Chapter 517: Crying and laughing
"Soul Surfer" was screened for half an hour, and the audience had different moods, but their eyes couldn't take their eyes off the screen.
Liz was born into a Christian family, but she is an atheist, and the problems she sees now are one of the reasons. She really wondered whether Ye Wei was going to make a movie that made people believe in God, or didn't believe in God? He was releasing the demon in the cage.
"Gia, isn't Roberts acting very well?"
In the hotel suite, Alicia blinked her teary eyes, and Jennifer nodded: "Yes, it's a great act." They have heard Ye Weiming say and say many times that "Emma is not acting well, I am not satisfied", isn't it very good? How can it be good?
"I don't know, I'm watching it for the first time. Gia shrugged her shoulders and seemed to be very casual when she was on the set, but it didn't look so bad, this is the camera performance, a good director has all kinds of tricks in the editing room, and. She said: "Emma is more expressive when she plays a brutal and decrepit person than when she plays a sweet girl. ”
Not only did she feel, but Ye Wei also said that Emma's cheap and tough attributes could not be ignored, this time of course it has nothing to do with cheapness, but she is wandering on the edge of darkness, so she is more suitable to play Bethany than completely sweet and sunny. Gia is looking forward to it: "There is a good show to watch in the second act. ”
Jennifer is competitive, Emma plays well, and Xie Lin is not bad, she is really talented in playing a bitter face. There are only two girls left in the ward on the screen, Alanna chokes up, Bethany is absent-minded, and the two encourage each other, but there is a sense of estrangement.
No one can be blamed for this accident, the Blanchards saved Bethany's benefactors, and she is obviously not blaming anyone, but she is completely lost......
The atmosphere in the screening room was also very low, looking at Bethany's tearful eyes on the screen, Nina let out a long sigh, as if all the negative emotions were aroused.
The video arrives in the hospital cafeteria, focusing on the family members of the protagonists of the side story, Bethany, whose hearts have changed.
There is no need for words, the two double counter-shots present the expressions of four people at a table in front of the audience, and the four faces show four hearts. Noah and Tim are listless, Tom is so serious that his grief and annoyance can almost be seen on the screen, and even the calmest Sheri can't hide the grief in her eyes.
Ivy Kaufman finally really understood the reason for Ye Wei's casting, these people are not the most typical Hawaiian surfers, but their bookish air and melancholy have quietly played a major role, making people feel their pain and the sadness of this accident even more.
When they just laugh, they are not the best, and when they have to sink their faces, they look so right.
"Noah, can you eat properly?" On the screen, Tom suddenly found fault.
"What's wrong with me?" Noah was a little dissatisfied.
Both father and son exploded like dynamite kegs, quickly turning from a small quarrel to a big fuss, just venting the anxiety and grief in their hearts. Tim was scolded for trying to persuade him to fight, and the eyes around him turned to Sheri who was dissatisfied, "You all stop me, is it time to fight?" She took a deep breath and comforted the family: "Beth is okay! we can get through it, life will go on ......"
Noah couldn't help but interrupt: "Life will go on, but everything has changed!" Cherry shouted again: "You have to accept all the changes, you all are!" Tom was silent and did not speak, Cherry said, "Our whole family is here." Noah said "I'm sorry" and got up to leave, and Tim got up and walked away if he didn't want to stay, "I'll go see Bethany." ”
Sheri couldn't stop them, she looked at Tom and said helplessly, "Say something? Tom lowered his head, blaming himself and expressing pain: "I said, I told the children, everything will be fine." But what if it doesn't? It's not going to be okay? Then we have to learn to accept this fact and adapt to it now. Cherry fell silent.
What if not?
The audience listened to Tom's pessimistic and fragile words, and felt more and more worried about the family. Unlike LMS, even if my grandfather dies, it's black humor, and this time it's really sad. It's not just Bethany who is shattered, the whole family is shattered.
Their attitudes towards life, confidence, and beliefs have all suffered a huge impact, and they will be overturned at any time.
And their new life will inevitably come, and will this violent storm wash away their sins, or will they bring them sins?
Lily sighed, and when she was troubled by her illness, she would also think "Why did I get ADHD? What did I do wrong? Why me?" She thought that this movie would give her some answers, but then she would definitely be more crazy in love, and she was really a little uneasy.
The broken arm of Bethany is pitiful but still beautiful, and Guggenheim and many other writers know that this marks the beginning of the second act, and one of the important stages of the second act is to satisfy the details of the story that the audience wants to see, and the changes in Bethany's life are undoubtedly of greatest interest to the audience.
She became a celebrity is real and the focus of the audience, and it was immediately shown on the screen, reporters blocked outside the hospital to do interviews, and the paparazzi wanted to sneak into the ward to secretly take first-hand photos of Bethany, but Tim, who came back in time, intercepted and drove away.
Bethany watched television in her hospital room, and she became a public figure with her news on almost every channel.
