limelight (dilemma of love)

The best feeling in the world is to help someone out of their misery, but what if you become the reason for their misery? It's easy to love, it's hard to carry on with it. Limelight is one of the masterpieces of Chaplin in which he so poetically portrayed the bond between two human beings above all the desires, riches, and miseries of the world.

A drunkard, old, and failed comedian finds a girl who attempted suicide, and the journey ahead with all the ups and downs, the success and the failures but apart all from this one thing remains sustained, the love between them.

somethings are not meant to be explained, they are well unstated. you cannot decide whom to love or by whom to be loved, but this is how it works and you have to live in misery to not give the same in return.

it will get over soon, one day or another you are going to see this world for the last time, so live it with the people you love. laugh, cry, feel everything as no feeling is permanent. just in the way don't forget to live.

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My dinner with Andre ( A meal of reality )

It won't go away, you'll just get used to it. when we're young there are a number of doors we can barge in and have our way to those different lives, but as we grow old we realize they are now closed. My dinner with Andre strikes the reality of our lives, how we have adapted to this rat race we once loathed. 

This movie plucks a number of strings of our life we have not played for so long. how we have accepted our grief, failures, and loneliness as fate, ceasing every emotion within ourselves and pretending our habits to be our life. we speak too much and feel too little, society is losing the power to listen, to comprehend the reality of each other. 

we are losing the power of communication, even these digital words I am writing will be just some feeble text for you. these self-decided rules of society have put on so many barriers between us, that we can't say what we exactly feel. we think there is some other world where everything is going to be okay, well there's not, there is just this one.

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About time ( a creek of life )

All we need in our whole life is a little more time, a longer hug, kiss, or just comfortable silences while lying in the arms of our loved ones. Tim got a gift of time, and with the help of his father and our best teacher life, he manages to turn his life into the symphony of love, like he wanted.

We all wonder, what if? this question has haunted the man's heart, what if one's actions can lead them to the outcome they hope for, but life doesn't work that way is it? one must trust the course even if it's worse, not every fella in the world is supposed to have the cherries of life, or sometimes they just fool enough to let them slip from their hands.

the movie is an experience of how feeble we are, how our actions are not the sole factor to decide the events of our life. It depicts if one is really devoted to what keeps one awake in the nights, one way or another it may happen.

Good or bad, it's important to go through it, talk to the one you love, try to see them as often as you can, hope for their well being, or maybe just sit back and live it, live your life even if it's a hell of a ride because believe me it can go worse.

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The Darjeeling Limited ( search for quietude )

A human mind is full of chaos, and all our life we're running to find the place where everything feels still, in search of nothingness. The Darjeeling Limited is one of the masterpieces of Wes Anderson where he so sublimely portrayed one's chaos with his art of symmetry and splendid cinematography.

Sometimes it's hard to let go of the past, and by sometimes I mean all the time. your Past is the true reflection of what you are now, and it is where one should start to the path of nothingness. All three brothers were holding on to something but in the end, they relinquished their baggage.

Death is the true evidence of life. you once breathed in this world, wandered these landscapes, slept under the blanket of stars, laughed with the one you loved, cried without them. Feeling alive is more important than being alive and that's what moves us through our pity, miserable and pretentious life.

for some people, their baggage becomes the only reason to live their life, not everyone finds peace in the end. there are some stories in your life you can't define or paint on a canvas, that feeling is when you'll find it so vulnerable to jump back on those stories and relive that infatuation. don't let those stories become your baggage because then you won't be able to make new ones. It's not good to dwell in dreams and forget to live.

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The Notebook ( ballad of reminiscence)

Our life is a story, and right now we're living it, some of us have just started and some have reached the end. the beginning and the end don't matter it's what we have in between them, because that is the only thing we can control, feel and live. The Notebook is about this one summer romance or a ballad of reminiscence.

sometimes things don't go the way we want them or the way we dreamed them to be, but that doesn't mean the love we once shared was not true. Hope is a tricky thing that can wreck you or can help you carry through your miseries, which happened to Noah.

It's so weird to see a person and think that there was a time when these arms didn't resist a hug those eyes didn't have the look of a stranger. when you love someone you gave them a part of yourselves, a part of your life, a part of your story. No matter what, it will be there, somewhere deep in the dungeon of your heart.

Timing is the author of our stories, and it plays its role really well. Noah and Allie were the victims of timing and also timing mend the pieces together. If you are not aligned with the story you dreamed of that doesn't mean it will not happen, it's just the author has decided on a different end, so live through it because that you can do and who knows the author changes his mind.

