best teachers. Although my childhood was materially deprived, it was also my favorite time. For those who have lived with low desires since childhood, I hope you can have a life that satisfies your heart.

The reason why I recommend this movie is that it is really pure. Often when we see this kind of movie, it is always full of complaints about social injustice, the rich being unkind, etc. However, a rare thing about this movie is that although it tells the story of the poor, it is not an exhibition of poverty.

The neighborhood where Ali lives is poor and backward, but very clean and the people are kind. The director did not show them like refugees to beg for sympathy from the audience. From beginning to end, they are all trying to live. The whole film does not deliberately show the difficulties of life, but instead reflects the beauty of human nature everywhere.

There is a scene in the film where the father helps the temple crush sugar, and the seriously ill mother asks Sarah to pour a glass of sugar water for the father. Sarah takes a glass of water and hands it to the father, who asks: Why don't you add sugar?

My sister asked, doesn’t Dad have candy? Why are you taking the ones from home?

My father replied angrily: They belong to the mosque and are just temporarily in our custody.

Their father is an honest and kind man, that's why Ali and Sarah behave like this.

When Sarah found her lost shoes at school, the shoes were worn by another little girl. She secretly followed the girl to her doorstep, went home to find her brother, and wanted to go together to get the shoes back.

They hid in the corner and peeked, but found that the girl's father was blind, so they chose to go home in silence.

Later, when the girl picked up Sarah's fountain pen, although she liked it very much, she still sincerely chose to return it to its original owner.

Later, Sarah became good friends with her. When Sarah heard that the little girl's father bought her a new pair of shoes and the old shoes were thrown away, she was shocked and asked: Why throw them away?

The little girl answered aggrievedly: They are rotten.

Despite this, her sister still didn't tell her how important the discarded shoes were to her.

Watching "Little Shoes" is a process of gradually feeling and warming the heart, and a process of baptism of the soul. Even in difficult situations, they still maintain self-respect, simplicity, and kindness. I think they are the best interpretation of the truth, goodness, and beauty of life.

I hope this film can awaken everyone’s beautiful faith in life.

No matter how many setbacks life gives us, the love in our hearts is what matters, it can make us indestructible!"

Of course, a movie like this naturally brings to mind the gap between the rich and the poor.

Perhaps those born in the 1990s and 2000s cannot feel or come into contact with "poverty", or perhaps they have relatively little experience with it, but people born in the 1970s and 1980s can certainly resonate with it.

Internet film critic Ba Ling Hou Lao Sha Nian wrote: "The film tells the story of a boy named Ali who was born in a poor family. He accidentally lost his sister's only pair of red shoes. Not wanting to be punished by his parents, he begged his sister to keep the secret and promised his sister that she could wear his shoes to school. After school, he would change his shoes back and run to school because he also had only one pair of shoes.

The film revolves around shoes. The story selection and the excellent acting skills of the protagonist, Little Ali, have won unanimous praise from the audience. Although the film does not use too many scenes to describe the hardships of life, just a pair of shoes can make the audience feel the kind of depression that makes it difficult to breathe. The era background selected in the film and the experience of the little protagonist are very similar to our generation of the 70s and 80s. At that time, we also experienced poverty and felt inferior because of poverty. Even as adults, we are still affected by it.

In the film, Ali's family is poor, which causes his sister to have a strong inferiority complex!
Ali's sister wore shoes that didn't fit her feet, and she would hide her feet under the table when she went to school, because she didn't want to be seen wearing a pair of men's shoes that were much larger than hers. After school, her sister quickly fled the classroom without wasting a moment, because Ali had to change her shoes and rush to school. There was another reason, she wanted to escape, because at this moment she was shrouded in inferiority, and she was afraid that her classmates would find out and laugh at her.

One day after school, she ran home as usual. Her shoes that didn't fit her feet fell into the ditch. She kept chasing the other shoe that was floating down the river with one shoe on, but she couldn't get the shoe out at all. She squatted on the side and started crying. Her crying was actually more of grievance. She didn't understand why her brother lost her shoes, why she had to wear his shoes for no reason, and why her family was so poor that they couldn't even afford a new pair of shoes.

Passersby saw her crying and helped her pick up her shoes after asking. She couldn't bear it anymore, so she went to the alley where she met her brother and threw her shoes to him. She didn't want to wear her brother's shoes to school anymore, and she wanted to tell her parents. In order to let her keep the secret, Ali gave his mechanical pencil to his sister and promised to buy her a new pair of shoes.

I understand the kind of inferiority complex that makes one unable to raise their head. The reason why the film can make the audience empathize is that they can more or less find their own shadows in it when it comes to poverty and inferiority complex. After all, the harm caused by inferiority complex may be remembered for a lifetime.

The resonance with shoes is hard to imagine for many people who didn’t experience that era.

But in fact, when we were in elementary school, we often only had one or two pairs of shoes. As for luxury goods like rain boots, only students from better-off families could have them. As winter approached, I had already put on the thousand-layer cotton shoes my mother made. It happened to rain, and my shoes were completely soaked. When I got home, my feet were already white from the soaking. I saw a few classmates wearing rain boots, so I mentioned it to my mother, and my mother just said: I don’t have money.

