A very interesting movie, moving and exotic, just after reading a few books about Africa, you can experience modern Africa more deeply.
Let me talk about a few interesting things first. It was said on TV that Africans didn't know their birth date, so they didn't know when they could go to school. But they have a little trick of their own, which is to let the child stretch his hand from the top of the head to the other side. If the hand can reach the ear, he has reached the age of elementary school. Now learn and use it now, let Haibei experiment immediately, the result is really so. The four-year-old Haibei stretched his hands from the top of his head to the other side, two inches from his ears. It should be possible in two more years.
The second is the country where the story happened, Malawi. It was the first time I heard about this country. I searched the map for a long time before I found this country in the cracks at 15° south latitude in southern Africa. He was perfect Sandwiched between the four countries of Tanzania, Mozambique, Bique and Zambia.
The third is about farming in Africa. Later online discussions mostly talked about the problems in African farming. I think it may not be laziness in the human bones, but the different farming methods. In addition, Africa's natural conditions are relatively good, and it is not particularly barren. Compared with the recent drama "Mountain and Sea Situation", the situation of water shortage in Ningxia, the two are simply not the same.
The whole story is very simple, but the amorous feelings of ordinary African villages and towns are visually displayed in the play. I like the tropics and I yearn for tropical life, because the housing conditions there are not very good, the edible plants grow fast, and the people in the tropics always give people a happy, happy, optimistic feeling that does not need to worry about life, but in Malawi , Along with colonial sequelae and political naivety, turned a natural disaster into a man-made disaster. It is hard to imagine that there will be famines and belly that cannot be filled in today's society.
The entire country is in extreme poverty. Without its own industry, farming is also the most primitive way. A continuous rainstorm and drought can bring the entire country to a standstill. What a fragile country this is. Selling trees to big companies in exchange for meager income. After the trees are gone, the soil begins to evaporate. It really makes people feel a sense of despair. Generations go back and forth, unable to change their own destiny, living in the same era. But this era has been left far beyond the era.
Kamkwamba, a long string of names, truly embodies that knowledge changes destiny. Perhaps it was his luck, perhaps the power of knowledge, that saved the entire village and also saved his own destiny. From the story to the book to the shooting of this movie, I believe that Kamkwamba has completed the transformation of his life, and I also believe that he will make his own contribution to the barren Africa.
Recently, I also read a book, "Long Long Seeking the Waterway", which also tells a story about water that happened in Africa. After the war in South Sudan, the country is still trapped in poverty. In 1996 and 2016, 20 years later, it was still poor and still lacking water. If even the most basic living resources are lacking, how can it be possible to ask this country to save itself? The story of Africa and the future of Africa are still worrying.
"The Boy Harnessing the Wind" is a simple story and a simple truth. When the surrounding environment is in chaos, only oneself can save oneself. The filming of the whole film is still a bit slow, the front and back stories are not closely connected, but as far as the director of the first filming is concerned, it is already very good. I hope to see more true stories about modern Africa in the future.
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