The swarm of media reporters left the Hamilton family at a loss for a moment, especially since they were still in a state of grief and were in no mood to deal with it. On the day of discharge, outside the hospital, the father and son almost had a rough fight with the reporters, and Sheri protected Bethany, and finally the whole family got into the car and left.
Mark Herrera was amused and admired by Marc Herrera, a reporter for Sing Tao Daily, who made an effort to reach out to the Hamilton family and later did an interview.
They don't reveal their true feelings easily, and they show an uncanny optimism to the outside world, and there are only a few in Bethany's autobiography, such as "It's not easy to get back on my feet," "I don't want people to sympathize with me," and "I'm still learning how to deal with frustration."
And now, in Ye Wei's movie, he sees a group of living people, living people who are not easy to be optimistic and strong.
On the big screen, on the Hamilton family's way home, North Shore residents set up surfboards with their own greetings on both sides of the road, and Bethany smiled for a long time, and the audience couldn't help but be moved.
However, immediately after that, everyone saw a large group of media reporters waiting in the public area in front of their house from a distance, including photojournalists and television station film crews, crowded to the brimming. As soon as they returned, they rushed away, and all kinds of chaotic voices mingled clearly: "Bethany Hamilton is home! "The Miracle of Life, Bethany Hamilton!", "We'll try to do a live online interview. ”......
The long shots from the inside of the car make the audience feel like a member of Bethany's family, watching it all as they are. Funny, angry, irritable, the key is Beth's attitude? The frontal close-up camera is focused on the back row, and her frown is visibly displeased.
"Can you tell them to go away?" said Sheri, who was on the left in the back seat, and Tim on the right, said, "I'll get out of the car and let them go." Noah, who was driving in the front seat, said angrily: "Let's drive over directly and see who dares to stop them!" He pressed the horn of the car and was about to step on the accelerator. At the shrill sound of the horn, Tom shouted, "No, no, no, go!
Noah still listened, inserted the camera, he jerked the steering wheel, the panoramic shot, only to see the car driving away on the road, the reporters chased the car but couldn't catch up, and finally they could only stop, with Jinji's voiceover barking.
Those who have read the biography know that this is true, and instead of returning home, they rented a seaside tourist house in Anahora, east of the North Shore, for a while.
The screen is a natural, low, and faithful representation of the situation, and after a montage, the five of them walk into the living room of the house and look at the unfamiliar surroundings. The audience could see that they were staying in a rented seaside cottage.
"I'm going home and bringing something. Tom said, and Cherry said, "I'll go with me." Tom nodded, "Tell us what you want us to bring." ”
The camera follows Bethany as she walks away, her family members in the background, and she walks to a wall mirror in the living room, looking at herself with a broken arm in the mirror, and her breath suddenly becomes rapid, almost crying. Hearing her mother's call, she immediately turned around and grinned, "Jinji, remember to bring Jinji." ”
Everyone smiles at her, Tom and Cherry leave, and Noah and Tim look concerned.
"I'm fine. Bethany smiled and turned to walk, hurrying in his footsteps.
At the same time, there was an interlude in the screening room.
Giacchino knows that this is the title song of Bethany-Dillon's 16-year-old solo debut album Beautiful-Sessions (2004-1-15), which was released independently at the age of 16. Direen is also a devout believer, she looks down on fame and fortune, and just wants to sing for God, so she maintains her independence and does not develop into a singer.
He agreed with Ye Wei and said, "Maybe this is God's arrangement", that Bethany song, so suitable for this Bethany story.
In the sad accompaniment music, the heartbroken audience saw Bethany walk in from the mirror of the bathroom basin, because she was in a closed space, she immediately showed her emotions without reservation, looking at herself in the mirror, her right hand caressing her broken left arm, her face was red, her eyes were full of tears.
The young female voice sang softly: "
I used to be so unique
Now I feel superficial
I relied on makeup to cover everything
Falling asleep crying alone because I couldn't keep everyone's attention
I thought I could be strong
But it just destroyed me
Did anyone hear me crying?
I'm dying for a new life."
Bethany held back her tears, she turned on the faucet to cover the cry with the sound of water, and suddenly punched her left shoulder with her right hand to wipe away the tears that kept pouring out. She swung herself to look in the mirror from all angles until tears welled down her face, her pained right hand pinching the washbasin.
At this time, there is a series of flashbacks, she is facing the sea with her hands open, she is surfing in the sea, she is holding the championship trophy high, she is smiling brightly......
"I want to be beautiful
Keep you amazed
I was amazed to see my heart
I want to hear you all say
I'm quite a good person
Just want to be a sage of love and beauty."
The Hamiltons in the Brown Bear Theater were all a little choked. The audience's hearts are trembling, and they seem to be being held by that hand, so sad, worried, and worried about this angel girl, a pair of audience eyes are hot, such a simple emotional impact, such a strong emotional impact.
At the end of the flashback, there is a cross-montage on the screen, Tom and Cherry stride directly past the group of reporters, the two enter the house, Gingy rushes up, they pack their things, Tom picks up a surfboard and stops or puts it down, the seaside cabin, Bethany chops fruit on the kitchen cabinet, but she can't do it with one hand, the tomato slides unsteadily off the cutting board on the kitchen cabinet and falls to the floor.
