People crave various things. Some want to be rich and successful. Others desire fame and beauty. Some find happiness in creativity and adventure. Others cherish peace and routine. One man's meat is another man's poison. Happiness for some means misery for others. Misery for others means happiness for the few who made the right choices. What do look for in love? Security, passion, family? Is your love the first love or a subsequent choice after many failed relationships? Or maybe you quickly realized that all that glitters is not gold and you chose right from the very beginning? A love story of our times and a dream most of us have despite differences. Can a well-brought-up girl fall in love with a simple boy? Are class differences easy to overcome? And can one teenage feeling last a lifetime? The Notebook.
Two hundred years have passed and still, the biggest difference between people, a difference deeper than race, religion or nationality, is the financial status. Some have very little, others live the lives of privileges and pleasure, enjoying the services of private doctors, fashion designers, gourmet cooks, and luxury travel. We love the stories of from rags to riches, fables of how a poor and good boy resorting to wit and luck became a millionaire and changed his life for the better. But the reality is less optimistic. There were millions who starved to death, millions who died in political conflicts, and millions who sold everything, including their dignity, for a better life for their children. Despite the passing of time, a story of one who overcame poverty and those who were somehow connected to his renewed life. The fate of the criminals of the circumstances, the cruelty of the hungry, money-making world, the young French paying for the sins of their parents, trying to fight for their own happiness. Poverty-struck France with all its injustices, based on Victor's Hugo novel, Les Misérables.
What can await you in the French province from the times of King Louis? Should you resort to stereotypes? Is it great food, wines, escargot? Or maybe beautiful women willing to fulfill your deepest desires and erotic fantasies, paid and trained to entertain and give pleasure? Maybe it is true love lingering behind the corner, able to change your nature and right all your wrongs? Possibly it is also a mystery of serial murders, crimes committed by an untamed beast, an unclassified specimen trained to kill. All this in an unforgettable climate, fights, and quite an unrepeatable yet feast for the eye. Two blood brothers against evil, Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Very often we seem to love our pets more than our family members. We are astonished by the amount of energy and love they give us, we are devastated at their diseases, accidents, and deaths. People cherish various bonds that they developed over the course of their lives. Some of us can be named great parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, or friends. Others one of the most important bonds in their lives consider the relationship with a pet. But how this friendship came about? A fable on the human's best friend, an old world at the beginning of human civilization, and a bond old as time, especially for those who have an animal by their side. ALPHA.
Now we are getting used to the fact that all Hollywood productions, especially blockbuster, megahit, superhero films include characters of all races. It's a thing from the present, trying to overshadow years of racism, discrimination, and broken biographies of those who were willing to love despite years of the politics of race. Let's put the black and white love to another level. Imagine a cult singer, threatened by an assassin, surrounded by false friends and fake followers. Imagine a guardian hired to protect as professionally as he only could. And imagine a love story, which even for the leading actress was something unthinkable and far from personal experience. Full of cliches but still a worth watch for those hopeless romantics who love despite financial status, race, and profession. Music in the background, love in the air, The Bodyguard.
You cannot disregard female power. Some men throughout the history of the world wanted to diminish women's significance, close them in the kitchen, limit their ambitions to cooking and child-bearing. Women, however, resisted, spreading their wings and proving that no area of human accomplishments is for them too difficult or unreachable. They survived. But intelligence raises fear. For their beliefs, many women were considered possessed, for their desires they were punished, for the expression of their thoughts they were imprisoned. Some of them needed shelter. Imagine a place which survived the political turmoils of changing governments, a place which valued art and female independence. A place, which could offer a hideout for the lost souls that strove for self-expression. What if it was run by witches? Rhythm, dance, and the horror of female liberation, which required bigger sacrifices, taking sides, and a whole lot of gore, Suspiria.
Love gives no conditions. It accepts us for who we are and who we want to become. It respects our greatest desires and helps us fulfill our deeply hidden potential. Many artists, writers, businessmen, and politicians wouldn't be who they are without the encouragement of their loved ones. Being burnt by many subsequent relationships, we learn that having someone who won't inhibit our professional wishes, but help us find strength in making our dream come true, is like finding a golden egg among the ordinary chickens. It's a roulette of outcomes, a lottery which can't tell you whether your choices were right or wrong. At times you will help someone shine to the extent that they will overshine you. At times you will allow someone to make choices you don't accept at the bottom of your heart or don't like. At times you will devote your own happiness for the happiness of someone else. And sometimes you will realize that true love is not about fame and fortune. Only losing someone you love will make you feel the void which cannot be filled by any success at all. A beautiful story, filled with many personal experiences and simplicity of people, who despite being on the top, seem to still remember the bottom. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.