The Gospel of John often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus. It begins with the witness and affirmation by John the Baptist and concludes with the death, burial, Resurrection and post-Resurrection appearances of Jesus.
Steven Jay Russell (born September 14, 1957) is a US con artist known for escaping from prison multiple times. The film, I Love You Phillip Morris tells about his real-life story during 1980s and 1990s. A true story of life, love and prisons break directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa released in 2009.
PHILLIP MORRIS
Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) who is a law-abiding citizen, plays organ for the local church and volunteer as a deputy police officer in Virginia Beach with his wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and a young daughter. Steven spends his off hours searching for his biological mother who gave him up as a child. Later, he tracks her down only to discover that she had remarried his biological father and given birth to three other children, each of whom his biological sibling but his mother rejects him without explanation.
After surviving from a car accident, Steven decides to live the rest of his life as his true self. He confesses to Debbie that he is gay which he had been hiding it from her. While he pursues a new life as an openly gay man, Steven realizes that "being gay is really expensive" which leading him to become a con man (insurance fraud, credit card fraud, passport fraud and so forth) to support his lifestyle. He is caught and sent to prison where he meets a sweet and soft-spoken inmate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor).
STEVEN JAY RUSSELL
The film tells the story of an inveterate conman and a gay man who just can't stop conning his way through life in a humorous manner. It may looks unbelievable when watching it but in 1993, Steven Russell disguised himself as a workman with a walkie-talkie, wearing a pair of women's black trousers stolen from the prison infirmary and walked out of the front gates. And three years later, he stockpiled green felt-tip pens from prison art classes, squeezing the ink from the cartridges into a sink of water to dye his overalls the color of surgical gowns and simply escaped the second time. The most daring escape ever was in 1998, over a ten months period, Steven tried to feign the symptoms of Aids to show that he is dying. Don't know how he do it but he claims to have an IQ of 163 which is over 140 than a genius.
In the end of the film explains that the real-life Phillip Morris was released from jail in 2006, but Steven is still currently serving a hundred forty-four years sentence (till July 12, 2140) on twenty-three hours lockup with only having one free hour a day for supervised showers and exercise.
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film directed by Roman Polanski who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II. The film is based on the true story of a Polish-Jewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman (5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
In the 1930s, Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) who born to a wealthy Jewish family was known as the most accomplished piano player in Poland. The Szpilmans have a large and comfortable flat in Warsaw which Wladyslaw shares with his family. While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they are convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis.
In September 1939, a German bomb rips through a radio station while Wladyslaw plays live on the air and shattered his naivete. As the German grip tightens upon Poland, Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to face a certain death, Wladyslaw at last deciding to escape and goes into hiding in a comfortable apartment provided by a friend. However, when his benefactor goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops.
WLADYSLAW SZPILMAN
In August 1944, Polish resistance mounts the Warsaw Uprising, attacking a German building across the street from Wladyslaw's hideout. A tank shells his apartment and he is forced to flee and hide elsewhere as fighting rages around. Over the course of the next months the city is destroyed and emptied of the population and Wladyslaw, entirely alone, searches desperately for shelter and supplies among the ruins. Until one night, he is discovered by the Nazi officer, Captain Wilm Hosenfeld (Thomas Kretschmann), who learns that Wladyslaw is a pianist and asks him to play on the grand piano nearby. The decrepit Wladyslaw plays "Ballade in G Minor", which moves Hosenfeld, who then helps him survive, allowing him to hide in the attic of an empty house and regularly brings him food.
WILM HOSENFELD
When Russian army draws closer to Warsaw in January 1945, Hosenfeld gives Wladyslaw a final parcel of food and his overcoat to survive for a few more days when the Russian army will liberate him soon. He asks Wladyslaw of his surname, which sounds exactly like "spielmann", the German word for pianist and Hosenfeld promises to listen for him on the radio. Shortly afterward, Wladyslaw sees Polish partisans and overcome with joy, goes outside to meet his countrymen. Seeing his coat given to him by Hosenfeld, they think he is a German and try to kill him, before he can convince them he is Polish.
