5 movies

Loads of time to spend.But then, movies always find time. These are the five movies among others of this year which I have been able to watch till now.Three and a half months are remaining so definitely more time to continue this journey. These movies are there for a reason.Reason is pure and simple. They make sense. They answer the questions we might never ask anyone.Anyone. Questions on insecurity,future questions, piled up anger and volcano level frustration at everything around.These movies are dealing with intermingling questions on somewhat pretty important and life saving questions. They are on- being nice to people, parenting, motherhood, pregnancy, grief, adulthood and yes, love too.

 1- Short Term 12

Short term 12 gives the hope to come out of the myth that families are the real home. Short term 12, is a place having kids being cared by few people committed to the kid's all kind of well being. Two  among so many endearing conversations in the movie  are: 

Grace: Why are you so nice to me? 

Mason: You being serious now? 

Well, it's easy.It's because you are the weirdest,most beautiful person that I've ever met in my whole entire life.

Jayden( a girl in Short term 12) to Grace when Grace is contemplating abortion): You're going to make a great mom.

2- Rabbit Hole

A single quote from this movie can put forward the theme of this movie. Becca is the mother who has lost his young boy in a road accident and Nat is her mother who lost her adult son. Their conversation at the end of the movie when Becca is somewhere almost there in her process of making sense of her grief and loss goes like this:

Becca: Does it ever go away?

Nat: No, I don't think it does. Not for me, it hasn't-has gone on for eleven years. But it changes though.

Becca: How?

Nat: I don't know..the weight of it, I guess. At some point, it becomes bearable.It turns into something that you can crawl out from under...carry around like a brick in your pocket.And you...you even forget it,for a while. But then you reach in for whatever reason and-there it is.Oh right,that.Which could be awful-not all the time.It's kinda..not that you like it exactly. So you carry it around.And it doesn't go away, which is..

Becca: What.

Nat: Fine..actually. 

 

3- JuneBug

Amy Adams lightens up the screen with her eyes and that effervescence smile. A simple line Ashley (Amy Adams)says to her husband who is not rising up to the sudden situation his wife's pregnancy has brought to their life has stayed with me is: 

Ashley: God loves you just the way you are. But he loves you too much to let you stay that way

4- Columbus

It is about a son and daughter( belonging to different family), dealing with their relationship with their parents. If son is not feeling any remorse towards his ill father, daughter is putting her life on hold for her Mom. They both confront each other before confronting themselves on their thoughts and life choices but eventually helping each other to move on from the current situations they find themselves stuck in.Watching this movie shaping story through  between these characters ridden with dilemmas and guilt with The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand can be a good idea. 

5- Liberal Arts

When the main characters, a 35 year old man and a college going graduate meet, story uses it to slowly emphasis many many points. The recurring theme is the life after college. How do people deal with being adults? Is being old cool or one should continue being in college to delay entry into adulthood? The two extreme points of life having dilemma and uncertainty in itself  are , post-graduation and post-retirement life . They seemingly invoke similar emotions as one does not know what to do after it. But this movie is more than these questions at the end of it . 

For liberal arts students,  living life inside the books by immersing themselves in between the pages on the similar lines as the authors they admire and who lost life at a young age , Ted Mosby has simply one advice: :" Listen to me man. This right now, all of this stuff you're feeling...this is a footnote. Do not  be a genius who dies young. Be one who dies old. Being old is cool. Grow old, and die old. It's a better arc."