Bethany frowned, sat down on the floor suddenly, caught the tomato between his feet, and cut it with a knife in his right hand, his face showing stubbornness.
"Sometimes I want to be someone else more than myself
Fight for the pleasure of looking in the mirror
Trying to find whatever is lost
Won't you help me get back to honor?"
Noah and Tim, who came to the kitchen, were stunned when they saw this, they looked at each other, and suddenly walked to the kitchen cabinet in unison, each picked up a fruit knife and a tomato, sat down on either side of Bethany, also held the tomato with both feet, and cut it with the knife in his right hand. Bethany looked at them left and right, and smiled, a heartfelt smile. The two brothers also laughed, and they raised their left hands one after the other, and they both rubbed her head.
"I want to be beautiful
Keep you amazed
I was amazed to see my heart
I want to hear you all say
I'm quite a good person
Just want to be a sage of love."
This brother's warmth not only comforted Bethany, but also comforted every audience. Countless people smiled, and those girls who had deep feelings for their brothers were even more emotional, Nina had an older brother, Liz had an older brother, and Jennifer had two older brothers......
Duoduo has an older brother.
More people are touched by family affection, and the love between family members nourishes the heart.
On screen, Tom and Cherry return with their luggage and Gingy, who barks and runs to Bethany, who is still sitting on the floor, whining and whining sadly, sniffing and rubbing her left arm with his nose as if to check on her injuries. Bethany hugged Gingy with her right hand, laughing and crying as she rubbed its sand skin folds.
In the panoramic shot of the five people, Tom and Sheri in the background gently hugging each other, looking at the children, and the three brothers and sisters in the close-up are stroking Jinji, and everyone has a sincere and bitter smile. That trivial family quarrel has apparently dissolved, and no matter how life changes, they are still family, which is constant.
They work hard together, they face it together, and they are ready for a new life.
Sheri walked over, picked up a lemon from the fruit bowl on the kitchen cabinet, and encouraged her daughter, "Sweetheart, leave the tomatoes alone." If life gives you lemons, then you make lemon juice. ”
Bethany smiled and nodded, and said to the two brothers, "Did you hear that?" Noah and Tim also smiled and nodded.
Off the screen, more and more viewers are crying.
Amy exhaled and wiped the corners of her eyes, Bethany is unfortunate, but having such a family is really enviable, I really want to get married, I really want to have ......
Ye Wei is worthy of being Ye Wei, he never makes a mistake in dealing with family warmth, whether it is in a short film, a feature film, a comedy, or a tragedy, he can move people every time, he touches the softest part of people's hearts, he can sink into darkness, and he can also bring light.
The perfect interlude gradually faded away, and the audience's hearts that had been aching for a while were undoubtedly soothed a lot, but they still maintained their emotions for the story. The film not only naturally rises and falls, but also successfully shapes the family, showing the part of the "love and encouragement of family and friends" mentioned in the opening narration.
At this moment, there is no doubt that this part is the key to supporting her to be strong in the face of her new life, and she doesn't understand why God is doing this to her, and the whole Hamilton family doesn't understand, but go ahead! If life gives you lemons, then you make lemon juice.
The wound had healed slightly, but it was not healing, it was an expectation rather than an end, and Bethany had not yet resurfed.
The average viewer doesn't know how remarkable the pace of the film is, but the filmmakers know that it's not easy. The bearded fat man has his hands around his chest, maybe that kid can really do a good job of emotional unity in "Lovely Bones", which is better than his plan.
As the screen continues, the family talks over dinner and table, and Tom says that there is a TV show that wants to sponsor Bethany for a prosthetic leg and that the show will reimburse the high cost. The whole family respected Bethany's opinion, and she agreed, with a clear expectation in her expression and tone, would she be able to wear a prosthetic leg like before?
The whole family is looking forward to this, but this makes the hearts of the audience who have just been warmed quietly ripple in a circle.
Continuing with the cash-in plot, Bethany and Cherry go to the hospital for a follow-up visit, Dr. David removes the gauze for her, and both she and the audience see the true appearance of the left arm for the first time, except for a small lump of flesh with stitches on it. She forced a smile, and after leaving the doctor, the two of them walked down the street, her severed arm giving the child a strange look, but she still smiled kindly, but her face became expressionless when no one was around.
It is not easy to be strong, it is not enough to have the determination before departure, but also to have the courage to face the devastation on the road and the ability to overcome difficulties.
The family went to church again, but compared to the spirit at the beginning of the film, they were not so enthusiastic this time, especially Tom, between Sarah's mentor laughing and preaching, the camera captured his somewhat cold face, and even seemed to be disdainful, and his faith was shaken more seriously than Bethany.
The ripples in the hearts of the audience were even greater.
The Hamilton home at night, apparently some time has passed, the reporters are no longer in groups, they have moved back. Noah received the call, and his expression changed to look at the family members on the sofa, "Dad." "Biographers know that the abominable tiger shark has been found, and that was two weeks after the incident.
