What Movies Taught Me

What Movies Taught Me

Lately I watched 4 movies I learnt some interesting stuff from:

Adjustment Bureau:  A recent film featuring Matt Damon & Emily Blunt. Matt Damon plays an upcoming American politician who meets this English dancer in a toilet of all places.

It is love at first sight for both but here the ‘Adjustment Bureau” intervene to try and stop them getting together. Matt Damon’s character is destined to become US President one day and in order to achieve this needs to follow a certain course. However, his desire for true love is bigger and he alters the time-line.

It’s a bit of sci-fi combined with romance and action. A very good movie with a very important life lesson attached to it.

The big lesson I got from this is how a decision today could affect our lives in 10 years time. Many people live their lives day by day and don’t think of where the course they’re on will lead them too in 10 years. There are some key decisions in life that really shape us such as the choice of a spouse, the profession, the country we live in and also the food we eat. Where are we currently going and in 10 years will it be a happy destination for me? If the answer is no you need to change. As one of my mentors Jim Rohn used to say,” For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better.”

Just Like Heaven:  Starring Reese Wetherspoon & Mark Ruffalo is about a young Doctor that has a serious car accident and end up in a coma. While in a coma her spirit leaves her body and goes back to her apartment where she meets her true love (played by Mark Ruffalo). He is the only one that can see her and talk to her. The end-up talking a lot and gradually love starts to grow between them.

The film has a happy ending and delivers a great message about building a successful relationship leading up to marriage. The key is no sex until after married. Couples need to talk a lot. Another lesson is that we need to take time for ourselves and  loved ones. We live in a busy world and can easily become workaholics and forget the things that really count.

August Rush: A film about a young boy who grows up in a foster home. He has a natural talent for music. He feels his mother and father never did abandon him and sets out on a quest to find them. The film is about following your gut instincts and developing your talents. Features Robin Williams is the unusual role of the bad guy.

The Family Man: Another one of those time-line modification films. A successful Wall Street businessman gets given the opportunity to go back in time and live life differently. Here he chooses to have a family and live in a small town. Nicholas Cage plays the lead role, where his character battles between  career and family. In the end he finds the right balance…

The film shows how the rewards of having a family far outstrip that of being a selfish rich ruthless business man/playboy. The family man is then faced with the opportunity to take his talent from a small town to Wall Street…