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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (dreamer's land)

Are we there yet? towing ourselves to that place where we will find our horizon, the place where we can lie down still, without any mayhem of thoughts in our minds, the one place which wakes us every morning to move a little closer to it. And what will you think if I say it was here all the time we were just too busy to find it on the wrong path. The secret life of water mitty can help you to find that path.

I don't say packing your backpacks and putting on some denim and heading to the woods is the only path for your horizon. A man's horizon is the place where he feels alive, that can be kissing your wife before going to the office or skating through the valleys.

Sometimes we're just too afraid to take our chance we start believing that we have reached our place. Walter Mitty was one of the victims of this sometimes. however, the cold winds of the Himalayas and the hot volcano smoke made him perceive his true identity and what he is within.

The world is full of people seeking their fake horizons and those who didn't find them, but that does not stop us from trying because that's even worse, not taking the chance. So, if we're still here, we are not there yet.

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Top 5 war based movies that will show you the other side

 1. The pianist - in the chaos of emerging nazism a young pianist makes his way through war-fighting all the odds and surviving his last battle by his luck and talent. movie goes through a number of events showing the real face of terror and human cruelty. the dedication of Brody for his role rewarded him the Oscar. Scoring 8.5 on IMDb and 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, The Pianist is ready for watch on NETFLIX.

2. Schindler's list - when it comes to a war film there is no way one can fail to think of the classic Schindler's list.  on the verge of insanity of nazi society, hope for the victims of the hate. love is expensive that's why not everyone can earn it, the movie depicts how a nazi businessman erased the name of jew prisoners from the book of death. recognized by Academy Awards Schindler's list secured his place in history. You won't be amazed to know that this beauty scored 8.9 on IMDb and gained 98% Rotten Tomatoes.  The movie is available on NETFLIX for you.

3. Saving Private Ryan - Captain miller on a rescue mission for private Ryan who didn't know he has lost both of his brothers and a lonely mother hoping for survival of his last one, movie takes us through a journey of bitterness and rough patches of war offer to the individuals. Tom hanks with his absolute performance make this movie a must-watch. For the brilliance of this gem, it score 8.6 on IMDb and 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and available on  NETFLIX.

4. The thin red line - far, far away from their homes soldiers fighting two wars one for the big minds and one their own spiritual, showing us the nuisance of all this hate and evil. the movie falls right into our hearts taking our minds towards the reasons rather than gunshots. With an 7.6 IMDb and 80% Rotten Tomatoes this movie awaits for you at Amazon Prime.

5. 1971 -  An underrated Indian gem '1971' is one of the finest movies made in Bollywood. it's about after-war scenes that no one gets to know, how thousands of prisoners of war fade away in the ruins of bureaucracy. after the war with Pakistan in 1971, prisoners of war are held in their jails rather than returning them to India. it's a story of how some of these Bravehearts try to escape and get help for their brothers. the movie is a must-watch for every cinema lover out there. The movie has an IMDb rating of 8.1, the movie is available on YouTube.

lagaan : once upon a time in India

It takes a good story, a director to portray what he feels, and actors who won't just act but feel their roles, although it's rare to find something like this, sometimes it happens, Lagaan is one of these situations. Ashutosh did a piece of work that made us believe there is still some good screen time in Indian cinema.

A story beyond our imagination and so alluring, and music taking us inside the story. Bhuvan, our protagonist giving the people a ray of hope, although it feels impossible what they have done in the movie, but the journey they had made us believe in their victory. Touching social evils, the movie sync with our heartbeats.

It's nothing bad to be ordinary, it's only bad if being one is not helping you. A man who has forgotten to protest is already dead, our society is not perfect, it never was and never will be. But we must not stop trying to make it one. The movie scored 8.1 on IMDb and 95% on Rotten Tomatoes,  and available on NETFLIX.

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The Pianist ( ivories of luck)

Is luck tangible or just a fickle of coincidences? humans can't bear miracles we are a species who thrive on facts and proofs. 'the pianist' is a miracle to me and I don't wander looking for facts about how it happened, I believe in this one. 

we never notice small changes like the movement of the sun in the sky, and that's our greatest weakness. we are fed on little poison every day, the poison of hate and contempt, as history is our witness we always fell for it. 

the only thing which guarded the breaths of our szpilman was sheer luck, he lost everything but not his wind, although the love for his art was like a walking stick for an elderly 'it's not much but it's something.

we are not so special, we are the most subtle species ever lived on this blue ball, and as a simple piece of this elusive puzzle, I want to be lost, because the piece which is hard to find is valued the most. The movie scored 8.5 on IMDb and 95% Rotten Tomatoes, movie awaits for you at NETFLIX.