A low soundtrack sounds, and the father and son arrive at the coastal pier in the dark night with Bethany's surfboard. In the midst of the crowd, Tom crouched down and personally docked the mouth of the tiger shark with the gap of the surfboard, which was exactly the same size, and this was the one.
Tom looked at the dead shark hanging there by the crane, his eyes almost spewing fire, and he suddenly threw his fist at the shark, bang punch. Noah and Tim hurriedly stepped forward to grab him, and Ben, Holt, and others also came to comfort him, but his expression was still resentful, and anger was eating away at his heart.
The scene is full of Bethany lying on the bed in the bedroom.
Then, during the day on the beach, Alanna took a photo of the surfing girl, she stood on a surfboard, shook her hair, and was beautiful. Her mother, her brother, her former agent were all watching from the sidelines, and Bethany, her distraction seemed to have something burning in her eyes compared to Alana's brightness.
She pursed her lips and turned away. Walking on the beach, the sea breeze blowing her blonde hair, she looked out to sea, at the people surfing in the distance, she glanced at her left arm, then looked into the distance, and said to herself: "It's better for me." ”
From the atmosphere of the image, from Bethany's eyes, the audience can feel that she is returning to the sea!
Sure enough, on Saturday, November 25, 2003, the day before Thanksgiving, at a casual table in the front yard of the home, while the family was talking about tomorrow night's Thanksgiving celebration, Bethany suddenly came up and announced, "It's time to surf again, just today." ”
The four of them were stunned when they heard this, this time Tom was the first to laugh, and there was still a little bit of hope for Jackie Chan, he looked at his wife and children, "Then what are we waiting for?"
The bright soundtrack sounded, and the atmosphere in the screening room was excited, and the brown bear theater burst into applause!
On the screen again, the beach is on the beach, with the Hamilton family and Alanna present, Noah holding a DV camera in charge of the photography, and Tom and Cherry escorting Bethany into the water to surf. On the first attempt, Bethany failed to get back to her feet, and she was thrown into the sea by the waves. There was an exclamation on the screen, and countless people outside the screen were nervous.
The most nervous person was Tom, who gave his daughter his own advice. On the second attempt, Bethany hunched up halfway through and was once again knocked over by the waves. The camera scanned the expressions of the crowd and lost the excitement just now, she was simply slapped by the waves, Tom and Cherry immediately swam over, Bethany was fine, Tom shouted excitedly: "Sweetheart, just a little bit!" Cherry couldn't help but say, "Tom, don't force her." ”
"I'll do it, it's okay, do it again. Bethany in the sea smiled at her parents, gesturing to her big brother on the shore, shouting, "One more time!"
The hearts of the audience were also slammed twice by the waves, and they staggered as they watched Bethany make her third attempt, a big wave surged, and Bethany lying on the surfboard was like a vigorous mermaid with a broken arm, and suddenly stood up and stood firm!
She rode the tide and rushed all the way to the shore, her left hand gone, her right hand stretched out to keep her balance.
Alanna on the shore couldn't help but cheer, Tim roared and ran into the sea, and Noah laughed. When Bethany had finished the wave and jumped into the sea, Tom, who was holding back on the other side, finally exclaimed, "Success, success, we succeeded!" Cherry was surprised, relieved, and incredulous......
Their immense joy was also in the hearts of the audience, and Liz heard a few soft "YES!" around her, yes, it was great!
"This is just the beginning. Surrounded by happy family and friends, Bethany was also excited and apparently regained her self-confidence, announcing that she would continue to compete in the Hawaii Regional and look forward to the national tournament next January.
Everyone was surprised again, apparently they thought that Beth was already very satisfied with surfing, and it was Tom who laughed first: "Then we have to hurry up and train!" With his father's support, Bethany laughed brightly, and some couldn't wait.
At the beginning of the 50s and halfway through the story, Bethany returns to the sea surfing again, as if victory is imminent, is that really the case?
Guggenheim doesn't see it that way, I believe many fans can also see it, Ye Wei's foreshadowing and hints are too good!
Bethany's comeback is certainly due to her strength and love of surfing, but what is her other driving force? Not because of faith, but because of negative competitiveness, she doesn't want sympathy, she wants to show everyone including Alanna.
This is not self-redemption, but self-destruction, she has gone from an angel to a mortal, and surfing has become a weapon of recklessness from pure pleasure.
She is self-contained, resentful, isolated, and so is her family, Tom beats the shark out of a bad breath but does not forgive, the two brothers are similar, and Cherry is the most persistent but also confused. So far, the unrelated faith that supports them has not seen the power of faith at all, only the gradual distancing from faith.
What sustains them is revenge, against sharks, against appearances, against Alana and others, against surfing competitions, everything. They didn't really accept it and start again, they just thought that what they had lost would be regained, and the prosthetic leg would allow Bethany to recover and participate in the upcoming race to achieve the championship......
A long-dark current suddenly came back to their hearts, and the audience was both looking forward to the game and apprehensive about the game.
