黃石任務(The Children of Huang-Shi)

On April the 15th, our whole class (tenth graders) went out to watch a movie named The Children of Huang-Shi or Escape from Huang-Shi with Mr. Ruskovich. Before I watched the movie, I knew that it was based on a true story that happened during the Nanking Massacre, so I though it was a boring documentary or something similar to it, I expected that it would drone on and on about what happened during that time in Nanking. After watching 3 minutes of the movie, I realized that it was based on a true story of a british journalist who sneaked into Nanking to get the true facts about it. After getting caught and saved just before he was about to get slaughtered, he went to an orphanage in the mountains, he simply hated the place, not just because he got beaten up by the children there. But then, he just had this sudden passion of helping the children who lived there to live a better life, for example: by pasting papers onto the windows, which will block the wind out, powering up a machine that gave light to them in the dark, and planted a garden to help them have enough food to make them strong and healthy. During this time, the main character (Hogg, I should have mentioned this) made friends and earned most of the children's respect and they helped with the garden and worked together. It's amazing how someone who seems can do nothing, and i really mean nothing, first he did not speak Chinese, second he's in a foreign country, third everyone despised him at first. He saved about 60 children's lives by taking them far away from Huang-Shi, by taking the silk road. It is a very touching movie, it made me realized that even the craziest things could happen, we just have to keep trying.