The next day, I wore the same pair of shoes, but they had been dried by the stove. I watched more of my classmates put on waders, and I would not go out during breaks. I hid in the classroom, afraid that others would see the shoes on my feet. Maybe my classmates would not laugh at me, but I was sure they would.

When I was in junior high school, the school held a sports meet and required all students to wear sports shoes. At that time, sports shoes were actually canvas shoes. Even if you only had a few dollars, your family would still not be willing to buy you one. I had already registered, so I had to borrow shoes from my classmates.

The male classmates all had too many entries to give me, so I had to borrow from the female classmates. I will never forget my timid request at that time, and I will never forget the strange look of the female classmates and her reluctant expression.

When I was in high school, it was popular for boys to wear leather shoes. There were very few boys in the class who didn't wear them, including me. At that time, I had a strong vanity and longed to be satisfied, which was actually a manifestation of inferiority. My family was actually well-off enough to afford a pair of shoes, but leather shoes were obviously not something a family with three children should consider.

So I secretly wore a pair of my father's leather shoes that were already cracked. I can't remember how many sizes bigger the shoes were than my feet, but I remember that I had to use two books' worth of paper to pad them to barely fit.

Poverty can make children feel inferior. For example, I am still troubled by inferiority even as an adult. When I take the bus, I am too embarrassed to ask my neighbor or the driver if I don’t know the route. When dealing with interpersonal relationships at work, I have to try on clothes repeatedly, not to show my charm, but just because I am afraid that my colleagues will look down on me. When I invite others to dinner, I will involuntarily worry about the price of the food, and pretend not to care when placing the order to cover up my pitiful inferiority.

Inferiority complex is a personal emotion, but most of the causes of inferiority complex come from the family!

In the film, the sister's inferiority complex comes from the family's poverty. Ali wants to buy a pair of shoes for his sister, and he finds a suitable opportunity, which is to participate in the sports meeting. Ali begs the teacher to allow him to participate in the sports meeting, which has already passed the registration date. He must participate, and the third place in the sports meeting can get a pair of beautiful shoes.

He told his sister the good news, and his sister asked him, can you guarantee that you can get the shoes? Ali gave his sister a positive answer. The sports meeting began. Even if Ali was deliberately tripped, he ignored the scars on his body and continued to run desperately. In my opinion, running here is not just a desire to get shoes, but more of a yearning for a better life.

Ali didn't know how many people had passed in front of him, so he could only rush to the finish line desperately, and he got the first place. He was not happy but cried because he didn't get the pair of shoes he wanted.

He knew that he was going to disappoint his sister again, and sure enough, his sister ran out crying after knowing this. His sister had to wear shoes that didn't fit her again, and she might be laughed at by her classmates. Even if no one cared what she wore, her inner inferiority would not allow her to continue like this, and she needed a new pair of shoes to cover it up.

Compared with Ali, the younger sister has a stronger sense of inferiority. So what makes the younger sister have such a strong sense of inferiority?

The main reason is family poverty. Whether it is a direct or indirect influence, the poor family has made my sister feel inferior. She wants to be like other classmates, but what she faces is that the lease of her house has expired, the landlord has urged her several times to pay the rent, and her father is unable to afford it. Even though she is young, she can feel the plight of the family and be affected.

Families that have been in poverty for a long time are more likely to have problems in life. Once financial problems arise, parents will have no time to take care of their children, and the children will inevitably lack proper guidance in this regard.

Children will be discriminated against by students and even teachers at school, which is what we call "snobbery". When they face unfair treatment, they will inevitably have more negative emotions, including inferiority complex. They will be under the pressure of public opinion that "you are not good enough" and "your family has no money" for a long time.

In the film, Ali followed his father to find a job as a gardener, but when they rang the doorbell of the rich man's house and asked, his father took Ali away. The father here was undoubtedly extremely inferior, and he didn't even dare to talk to the rich. If parents have inferiority complex, their children will naturally be subtly affected.

Poverty is the easiest way to make people feel inferior. Children are also affected by family poverty, which can lead to poor living, learning and mental health, thus causing inferiority. When a family only cares about getting rid of poverty and ignores the psychological construction of their children, the children who have inferiority may suffer from inferiority for a long time, even in adulthood.

Living in the same environment, why doesn't Ali have such a strong inferiority complex?
In my opinion, this is where Ali was able to overcome his inferiority complex. He was a strong child who could fight hard for a pair of sneakers. He was a tolerant child who chose to remain silent when he learned that his sister's shoes were worn by another little girl, because the little girl's father was a blind man and the little girl had to wear shoes to help her father sell groceries every day.

These qualities are obviously given to the character by the movie. If such a family exists in real life and the parents are extremely inferior, the probability of producing an "Ali" would be very small.

Since we cannot have the aura of movies, it is up to families and schools to give children this quality.

At the end of the movie, the father is on his way home, and on the back seat of his bicycle are new shoes he bought for Ali and his sister, a pair of white sneakers and a pair of little red shoes, but this time they are brand new. This is the beginning of a new life, and it also represents the father's new attitude towards poverty. In real life, most people may not be able to decide whether a family is rich or poor, but we can guide children to face it correctly. "

(End of this chapter)