Newly freed Poles walk past an improvised Russian prisoner of war camp and Hosenfeld is among the prisoners. The Poles hurl insults at the Germans through the fence but when Hosenfeld hears that one of the Poles is a musician, he goes to the fence and tells him that he has helped Wladyslaw and asks him to ask Wladyslaw to return the favor, before a Russian soldier throws him back down on the ground. The Polish musician visits Wladyslaw and takes him to the site but they have vanished. Wladyslaw is unable to help Hosenfeld, but he returns to play piano for the radio station.
At the ending of the film, it tells Hosenfeld died in a Soviet Prisoner-of-War Camp in 1952 and Wladyslaw lived to be an old man, dying in Warsaw at the age of eighty-eight.
Joy warms a person's heart while happiness merely pleases. But for children, happiness means joy; having toy cars, video game times, TV times, snacks before bedtime, new pet, playing with friends, going to carnival and doing all the things they can.
The Pursuit of Happyness is an American biographical drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino released in 2006 based on part life of Chris Gardner, a single parent who can't make enough money to keep a roof over his head and that of his child.
In 1981, San Francisco, Chris Gardner (Will Smith), the smart salesman and family man invests the family savings in portable bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image which he tries to demonstrate and sell to doctors. The investment proves to be a white elephant which financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda (Thandie Newton) leaves him and moves to New York. Their son Christopher (Jaden Smith) remains with Chris.
Chris Gardner
Without money and wife but totally committed with his son, Chris sees the chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, vying for one career in the end of six months training period without any salary with other twenty candidates even life continues to offer him setbacks. One day, he is called into an office and in it were the heads of Dean Witter. Chris thinks that he is about to be told the job will not be his as he says that he wore a shirt and tie for his final day. Then they tell him that he has been an excellent trainee and offered him the position as a broker. Chris struggles to hold back tears. Outside he begins to cry as the busy people of San Francisco walk past him. He rushes to his son's daycare, hugging him and knowing that after everything him and his son had been through, things would be all right.
The final scene shows Chris walking with his son down a street. His son is telling him a joke, when a wealthy business man in a suit walks past. Chris looks back as the man continues on. The man in the suit is none other than the real Chris Gardner.
One of the best scene reminds me of "Life is Beautiful", a father trying to protect his son from their circumstances by ways of fun. In the film, Chris will play a little game with his son, pretends that the bone density scanner is a time machine back in dinosaur time and finding a "safe cave" to hide against the danger fossil reptiles which in fact, a cruddy subway toilet that shelter them for the night. And we can see the fear in his face when he burst into tears, holding his sleeping son in his left arm tightly and keeping the door closed with his right foot when someone trying to intrude in the middle of the night. We always said money isn't everything and certainly can't buy happiness but having no money, we can't get happiness and protecting our love ones either.
The Pursuit of Happyness is one of the best touching and inspirational film based on true story, most people would have given up somewhere along the way with all of the obstacles that befell him but he never gave up and stay on with a positive attitude. You will feel like crying with him at the end of the film when he finally gets the job.
Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something.
Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it.
"Some people say we live in a world that reconcile both differences, others see it true peace, the lasting peace can't be obtain because they haven't found a way yet to change the human heart." The speech in the begining of the film, End of Spear that I just watched and felt inspired and moved by the story.
Mincaye Enquedi & Steve Saint
Directed by Jim Hanon released in 2006 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the murders, tells the story from the perspective of Steve Saint whose father, Nate Saint was one of the murdered missionaries and Mincaye Enquedi who believed to have speared both Nate Saint and another missionaries, Ed McCully during the Operation Auca.
A true story of five American Evangelical Christian missionaries in Ecuador who set out to reach the Huaorani (Wadani) who were an isolated tribe known for their violence against both their own people and outsiders who entered their territory.
In September 1955, with the intention of being the first Christians to evangelize the previously uncontacted Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights dropping gifts over Huaorani settlements. After several months of exchanging gifts, the missionaries established a camp at Palm Beach, a sandbar along the Curaray River (a few kilometers from Huaorani settlements) on January 3, 1956. Their efforts came to an end on January 8, 1956 when all five - Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming and Roger Youderian were attacked and speared to death by a group of Huaorani warriors.
