Pay It Forward
The film 'Pay it Forward' was released in 1999, and it is a movie that leaves you feeling as though there is still hope for our seemingly doomed society. It begins in a Las Vegas social studies class room, with the teacher (Kevin Spacey) assigning the students with the task of thinking how to make the world a better place, and then putting that plan into action. The movie is based around the radical idea that one boy (Haley Joel Osment) thought up, his plan to make the world a better place was a simple but effective one, called paying it forward. The pay it forward phenomenon begins with this one student, and spreads like
The concept for paying it forward is that you do an unsolicited favour for three strangers that are in need, but not just ordinary little favours, life altering favours. We have evolved in a species of selfish being with no sympathy or remorse. Theoretically, the pay it forward plan would reach everyone on earth in a long enough period of time and the world would be a much better place, with people that didn't think twice about doing a self-less good deed. Haley Joel Osment is able to see the inner good of all people in this film, he is able to look past the flaws of an individual and see them for what they really are, a human being, in need of a helping hand. That is what is wrong with our society today, at the top of everyone's priorities comes one thing, themselves, with no concern for the well being of other's. The idea presented in 'Pay it Forward' may seem rather utopian, but in today's society nothing would benefit us more then an epidemic of good deeds and unselfish acts. For example, harbouring a homeless crack head in your garage or giving away a brand new jaguar to a stranded driver, which are only a couple of the extraordinary favours seen throughout this movie. wildfire throughout the entire United States, from homeless heroin addicts to wealthy Jaguar driving citizens. And instead of returning the favour as is usually expected, you do three favours of the same magnitude for three total strangers, being sure to remind them of why and telling them their obligation to uphold the cycle. In contrast to the world we live in 'Pay it Forward' is very idealistic and many people would laugh at the notion of it actually happening.
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