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The Last Color (2019)
Best watch for the proponents of Humanism, Existentialism, Individialism, empathy, human rights, Intentional living.
I felt so many things deeply and cried almost throughout. Here are the things I developed deep regard for ( I paused the movie every time I wanted to make a note):
1) After 24 years, chhoti hadn't forgotten those words that left greatest impact on her "they call you untouchable right, you rise so high, scale such heights that these people can't even touch you."
2) 24 years ago, the grit and determination chhoti shown while telling chintu that "we will manage to earn some how just don't get into wrongdoings" reflected her values. World would be so much more beautiful if people are admired for the kind of person they are and not for their community, marital status, gender or any other thing.
3) when bittu's father said that he will make his wife drown into that stepwell and let her die if she doesn't give birth to a male child. I felt deeply moved.
4) when Anarkali told chhoti that you get love as a right, never beg for it. I always wanted to know what kind of struggles transgenders go through. And I knew some of them (prior to watching this film, by reading stories about them) but from this film, I learned one more - that they are fetishized by policemen.
5) How innocently chhoti narrated that Bhura started crying because of not being used to being loved. I could feel her.
6) chhoti presented an analogy that street dogs don't have a name, when that widow asked what's her real mame. This hit me hard.
7) when I saw Noor was being yelled at when she was fondly remembering chhoti. That movie shown how one of those widows was big time into chanting prayers and following traditions but she seemingly forgotten that widows too, are fundamentally a human. She stopped giving rice and dal to noor when she felt that noor didn't belong to her community, where are the basic human rights, I was questioning in my head.
8) when Raja's wife asked for money with so much hesitation, the money that she needed to pay fee of their kids. I was thinking, if she was financially strong and independent, wouldn't her situation be different.
9) The way chhoti bonded with Anarkali and widow, touched my heart.
10) It was not surprising but disappointing to see that in the name of tradition, how noor stopped admiring something as innocent as a color.
11) I loved seeing how chhoti made noor travel back to that time in her mind when she danced like Radha. Noor ate less but she was happier because of the care chhoti shown.
12) When chhoti could build up some confidence to throw a cow dung on that man who wanted to spit on her. The way anarkali tried to hide the reason behind her scars from chhoti. How noor kept Tagore's book with her despite the fact that she didn't know how to read - these scenes filled my heart with a bunch of feelings.
13) When chhoti asked noor why you called me moon what if I had believed you? shown that how important it is to be mindful of what words adults say to kids, and how deeply kids feel.
14) when chhoti was crying after seeing that police threw anarkali into the river, I was imagining how hard it must have been for chhoti to live in so much fear.
15) Family is more than a DNA, this film one again restored my faith in this narrative. The timing - when chhoti found an escape, noor' funeral was being arranged, was also nice.
16) When raja's wife disclosed why she never taken a bath in that stepwell - so that another raja isn't born. This scene was also very telling.
17 How chhoti walked on the rope in the end without any stick in her hand and splashed a color on noor's dead body, to fulfill her promise. This was also brave of her.
18) How chhoti internalized noor's words and lived upto them and changed her name from chhoti to noor.
19) How chintu felt proud of chhoti in the end. Chhoti saw noor too in the end, suggesting that the memories of our loved ones who are dead, remain in hearts forever.
I was happy to learn in the end that Supreme Court passed the orders in 2012, for Upliftment of widows, but I was disappointed at such long wait. I also felt nice when I saw that credits were given to everyone, even the names of 'interns' were shown in the end.
I think I could feel so deeply also because I consider myself an empath (in the sense that I feel others deeply) and visualize myself doing things for the world and its people, especially marginalized people, till the end of my life.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
I will watch this over and over again and love it even more everytime I watch!
I found many reasons to fall in love with this movie :
Nash developed schizophrenia but shown so much of determination to cure it. From the description that Doctor Rosen gave about this illness, I felt that it must have been super hard for Nash to come out of it but he chose to believe the doctor and wife, he wanted to know what's real, he believed what's real when his wife and doctor shown the reality, he chose to not acknowledge his delusions.
I liked that his wife too didn't give up on him, despite going through rough days, when she had to look after the baby on her own because Nash was too sick to care, when she discovered that Nash stopped taking his medications, when he almost killed their baby, when he didn't answer to his wife. She has been so much loving and forgiving towards him.
I liked that she resisted every urge in her mind to run away from the situation, and she forced her mind to see the person she fallen in love with. John too wanted to try. He did put in serious efforts.
On Nobel prize ceremony day, Nash said "I always believed in numbers. and studied them throughout life. The journey taken me from physical to metaphysical to delusional states. But in the end I found that the logic lies only in the mysterious love. If you weren't there, I would not be here". This suggested that now he learned sharing the credit too. Earlier during his Princeton days, he didn't like when all the credit wasn't given to him. And when he was young he used to place more importance on recognition rather than accomplishment.
He had to fight his disease for many years before he gave this speech. now his son was young too. And he still saw those delusions. But he didn't shy away from asking his students - 'is this person real?' He was so surprised when he got to know that because of his work he got nominated for Nobel prize. this seemed cute.
He evolved as a person too, earlier he seemed narcissistic. I liked that earlier he used to feel that classes don't add any value to students life but later he enjoyed teaching.