You always remember those who wronged you, don't you? Even one critical remark lingers for years, one hateful comment blurs hundreds of positive ones, one failed purchase sours your mood and memories of many successful ones. One accident leaves you traumatized and one failure in a relationship makes you cautious with the subsequent loves. But if you're innocent, entirely and blissfully and there are those who purposefully destroy your career, freedom, love, and family? Can you forget the betrayal? Can you really let go? Or will you find peace only when you revenge those who wronged you? Taking into account circumstances, making use of the true reversal of fate and pure luck, you might regain what was once taken from you. Life is made of ups and downs and this story is the epitome of its giggles of fate. A classic still exciting, enjoyable and interesting, based on a lengthy Alexandre Dumas' novel, with multiple film adaptations. Do you believe in God's justice? The Count of Monte Cristo.
In a lunatic asylum, nothing is what it seems to be. Friends could be your enemies, dangerous patients turn out to be your support and most reliable doctors end up being your biggest threat. Can you trust those who cannot rely on themselves? Are you to be trusted? Can you solve a mystery among dangerous maniacs and criminals? Can you deal with your own trauma and past which haunts you and painfully disturbs your professional life? And finally, can you unwillingly be a part of a bigger plot? Nothing is entirely clear on Shutter Island, enjoy.
If you established a relationship with a pet, you know the feeling. The fondness, loyalty, instinctive protection, friendship and a lot of fun. Once your pet is dead, you might end up sobbing for weeks. Imagine a boy who went on a rescue mission to save his beloved protector, imagine an island occupied by dogs taken away from their owners. Finally, imagine a political system which doesn't allow for dogs, and a power which in an unscrupulous way can deprive its citizens of the friendship it had established centuries ago. With a dose of cynicism, great story-telling and canine animation, which blows your mind, Isle of Dogs.
We, humans, don't learn by rules. If I tell you not to put your fingers into an electric socket, you'd most likely ask why. They have two holes, if you're bored the best way to spend your time is to stick your fingers there and wait for the result. If you say you're not so stupid as to even try, I'll ask whether you checked or someone told you that you shouldn't do this. How can you be so sure? Maybe the danger is only in theory?
We, humans, learn by stories. Possibly once you heard a story about a boy who was so intrigued by the electric socket that he decided to put there his two fingers and experienced a tragic death. Half of his body was burned from the shock, some pieces of meat from his arms, hands, and calf literally fell apart. He died, of course. But the smell of grilled meat was filling the room for days.
Are you still attracted to the electric socket or will you steer clear of it, always remembering the story about the grilled boy every time you want to play with the tempting device? Would you like to be told a story about a boy who survived on a boat with a tiger? Unbelievable? Possibly, yes. Would you like to learn something about God, religion, friendship, faith, us as humans and discover wisdom which reaches far beyond intellect and reason? Something more than a film, Life of Pi.
Oh, that was something! I always wondered why we act as we act as civilized people. What makes us fall in love, take on different responsibilities, act according to certain cultural norms? Why women tend to be full-time mothers and men want to play with the fire? Why in the developing countries there is still a division between feminine and masculine roles and why oh why this division is rather rigid and any aberration from the norm is perceived as dangerous? Still, one creative mind put a boy and a girl on an island and made them grow in a natural way. On one hand a social experiment, on the other: a still beautiful love story in the paradise holiday background. The Blue Lagoon.

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?
You're used to the fact that you have your bread provided by the baker, that you go for a cup of coffee to the nearest cafe, that if you don't want to cook, you can eat your lunch sitting in the restaurant's chair and have your flat cleaned by a familiar cleaning lady. You go to the hairdresser's for cutting your hair and to the shops to buy your clothes. You're lazy, let's be honest. You even press a button on your remote control to be entertained and pay a big part of your income for services which make you clean, healthy and groomed. When you think of it, you don't need any of the above to survive. You are able to find everything in nature, to hunt your own food and build a shelter. Maybe at times, you need the support of an imaginary friend to get by. Taking into account your lesson learned, is coming back again to the civilization really that easy? Cast Away.