On the screen, the town church at night, the Thanksgiving celebration is taking place, and the residents are dressed in Hawaiian shirts and wreaths, eating and laughing. The Hamilton family walked in the middle of it, many people greeted them along the way, the two brothers walked away, and the three met Ben, Tom proudly told him the new news, and Ben was surprised and congratulated. Bethany laughed and said, "I don't guarantee that I will win the championship, so try to win the prize." Tom laughed, and Cherry said, "Sweetheart, we're so proud of you. ”
After a joyous dinner scene, the residents danced. The serenity, warmth, and warmth of the beginning of this moment returned. The camera doesn't follow Tom and Sheri, or Holt and his wife, but rather Mentor Sarah, who twists her fat body and dances the Hawaiian dance more vigorously than anyone else.
Sarah jumped to Bethany, who was standing there, "Beth, come and dance!"
"Haha!" Bethany smiled, not jumping, "I'll be fine with this, leave me alone." ”
"Come, come!" said Sarah, who continued to twist and beat, to convey God's teachings with her attitude to life, not just preaching.
Off the screen, Roberts couldn't help but sigh again that Melissa McCarthy really made money this time, and some people may not like anything in this movie, but the wise and foolish Sarah mentor definitely likes everyone. But on the screen, Bethany shook her head and ran away, she still couldn't see it, she was closing her heart.
In a close-up shot, Sarah looks at Bethany running away, with a worried look on her face.
This look also made the audience's hearts tense again, as if they could hear the camera say: The storm is coming again.
The storm came so fast!
The camera is hard cut into the camera frame, like this is a pseudo-documentary, I saw that in the front yard of Hamilton's house during the day, the TV program was being filmed, the personnel of the medical device company showed Bethany the prosthetic leg, and the middle-aged male host of the show had an offensive smile on his face, and the words seemed to be selling equipment, and he joked: "Bethany, with it, you can do anything, like scratch your right hand, haha." ”
Tom's faces changed suddenly, and Bethany sighed, looking at the very fake prosthetic leg, and the disappointment in his heart was already on his face. When the officers put a prosthetic leg on her and let her move to see, it was just like this, she couldn't bear weight, she couldn't control her fingers, except for pretending to have her left hand, it was useless.
The expectations of the whole family before were completely disillusioned.
Bethany almost burst into tears on the spot. The bad guy didn't get any punishment, the scene was everything, she walked into the living room with a prosthetic leg, choked and cried, and with a few irritable movements, she removed the prosthesis on her left shoulder and threw it away, striding back to the room. Gingy hissed, pounced on it, biting the prosthetic leg and flicking it around.
"Beth......" Cherry and the others followed, and their faces were once again depleted.
There was a knock on the door, and Sheri walked into Bethany's bedroom, she was lying on her side on the bed and curled up in a ball, and Sheri said as she walked: "Sweetheart, don't wear it if you don't like it." Bethany turned his back to his mother, his stubborn eyes did not blink, and said, "Don't worry about me, it's okay......" Xie Li sat on the edge of the bed, stroked her shoulder, and comforted: "The person who really loves you, the person who deserves your love will not mind, you will only see your beauty, that is love." Bethany whispered, "I said I'm fine." Sheri also comforted: "There is a statue called Venus with Broken Arms......"
Bethany jerked her head to the close-up shot, and she was a little louder: "I don't mind, if I had two hands, I would do everything better, you know? Reverse over-the-shoulder shot, Cherry smiled sadly: "Baby, you lost some opportunities, but you also got some opportunities...... Bethany got up and got out of bed and walked outside, putting down a sentence: "I didn't get anything." ”
I-got-nothing.
In just a few sentences of dialogue, Pierce's heart is chilling and painful, from "life is so beautiful" to "I have nothing" so real! real frustration, complaining, the darkness of human nature, the real little girl at the end of 13.
-- just keep losing, gaining nothing, until there is nothing left.
Watching Bethany drift away from her former and from God, the audience's sighs rang out across North America.
At dinner on the screen, Bethany did not wear a prosthetic leg, and the family prayed before the meal as they routinely shook hands, with Noah on her left shoulder. The audience could see that they were all moving away from their faith, and they were all holding back a sullen energy, and Tom opened his eyes, and he saw that the children's lips were not moving, and only Cherry was still serious.
A father-daughter training scene gives the screening room a tense atmosphere of the approaching event, and in the midst of the enthusiasm and soundtrack and live broadcasts, the screen reaches the shore where the event is held, and the regional competition is underway!
However, this is only another complete disillusionment.
The brutal camera shows how Bethany was trapped in the impact zone of the sea, knocked over by the waves again and again, eating the seawater, and not even catching a small wave, which caused a burst of exclamations on the coast, sympathy from the hosts, and the family members were tormented on a fire rack, ready to jump into the sea at any time.
At the same time, the heroic posture of the other girl contestants is also crossed, and they have already conceded several small waves to Bethany, especially Alanna like a bodyguard, but she can't stand up. Alana grabbed a big wave, and Ashley made a move that made the audience amaze and cheer, and the host exclaimed: "Her performance is incredible!"
