"beautiful mother"
Several years ago, I saw a movie called "Beautiful Mother". The movie was in Chinese. And Gongli, the first movie star in China, was the main actor. She played the beautiful mother, and a real deaf child played as her son. The movie told us a sentimental story. In a small town in northeast China, a deaf baby changed the prospects of a happy family. The husband left home because he could not endure the mental and economic pressure. Then, the mother had to take care of her baby by herself, and she had to quit her job and just took some part-time job, to support her immediate family. In order to cure her baby's illness, she sold all the valuable family possessions. She took her son from palce to place and from winter to summer to see a doctor. But her son's disease was not cured. So she accepted relity, and then she began to teach her son how to understand words from gestures and lip (sign language). When her son was 7 years old, he was admitted to a primary school, a key school in the region. Except for her son, all the students in the school were normal. At the end of the movie, on the screen, the mother stood in the wind and waved to her son, who was going into the school. Owing to undernourishment and exhaustion, she had become a bag of bones, with a wrinkled face, and looked ten years older than her age. But I think she was the most beautiful woman and the greatest mother. To face difficulty, she was always optimistic and outgoing.
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