Being an attractive woman, you don't know what kind of relationship you're getting yourself into. You can be tempted by wealth and power, promised admiration in the spotlight and long-lasting support, but life is unpredictable and you might be left with nothing. Nothing is still something positive, as opposed to threats, fear of being killed and torn to pieces. Falling for the most dangerous man in the country has its consequences. Being a lover of kings and popes could guarantee jewels, fashionable gowns, and boastful feasts, but also could grant you one less pleasant beheading. Based on a true story, a twist of power, drugs, money, revenge, murder, and politics. Loving Pablo. Be careful who you fall for. Enjoy.
In the cult of fashion and visual culture don't pretend that looks don't matter. You watch these model goddesses on an everyday basis. You buy these magazines with them on the cover. You admire their figure. You envy their face. You wish you'd be able to dress in the smallest size and tempt everyone with your flawless body. And then, the majority of us look at the reflection in the mirror and build a huge low self-esteem. How did we push ourselves into the vicious circle of physical attractiveness? Why the majority of average obsess over the minority of beautiful? Why relationships should not be based on the superficial? And why being besotted with beauty has been our own fault for centuries? A little bit of magic and two important lessons: Shallow Hal and I Feel Pretty.
When you finally get out of your parents' daily control, move away to start a new stage in your life, when you finally spread the wings and head for freedom, you might discover your true self. You may question everything you once believed and were brought up into. It takes time, a few forbidden fruits tasted on the way, a few people met, an attraction built between you and someone you would never suspect having feelings for. But your fresh adult life may unleash some demons from the past. We all have them: forgotten traumas, parents' conflicts, strict upbringing. For some, the mystery of childhood can have a bigger impact and astonish you with shocking and unexplainable events. There are forces you'd never suspect you are in possession of. A modern love story, Thelma.
Do you believe in the power of love? Now you are bombarded with stories of betrayal, of infidelity, of abandoning your spouse for the more attractive or wealthier individual. We hear about break-ups after five, ten, twenty years or even after a couple of months of being together. The world focuses on silly things because times that we live in are silly. You're most likely to be born in peace, availability of goods, your biggest dilemma is to balance your home and your work. But people have always fallen in love. It's in human nature. You just can't help falling for the greatest drug provided by Earth. What if maintaining of this drug was disturbed by the complicated political situation, required more than one change of location and many years apart? A love story, Cold War.
It's fun to have your own business. To provide services to customers, rent an office, employ a team of people, start a research and development squad to develop your product. But whether you're interested in food production, cosmetics, clothes or you wish to solve some environmental problem, will depend on what kind of risk you're going to take. Sometimes the greatest ventures are those out of necessity. If the world is attacked by extraterrestrial creatures with deathly intentions; monsters, and demons, whose aim is to destroy, you must seek the solution to the problem. Who do you call if the world is heading towards a ghost catastrophe? A 1984 film so successful that was turned into a 1989 sequel and a female-cast remake over twenty years later. Ghostbusters.
Over the years we have learned certain rules to get by. Parents taught us how to eat, drink, go to the toilet, and behave. Teachers taught us to read and write, they also sold us some interests, which may continue till adulthood. Colleagues taught us support, dealing with parents' problem and heartbreaks. We take from others and we give: to younger generations and those around us. But let's move back to the years when we knew very little, we couldn't distinguish right from wrong and very difficult situations were far too complicated and overwhelming. The sensations of childhood in Summer 1993.
Can you deceive your true nature? Can you pretend to be someone you're not, just for the sake of family, tradition, culture, or appearances? Or will you sooner or later feel the excruciating burden of your responsibility against your deep desires and what will really make you happy? Will you eventually break? Every culture we grow up in comes with different expectations. Family prejudices or religious rules are hard to overcome. But if you are born into an orthodox Jewish community, can you break all rules to make yourself happy? Or being an adult teaches you to follow instead of break? A fight between desires and principles. Disobedience.
There comes a time in your life when everything falls apart. Be it the loss of job, the death of a family member, the end of love. If you have been in a relationship for a long time, you came to notice that for the past years you have been directing your efforts towards the paradise of love, very often forgetting about yourself. And then, when the break-up hits you, you are left with nothing. How difficult is to start from the beginning at any point in your life, why loves don't always have a happy ending, and why time invested in yourself is never a time wasted? Jeune Femme.
As a child, you play with toys. As an adult, you switch remote control cars and planes, Barbie dolls, teddy bears, and Lego blocks for different validation of your hard-work, obedience, and good behavior. You may fall for cars, gadgets, cosmetics, and jewelry, but you never stop playing. Imagine a world of toys, a family business run by a few Peter Pans who never wished to grow up. A dream come true for many yuppies turning their passion into work, isn't it? Imagine that this world is about to collapse due to varying targets and parents-related cross-purposes. Would you wage war against the mean world of adults, or is ultimately war a play of little boys? Toys.