The camera is connected to Bethany still at sea, with no one else left, refusing to go, only to be overturned by a large wave, her surfboard interrupted, and she almost drowning. The host also exclaimed because of her: "Bethany Hamilton, oh her surfboard is broken!" The lifeguards at sea immediately drove over to rescue her on a jet ski.
The people on the shore were nervous, Sheri held his head in his hands, Tom looked sluggish, and the two brothers rushed to the beach to meet them.
All the anticipation was over, and Bethany couldn't ride the waves of the pro game......
The audience inside and outside the screen is uncomfortable. Bethany was rescued back to shore, her face expressionless, and her soaked face was filled with seawater or tears. Alana stepped forward to comfort her: "Beth......" Bethany glared at her, and pushed her best friend away with her right hand, "Go away!" Alana was stunned, with the girl contestants in the background.
She shouted to the surrounding family again: "Don't say it, it's all over, it's all over." The reporters rushed to interview her, and she jerked through the crowd and ran into the distance. Sheri ran along, and Tom and his son all looked very sad.
Every drop of air in the screening hall is depressed, and the audience is at a loss to change their seats.
Bethany failed in the most embarrassing way, and her self-confidence and pride were gone. The pain is not only because of the setback itself, but also because of the before and after comparison, the angel good girl who won the championship and is not arrogant and impatient will give advice to the opponent, and now glaring at the best friends and family.
But before that, what had she done wrong? Nothing.
Seeing Bethany like this, watching her in the parking lot and wanting to tie her hair into a ponytail can't do it, everyone can't help it, all they can do is break their hearts.
It wasn't just Bethany who was frustrated, the family was in complete depression.
In the woods next to the house, Tom and Sheri quarreled, he wanted his daughter to continue to persevere, otherwise he would really lose, and she would lose in the face of other things, she asked him to stop pressuring her and advocate for a comeback, life is not limited to surfing! Both of them are right out of love for their daughter, but they are in conflict.
Sheri couldn't help but warn angrily: "Don't let her think that the sky will fall if she can't surf anymore!" Tom was about to say something, his face suddenly stunned in the close-up, Sheri looked back in surprise, Bethany was standing not far away with Kingy in his hands, and his face was expressionless.
She heard it all, and her mother, who kept encouraging her every day, actually felt in her heart that "she can't surf anymore". Cherry explained in a panic: "Baby...... I mean, you don't have to push yourself, there's something more important than surfing......" Bethany smiled, for her, surfing is very, very, very important.
The audience's discomfort is rapidly intensifying, and at this moment, the emotions for Bei's parents are intertwined. Bei's father seemed selfish before, but in fact, he just understood his daughter; Bei's mother was afraid that it would happen now, and she always wanted her daughter to let go, and she should also let go, but she really didn't want her daughter to be reborn on the sea.
On the screen, Tom also smiled bitterly, walked up to his daughter, and said, "Sweetheart, your mother is right, surfing is just a part of life, not everything." We all love you, no matter what, we love you......"
"Mom and Dad, I know. Bethany pursed her lips and nodded, "Jinji, let's go." She didn't want to stay and walked away, and as soon as she was gone, she was dazed and said to Jinji, "If I can't even do surfing, what else can I do? I'm a champion! I used to be a champion. ”
Pierce felt another blow to the heart.
For this one-armed girl, the question is not whether she can surf, it is the collision of the old life and the new life, and surfing is the biggest representative, her love, dreams, glory, beauty, connecting her with all the good things in the past, which seem to bring her back to the past, and it is also one of the sources of her self-confidence and strong forward.
And now, it's over, surfing and everything seems to be over, she's no longer a champion, she's just a loser, a loser in life on the field.
A walking corpse that has lost all its beauty, love, and faith, and is left with only the so-called strong, I don't know why strong and strong.
The dark waters were flooding her, washing her into a bottomless abyss of all sorts of uneasiness, resentment, fear, resentment, and depravity.
It was also like a dead silence in the screening hall that fell into the abyss, the breathing was very heavy, and many people were scratching their heads and touching their faces. At this time, Sarah's mentor appeared on the screen, and the audience was in high spirits, as if they had seen a savior. Sarah walked into the front yard of Hamilton's house, and when she couldn't see the three Bethany brothers and sisters, Tom and Sheri sat at the casual table in a daze.
"Oh hey, Tom, Cherry. Where's my little darling?" said Sarah, looking around.
"The three of them went out to play. Cherry got up and gave Sarah a soft hug, thanking her for her visit. Tom didn't speak, he didn't move, he just stood by and watched.
"I've heard about the game, and Beth needs some gifts. Sarah took something out of her handbag, and the close-up saw that it was a DIY white T-shirt with a blue letter "Go, Bethany-Hamilton!" printed on it. of tiger sharks. She smiled at the two and said, "I hope Beth will like this T-shirt." ”
The audience was a little crying and laughing, but everyone knew that Mentor Sarah had no ill intentions, and she wanted Bethany to accept all this, embrace love and forgiveness, and truly move forward.
