Motion Picture of Life

Tashi delek! Its been 11 months since my last post and its kind of funny that this is just my second post. I can't remember when and why did I lost the drive. But anyway, I will try to post now as much as my time can. This one will be about the movies that brought the greatest impact to my life. All of the other future posts will be about Blag Bleg Blig BLOG Blug!.lol

"You never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them." ~Atticus Finch
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD (1962) is based from the book of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book. This classic movie came into my interest because I was intrigued by the title. What I am thinking was "Is it about birds? how come it is black and white?" then I started searching about it and eventually watched it. Well personally the whole idea of this motion picture is about racial discrimination in United States back then. Atticus Finch the protagonist is a Lawyer who defended a black man charged of rape. Black man back then (1962) are slaves. The odd thing about this movie is that Scout, daughter of Finch call her father by his first name Atticus. What will you get? So much lessons and powerful words that will surely move you. To sum it up, this movie inculcates that to kill a Mocking Bird is a sin, because Mocking Birds does no harm at all, but to mock.

"Follow excellence and success will chase you." ~Phunsukh Wangdu
3 IDIOTS Is this for idiots or intellectuals? Well its for both actually or shall I say it's for everyone. Laugh out loud then after a minute you'll find yourself crying. All about the college life of the 3 IDIOTS at a highly recognized Engineering school. It displays passion to what you really love to do and friendship at it's strongest bond. Plus enjoy the musical part of this Indian movie. Note that every Indian movie has a musical part, its their some kind of a trademark. All izzz well!
" Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes." ~Edmond Dantes

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO shown us that not all education is learned in school. In fact the most important is learned outside the four corners of the school room and in this film inside the four corners a prison cell. Betrayed by his best friend Edmond Dantes spent half of his life with unimaginable suffering until the great escape that will make him a count.

" Do not let anyone define your limit because of where you come from, your only limit is your soul." ~ Gusteau

RATATOUILLE what again? nice name for a rat!, my first impression. This is animated adventure of Remy, a rat who was born with natural connection to food guided by his ghost culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. He dreams to become a French chef, in spite of the obvious problem, he is a rat! He formed an alliance with the garbage boy and the adventure begins! It was not really my intention to watch this film, it just happened that my nephew was watching this and I was annoyed by his giggling, so I got curious and eventually watched it two or three times more. LOL. I discovered that ratatouille is actually a stew. The exact pronunciation is /rat-uh-too-ee/ or /ra-ta-twe/ either way is correct. It's fine, don't worry if you mispronounced it, I use to pronounce it RATATOWLIE! lol.

"It is only in the mysterious equation of love, that any logical reason can be found." ~ Dr. John Nash
A BEAUTIFUL MIND I watched this after six years from its original release date. I thought to myself, how could I miss such beautiful, powerful movie?. It was introduced to us by our Psychiatric Nursing professor, thanks to her. Russell Crowe portrayed the wonderful life of Dr. John Nash in this adaptation. A Nobel Prize winner for economics despite of the fact that he is living in his delusional world of Schizophrenia. What would you do if all the things that you have known to be true is merely a product of your beautiful delusional mind?.
"What did you ever do to change the world?" ~ Trevor Mckenny
PAY IT FORWARD What would you do if your teacher given you an assignment to think of something that will change the world and put it into action? Well this little boy Trevor Mckenny took it seriously. He got this idea of instead of paying back for a favor, why not pay it forward three times?. I do admit I shed tears for this movie so better prepare a hankie!LOL. Sometimes the simplest idea can make the biggest difference. So if someone did a favor for you, don't pay it back instead pay it forward TO ME!.lol
"Always account for variable change." ~unknown
21 Yes! its Black Jack if you were thinking of it. Ben Campbell an ace MIT Mathemagician student who is willing to do everything to be accepted in Harvard Medical School (did I say Med Sch. hmmm). He count cards in Vegas every weekends together with his 5 brilliant school mates and Professor Rosa. He is only doing it to raise money for his Med Sch, but something happened. He lost everything but gained a life experience. My favorite scene is when Ben was asked by Professor Rosa to choose one door out of three. It's about Variable Change. Watch the movie so you will know what I mean. I tried it myself (that Variable Change) and I proved it to be true. Winner winner chicken dinner!
"You got to take chances for the things you care about." ~Dr. Andy Harrison
Eight Below Ever wonder what does eight stands for? Well they are Maya, Max, Shorty, Dewey, Truman, Shadow, Buck, and Old Jack. Yes they are all dogs, sled dogs to be specific and are mostly Huskies. These dogs will touch you somehow in a way a human never did. It is all about friendship beyond species. Set in Antarctica discover how Jerry Shepherd (the protagonist) did everything beyond any means for friendship.
"Save the one you can, the rest learn to let go." ~Ben Randall
THE GUARDIAN If you ask me to watch it again, yes definitely I will, even if it will be my ninth time.lol. Ben Randall a veteran coast guard rescue swimmer who used to be at the top of his game will change Jake Fischer's life forever. Randall forced to teach at "A" school (school for US Coast Guard's elite Rescue Swimmer) after an accident during a rescue mission. Jake is an ex swimming varsity and is highly regarded to top the "A" school. He broke every record set by Randall except one, when with one man left and a broken winch, Randall held the man by his fingertips for the entire flight to land, resulting in extensive injuries to his hand and shoulder, a record that could never be broken. Discover how the egos of these two brave man collide and found out that they are very much alike. This film is a tribute to the brave men of US Coast Guard who live their lives with this words "So others may live."

"It is not how much you give, but how much love you put in the giving. If you cannot feed a hundred people, just feed one. If you judge people, you will have no time to love them." ~ Mother Teresa
MOTHER TERESA: The Legacy If you watched all of the nine movies above, be sure to watch this for finale. A documentary film about the life, death, after death and everything else in between of an extra ordinary woman who never wanted anything else but to serve the MAKER. It was shown here how the world mourn her death. Almost every political leader, every walks of life, every religion Buddhism, Roman Catholic, Jews, Islam, Hinduism name it, are all present in her burial. She may be gone but the impact of the unconditional love that she have given to the world will never be forgotten.
These movies are all my personal preference. Opinions and reviews may vary in a personal basis. Again don't be too harsh to a newbie. Feel free to drop a comment.