In 1958, the widow of Jim Elliot, Elisabeth and the sister of Nate Saint, Rachel, returned to Ecuador as missionaries with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International) to live with Huaorani (the same people who had murdered the men they loved), they learned their language, taught them the Bible and successfully forging a friendship that transformed all of them.
In 1994, Steve traveled to Ecuador to bury his aunt, Rachel Saint who died after spending thirty-six years with Huaorani. A year later, he and his family moved to the Amazon basin to live with Mincaye and his family.
End of Spear is an amazing story of Truth, Love and Forgiveness; a tribesman and the son of a man he killed forge an unlikely friendship. Mincaye is now a surrogate grandfather to Steve's children and Steve, now works with the Huaorani people who travels around the world, often accompanied by Mincaye, preaching the gospel.
"I realized if we let God write the story, He doesn't always promise that all chapters would be easy but He does promise that in the last chapter He will make sense of all the other things that have happened in our life even though some of them are terribly painful and I'm very, very thankful that He has."
Steve Saint
An American drama film directed by Sean McNamara about the life of surfer Bethany Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) released in April, 2011.
Bethany Hamilton
Thirteen years old Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb) is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. On October 31, 2003, she went for a fun night out night surfing and was attacked by a fourteen foot tiger shark came out of nowhere and lost her left arm. Beside losing her left arm, she also lost sixty percent of her blood and her doctor, Dr David Rovinsky (Craig T Nelson) calls her survival a miracle.
All her dreams shattered, she has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm. Despite the trauma of the incident, she was determined to return to surfing. Less than a month after the incident, she returned to her board. Initially, she adopted a custom-made board that was longer and slightly thicker, making it easier to paddle and learned to kick more to make up for the loss of her left arm. On January 10, 2004, after teaching herself to surf with one arm, she entered a major competition and she now uses standard competitive short-boards.
Soul Surfer is an inspirational film for the entire family about overcoming obstacles and turning tragedy into triumph. Life is a journey, none of us knows what might happen in life even the next minute and bad things do happen. We can't always understand them but we have to trust and have faith and is how we respond to them that defines our character and the quality of life. Either to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of the loss or to choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift which is life itself.
The Gospel of Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John), one of the three synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark & Luke) and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever. But what if one day you could no longer remember any of them? Can a once in a lifetime love find a second chance?
The Vow is a romantic drama film directed by Michael Sucsy released in 2012. The film begins when Paige Collins (Rachel McAdams) and her husband Leo (Channing Tatum) come out of a movie theater, on their way driving home, a truck rams their car from behind and Paige crashes through the windshield. When Paige regains consciousness in the hospital, she has lost all her memories of the past few years and thinks Leo is her doctor. Later her parents learn about the accident and come to visit her and it is for the first time that Leo meets them. From going back to being a stranger, Leo works to win Paige's heart all over again, through all the obstacles and heart pain in this heart-warming tale of love and second chances.
It may looks like another Hollywood romance film but the film is based on the actual relationship of a real couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter who endured the same terrible tragedy that Paige and Leo did in the movie. In 1993 (ten weeks after their wedding), Kim and Krickitt Carpenter were in an automobile accident in which Krickitt suffered brain trauma, which erased memories of her past eighteen months of her life all of which included Kim. Kim, however, refused to give up and continued to show Krickitt his love, although she viewed him as a stranger after the accident. On May 25, 1996, their faith in Jesus and their wedding vows before God kept them together again and they are now a happily married couple living in New Mexico with two kids.
Marriage vows are sacred promises a couple makes to each other during a wedding ceremony. Today, many couples see the wordings 'till death do us part' in the marriage vow as 'till we love and live together', hence they only fulfill their promises as long as they love and stay with one another. As I re-watched the film again and the real story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, marriage vow is not only on a promise to one another until one (or both) is dead but a life long unconditional commitment to each other in all adversity (even when it is against you) as well, just like what Leo said in the film, "I vow to love you and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other."
To have and to hold, from this day forward,
for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health,
The strength of a family, is like the strength of an army and is in its loyalty to each other.