The knowing Xie Li smiled wryly, and didn't say good or bad. Suddenly, Tom burst out of his chair and roared at Sarah like an enraged beast: "Get out of my house immediately!! " His roar startled Sarah and the audience, and their hearts tightened, Sarah represented God, and Tom was ......
"Let's go!!" Tom approached Sarah, his face flushed and he looked almost out of his mind and beat her.
"Tom!" said Cherry. Sarah exclaimed, "Tom, you calm down first." Tom said coldly, "I want you to leave immediately, this is private territory!" Cherry looked at Sarah helplessly, "I'm sorry Sarah, he's just ......" Sarah said "It's okay, I understand" to leave, "Then I'll go first, tell Bethany that I've been here, I want to talk to her, and this T-shirt." She was about to hand the T-shirt to Sheri, but Tom snatched it and threw it out, "Bring your idiot T-shirt and get out!" Sheri yelled again: "Tom !!" Tom gasped and turned around and walked towards the room.
A whisper arose in the screening room, a lot of uneasy soft "oh", a lot of blessings.
The Guggenheim exclaimed, Tom expelled Mentor Sarah! But how will this be redeemed? In terms of length and pacing, the most wonderful turning point is coming.
Countless viewers watched the scene cut on the screen, and the extreme soft light let people know that it was in a dream, and Bethany with both hands was holding a surfboard, running alone on the beach, laughing and running to the sea. In an instant, it became a dark girl's bedroom, and with a frightened breath, Bethany opened her eyes, and she immediately looked at her left arm.
Close-up, there's still only a small section left.
In the dream, she has two arms, and when she wakes up, she doesn't want to wake up, hoping that her broken arm is just a nightmare, but no, the hands are a dream, it's reality.
A bird's-eye view of God, two tears pouring out of Bethany's eyes, close-up, those eyes looking up at the sky, so close that even her pupils are clear, she spoke softly, her trembling voice was so sincere, helpless, pleading, heartbreaking:
"My Lord, if you really exist, please appear. I don't tell anyone, I promise, I don't tell anyone about your presence, you show up and tell me that you really exist, tell me why you ......."
Suddenly, there was a low cry from the audience in the screening room.
God, where are you?
Did you see this poor little girl? Help her! Please, save her.
The miracle did not appear on the screen, and an empty shot of a dark night full of stars changed to daytime again. Early in the morning in the dining room, a sad Bethany walked in and saw the family talking at the dinner table, and when she saw her, she stopped talking, and she asked, "What are you talking about?" Tom said first, but he was discussing whether to move and live a new life in a new environment. He was in touch with a friend who settled in Montana, a beautiful and peaceful place with farms, schools, new jobs, new friends......
"Isn't there no sea in Montana?" she asked. Everyone was silent, obviously just to keep her from touching the scene and getting entangled in surfing again. Cherry said softly, "Honey, what do you think?" Bethany was silent.
Pain crept from the screen into the broken hearts of the audience, and the Hamilton family was going to leave their homeland, move to a place where there were only mountains and no seas, and completely get away?
At this time, the screening room sounded the prelude to the interlude music that had not been heard for a long time, Michael-W-Smith's Let-Me-Show-You-The-Way, Suzanne Hines would cry every time she saw this, it was really a deadly montage, it was all cut, and she, the editor, only led her subordinates to do some material arrangement.
The clear male voice sang softly:
"I'm looking at you, my old friend
It's useless to pretend that everything is fine."
The previous scene doesn't explicitly state the outcome of the family meeting, but the footage says it all. Bethany walked by the beach, holding a glass bottle in her right hand, staring at the sea as she went, the sea breeze blowing her long pale blonde hair. She sat down on the beach, grabbed a handful of sand and put it in a glass bottle.
"Don't be so brave now, don't be so proud
I want you to know that I'm here for you now
I see you hurt, and it hurts my heart
Actually, it doesn't have to be like that."
At Hamilton's house, it had been a while since everyone was dressed differently, and they were packing their things everywhere, and Bethany walked by, and a bottle full of sea sand was placed on the messy coffee table in the living room. Cherry pulled open the glass of the trophy cabinet to pack away the trophies, medals, etc., and she picked up a picture frame that contained a picture of Bethany's first championship as a child.
In the driveway outside the front yard, Tom, Noah and Tim were putting pieces of surfboards onto a pickup truck littered with a lot of miscellaneous items, apparently unwanted things, and the prosthetic leg and the shark T-shirt were also thrown there. Gingy on the lawn looked up at Bethany walking by, looking lonely.
"If you bring me closer to you
Let me get to know you
Let me show you the way."
Bethany was walking on the road to the town, and she saw Alana in the distance, as if she wanted to say goodbye to her friend, but she stopped in a daze, and she turned away.
The church was just around the corner, as if something was going on, and people were coming and going. Bethany stopped again, and Mentor Sarah called her, but she hesitated to go. In the scene, Tom cleaned up a few bottles of dusty red wine at the bottom of the kitchen cabinet at home, he suddenly twisted open one and took a few sips, but his eyes were only more confused.
