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I want you to go wherever you want, this is your own decision, Michael, this is your own life.
—— "Weakness"
"Weakness" was released in 2009, and it has a traditional American inspirational film, but it has a background in the traditional sense of "chicken soup". The movie
is about a tall and sturdy African boy, Michael Och. He was homeless since he was a child and met the Taosi family after he ran away from his adoptive family countless times.
Michael gradually turned from being closed, introverted, and cheerful, and his grades gradually improved. Finally, with his talent in rugby, he received a rugby scholarship from the University of Mississippi. In the
film, the male protagonist Michael has experienced three turning points in his life. This article will talk about the "price" of love and kindness from these three turning points.
Turning 1: Entering the church school
At the beginning of the film, Tony, the father of Michael’s previous adoptive family, took his son and Michael to the church school, and wanted to let the two children enter the church school through football coach Cotton. go to school.
Cotton was originally reluctant, but when he saw Michael playing, he exclaimed: "Oh my God!"
Then in the principal’s meeting and discussion, in the face of opposition from the teachers, Cotton still strongly recommended Michael. , And said: "This has nothing to do with sports, this is the spirit of Christ, the right thing to admit him." The
film saw here, two kind people appeared, one of them brought Michael to the door, and the other led Michael into the door. , But is this really selfless? Is it really just out of "Christian spirit"? This is not the case with
, or in other words, not all.
Michael still had to return to Tony’s house to sleep at night after enrolling in school. One day, he heard a conversation between Tony and his wife:
Di: “I’m tired of someone living in our house. I bother him to eat everything.”
Tony: "Is it necessary to show some Christian spirit in this matter?"
Di: "Let others show the Christian spirit, let others take the responsibility."
can only say that the conditions of a family are ordinary. For Americans, raising their own children is enough to make the Tonys feel strenuous, not to mention raising a Michael who is bigger than ordinary people.
We can believe that when the Tonys adopted Michael, it was definitely out of good intentions and good intentions, but they have been raising him, and the Tonys are also powerless. If they don't send Michael away, the price will be the destruction of their own family.
What about Coach Cotton? Coach
Cotton at the beginning vowed to say that this is the spirit of Christ, people can't help but admire him, thinking that he is a coach with a sense of justice and responsibility.
But in fact, there are also impure things in his goodwill.
In the middle part of the movie, Coach Cotton revealed his true thoughts for the first time: He took a fancy to Michael’s physical talent and wanted him to join his football team to make the team stronger and win the championship. Career plays a driving role.
At the end of the film, after Michael signed with the University of Mississippi, Coach Cotton also got a position at the University of Mississippi as he wished.
Anderson, the editor-in-chief of American "Wired" magazine, once wrote a book called "Free: The Future of Business", which mentioned the business model of free services, and one of the most important points is "cross subsidy."
means that if a company wants to achieve profit through a free business model, it must have other income to subsidize the free part of the expenditure. Coach Cotton’s kindness in the
film is just like that. He helped Michael "selflessly", promoted Michael’s enrollment, and taught him football. It seemed to provide services for free without asking for rewards, but in the end Michael brought him more value Here. This is using future "profits" to subsidize the current "free".
And Tony has no other way to get a "subsidy", just blindly help Michael for free. This is a normal family condition. Under such circumstances, the end result can only be "bankruptcy."
Turning Two: Meeting Michael's second turning point in the
film with the Taoxi family appeared on a rainy night when he had already left Tony's house and became homeless again.
On that rainy night, he was about to go to the slightly warmer stadium for one night, and happened to ran into the Tao Xi couple on the road.
In the subsequent plot, Mrs. Taosi took Michael to buy new clothes, went to a high-end restaurant for dinner, obtained a driver's license for him, bought him a car, asked him for tutoring, and even because of Michael, Mrs. Taosi wanted to do charity. Activities and fund charity projects to help more people like Michael. All of these
are built on a solid economic foundation. In the film, it is mentioned that Tao Xi and his wife have 85 properties in the city, and they can make a lot of income without going to work.
According to Anderson's theory, this is actually a form of cross-subsidy. Because the Taossi and his wife have a huge income elsewhere, they are willing to pay and can afford the kindness of Michael.
Turn Three: True love cannot be measured by "price"
This is the last turning point that Michael has experienced in the film, and it is also a turning point of this article. At this time, he was facing the dilemma of choosing a university. Too many universities took a fancy to Michael's football talent, and Michael finally chose the University of Mississippi.
I say this is a turning point because the selection process is not so smooth.
Remember the female investigator that appeared before the article? It was she who told Michael that Coach Cotton had won the position at the University of Mississippi.
is not only that, in the first conversation, she also told Michael that the Taoxi couple and the tutor Miss Su are both graduates of the University of Mississippi, both have donated to the University of Mississippi and are so-called "supporters." The female investigator
believes that everything the Taoxis did for Michael and all the food and clothing they gave to Michael was to use Michael and let Michael play for his alma mater, the University of Mississippi. After hearing this, Michael was shocked and went out to have a fight with Mrs. Tao Xi, and then "disappeared".
may need to care about "cost" in good faith, but true love cannot be measured by "cost".
The Taosi family accepted Michael because of kindness at first, but with the increase of time together, they have already become a real family. Family members should not be called "goodwill". Call it "love".
Mrs. Tao Xi not only spends money on Michael, she will also do things to Michael that she did only to her children before, such as telling bedtime stories, encouraging him, teaching him behavior, and even the family photo also includes Michael. s position.
In addition, the youngest son of Taoxi and his wife has always called Michael "brother", and the eldest daughter of Taoxi and his wife, regardless of other people's strange eyes, sat with Michael generously.
All of this can't be explained by the word "cost".
This is love.
may have figured this out. Michael took the initiative to call Mrs. Tao Xi and yelled the word "Mother" for the first time.
Then Mrs. Taosi met with Michael and had a conversation about family and choices. This conversation is definitely the essence of the whole movie.
At the end of the conversation, Mrs. Tao Xi said a paragraph, which is the introduction from the beginning of my article: "I want you to go wherever you want. This is your own decision, Michael, this is your own life. "
So when Michael met with the investigator for the second time, he gave his answer: he finally chose the University of Mississippi, regardless of the interest conspiracy, and he was not taken advantage of, just because that was where the family went to school.
Conclusion
We often use economics principles to analyze human behavior. In most cases this is useful, but sometimes people’s behavior will be unexpected.material. Love is such a special time.
We often care about gains and losses in our lives, and we can’t wait to count everything, even the kindness we pay every time. But when we face true love, we will still be desperate.
love is free, but it is the most expensive, because it is priceless.
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