Remember your college experience? These endless hours of cramming before the exams, social groups dividing themselves according to interests, political views, and financial status? Your first nights away from your parents, your first heart breaks and sexual escapades? Evening classes and lonesome coming back home at 3 am, one-night stands, random acquaintances, and broken friendships? Crazy parties and irrational challenges resembling prison bullying? Well, this is something which brings the college experience to another level. Hungry for another type of education? Are you really hungry? Raw.
When the tragedy happens, you are always there to give good advice, you know better, it will be all fine in the end. Unwanted pregnancy? Of course, you will manage, a child is such a blessing, even though good pieces of advice tend to disappear at 3 am. when you're alone with a crying alarm clock. Disability? You will deal with it, there are institutions which will help you, social services that will teach you how to live, avoiding depression and euthanasia. Cancer? You cannot give up, you have people to live for.
Good motivational pieces of advice are usually from those who had never experienced the trauma you're dealing with. They are from those who will abandon you sooner or later in their busy world of loud opinions and quiet actions. Having a child is a decision for a lifetime. Not having a child is also something which will stay with you for ever. What would you do if you were pregnant with a child diagnosed with a Down syndrome and a serious heart disease? Would you be brave and give it a go, taking into account your religion, upbringing or hopeful wishes for the future? Would you have an abortion? Would you be strong enough to agree on the life burdened by someone's disability? A very important film about the complexity of making a decision. Don't judge. Such a dilemma might at some point concern you. 24 Weeks.
We have so many things to occupy us on this planet, so many problems, challenges, dilemmas, that we forget that there are many more problems, challenges, and dilemmas, which we cannot even comprehend. There might be creatures that don't resemble anything we are familiar with, there might be civilizations which face threats of being extinct, there are conflicts which are not based on earthly problems. The best way to check it is to find the passage to another planet. Let's not reach far, neighboring planets will be just fine. Follow Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel's idea and visit Barsoom. Spectacular and fun: John Carter.
Every single decision leads to something. The way you treat your friends, partners and parents depends on how you will be treated by your friends, partners, and children. The time when you decide on your career will make other life options unavailable. The moment you say something unpleasant will depend on whether you will later regret it or try to make it up to someone. Each time when you don't react will make you reminiscent this moment for ever. It will allow others not to react and in turn be indifferent when you are in need. Karma is a dangerous thing. One positive action can trigger thousands of equally positive. One negative will create a society numb to the needs of many. Two films with over a decade difference. How little things matter, turning every life decision into a life-long outcome, and how can we be a little bit better as humans. Before I Fall and The Butterfly Effect.
It's great to have a family which supports your every decision, stands by your every dream and is your helping hand in times of your mistakes, failures, and heartbreaks. It makes every family meeting a pleasure and every holiday spent together an event worth waiting for. At least for some. But let's be realistic: if you find yourself among people who visibly don't like you, criticize your every move or share values which you don't believe in, such a meeting might turn into a nightmare. How conventions can destroy a beautiful love, why family looks good only in pictures and why the older we get, the more differences are bound to occur between siblings, parents, and children? Also, why bonds of family and tradition seem to win with even the strongest relationship, and why for some the only way to breathe is to break free? Bitter-sweat and funny: Easy Virtue.
Let's agree on one thing. People are irritating. They disturb your peace of mind in the means of public transport, they seem to be more successful than you, own things that you don't own, attempt to steal from you what you value the most. Oh, the world is such an irritating place, so unfair... Why not push your irritation to the limits and turn your anger into something constructive? Why not get rid of those who annoy you the most? Why not do this indefinitely? Enjoyable catharsis and just a tiny bit disturbing entertainment. Have fun, don't get inspired. Sightseers.
Funerals are usually deeply sad occasions. Families gather to say goodbye to their beloved, eat a dinner dressed with tears, recall the final moments of the deceased, cherish memories, which in time will only fade. It's natural. People die. We will all die, whether we want to avoid it or not. There shouldn't be any taboo surrounding death. But the final day of the deceased on the surface on earth can trigger not particularly expected events, reveal secrets few would like to reveal and make family members behave like patients of a mental institution. Hilariously funny, despite the occasion. Death at a Funeral. Enjoy.
