few movies leave such an impression on you that even if you might have seen them a few years back, you still remember some of the dialogues or incidents in the movie. and they keep coming back to you at unexpected times or consciously.
American Beauty: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/
Lester Burnham. some character you have to hate and love. the blatantly open sexuality in the movie is almost cringe-worthy, yet the satire hits you so hard that you just have to laugh at the characters or laugh with them. it has multiple interpretations about the portrayal of ideas we have about conforming to the moral and social standards. and also the idea of beauty itself. and there is really no other word to describe the movie than saying - beautiful. the last dialogue of the movie sums-up the idea pretty well:
"....I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world..."
has to be the best way to sum-up the world.
A Home at the End of the World: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359423/
The tag line of the movie is: "Family can be whatever you want it to be". there is no better way to sum-up the movie. perhaps the line hits home real close for me because one of my brother is gay. i was the first one in my family he came out to. before that incident, i merely knew about the existence of homosexuality in society. i was being politically correct by merely looking at it from a distance because it had nothing to do with me. but now i know that he will never have a "traditional" family. i cannot imagine what courage it took for him to come-out to me before he even made any attempt to know my views on homosexuality. inspite of this, he harbors dreams of finding a life-partner and having a family. then who is society to quash such simple ambitions ?
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