Ambition can blind you at times. You can be driven by ego and achievements and be misled by what is worthy. Life also puts obstacles in front of you, challenges that make you learn your lessons and change your course of action. This journey gives you people who can shift your perspective and teach you the important things. And very rarely in life, you have a chance to talk to real spiritual leaders and change, admit to the wrong you caused, and improve. Based on real Heinrich Harrer and Dalai Lama with World War 2 and China's takeover of Tibet in the background. And a journey of one self-centered boy, who believed he could win the world on his own until he met the right kind of people and became a man. Seven Years in Tibet.
Life is unfair in its distribution of goods. Some are born rich and healthy, others live in abandonment, poverty, and sickness. Equally is with talent. You might think that those with God's gift are special, distinct, and admirable. That they had finished the best schools, have the best manners, and epitomize the best human virtues. But kings and geniuses equally are only people with the nastiest appalling habits. That said, can you resist the obsession with someone who has something you always wanted to have? Can jealousy make you commit deeds you'd rather conceal? A confession of one musician about another incomparable genius of its epoch. Salieri vs Mozart in Miloš Forman's Amadeus.
At times, you rebel against your family's vocation, deciding to become a baker in a clan of actors or an actor in a family of dentists. Occasionally, having no better idea for yourself, you step into your parents' shoes, inherit the family business, or climb the career ladder competing against your family members. Blood is thicker than water, you know it. And very rarely it gives you great opportunities to grow and cultivate your talent. It gives you strength, being set up against tough competition impersonated by your siblings from a young age. If prepares you for a lifestyle. What sacrifices do you have to make to succeed, why not everybody is bound to be the top of the top, why family's support is crucial and why failure can be a heartbreaking journey of lost dreams? One story of success, based on a real family: Fighting with My Family. Enjoy.
Like mother, like daughter, they say. It's difficult enough to be a mother to a young developing woman, but having an atypical mother can be equally hard. Those who were raised by housewives wish for more entertaining and open-minded guardians. Those with reckless beasts pray for a bit of normality. Sometimes, the roles change and daughters take over the responsibilities of the mother. Sometimes, both have such opposite characters that it is impossible to get along, especially if their vision of happiness is completely different. Three strong female characters under one roof. One move which is about to either change or tame them all. The 90s classic with generation icons: Cher, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci. Mermaids.
Do you remember Second Life where you could completely change your looks, integrate with people all over the world and turn your boring existence into an exciting adventure where there are no limits? Remember the thrill of the Sims, which gave you endless possibilities of social interaction and rise to wealth? Finally, do you still feel the pang of fear mixed with adrenaline while completing a virtual race and reaching a virtual finish line? It is now a fact that we jump between two worlds, we meet online, we get married in real life, we order goods online to appreciate purchase in the real world. Fancy a reality of the future of both worlds: virtual and real, which developed significantly for the cyberspace, leaving the real world behind? Classic Spielberg's fun and quite a possible scenario for the future. Ready Player One.
If you want to accomplish something in life, you need to take into account sacrifices that you are going to make. Endless hours of practice and repeating everything all over again until you achieve perfection are a must. Drive, initiative, and motivation are indispensable, but a cruel and challenging parent might be of use. Not everybody has talent, stamina, and persistence to achieve international success, but occasionally, pain in your personal life will enable you to boast gold in front of camera flashes and cheering crowds. A story of the personal road to success of Tonya Harding, and quite wicked family bonds, which helped to form a uniquely superhuman strength. I, Tonya.
It's difficult to jump back on your feet once you've fallen and bruised yourself hard. It's almost impossible to build everything from nothing. But once you've got the experience of falling down many times, the building process seems to be one of your deeply-rooted skills. There was a woman who was able to raise a gambling empire from pieces of information she heard, by putting together scraps of data that she knew nothing of, and acquiring abilities that she hadn't had before. By paying attention to the details, she managed to earn millions and control a group of particularly wealthy businessmen, celebrities, and some members of the mob. Proving that a woman's wit can be far more complex and cheeky than that of a dozen of men and that after every fall there's light at the end of the tunnel, a game of cards and minds, Molly's Game.
For centuries there was something wrong with the perception of women. While girls were supposed to stay virgins until their wedding day, boys were expected to gain manhood in the company of whores. Once a woman stopped being the man's property and was allowed the same voting rights, the inequality exposed itself in her professional and personal life. It was a woman who earned less than a man, it was a woman who had to make a choice between family and career. Men had best of both worlds and they took it for granted. And while women through fight and determination gained a lot, they still cannot consider themselves equal, even though they are very often better and more experienced than men. Even Hollywood has recently presented itself as the spot for sexually abused women and abusing producers, which proves that talent for acting is valued less than talent for a good job fuck. There was, however, a field in which women could compete for respect, equality, and victory. Strong and significant, Battle of the Sexes on the tennis court.
If you're in the middle of applying makeup, waxing your genital area, shaving your legs or upper lips, plucking your eyebrows or sniffing your armpits in search of the tiniest remains of body odor, it means that you gave up. You made yourself civilized for the sake of being attractive, accepted and liked. Not that it's a problem. We all do it. We all switch from pizza to salad as we cannot zip our trousers and jackets. We all search for various looks-enhancing procedures to find a miraculous cure for our low-self esteem. While, as a matter of fact, we look better when we leave things the way they are. But if you really want to take part in a beauty competition and watch Sandra Bullock get prettier every second of tormenting procedures, this is the best kind of entertainment. Legendary, Miss Congeniality.
Being a woman is such a hard thing to do. Even though you are probably best at physics or you are a great driver, an exemplary employee, an accomplished scientist or you have a wide variety of other skills, you are still faced with expectations. Does being born a woman ultimately mean that you should be a great baker, a talented cleaner, a great mother with an excessive amount of maternal instinct and your husband's biggest supporter even in his tiniest achievements? Does it force you to have a perfect figure, always dress fashionably and be the best lover in the bedroom, while if you dare to oppose, there's a newer model which is going to replace you, so you'd better not dare to object? Or maybe behind this cover of perfection, there are a whole lot of unhappy women who hate cooking, don't enjoy ironing and would rather watch a basketball match and become the CEO of a big company than spending time with children? Maybe behind the perfect neighborhood of immaculate housewives, there is a secret revealing the shocking truth that perfection is a figment of men's imagination and is not really possible? Thoroughly enjoyable films from 1975 and 2004. I suppose current version would be as much accurate as the previous ones. The Stepford Wives.
What are you willing to do for love? Are you ready to have your beloved one imprisoned in the worst kind of cage? Are you willing to take part in a deadly competition and risk your life for fulfilling unreasonable tradition? Are you brave enough to enter civilization which obeys not entirely understandable norms and customs? Are you devoted enough to believe in God's demanding monuments of a giant stone human-like creature? Are you fearless enough to step on the island which was kept in isolation for years until it perished somewhere in the ocean of time? Are you ready to enter Rapa Nui?
I remember times when singing contests were occupied by talented people who had an idea of what kind of career they would like to follow. Then the number of such shows tripled, the number of potential stars multiplied and now it seems that everybody can sing. We have one Adele and hundreds of seemingly good voices. The last thing I enjoyed about this film was singing. The best were those moments when Hollywood showed us something more than America, gave us a glimpse of different culture and mentality. When the world changes into a melting pot of races and religions it's good to see Bill Murray entering the deserts of Afghanistan.









