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Just like there are no same leaves existent in the world, every person is different. going through unique experience and divergent influence from others, one is depicted his/her own trace of life, with idiographic perspective towards some issues and several principles that hold one's belief and pride. When this individuality colors this world with divergent appearence, voice and thinking, however, it also casts a big shadow between two persons' mutual understanding, which is also called empathy. Just like abyss rips out two lands, this shadow brings a unbridgable distance between two persons even they are only 1cm apart. It is common that people do not have empathy to each other, every one would hold firmly what they believe all through after all. Nevertheless, someone does cure this frigid estrangement and attain the empathy. But how can they do that? How this deep shadow be eliminated? In Prayers of Bobby, a movie conducted by Russell Mulcahy, a gay boy named Bobby killed himself because of the dearth of understanding from his family. especially hie mother. She is a Christian so she is deeply convinced that gay is a disease and can be healed if his son pray to God devotionally. The suspicious truth is that this mother sincerely want to help Bobby, but it turns out to be an increasingly heavy pressure exert on Bpbby and finally lead to his suicide. Though that mother is in a gigantic grief, she do not think she is guilty at first, but stimulating by this great tragedy, she begin exploring the root of her son's death. The process is long and zigzag, confused by the bible, she talks to a priest who declares homosexual should be legal, then she knows some sin alleged by the bible are not useful nowadays; urged by a priest, she reluctantly meet some parents whose offsprings also are gay, then she know the same ordeal experienced by them at the begining but totally different result comes back to her; compelled by will to know Bobby, she read every poem written by him, then she understand how the enormous despair encroaches his last life. Eventually, this mother brust into cry. "I know now, why God did not heal Bobby, he did not heal him because, there was nothing wrong with him."(Prayers of Bobby). Empathy finally enters this mother's heart, even though it costs too muchit costs a promising young life. However, empathy only need a tempt of understanding and a compromise of belief for love's sake.