Conviction is a 2010 drama film directed by Tony Goldwyn, based on the incredible true story of a sister's unwavering devotion to her brother.
In Ayer, Massachusetts, the siblings Betty Anne and Kenneth 'Kenny' Waters are very close to each other and they are neglected by their single mother who is callous and uncaring, allowing her eight children (by seven different fathers) to grow up almost feral. As the years go by, Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is now a father of a baby girl, a troublemaker who hated by the local police department and Betty (Hilary Swank), a high school dropout and an unemployed mother of two boys.
Betty & Kenny Anne Waters
In 1980, a woman living in a trailer next door to Kenny was stabbed to death, the local police officer Nancy Taylor (Melissa Leo) arrested him and sent to court for trial. Based on the evidence of his blood type and the testimony of his ex-wife Brenda Marsh (Clea DuVall) and his girlfriend Roseanna Perry (Juliette Lewis), Kenny was sentenced to life without probation.
Convinced that her older brother is innocent, Betty spent the next twelve years to complete her elementary school and high-school to go to law school to reopen his case. Challenging the conviction with DNA evidence, with the help of the Innocence Project, she proved her brother's innocence and in March 2001, Kenny finally walked out as a free man after eighteen years in prison.
Unfortunately, six months after his release from prison on September 6, 2001, Kenny fell from a fifteen feet off a wall while taking a shortcut to his brother's house and died from injuries related to head trauma. His death is not mentioned in the film.
In 2009, the estate of the late Kenneth Waters settled a civil rights lawsuit against the town of Ayer's for three point four million dollars. Today, Betty Anne lives in Bristol, Rhode Island and works to help the Innocence Project to spread the word about wrongful conviction by speaking out her story.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
Martyn Burke directed the film Pirates of Silicon Valley in 1999 which based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.
The film documents the impact on the development of the personal computer of the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft. It spans the time period of the early 1970s to 1997, how Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) were changing the way the world works, lives and communicates today as they set up two of the biggest computer companies back in 1970s.
The film covers not just the business part of their lives but their personal lives with their friends and families as well. Note that the events that take place in the film are based on actual events but what's shown is not fully accurate.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great,
whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent or a businessperson. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
The film had became one of my favorite after watching it fifteen years ago; fast paced and action oriented with plenty of drama, guns, explosions and also, I was fascinated with the intrigue in the film. It's like modern day version of Robin Hood.
Phillip Noyce directed The Saint in 1997, a romantic action film based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint".
At the Saint Ignatius Orphanage, a rebellious young boy named John Rossi refers to himself as "Simon Templar" - the first name from Simon Magus and the last name from his childhood heroes, the Knights Templar.
Speed ahead and the young boy is now a professional thief dubbed "The Saint" for using the names of Catholic saints as aliases in bidding wars with countries for his services. Slick, debonair and a master of disguise, Simon (Val Kilmar) manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job, Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a revolutionary cold fusion energy formula from a pretty and intelligent American electrochemist Dr. Emma Russel (Elisabeth Shue). Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case, the mission backfires as he falls for her placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young chemist.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers,
who begin to interest us at first sight,
somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song by Judy Garland with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg for the movie, The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Since its initial release, the song has been covered by many musicians and one of them was Israel "IZ" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (May 20, 1959 - June 26, 1997), a Hawaiian musician playing with ukulele in his album, Facing Future released in 1993. Love his beautiful voice and his enthusiasm on his belief and hopes even-though he suffered from severe obesity throughout his life.
Being happy is a choice, you never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but to be happy. Find yourself somewhere there isn't any trouble, somewhere that you can't get to by a boat or a train, somewhere beyond the rain, over the rainbow and where the dreams that you dare to really do come true.
A song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and recorded by the Philly soul musical group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (featured the late Teddy Pendergrass as lead vocalist), which became their first hit after being released as a single in 1972.
The song was later covered by the English pop/soul band Simply Red, also becoming their best-known hit after reaching number one on the U.S. Hot 100 on July 15, 1989.