"I'm sad for you, so sad
When both of us have strong hearts
If you give me your pain, I will give you my love
Put all your pain into my heart until you are strong again
I hate to see you stay away
When it doesn't mean a single scripture to make it clear"
Bethany walked into the lobby of the church, and the singing gradually stopped, and the tutor Sarah inside saw her and was immediately surprised: "Beth, you are here." ”
Looking at Beth's far-fetched smile, the tearful audience breathed a sigh of relief, and without thinking too much, they saw the two of them arrive at a computer in an elegant office.
Sarah laughed and said, "Let me show you this, it just happened to be the tape that I sent from my hometown yesterday." Bethany wondered, as Sarah operated the computer to play a video of a young woman showing her vigor and beauty in the ocean, "See? Bethany frowned, "What's going on?" Sarah said, "You know I'm from California, I used to surf when I was younger, and then I had an accident......"
The close-up shot is focused on the computer screen, only to see the surfer in the video being knocked over by the big wave, Bethany exclaimed, but Sarah laughed and said: "It's not this time, I didn't shoot that time, I was hit by a surfboard in the cervical spine, and I was almost paralyzed." During my time of recuperation, I read a lot of books and I saw God. Her chubby face smiled heartily, "Then I found my true self, who I am now, and I understood that God had arranged for it to happen." Beth, why your accident happened, I don't know, it's not up to anyone else to tell you, you have to find your own answers, find out who you are. ”
Bethany nodded thoughtfully.
The song sounded again:
"If you bring me closer to you
Let me get to know you
Let me show you the way."
The mentor brings the enlightenment of a turning point with his own experience, brings the breath of death, and sometimes bad things happen, and it's not just you.
Someone came to call Sarah, and she looked at Bethany and walked away. Bethany sits down in the computer chair and revisits Sarah's surfing videos of her youth, but an unfortunate accident has made Sarah's current mentor. Her confused eyes froze a little, and her right hand typed on the keyboard, and the screen showed that she was googling "Bethany-Hamilton", herself.
But, Bethany Hamilton, who is it?
In the medium shot, she is looking at the information she has searched, and the audience sees a message box gradually appearing around her on the big screen, each of which is a text message: "Bethany Hamilton, your courage has given me great encouragement, I am at a low point in my life, but I know it's not just me fighting, God bless us." "Bethany Hamilton, you're the toughest girl I've ever known, come on!", "Bethany, I'm so touched to hear you're fighting in surfing again!...... I want to share my difficult story with you......
Bethany Hamilton, she is not the only inexplicably unfortunate person in this world, many people are worse than her, stronger than her, she is nothing special.
And yet she is so special, because her story is known, she gives strength, she gives people faith, she may not be strong for a reason, but she becomes the reason why others are strong.
God doesn't appear directly to tell the world that He exists, but God is everywhere, and as long as you believe and you call, you will see and hear.
Because God is always in everyone's heart.
"Today I will be your rock
I heard your call that day
'Cause I know you're only going to look for me."
Bethany burst into tears in front of the computer, and the hearts of the audience trembled, watching the entire screen become a split screen, and it was impossible to count how many boxes were messages from all over the world, people blessed her, shared their stories, and told what they had learned from her stories. The Internet may seem invisible and intangible, but love connects the world.
The different text messages suddenly became images, and you can see students in schools, office workers, athletes on the sports field, patients in hospitals, young people, middle-aged people, the elderly, children, able-bodied people, and disabled people...... And Ashley, who was in the middle.
They are not just sages, people who are super strong, who never waver in their beliefs, who are not fragile, no!
They are all just ordinary people, ordinary people, kind, brave, strong, hard-working, and ultimately will stick to their beliefs.
"Someone will make you hold your head high
Someone will show you the light
Someone will make you hold your head high
Someone will show you the truth"
Those beauty, those loves, are not particularly rare qualities, but belong to a part of human nature, everyone can make the heart shine, and that light shines on others and reflects on themselves. Bethany's story has inspired thousands of people, and their stories have inspired her.
Maybe you still don't understand, but it's okay, let's move forward!
The answer is not here, the answer is ahead, salvation is not here, salvation is ahead, with these faiths, loves, and encouragement, go ahead!
When you find your answer, when you find out who you are, don't forget to tell someone! When you see God, when you hear His words, don't tell anyone, tell anyone, say out loud, "I see God!" He told me, be strong! Don't be afraid, I am with you, it is your love, your goodness, your goodness, your faith. ”
Bethany Hamilton, move on.
This is God's arrangement, the arrangement is to nurture you, not to hurt you, and the arrangement is to give you hope and a future.
"Let me show you the way
If you bring me closer to you
Let me get to know you
Let me show you the way."
On the big screen, when the split is over, Bethany wipes away her tears, she stands up, and walks briskly outside.
The audience's eyes widened with tears and their hearts beat vigorously. Bethany went from a brisk walk to a run, as in a dream, and she ran out of the church and on the shore to her home