Gone With The Wind
I found recently that the movies that are made today are total crap - no story, lousy acting and even worse directing... This is why I am turning to the great old movies that have that "something" about them - I find them to be very good food for my movie-hungry soul craving a good movie with a strong moral every now and then.
I watched this famous movie called Gone With The Wind for the twentieth time a couple of days ago. For those of you who don't have a clue as to what the hell I'm talking about - it is a very cool american movie made in 1939 when Hollywood and its stars were starting their golden age. The movie lasts for nearly 4 hours and it's a real saga about two southern families going through the American civil war back in 1860s.
Now, I suppose many of you would roll your eyes at the very idea of seeing something so old and so long time and time again, but there is just something about that movie that creates this warm, fuzzy feeling around my heart. I don't know if it's the great visuals of the movie or the chemistry between the two main characters - Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, or the whole timelessness of the nature of their relationship, but the truth is that their story, taken out of the context of the movie, could easily be transferred to any place on Earth and to any time and age. Essentially (not to go into details about the story now), the moral of the movie is that people can be very, very blind in desiring one thing they are fixating on and actually relizing that the thing (or person, for that matter) that they desire most has been right in front of them the whole time... The story is really very applicable even in today's world, especially when we are all focused on our careers and making more and more money and we keep forgetting that the good things in life are not money and the material things we own, but the people we know and care about and that care about us. So, every time I feel my life is spinning out of control, with all the stuff I have to do (workwise or otherwise), I watch this movie (or parts of it) and I remind myself what the true values in life are...
So if you ever get the chance, I strongly recommend you to see the movie. You might find it old, outdated and corny, but you will not be able to deny the fact that the two main characters could be anyone of us at any time in our lives. Enjoy it and let me know how you like it! :)
I watched this famous movie called Gone With The Wind for the twentieth time a couple of days ago. For those of you who don't have a clue as to what the hell I'm talking about - it is a very cool american movie made in 1939 when Hollywood and its stars were starting their golden age. The movie lasts for nearly 4 hours and it's a real saga about two southern families going through the American civil war back in 1860s.
Now, I suppose many of you would roll your eyes at the very idea of seeing something so old and so long time and time again, but there is just something about that movie that creates this warm, fuzzy feeling around my heart. I don't know if it's the great visuals of the movie or the chemistry between the two main characters - Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, or the whole timelessness of the nature of their relationship, but the truth is that their story, taken out of the context of the movie, could easily be transferred to any place on Earth and to any time and age. Essentially (not to go into details about the story now), the moral of the movie is that people can be very, very blind in desiring one thing they are fixating on and actually relizing that the thing (or person, for that matter) that they desire most has been right in front of them the whole time... The story is really very applicable even in today's world, especially when we are all focused on our careers and making more and more money and we keep forgetting that the good things in life are not money and the material things we own, but the people we know and care about and that care about us. So, every time I feel my life is spinning out of control, with all the stuff I have to do (workwise or otherwise), I watch this movie (or parts of it) and I remind myself what the true values in life are...
So if you ever get the chance, I strongly recommend you to see the movie. You might find it old, outdated and corny, but you will not be able to deny the fact that the two main characters could be anyone of us at any time in our lives. Enjoy it and let me know how you like it! :)
posted by Ivna R. @ 2:34 PM
1 Comments:
I used to do that too at university. Rent an old movie once a week and watch it. They were much better than most of the newer movies that I have seen. Unfortunately I still haven't seen Gone With the Wind :(
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