The movie “A Wonderful Life” is another thing that has changed my life for the greater good. The movie taught me so many things about the meaning of life, friends, and being “rich”. This movie is not just a typical Christmas movie, its a movie that makes you see life in a different perceptive. One might thing their life is boring and the same everyday. Right after one watches this movie they will realize like I did, that even a boring is a life worth living and everyone of us has a purpose. The first time I watched “A Wonderful Life” I remember when Clarence (the guardian angel of George) came to George Bailey rescue after George tried to commit suicide because he had enough with the drama in his life and he thought he was messing up everybody else life. This relate to my life when one of my friends was about to commit suicide. While they were thinking this I started to feel lonely because them being alive made my life a whole lot better. They must have not relize that at first. Then I sat my friend down like Clarence and George. After that Clarence talk to George and one of the things that Clarence said that gives meaning to life is, “Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?”(A Wonderful life 55:32) This quote means that one might not know it but one touches so many lives and if they take their life then there is a hole in so many of the lives they touched. An example is having a best friend and this best friend has an horrendous life. Well in their eyes they think their life is horrible so they commit suicide. Then that friend has an empty hole in their life for the rest of their life. This is what I explain to my friend and they agreed. The movie... ... middle of paper ... ...ng of life was I told them it was just being being alive for another day, that is the meaning. Right after I finished watching the movie I was have learned that it is much more than that. It is a bunching of meanings like friendship, love and family. Without a family or friends life because dull and lifeless. Even if one's rich living without nobody that cares about them is like living like the poor. Living in dark and empty place with not a shine of light to get through. That is where the movie taught me about being truly rich. There is also a quote that the movie ends with that relates to life and me. “Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings”(Imdb 1) Work Cited . N.p.. Web. 16 Mar 2014. . A Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart. Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Polygram, 1946. Film.
Wizard of Oz, The. Dir. Victor Fleming. Perf. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, and Ray Bolger. Warner Bros., 1939.
A Few Good Men. Dir. Rob Reiner. Perf. Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, and Demi Moore. Columbia Pictures, 1992. Film.
Regardless that the film appears to be designed for a specific age-related target audience, there are several characters throughout the entire film that viewers can relate to. Therefore that in return keeps the viewer exceedingly intrigued, interested, and ultimately, entertained. Consequently, as a viewer the most prolific symbolism in the entire film being the metaphoric infinite abyss. As a viewer, the infinite abyss represents life in general, the meaning of life. Life can be a deep dark bottomless pit. One can either succumb to it, as it swallows you up and takes you down, or one can prefer to stand at the top and scream down at it in defiance, and create your own paths in life, and fill that abyss with meaning, purpose, friendships, family, happiness and love. Therefore, as soon as you alter the manner you view the world, you transform everything that happens to you within it. Life is just a state of
"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between taken and being missed, lives are changed." I learned that all lives connect somehow and that our choices affect others whether we know it or not. "Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know," perhaps one day in heaven. I began to realize the nights I spent thinking I was alone were the only true nights I wasted in my life because through this interconnection of lives, "you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
Steve Jobs is trying to say that you should live every day like it is your last. He knew his life had value to him and his family. He felt like life was worth living even though once in a while a hard choice would come along to toughen his life. Making a choice is very hard, but when making a choice it should be one that you will not regret later in life. Making choices is one of the hardest things in life so you must see all the good and all the bad to the outcome of your options. Live everyday like it is your last. Ebert says that life is a very precious thing. Hamlet wants to die, but him not knowing what is on the other side scares so he decides to live. Even though Ebert had to get surgery, he got through it and learned to still live his life with no regrets.
"They Were Expendable". Dir. John Ford. Perf. Robert Montgomery, Ward Bond, et al John Wayne. 1945. Full length movie.
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life”.- Walter Mitty (Movie).
Inherit the Wind. Dir. Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Fredrick March, and Gene Kelly. MGM. 1960.
A Raisin in the Sun. Dir. Daniel Petrie. Perf. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee and John Fiedler. Columbia Pictures, 1961.
This movie was inspiring and encouraging to anyone who is struggling with something. Overcoming his controversies in life became the main point of the movie. Knowing that this movie was based upon a true story inspires the people even more.
The Great Gatsby. Dir. Jack Clayton. Perf. Robert Redford, Mia Farrow. Paramount Pictures, 1974. DVD.
Life is fragile, everything that knows life will eventually meet death; it is impossible to mention one without the other. Humans have grasped the concept of life and death more so than any other species, yet we still consider it one of the great unknowns. All man knows in regards to life, he learns from his experiences with death. Man can look to many classic and religious texts searching for the meaning of life, but the only way one can truly learn it is through experience. To many, finding happiness means first coming to terms with the finite stretch of life one has and then making the most of it. Many films try to breach the subject of the preciousness of life, but only a few seem to hit as deeply as ones told through the eyes of a child.
...s that one must accept the possibility of one's own death before he can truly appreciate what he has on earth, as the sobering awareness that one day, it will all be out of reach, prompts the urge to appreciate and value what one can have only for a limited period of time, and to use every moment of that time doing something that one will not regret when the bird sings its last note.
The meaning of life is not an easy thing to talk about. It depends on the person that you are. Life is a clear slate and we are free to put any meaning we want to the word. Life does not have a certain meaning. Whatever we want life to mean is what it will mean to us. We are focused too much on putting a definition on every little thing that we can’t accept the fact that something does not have a meaning to it. It is not necessarily bad that life does not have a meaning. Life not having a meaning means that it is too difficult to define. Life is like an unsolvable math problem. In the end it is still considered a math problem, but it’s just unsolvable. Life is the same way. Life is life, but not one individual can define life perfectly. It’s too difficult to define.
Not only does this movie deal with the issues of society, but it points to biblical scriptures that help lead us in the right direction. The biggest lesson that this film taught me was that if I put my complete faith in God, then no matter what happens, he will provide, watch over, and take care of me. I learned that expressing belief in God is not enough. I have to live everyday believing and trusting him and I have to show my trust and faith through my actions and my words.