给她一个机会




阿基拉答应参加校际拼字比赛的时候,可没想到会遇到那么多的事情。本来她就没什么兴致,她又不喜欢她的学校,干嘛要为校出力呢?而且,因为头脑不错,课业拿高分,反而遭到霸凌,被标签为怪胎。她才不想万一参赛失败,那些人更加嘲讽她。


Akeelah and The Bee (取自豆瓣)


阿基拉住在平民区,爸爸去世了,妈妈成天为了五斗米折腰,姐姐未婚先孕,二哥参加帮派,妈妈没有空闲管她的事,只求她好好念完中学。家里没有人听她的心声。阿基拉惯性逃课。

当校长逼她参赛时,她是不置可否的,就随便亮相好了,反正到头来还不是输掉。阿基拉完全没有自信,也没有动力。

直到她赢了校际比赛,认识了他校几位参赛者,她突然想更努力。她的动力来了,她还想进一步----许多步。不得已,阿基拉回头去找校长的老同学,Larabee教授,请他训练她,她想得全国中学生拼字冠军。这回她是认真的,是自己要赢,不是由于校长的交换条件。

Larabee教授教导下,阿基拉有了自信、自尊、企图心。不但如此,她不断进阶,区域排名越向前,反而激发了校里的同学向她看齐(原来烂学校也办得到!),团结了全家、全校、全社区,不分黑白黄,大家一致出力帮助她、鼓励她,阿基拉是第一个将为大伙扬眉吐气的希望。It takes the whole village to raise a kid.

善良的阿基拉没想到无心插柳柳成荫,也治好了Larabee教授的心理障碍。凭着她的努力,阿基拉不仅获得成功,也变成大家向上提升的借力。

阿基拉只是个11岁的非裔弱势小孩,但,给她一个机会,她把握了这个机会。因为有毅力改变自己,连带也改变了大家。

老套的励志故事,可我连续看了两次,意犹未尽,在同样的情节同样地流泪。
取自豆瓣

Storyline

Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from an English professor named Dr. Larabee for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of -- but only if she can overcome her insecurities and her distracting home life. She also must get past Dr. Larabee's demons, and a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.(imdb.com)
  

Comments

  1. 又是励志故事,有没有赢得潇洒,又那么无所谓的?~:)

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    1. 哎哟,潇洒是武林高手的神情。
      励志故事好啊,好像读林梧桐传,读完马上觉得隔天自己就有变百万富翁的机会。

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