Giving is the best communication.
The three minute film spans a 30-year story with a young Thai boy in a market place that gets caught stealing painkillers. As the storekeeper berates the young boy about stealing her merchandise, a soup seller at a nearby booth comes up to the boy and asks him if his mother is sick. The boy reluctantly nods yes. The poor soup seller then pays the woman the price of the painkillers and then calls to his daughter to bring the boy some veggie soup to take home. The girl rolls her eyes in a manner that lets us know, this was nothing new with her father...
Thirty years later the shop owner is sick and admitted to hospital. When his daughter receives the bill, it is all covered, with a note that says, all expenses paid 30 years ago with 3 packs of painkillers and a bowl of broth and meatballs, with the poor Thai boy’s name: Dr Prajak Arunthong.
The film has a powerful idea of the value of . That believes ... giving without hope of return was the beginning of the real. One’s that begins with an act of sympathy and kindness and ends with a surprise act of gratitude. It makes us aware of how giving can have its own unexpected reward.
It effectively uses Appraisal Theory to connect emotion and mood to influence a specific action. The deep emotional response of empathy—even guilt—leads to the formation of new attitudes about how giving can impact people’s lives. The desired action is to cause people to give more of themselves.