The song expressed a common sentiment - your lady doesn't seem to understand you and you feel like "if you don't know me by now, you never will." Absolutely, one of the best song even after thirty years now.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW
Simply Red
If you don't know me by now
You will never never never know me
All the things that we've been through
You should understand me like I understand you
Now girl I know the difference between right and wrong
I ain't gonna do nothing to break up our happy home
Oh don't get so excited when I come home a little late at night
Cos we only act like children when we argue fuss and fight
If you don't know me by now (If you don't know me)
You will never never never know me (No you won't)
If you don't know me by now
You will never never never know me
We've all got our own funny moods
I've got mine, woman you've got yours too
Just trust in me like I trust in you
As long as we've been together it should be so easy to do
Just get yourself together or we might as well say goodbye
What good is a love affair when you can't see eye to eye, oh
If you don't know me by now (If you don't know me)
You will never never never know me (No you won't)
If you don't know me by now (You will never never never know me)
The Ron Clark Story (also known as The Triumph) directed by Randa Haines in 2006 based on real educator, Ron Clark who moves to teach in a New York City public school where he feels he can be more useful.
In 1998, Ron Clark (Mathew Perry), an energetic, creative and idealistic young white teacher who leaves his suburban North Carolina hometown, the school where he is appreciated by both his fellow teachers and his students for his innovative teaching methods which results in raising test scores and moves to New York City.
He eventually finds a job at Inner Harlem Elementary School, where the students are segregated according to their potential and he choose to teach the most disadvantaged class. Through his passionate use of special rules for his classroom, highly innovative teaching techniques and an undying devotion to his students and helping them cope with their problems, Clark is able to make a remarkable difference in the lives of his students. For one young girl trying to attend school while helping to raise her brothers and sisters, he offers a chance for her to overcome her situation and become one of the class' top students. For a young man with a penchant for graffiti, he offers an ideal outlet for artistic expression. Even when he is almost overcome by pneumonia, Clark continues to work with his students, hoping that he can raise their test scores to an acceptable level or possibly even higher.
To date, his efforts and dedication to his pupils have brought him to the White House on three occasions to be honored by the president. In 2000 he was awarded Disney's American Teacher of the Year and in December 2008, Oprah Winfrey donated $365,000 to Ron Clark, for the Ron Clark Academy and his profound dedication to teaching.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience,
and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
The Terminal is an American romantic comedy drama film directed by Steven Spielberg released in 2004 and is partially inspired by the seventeen years stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in the Charles de Gaille International Airport, Terminal 1, Paris, France from 26 August 1988 to July 2006 when his refugee papers were stolen.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
The film starts with an Eastern European man by the name of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) arrives at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and while he was air en route to America, a revolution was started in his home nation of Krakozhia (fictional country). With his passport, visas and currency issued by Krakozhia are no longer valid internationally and suddenly, he is a citizen of nowhere. Hence, Viktor is denied entrance to the U.S and he is also unable to return home but to lives in the terminal carrying his luggage until Krakozhia's situation is resolved.
As the days stretch on into months, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, culture, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
Life is a challenge and it's natural that we feel sad, frightened and pained when anything adverse happens to us. In the film, we see how Viktor reviews the bright side of every angle of his problems in time of adversity when he doesn't speak English very well, with no valid citizenship, no cash and no one to help him around in the terminal. And while Viktor is rising to his life challenges, how he begins to befriends and helps some of the people around him who work in the airport.
The best things in life are worth waiting for, fighting for,
Based on the life story of an American boxer, James J. Braddock (June 7, 1905 - November 29, 1974) who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 - 1937. In 2005, Ron Howard directed an American drama film, Cinderella Man, titled after the nickname of James J. Braddock. In the film, the role of neighbor, Sara Wilson was played by Rosemarie DeWitt, who is Braddock's real-life granddaughter (daughter of Braddock's daughter Rosemarie Braddock and husband Kenny DeWitt).
The story takes place in New York and New Jersey during the Great Depression, a time when people experienced the worst economic hardship in U.S. history. James Braddock (Russel Crowe) from Bergen, NJ, formerly a light heavyweight contender who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his right hand in the ring. His career suffered as a result and works as a laborer at the New York docks for pitiful wages as he tried to support his wife, Mae Fox (Renee Zellweger) and his three children.
