Go fight the forces of nature and find out how small you are and how weak! Pride is our greatest sin; our belief in our unstoppable, unsinkable, undefeated - laughed by Mother Nature with countless casualties. And we tend to forget about it just as often as we are reminded. We established rules, which are here to curb our wild tempers but up there, far away at sea, those rules don't apply. Imagine a ship that sets sails to hunt for whales' oil. Imagine a monster whale that can destroy a human plan with one move of its tail. Imagine being lost, stranded, and alone: with death breathing into your neck and choices no one wants to make. Inspired by America's epic Moby Dick, a story of the sea, friendship, and a sense of duty to the core of human values. In the Heart of the Sea.
In times when man's income was man's value, the priority of a woman wasn't really to fall in love. She was supposed to be well taken care of, as in the case of her parents' death she had to be supported. But you couldn't help to fall for someone despite financial deficiencies, you couldn't help to develop feelings for the ones who you truly respected and admired. Greatest love stories happened despite reason and sense. When life was so short and so fragile, when you couldn't get used to your own children as their growth to adulthood was so uncertain, could you truly fall for a man? Could love for ribbons and poetry find some mutual ground for the firsts buds of fondness to spring, could they bring together two equally passionate people? Last days of John Keats in Bright Star.
Parents seem to know us better than anyone else.They were with us from the time we could barely open our eyes and scream out of hunger, fatigue or pain. They watched our every step, they followed our mistakes at school, our failed friendships, our desires. And then we grew up, with different desires, with a whole lot of secrets kept from them, with truths they have difficulty digesting and accepting. We turned as much flawed as they are, as fragile and weak. It takes time to deal with a child who is no longer a child. It takes time to accept the most uncomfortable truths. A mother. A son. A love story. Litling.
Finding the right partner is hard. Matching characters and mutual interests are not always the basis for a love-affair. There are a lot of minute differences and variables which make forming a lasting relationship almost an impossibility, even if we pretend that we have something in common. But what if being single was subjected to punishment? What if the ideology of a couple was preferable and the single life doomed to discrimination and eternal seclusion? What if there were places where kiss, sex and falling in love were forbidden? Which camp would be the right place for you? A brilliant film showing us how ridiculous we are in the pursuit of socially accepted happiness. Is the dystopian scenario really that far from reality? The Lobster.
If you were born a girl whose only dream was to bear children and be protected by your husband, you might not care about your legal rights. If your life vocation is a little bit different: you want to be educated, travel around the world, pursuit interest of various kinds and be financially independent, appreciate what changes have been made over the last century. It amazes me how unjust was the treatment of women, how little influence you could have over your life, the fate of your children and the decisions of your husband. Having shed the badge of being someone's property, women won more than the right to vote. They won their rightful place in the world, a place which has always belonged to them. Suffragette.
It's amazing how people are similar regardless of the passing of time. It strikes me every time that human instincts are just the same and we might be technologically more developed, know just a little bit more, either from experience or observation, but still, we commit sins of our kind. We hate, discriminate, we are inherently afraid of one another and these instincts we cultivate all the time. Cloud Atlas shows how struggles of each generation lead to a better future for the next one. When one door closes, another door opens. Films are a great way to show us past, present and future by means of images. They teach us that the past was not really that long ago and the future is not really that distant. Once we were a civilization where slavery, apartheid, tribal wars, the illegality of homosexuality was something to be dealt with on everyday basis. We change slowly, acquiring new information, accepting more differences. And hopefully, we will change and we won't allow winning those who are stuck in their basic human insecurities to hate, hurt and prejudice. A wise and beautiful film for an individual. If you want to make the world a better place, start from your own little universe.
The clash of family values and desires. Three young characters trying to oppose the times they are living in when class, morals, and religion were of utmost importance. Can you choose a life you crave to have? Can you follow your heart standing against your family expectations? Can you finally be true to oneself in terms of your sexuality, vocation, and beliefs? A beautiful landscape of Brideshead. A great power of Catholic religion. And a division between what makes you happy as a human being and people's expectations about your life, love, and lust.
We are always intrigued by people on the side of evil. They carry out what we can (I hope) only fantasize about, what, out of sheer fear of being found out and traced by the police, we never fulfill. The danger of making such stories is that they might prove inspirational for the more maniac-like individuals. Perfume is sophisticated. It comprises the sacred and the profane. It combines the unique variety of colors which make us believe that we feel the scents. A tragic story of a genius who made people mad from desire. A lonely individual in a world of a limitless number of smells. And you almost forget that it's a story of a murderer.