It's easy to judge when the tragedy doesn't touch us. It's easy to find the guilty ones once we don't have to point fingers at our friends, family members, and workmates. It's, on the other hand, crushing to be in the shoes of people who were touched by an event, which lingered for years, leaving the unperishing sense of loss. The loss which had an impact. Some people were so moved by one famous crime that they tried to use their personal experiences, suspicions, and deductions to solve one buried mystery. But they also did something else. By reenacting one crime they opened gates for much more, revealing that none of us is really innocent and there are layers to every story. In the cloud of mystery, murder and family pathology, something else than just a documentary: Casting JonBenet.
Let's go! Let's set off on a journey across a continent, across cities, mountains, villages, deserts, mines, rivers and historic monuments. Let's skip the school for a while, let's forget about textbooks, parents' words of wisdom, teachers' guidelines. Let's open our eyes and see the unexplored, the wild and the untamed. Let's compare what we think about the world to what the world thinks about us. Let's see the poverty, the injustice, the happiness in simple gestures and suffering due to incurable diseases. Let's appreciate what we have and see what we can do for others to give them a little bit more. Let's go! Let's go on a journey across South America and witness what turned one student of medicine into a revolutionary. Let's follow the footsteps of Che Guevara, at least for a while, and let's see for ourselves. The Motorcycle Diaries.
In the company of wrong people, there's always something missing. In a bad friendship, there are gaps of honesty, loyalty, and humor. In a bad relationship, there are gaps of happiness, fulfillment, and joy. We meander, changing our jobs, interests and life influences. But if there's something missing we are likely to give up even the biggest efforts, years of devotion and commitment, to find our cup of tea and something that rings true. There are people who gave up their priesthood for the warmth of a woman's body, there are husbands who abandoned wives for the charm of the other woman. There are people who had to reach the bottom to have the strength to come back to the surface. There are women who found each other somewhere in the middle of the way to decide if there's a step back. A pool of sexual pleasures and a good romance for those who still wait for the 'right click'. Below Her Mouth.
Are you attracted to men or women? Both? Neither? Do you fantasize before falling asleep? Do you watch porn? Do you masturbate? How often? How often do you have sex? Do you feel sexually satisfied? Do you have sex without love? Or do you love, not having sex? Do you have sex with your partner? Many subsequent partners? Toys? Pets? Do these questions make you uncomfortable?
Sex. As far as it's not the most important thing on the planet, it's somewhere below our basic need, just after water and food. It makes the puberty the most uncomfortable period of our lives, it also makes us decide what course our lives are going to take. Married? Children? Single? Open relationship? No label?
There's too much shame that surrounds this basic human need and too much discrimination has been put on the fragile sphere of your sexuality. Whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, toysexual or weirdsexual, statistically, we're all in the spectrum of nature. From time immemorial. There was someone who wanted to teach us this simple truth of fitting in regardless of social prejudices, discrimination, religion, and tradition. Whatever your prejudices are, people once believed that the Earth was flat and the Sun revolved around it. Kinsey. Sexual education for us all. Where on the scale are you?
War. It takes years to raise a human being. It takes the pain of childbirth to bring a child onto this planet. It takes years of sleepless nights, money for education, food and shelter to raise a human to adulthood. It takes years to save money for a house, to build a family, to start a career.
It takes money to buy weapons. It takes millions to invest into tanks, missiles, biological weapons, bombs, and bullets. It takes millions to provide soldiers with their meals, uniforms, and equipment. It takes millions to train and school how to kill and how to do it well.
It takes seconds to kill a person. It takes seconds to destroy a building. It takes moments to divide nations.
It takes years to learn from mistakes. We've been there. We have sources, historical facts, documents. We know that there were wars which took a toll of millions of innocent citizens. We know that fear, economic instability, hatred, and prejudice triggered tragedies that destroyed a beautiful world and it took decades to rebuild this world again.
War is a waste of money, a waste of life and a waste of time. And still, there is war. There's still violence and crime. There's war in the world and small wars happen every day on the streets of even the smallest cities.
People resort to various means to spread the message of peace. They compose ballads, write poems or books, make films. The greatest strength of women is sex. What if this weapon was used for the higher good? Extremely important: Chi-Raq.