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Midnight in Paris ( acquiring veracity )

'Paris' the city of dreamers, the city of dreams. there is always a go-to place for a person, a place where one wonders about puffing his last breath. 'Midnight in Paris' is a great piece of cinema traveling us through time to the world of dreams.

people have different perceptions based on their experience and knowledge, but somehow we indulge ourselves to acquire an opinion that is accepted by society. man must look to the world from his own glasses.

A person who has founded peace is merely dead to me. we fetch happiness but we don't think what after achieving it, we'll get used to it and this happiness will become apathetic, which is worse than death. 

love has no curbs, it can travel through time and space, one must believe in it. 

A 7.7 on IMDb and 93% Rotten tomatoes. So reserve your seat with Amazon Prime and get lost in the streets of Paris.

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The bucket list ( cognizance of entity )

Do you want to know the day of your death? I think if one gains consciousness about his death, he will die every day. The bucket list is the story of Edward and Carter, who were aware their end is hooping around them. 

Our minds are breached with the information that life is all about achieving something, to be recognized, to fill those voids of our hearts with thoughts sanctioned by society. Carter lived all his life this way but he died living the one he wanted.

Sometimes it's more important to feel alive in life rather than just flowing away with it. The bucket list is about hope, hope to live a little more. This story achieved 7.1 ratings on IMDb but just 41% Rotten Tomatoes, but that doesn't make any difference for you to watch it. the movie is available on YouTube.

Top 10 movies that will change your concept of life.

 1. Into the wild - Who sets the terms of our life, who decides what should we do where should we go, who decides our destiny it takes great courage to be the man one wants to be, the meaning of happiness is best explained by those who know sorrow.

 The submission of Hirsch for his role led him to lose 40 pounds and become like a stick dangling in the woods. In the movie, a scene where an Alaskan man who gave McCandless rubber shoes was actually the person who gave real Chris those shoes.

 The brilliance of Sean Penn's direction can be seen in this wonder. Into the wild is more than just a film. It's the thin line between life and death. The movie scored 8.1 on IMDb and 81% on Rotten Tomatoes. You can watch this gem on NETFLIX.

2. Life is beautiful - What is a great story? The one with a happy ending I think not, for me a great story is the one where reality is the central idea. It depends on the narrator how he depicts reality on the canvas. 

Life is beautiful is a magnificent piece of work by dir. Roberto Benigni shows a story of a man and how love can do miracles. Guido's movie wife was Robert's real-life wife Nicoletta Braschi. It was for the first time in history that a director won Oscar for best actor for a movie which he had directed himself.

 I think it deserved more with the ratings, gaining 8.6 on IMDb and 80% Rotten Tomatoes. This Italian gem is available on Amazon Prime.

3. Anand - 'Life should be big not long' the point is to live this life rather than spending it, Anand is an emotion which lives within ourselves and sooner or later we feel it at some point of life. 

We all are aware of what Gulzar's pen can do, and this gem truly depicts it. Gulzar wrote the screenplay, dialogues, and few lyrics for some songs. This was the changing point for our Angry young man AB being his first hit. Anand recently celebrated 50 years of bringing the same joy to anyone who watches it.

No wonder Anand gained an 8.3 on IMDB and 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. the movie is waiting for you at Amazon Prime.

                                             

4. 12 years a slave - The human race is always in a war, sometimes with guns and sometimes with minds. love and hate both are dangerous if take place with the wrong person. 12 years a slave is the bitter truth of our history which we need to know to praise the present. 

The movie rolls around the timeline of the 1850s and one can feel the aura and horror of that time, we have come through a lot and there is more to come. For me, everyone has the right to choose his life but should also be responsible for the consequences. For someone who is thinking what a waste of life is, he must watch this gem.

The movie has an IMDb rating of 8.1 and received 95% Rotten Tomatoes, and is available on YouTube.

5. The Truman show - Sometimes I think our world is nothing but a science project of some high school kid and he is observing the changes and evolution of human beings like we observe a butterfly's life cycle. 

Understanding the beauty of this movie, Carry charged $12 million instead of his regular $20 million, although the production team waited for almost a year for Carry to finish his LIAR LIAR. to this date it's a question where this beauty was shot, it was in Florida. 

The Truman show is a story of a man a simple man and how he is so special to a world he is totally unaware of. One of the best pieces of Jim Carry, the movie scored 8.1 on IMDb and 95% with Rotten Tomatoes. the movie awaits you at NETFLIX.

                                        

6. Pyaasa - It's really difficult to find an unfeigned person in this world, we live in a sad and bitter world where an act of comfort is rare to find. Pyaasa was an absolute implausible piece of cinema, with every dialogue touching our heart with every poetry we connect more to the sad reality of the world.