Unfortunately, he cannot get work everyday and desperate for money. He turned to his former trainer and manager Joe Gould (Paul Giamatti) who offers him a last-minute substitute to fight against the second-ranked world contender and make a little money. Being one of those hungry fighters, he astonishes everyone by winning the fight with his powerful left hand that had been intensified by years of dock work and begins to win all his fights against younger, stronger and heavier boxers. He is named the "Cinderella Man" for his miraculous comeback and his amazing return becomes the source of inspiration of many down-on-their-luck Americans.
In 1935, he gets a chance to fight for the title with the heavyweight champion of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer (Craig Bierko), renowned for having killed two men in the ring and he become one of the most surprising sports legends in history.
"I have to believe that when things are bad, you can change them."
Been hearing this songs in many films as soundtrack for awhile and finally knowing that the original singer is Frankie Valli which released in year 1967.
CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF OF YOU - Frankie Valli
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
You'd be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
Pardon the way that I stare
There's nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
So if you feel like I feel
Please let me know that it's real
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
I love you baby and if it's quite all right
I need you baby to warm the lonely nights
I love you baby, trust in me when I say
Oh pretty baby, don't bring me down I pray
Oh pretty baby, now that I've found you stay
And let me love you baby, let me love you
The Recession of 2008 (also called the Recession of the late 2000's or the Great Recession) is a major worldwide economic downturn that began in 2008 and continued into 2010. It is by far the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s and the subsequent economic recovery one of the weakest.
Inside Job is a documentary film directed by Charles H. Ferguson and narrated by Academy Award winner Matt Damon released on October 8, 2010. It was made on location in United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore and China.
The film is described by the director of the film as being about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption."
The film explores how changes in the policy environment and banking practices helped create the financial meltdown in five parts; How We Got Here, The Bubble (2001 - 2007), The Crisis, Accountability and Where We Are Now. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of middle-class people jobless and homeless in the worst recession and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
The Notebook is a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on 1996 the romance novel on a true story of the same name by an American novelist, Nicholas Sparks. The novel was originally inspired by the story of his wife’s grandparents who had a rare and beautiful relationship, one that withstood the test of time and circumstance for married over sixty years,
The film begins at a modern-day nursing home, an eighty-years-old man named Duke (James Garner) reading a romantic story from his faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap to a fellow patient, Allie Hamilton (Gena Rowlands) and starts telling her the story in 1940.
In Seabrook Island, South Carolina, local twenty-three years-old country boy, Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) is smitten with seventeen-years-old heiress, Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) after seeing her for the first time at a carnival and they share an idyllic summer love affair. Unfortunately, their relationship is disapproval by Allie's parents because of Noah's unwealthy family. The two break up when Allie's family returning home to Charleston.
Fourteen years later, Noah returned home from World War II, restoring a plantation home to its former glory and he is haunted by memories of Allie, the girl that he loved like no other. One day, Allie unexpectedly returns to Noah's town to see him once again. She is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. However, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship still remain and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape.
In the present, Duke asks Allie who she chose. Allie who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and suddenly remembers that "Duke" is Noah and he was reading the story of how they met. She remembers after finding out about her illness, she herself wrote their story in the notebook with instructions for Noah to "read this to me and I'll come back to you".
The next morning, Noah ("Duke") goes to Allie's room to find her lucid again. Allie questions Noah about what will happen to them when she won't be able to remember anything anymore and he reassures her that he will never leave her. She asks him if he thinks their love for each other is strong enough to "take them away together" and he replies that he thinks their love could do anything. After telling each other that they love one another, they both go to sleep in Allie's bed. The next morning, a nurse finds them dead in each others' arms and the last scene shows a flock of birds flying away.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
There to strengthen each other and to be at one with each other
When I was a child and I asked, "Where did I come from?"
As I get older, become uncertain about my future and I asked, "What will be the next step of my life and does God has planned an incredible future for me?"
If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present;
if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.
The Game is a psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher released on September 12, 1997. It tells the story of a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker, Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) who on his forty eight birthday (the age at which his father committed suicide) given a mysterious gift from his brother, Conrad Van Orton (Sean Penn), a ticket to CRS (Consumer Recreation Services) to participate in a game that changes his life.
