Pay it forward

pay it forward

As our first movie, pay it forward, I’d like to say, is really worth watching.

Apart from the main point proposed from the film that we should be nice to others, some brilliant tag lines put forward by the characters in the film which include “you can change the world”, “everyone makes mistakes”, “we should not afraid to change ourselves” and so on are also very educational.

Eleven-year-old boy Trevor, when having his first social class, meets one formidable question asked by his teacher that what he can do to change the world. After thinking over this question, Trevor comes up with an idea which is just the theme of the film, “pay it forward”.

His plan runs like this: at first he will try his best to help three people to do something that they can’t do. Then what he will do is not ask them to pay it back but pay it forward to another three people, which means he will ask these three people to carry on his kindness to help another three people, and through this way, Trevor can radiate his kindness from one point to many other people, at last to change the world.

Doubtlessly this is a really brilliant idea. And through Trevor’s effort, eventually he manages to achieve his goal. However, the film really has a tragic ending that because of some bad students’ bullying another student in the school, Trevor goes to help but accidently being killed by one of the bad student with his knife.

After having watched this film, what impresses me most is the last scene of the film that around Trevor’s house, many people spontaneously come to prayer vigil for little Trevor and in the distance comes more cars. I think this scene is really moving. Although Trevor is dead, he will always be remembered and his kindness has really being carried on by others.

To conclude, after having watched this film, I have really learned many things and I hope we can have more chances to watch films.