The boy who harnessed the wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a 2019 British drama film written, directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. It was screened in the Premieres section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and began streaming in most territories on Netflix on 1 March 2019. It was selected as the British entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

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Now you already know that I’m going to tell you the story of the film “ The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”.

Before I go any further I would like to tell you something. This film, which is still being studied by a student or undergraduate or anyone else, this movie motivates you how to face strongly a lot of trouble while you achieve your goal.

“The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind” tells the true story of William Kamkwamba; the young Malawian genius who built a windmill entirely via DIY methods in the early 2000s, to save his family and village from drought and famine. World-premiering at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival earlier this evening, the Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor’s skilled directorial debut is as inspiring and morally upright as you’d expect from a film with such rousing source material drawn from real life. While thoroughly traditional with familiar beats of an exceptional child, his disapproving father and an eventual resolution that unites generations, Ejiofor’s movie eloquently harnesses all these customary elements and yields them into an irresistible family film that plays like a brand-new “October Sky” with an urgent human-interest dimension at its heart.

We first meet William in 2001 as a curious-minded schoolboy with a love of electronics. He fixes town folk’s broken radios to help out his family financially and spends much time in the village junkyard, collecting parts to build batteries and other necessary devices. When unreliable weather and a land dispute threaten the crops and the longevity of their family farm, the Kamkwambas fall short of the funds to support William’s education at a local school. But the now dismissed, ever-ambitious William, with a cheeky threat to expose his sister Annie’s (Lily Banda) secret love affair with the school tutor Mr. Kachigunda’s (Lemogang Tsipa), cuts a deal with his teacher to use the school’s basic library in his own time. There, he meets the 8th grade American textbook Using Energy that would change the course of his and his town’s life.

Throughout “The Wind,” Ejiofor paints a multifaceted portrait of William’s world. Inside his home, we observe what he sees and hears through doorways and windows — commonplace familial disagreements and one-upmanship between relatives, fretful financial discussions, the aforementioned forbidden affair, a loyal dog that would follow him to death, and so on. Outside, Ejiofor attentively places the Kamkwamba Farm into social and political context without ever abandoning our young hero. The corruption amid unsympathetic, power-hungry figures come into sharp focus during a political rally that quickly turns bloody. And then the draught begins, ruthless looters loom around and a grave case of famine takes over William’s village — the heartbreaking aftermath of which Ejiofor doesn’t sugar-coat. In the midst of this grim crisis sketched in detail, we desperately root for William’s success to convince his stubborn father to give up his bike, the parts of which could be used in his windmill project. “The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind” is one of those true-story films that genuinely earns the inevitable, climactic triumph in its finale. Some might call it predictable, but William — who in real-life worked on numerous subsequent sustainable energy projects and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2014 — leaves an undeniably powerful impression in the end, standing tall and proud on something amazing that he built.

So while William is certainly the hero of this true story, he is only able to accomplish what he did thanks to the support of his community, from his family, to his friends, to his teachers. The performances are top notch — of particular note is Aïssa Maïga as Agnes, William’s mother, who is a woman determined to steer her family into the modern age, not wanting to simply pray for rain as their ancestors did, but take charge of their own fates. All of this plus the fact that education is emphasized as the tool for salvation, is what sets The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind apart from these kind of familiar stories. It’s an inspiring and heartfelt journey of knowledge, cooperation, and love.

So, What are we get from this movie?

William has been faced a lot of trouble in his life. But he never the attempt was abandoned. So he could achieve his educational goals and he could be successful in his life. From that we can get a tip to our life, we should never give up trying. We should do everything in an effort.

“The Best way to predict your Future is to create it.”

-Abraham Lincoln-

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