It is lesser-known that Late Dilip Kumar was actually the first choice for the role of Vijay but because of his absence on the first day of shoot dir. Guru Dutt himself acted and gave us a performance which totally changed Indian cinema, also Nargis and Madhubala was cast as the lead actresses but changed last minute. Based on the story Kashmakash also written by Dutt Sahab, Pyaasa to date is one of the cult classics.

 There is no surprise that it scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.4 with IMDb. you can watch this piece of beauty on youtube and on Amazon Prime as well.

                                                 

7. Dead poet's society -  We all are survivors. Every day we go through our day-to-day life and survive the day and in this time of survival little moments of laugh with our friends, a kiss from that special one,  the peace while watching a baby sleeping is when life happens. 

Tom Shulman wrote the story based on his own story and Keates was inspired by one of Shulman's own teachers Harold. At first, the Studio team decided to turn dead cinema society into a musical named 'The sultans of strut' but dropped it later.

'Dead poets society is a movie that makes us wonder where are we going why we are not stopping and embracing the beauty of life. The Captain scored 8.1 with IMDb and 84% Rotten Tomatoes. Arrange your weekend schedule at Disney Hotstar plus this weekend.

                                         

8. Shawshank redemption - I don't believe in god but I do fear him. there is no eternal force that is going to make our lives better there is only one thing that is holding this mankind, hope. Shawshank redemption is a tale of hope and survival which portrays how dubious life can be. 

Morgan was so dedicated to the film that the baseball shot which took 9 hours led to put morgan's arm in a sling the next day. very few know that the photo of young red was actually morgan's younger son Alfonso freeman. It was believed that Hank will play andy but because of Hank's commitment to Forrest Gump, he turned down the role.

There is a reason movie is the highest scoring on IMDb with a rating of 9.3 and collecting 91% Rotten Tomatoes. You can watch this on NETFLIX.

                                         

9. The thin red line - The greatest power and infirmity of the human race is that we are group animals. Because of our unity, we consider ourselves the superior kind, and it is also why we have encountered so many massacres.

Our favorite Adrien Brody was seen not as much as he's worth it, this was because most of his scene was cut down to lose the stash. Brody was himself unaware of these changes. It's an old saying that 'the thin red line is the gap between sane and the mad, the film depicts how these men mud their minds in order to survive the war.

The thin red line is an ode of emotions that sparks the truth of life.  With a 7.6 IMDb and 80% Rotten Tomatoes this movie awaits you at Amazon Prime.

                                           

10. Stand by me - You never know when you are going to see a person for the last time, you never know if this a catch you later or the last goodbye. People come and go from our life that's a truth we all learn over time even the closest person to you can become a stranger.

'Stand by me' comes from the same collection of stories as 'Shawshank redemption.' on the verge of getting shut down by Coca-Cola, It's almost a miracle this gem is in front of us. As a fun fact it is believed phoenix lost his virginity during the filming noticed by the crew because of his extra smiling during the shoot. To catch the real reactions the cast didn't saw the dead body before the characters and it was really worth it.

  'Stand by me' is a real piece of cinema that takes us to our castle of nostalgia. Scoring an 8.1 on IMDb and 91% Rotten Tomatoes, the movie is available on Amazon Prime.  

These movies comprise all genres and emotions, so choose freely which one is going to be your first watch. If you are a cinephile you won't be disappointed. As a bonus part here are some more movies which I consider a must-watch - Hera Pheri, Sparsh, Jane bhi do yaaro, Ijaazat, Coco, Soul, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, Saving private Ryan, Cast away, the bucket list.

I hope you will give them a watch and dive into the beauty of the cinema. 

the thin red line (symphony of life)

the greatest power and infirmity of human race is that we are group animals, its because of our unity that we consider ourselves the superior kind and it is also the reason why we have encountered so many massacres. the thin red line is a ode of emotions that sparks the truth of life.

 

we have developed technology to save time but what's the benefit of this technology if we not wield this time. 

love and hate does not come by birth its these groups which embarks these demons inside us. you will never be happy if the only happy person is you.

war can break and mend people. death have the power to make one embrace life. every person have a story even a ant have his own adventures, live your story the way you want it and sometimes if that does not works out then try. 

no one seen the great beyond, these are just tales to keep us sane to keep us under the so called norms and rules of society. find your great beyond.

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anand ( tale of immortality )

'life should be big not long' the point is to live this life rather than spending it, anand is a emotion which lives within ourselves and sooner or later we feel it at some point of life.

happiness is not having fun or enjoyment its peace, its not important that the reason behind every smile is merriment. 

death is more sacred more pure than life its away from all the iniquity of life, death treats us all the same. we should add life to days not days to life.

pain is for those who gets left behind, to bring a smile to those with whom you once laughed is the idea of immortality to me. 

its a chaotic world and a really sad one yet a little kindness can make it beautiful.

find the anand inside you.

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