It was a heart-wrenching story that Dr Edwin asked us to watch today. It is a movie entitled The Road Home, starring Zhang Zi Yi and Honglei Sun. Dr Edwin hinted that the story is about a teacher and his teaching experience. However, after watching the movie, it turned out not to be a story about teaching but a story of the female protagonist’s determination, Zhao Di to wait for her love, the teacher, Mr Luo Changyu.
The story started in the present time, when the son of Mr Luo and Di, Yusheng is called back to his village of Sanhetun due to his father untimely death. The mother, Di persisted to follow the old tradition of carrying his husband’s coffin along the way home so that the spirit of Mr Luo would not forget his ‘road home’. The movie then progressed with Di’s flashback on how the two lovebirds met and fell in love.
I don’t know where the teaching aspect in the movie is because the movie focuses mostly on the love story between Di and Mr Luo. What I admired most about the character of Di is her determination to get what she wants. How she stood in blistering snow all day to wait for Luo to come back to the village and how she fought her way to get the funeral that she wants for her husband. In other words, she is my kind of a lady (although she seems kind of naïve and stupid to fall sick waiting for her love to come back to her).
I guess what I can say about a teacher from the story is probably Mr Luo’s passion towards teaching the village’s kids even though he is a “city gentleman” who comes from East Gate. He is willing to do anything for the school; in fact he dies from being sick as he braces himself to go through a blizzard to look for fund to rebuild the old school. He leaves his city lifestyle and teaches the kids in the village (even though I think his stay is motivated by his love towards Di).
So, to me even though one day I might get posted in a rural area, maybe it won’t turn out to be that bad if I had some motivation to stay there a.k.a. cute, tall, handsome man to love and fool around with…hehehe…
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