My Favorite Film

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In a way, it’s films that give me a whole life journey, even though
I’m only eighteen years old. They show me different life experiences
of different people and taught me the true meaning of life. So they
are all my favorite films.
Work Hard for My Life
Hard working is almost everything in my life since I got into primary
school. My parents, friends and teachers put so many pressures on me
that I was really driven mud. But the fact that I was not the best in
my class let everyone down! During that time, I wanted to give up
working hard and just do something that I really want to do. But I
could not. That made me hurt and I could do nothing except bursting
into tears.
I saw the film---Homeless to Harvard when I was in third grade in
middle school. The year was very important to me; my future was set on
it.
Liz said,” My mother was dying, my father was gone…What’s a home
anyway; a roof, a bed, a place where when you go there, they have to
take you? If so then I was fifteen when I became homeless.” I can
still remember these words. I was wondering how a sixteen-year-old
girl said words like “You’re 16 years old with an 8th grade education
and you’re on a downward spiral that would end in a worse place than
you ever dreamed.”
Then I compared the living environment of Liz with my own. I had a
happy family and lived a comfortable life. Just owning to some
difficulties, I wanted to give up my life. How could that odd idea
come into my mind? It took me completely by surprise. Just like Liz
said, “I really… I feel that I was lucky because any sense of security
was put out from under me. So I was forced to look forward. I had to.”
Maybe I just felt that I needn’t care about those questions. But that
was my life, my further, no one could help me except myself. Ok “All
right, I’m goanna work as hard as I possibly can and see what
happens.” And then I was admitted by the key high school after
overcoming my disorientation.
It was Liz who told me I should work hard for my life!
Be True to My Life
There are so many amazing things in this world and everyone wants to
be successful. But they always ask themselves, “Why do I want to get
them?”, when they can lay their hands upon everything they want.
They just get most other people want because of vanity and greed, at
the same time they go against their hearts.
After watching the film Howl’s Moving Castle, I found that Howl was
the representation of those people. He lost his heart for powers. At
last, when he found what he really wanted, he was full of courage to
try to be free. Of course, Sophie was a very important reason.
Howl reminded me that if you keep chasing your dream so hard, you will
be driven to death. If I just know I must work hard, but don’t know
how to fallow my heart, most probably I’ll step on a wrong track.
It was Howl and Sophie who told me I should be true to my heart!
Learn to Let Go
In the film Over Her Dead Body, I think Kate is a very lovely girl.
Yes, of course, it’s hard for everyone to accept the truth that your
lover will some day love other people. But she did! That’s the real
meaning of loving someone---Let him go if he can’t get happiness with
you.
This is true for not only lovers, but also for family members and
friends, including everyone you love. Let them go if you can not bring
happiness to them. Be a leader to everyone you love, lead them to get
on the road to a happier life. That’s all I could do for them. If they
get it, I’ll get it as well.
It was Kate who told me how to let go!
There are angels in every film who show the right way for me. Maybe my
life is not as amazing life as in films, but I read the meaning of the
angels; maybe my experiences are not as rich as films, but I treasure
them. They have always been my life, I really feel lucky that I could
see so many good films. They are all my favorite films that teach me
how to live my life, how to be an upright person.
Working hard, being true to my heart and letting go are different
parts of my life that I should learn through the whole life journey.
Maybe one day I could read the truth of my whole life. William Blake
once said “To the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild
flower” is the truth of life. That is what my favorite films told me
as well.