It doesn’t
matter sometimes how many to watch a movie. It never satisfies your appetite. Star
Plus will be showing Julie and Julia on March 8th, Women’s Day. And
I have already set up my alarms, despite watching it for at least five times. What
new will I find this time? It is just like reading the same old book again and
again.
Well! I am not insane. Cristel Antonia Russell
from American University and Sidney J Levy from University of Arizona,
conducted interviews of 23 subjects, all of whom had recently “reconsumed” a
book, movie or vacation spot. They concluded that sometimes choosing to do
something again was about reaching for a sure thing—the brain knows the exact
kind of reward that it will receive in the end, whether it is laughter,
excitement or relaxation (so true!). They also learned that people gained
insight into themselves and their own growth by going back for a do-over,
subconsciously using the rerun or old book as a measuring stick for how their
own lives had changed. One woman, who watched the romantic Kevin Costner movie Message in a Bottle more than once said: “It was helping
her work through having an engagement that hadn’t worked out.” Now that makes
sense.
Anyways my
list will include V for vendetta, Dead poet’s society, Akira Kurosawa’s movies
(there are many) and many more. Movies that can change your life: google it and
you will have hundreds of this list. We need motivation at all levels; from inspirational
speakers, books, music, environment, movies. I need them most.
They can make you cry,
laugh, tortured, worried, intimidated. They can make you fall in love with
yourself, your family, friends, animals, nature, world. Though behind the back
of your mind you know that it’s fictional (even if it’s inspired from reality,
there are tweaks), for few hours you get lost in that in that utopic world,
where it all ends well. Probably this is reason why not make filmmakers were unable
to deal with a sad ending. They want audience to leave the cinema halls on a happy
note. Happy endings inspire hope. 