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I have been watching a lot of movies recently, both home and abroad. But I don’t wanna really write something about that. Maybe most of them were too far away from me, or I just forgot them the next day. However, I can’t stop thinking about this one since last night called ”Angel’s Heart” and I must do something for it. It’s a simple story directed by a guy who was born in the 1980s. The story is made in memory of those who have been teaching in small poor villages in south of China and also given as a special present for them. A young college graduate girl wants to continue her research about education problems in mountain area countryside. So she tries her best to apply for teaching for 3 months far away from the city. She has a boyfriend who used to study aboard and came back in college time. They were very much in love with each other before they came to the small village together. The girl says that it was a love test between them. She tells him that if he can stay with her for that 3 months, then she will marry him at once when they come back home. The boy was quite sure of himself with that cos he thought he loved the girl very much and he would love to scarify for her. He never thought the difficulties would be so out of his imagination. On the train to the village, they were still very excited about what was gonna happen to them. They called their friends to tell them the big news on the empty train till it stopped at a very beautiful place. There was a small truck pulled by a cow. They were still singing on the way for the nice trip, if only it was only a travel trip. The head of the village waited in the entrance of the village and gave them a very big and warm welcome in a very funny way in our eyes. He was speaking his native language but not madrin and he looked stupid as well. There were big and deep time marks on his forehead and his teeth were dark brown and some of them were broken. His face was the color like a burnt skin. They were both shocked by him as well. He introduced the head teacher who was also the only teacher there to them. The head teacher called all the 18 kids in the school together and they gathered in a very impressive way. One of them carried a pig in his arms with a box cos there was nobody else at his house and it might be stolen; another took the cow there cos his mom asked him to feed it with grass on the hill after that. When they were all welcoming to the new teachers, the cow suddenly ran away and they had to chase it around. The chickens were frightened as well. There used to be another teacher from a big city who served here for free for about 2 months. She taught the kids in a completely different way, like the Britain and American. All the kids loved her a lot and when she had to leave there at last, all the kids cried out loudly. The kids became smarter than before and it was even more difficult for the head teacher to educate them cos of the comparison. Both the head of the village and he were afraid of the same thing happening again, so they tried very hard not to let the new teachers in charge of main lessons like Chinese or Math. Meanwhile, the girl’s boyfriend was totally astonished by the surroundings and he never stopped looking for fun himself. The signals were pretty bad there and he even fell down to the ground when he climbed a ladder to the roof to make a call about football competition. Even he tried to play football with the kids; it still couldn’t help at all about his loneliness and boringness. They never had meat since he went there cos it was not in a festival and at first he quite much liked it for it helped losing weight, but later on it turned very terrible. So he asked the head teacher to kill the cow or even some chicken for meat, but the head teacher told him that the cow must live for working on the farm and the chicken have to stay for the eggs and the eggs have to be sold for the text books for the kids. But he still wanted them badly so one day he took some risks and chased after the chicken. The result was that he was caught by the dog and got a bite from it as well. When after all of this he came to his girlfriend for comfort, she just said that he deserved all. She had been very cold to him cos she was still worrying about how to teach main lessons there. He wrote a letter to the head teacher and asked him to let the girl be in charge but it didn’t work out. They even thought of a way to vote for the Chinese teacher and all the kids chose the head teacher cos he asked them to. Later the girl got an unknown letter about the truth and finally she took the charge. Of course at last we know that the one who wrote this was in fact a little boy who never spoke since his father heat him badly and seriously after drunk. When the girl was enjoying all of this and felt great of herself, the boy was still bored of the life and it became more and more difficult for him to continue. One day he went near a lake and there was a man fishing. He asked him, is there any fish here in the water? The man replied in a certain voice, yes, sure. He didn’t come back to school when it was very late at night and the girl was quite worried about him. When she was about to shout at the head teacher for she thought it was him who hid her boyfriend again to force them to leave her boyfriend showed up in the dark distance in a very disappointed mood. They asked him where he had been and what he had done. He told them that he went to a lake but didn’t get any fish till too late. “But the man near the lake told me that there is! “ He said. “You mean the man who has been crazy for years?” The headteacher said. “Yeah. I finally knew it at last.” He went to the room to pack his luggage but the girl wouldn’t allow him to go. She held her in her arms tightly and he stayed in her bed that night. Before that he was arranged to sleep with the headteacher and he kept on complaining about his snoring and moving around. In the morning she went out to climb the mountain with the kids when he was still sleeping like a baby. When they were happily playing there, the head of the village ran there and told her that her boyfriend just left. She ran to the station immediately and when she got there, it began to rain very heavily. But she couldn’t stop him when he said this: “Yeah, You are right. I am a big fool since the day I came here, just like the one who keeps on fishing in a lake without any fish! I wanna go home now and I miss my family!” “Then how about our love?” She asked. He didn’t say anything but cried out tears. The girl fell down to the ground when she walked back to the village and she woke up in a hospital. The biggest girl in the class was there as well as the headteacher. They talked a lot about how he became a teacher and why. He said that he felt so proud like a general when speaking on the stage. One day the biggest girl suddenly disappeared and she told him that she had gone to work in the city. He got very angry for that and later on told her the truth. He said the girl’s father died cos of him. His father got deaf when he was young kid playing fire on the street. Then he went to the city to work and was killed by the truck behind cos he couldn’t hear at all. He said that he must be responsible for the girl and he couldn’t allow her to be like his sister. His sister went to the city to work at first selling things but later on selling bodies. She jumped out of the window in the 18th floor when the police came to catch her. She mistook the window as a door… The girl teacher’s eyes were wet after hearing this and she went together to the city with him to find her back. He asked her to take some photos for him to find a wife in a dating place at town. 3 months have been over and she had to go back to the city as well. Of course all the kids cried again when saying goodbye. One day the head of the village came to visit the girl teacher in the city and brought her some fruit in the hill cos she likes them. When she asked him to take some photos back to the headteacher, he told her that he had been dead when trying to fix the wall and roof of the school. She was deeply touched by this and decided to go back there again. One day two journalists came to the village after hearing her story. They wanted her to tell them something but she wouldn’t like to so they asked her to just take a photo. She was sitting in the chair in the middle in the front when a little kid moved another chair near her and some other kids put some wild flowers on the chair. That was the end of the story. I couldn’t forget about it cos it has so much to do with my own dreams. To become a teacher when grow up was the first big dream that I had in my childhood and even it’s too small in others’ eyes. I think maybe someday I will chose to teach like this as well. For the love part, I think I am very confident of myself in some points as well, especially in the faith for the power of love. I think people can change the world as long as they have got enough love in their hearts. And I also believe that love can make mysterious things happen cos it will bring two completely different persons together and try to be better for each other. At last, it reminds me of a famous write in Taiwan called Sanmao. She married a guy from Spain and lived together in Sahara for many years. She didn’t choose a way to teach there, but she found a way to live. And the love between them is forever and what I want. He loves her and then he will follow her anywhere anytime till the last moment of his life. He died for her at last when trying to catch some fish in the sea for her and she killed herself as well after his death. She said that without regret and sorry to her parents, she wouldn’t feel so painful at all. |
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