People come and go from north to south, bustling with people. The friends are all starting off one after another. They are either already home or on their way home. At such a time when one is traveling alone, Xiaoba also recommends a healing and heart-warming road movie - "The Peanut Butter Falcon".
This article contains spoilers.
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The story begins in a nursing home. Little Fat Zach is a child with Down syndrome who lives in a nursing home and has a cheerful and optimistic personality. His idol is the wrestler nicknamed "Salt Water Redneck", and his dream is to one day go to the wrestling school run by this athlete in Ayden, Florida and become a wrestler.
So he always wanted to escape from this nursing home. After two failures, he finally managed to escape one night with the help of his good friend Carl!
The escaped little fat Zach ran and ran, and ran to a private fishing boat on the beach to hide. The owner of this fishing boat, Taylor , was also driving the boat in a panic and preparing to escape!
It turned out that Taylor, a fisherman, was forced to make a living and secretly used other people's cages to catch crabs. As a result, the other party found out and beat him up.
In order to vent his anger after being beaten, Taylor lit a fire to burn the crab pots. Unexpectedly, the fire became bigger and bigger, and soon spread to the entire pier. Equipment worth 12,000 US dollars was burned to pieces. ash. Taylor, who didn't want to be caught as an arsonist, chose to run away, which led to the scene just now.
As expected, Taylor soon discovered Zach hiding on the boat. From the initial suspicion to slowly letting go of his guard, the two gradually became familiar with each other and became good friends. Taylor also promised to help Zach Go to wrestling school in Ayden.
Along the way, the two of them ate watermelon during the day and practiced wrestling around the campfire at night. They had a great time. When buying supplies, they also met a generous small supermarket owner:
and a cute blind black uncle who devoutly believed in God:
Another On the other hand, the kind-hearted caregiver Elinor lost her caretaker Zach. In order to keep her job, she had to drive alone to find him.
Hard work paid off. After days and nights of trekking through mountains and rivers and the guidance of the blind black uncle, Eleanor finally found Zach and Taylor at the beach. But at this time, they were unwilling to return to the sanatorium, and they successfully brainwashed Elinor! So, the three people embarked on a wonderful journey to Eden, Florida...
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"The Peanut Butter Falcon" is on the surface a story about two normal people helping a child with Down syndrome pursue his dream. In fact, in the process In the film, this child with Down's Syndrome purifies the souls of two mentally "sick" adults, which is the greater attraction. The three people in the movie don't seem to be going so smoothly in life: Zach has been sick since childhood and was abandoned by his family; Taylor has been struggling to make ends meet; and Elinor became a widow at a young age.
And little Fat Zach is just like Forrest Gump. His world is very pure and simple. You donât need to think too much when encountering things. Once you set a goal, you will keep working hard to move forward. He likes to make friends and regards people who are good to him as his family, even risking his life to protect them. Zach can watch his idol's videos 10 times a day without getting bored. However, because he is a child with Down syndrome, everyone treats him as an abnormal person and ignores the dream he pursues.
Taylor, who was forced to escape, lived in resentful memories most of the time. He had an impetuous personality, constantly evading the mistakes he made, and was pessimistic in the face of difficulties. Being overwhelmed by life, he burst out these sad emotions on the raft he made with Zach.
But Zach taught him to face life and himself bravely. As he continued to get along with Zach, he gradually discovered the most valuable thing about him - he was not a child with Down syndrome, but a normal and determined dream chaser. Taylor himself is constantly ignited by Zach's passion, and gradually discovers his own value in the process of helping him.
Nursing worker Elinor has been taking good care of little chubby Zach and other patients with Down syndrome in the past few years. She has taken care of everything about food, clothing, housing and transportation, just like a nanny. Helping these patients gives her a great sense of accomplishment, so she once thought that she Very valuable.
It wasnât until she heard Taylorâs words, âMaybe you didnât use the word retarded, but youâre going to make him feel like a retarded personâ that she suddenly realized and began to try to treat him as a normal person rather than a child with Down syndrome. , encouraged him to move towards his dream, and also slowly found himself in the process of helping him.
Many of us live a very hard life, but the simple and happy little fat Zach seems to be telling us that in the final analysis, we are not pure enough. From a simple child to an adult who seems to be omnipotent, he has also been given too many impurities by society and the surrounding environment. If life is a spiritual practice, it may be a process of removing impurities, slowly restoring the innocence of the past, and returning to the most primitive purity.
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The cast of this film is very interesting, good looking and well acted. It was her starring role that made her an instant hit. It can be said that the subject matter is completely different from this film. In her, people admire her.
Veteran actor Bruce Dern won the Best Actor at Cannes in 2013 with "Nebraska" and has been nominated for Oscars many times. This time he made a cameo in the film to help little chubby Zach "abscond" The old naughty boy Carl.
Starring Zach Gotchagen is a real Down syndrome patient. "The Peanut Butter Falcon" is his first "electric shock" screen debut, and there is a touching story behind this movie:
Director Taylor¡ Nielsen and Mike Schwartz met Zach Gotchagen, who played Zach, a child with Down syndrome in the film, when they attended an acting training camp for people with disabilities eight years ago. At that time, Zach really wanted to act in a movie, but the director said it would be difficult to do so, which made Zach very sad. So the two directors decided to make a film about him, and wrote the swimming and boxing that Zach was good at into the script. Coupled with the participation of a group of enthusiastic entertainers, this movie was born, an uncompromising and touching healing masterpiece!
Such a heart-warming movie gained a good reputation after its release and even won the Audience Choice Award in the drama category at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The style of the movie is fresh and natural, the story is compact, and the handling of some details makes people laugh and watch it with great interest.
At the end of the movie, Taylor said: "I'm going to start over in a new place and save money to pay off my debts." Let us see that this journey with Zach has cleansed his soul. He was finally able to let go of his worries and face life no longer escaping.
"When God closes a door for you, he will also open a window for you." In our eyes, Zach, the patient, inadvertently shows the simple and pure side of people, but has an unusual power. Watching movies like this during the holidays, I believe that while being moved, it will also give us the healing we need.
