Rain Man

The last blog
Just now I finished my journal about the review of Rain Man, now I will write my blog also on it but from a different angle.
Charlie and Raymond are the two heroes of this movie, while they are two totally different persons.
Charlie, one of the countless ordinary people in the world, who knew that money was the most vital media for people to communicate with others! He focused on money all his life. When the client was reading his the will, he cared nothing but whether he could inherit some money from his estranged father. The result was rather uncomprehending, he just got minor portion of his ceased father’s fortune and even didn’t know who got that 300 million.
Raymond was an autistic person. His sensitivity to figures is undoubtedly beyond every ordinary people’s. He could name the details of every airline’s accident without making any mistake. He could do mathematical functions as fast and accurate as a calculator. Notwithstanding, he had no concept of money! He inherited 300 million from his father which his brother eager to get but cannot get, but he didn’t understand what that amount money means at all.
Charlie kidnapped Raymond on the purpose of getting half of the 300 million back. Then they started their journey. The journey started from money, while ended at building a love between the two brothers.
In my opinion Charlie is a symbol of people living nowadays who is money worship. He can take advantage of anyone, including his girlfriend, his brother, for the sake of money. While Raymond lives his owe routine strictly, he is free from all the other concepts of the world. To some degree Raymond is just equally simple to a sheet of white paper. And it is this white paper that let his money worship bother know what himself on earth is. During that journey, Charlie’s emotion changed from resentful to care and love his brother. Raymond’s “idiot” actions let Charlie come to realize that there is something much more valuable than money, it is family affection.
A person who is never thought to be able to equip the knowledge of emotion teaches another person what family affection is, what a ridiculous plot! But my understanding on this point is that in such a world it is we who should learn what family affection is, not those who are thought to be idiotic or low IQ people.