This is truly an intelligent and mind blending tale and just when you think you got a hold of the plot it changes!
"The Game" is full of surprises and should not be missed!
Based on the short story "Keith" by author Ron Carlson from the book, The Hotel Eden. Todd Kessler directed an independent film of the same title released on September 19, 2008.
The story is based around a popular seventeen-years-old high school senior, Natalie Anderson (Elisabeth Harnois), who thinks she has got her life figured out; yearbook editor, scholarship to college, star athlete, reigning social queen and so forth. Until she meets Keith Zetterstrom (Jesse McCartney), her new chemistry class lab partner who is a carefree boy with a rebellious view of life.
Secretive and enigmatic, Keith slowly lures Natalie from her comfort zone. The more he holds back, the more she becomes intrigued with figuring him out. In her head, she's determined to keep him at arm's length but in her heart she can't resist him.
Ultimately, she falls for him and discovers that Keith is hiding a secret, a tragic results with both their lives changed forever.
To cherish every second, to leave a mark on life of every person, to have no time to waste, because one day it might just all end.
What if the time that you have left to live is measure by the time show in the clock and time has become the ultimate currency for you to buy your way out of it.
Live forever or die trying, In Time is a 2011 American dystopian science fiction action film written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol.
By the year 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging at twenty five years old and after that a clock implanted in people's forearms is activated with one more year to stay alive. When the clock reaches zero, one die instantly. Time has replaced money as currency and the wealthy that live in specialized town, New Greenwich are immortals while the poor live in ghettos of Dayton are exploited and forced to live with a few hours or days. They need to work, borrow, beg or steal to stay alive and to pay for daily necessities. Thieves steal time and the timekeepers (resident police force) control the society.
One day, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) saves the rich Henry Hamilton (Matt Borner) from a dangerous time-robbery assault in a bar. Henry tells that he is 105 years old and is tired of living, since there is no need for the deaths in the unfair society. When Will wake up in the next morning, found that Henry has transferred 116 years to him and commits suicide. Will runs to meet his mother Rachel Salas (Olivia Wilde) to credit time to her but she dies leaping into his arms with her time expires before the transference. Remembering what Henry told him about the inequity of the time system, Will decides to seek revenge and heads to New Greenwich but the timekeeper, Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy) believes that he killed Henry to steal his time.
Will meets Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried) who is the spoiled daughter of the millionaire, time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) in a party. When Raymond arrests him, Will kidnaps Sylvia and brings her to the ghetto of Dayton where he lives. Sylvia feels how despicable her father is and together with Will, they steal a large quantity of time to fight against the time system.
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy,
but it’s good too, to check up once in a while
and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
Time is more valuable than money.
You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film directed by Roman Polanski who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War II. The film is based on the true story of a Polish-Jewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman (5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
Directed by Jim Hanon released in 2006 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the murders, tells the story from the perspective of Steve Saint whose father, Nate Saint was one of the murdered missionaries and Mincaye Enquedi who believed to have speared both Nate Saint and another missionaries, Ed McCully during the Operation Auca.
Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever. But what if one day you could no longer remember any of them? Can a once in a lifetime love find a second chance?
It may looks like another Hollywood romance film but the film is based on the actual relationship of a real couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter who endured the same terrible tragedy that Paige and Leo did in the movie. In 1993 (ten weeks after their wedding), Kim and Krickitt Carpenter were in an automobile accident in which Krickitt suffered brain trauma, which erased memories of her past eighteen months of her life all of which included Kim. Kim, however, refused to give up and continued to show Krickitt his love, although she viewed him as a stranger after the accident. On May 25, 1996, their faith in Jesus and their wedding vows before God kept them together again and they are now a happily married couple living in New Mexico with two kids.
The strength of a family, is like the strength of an army and is in its loyalty to each other.
The Terminal is an American romantic comedy drama film directed by Steven Spielberg released in 2004 and is partially inspired by the seventeen years stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in the Charles de Gaille International Airport, Terminal 1, Paris, France from 26 August 1988 to July 2006 when his refugee papers were stolen.
