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He listens to the voice of his soul, which finally comes out victorious. Here the characters are freethinkers, true lovers of life, harbingers of innovative ideas, of liberty and precursors of the youth-calling-approach. Chetan Bhagat himself wrote script for this film. The movie is noted for the special appearance of Bollywood star Salman Khan. His next novel is content with a great theme about the cricket, which is named as The 3 Mistakes of My Life. This is a novel of the dark passion. It…

The Bourne trilogy, specifically Bourne identity focuses on man whom suffers from retrograde amnesia. The film starts with a man found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with two gunshots wounds in his back. He is rescued by nearby fishermen’s, and on this boat happened to be a doctor. The doctor finds and extracts two bullets from Jason’s back and small microchip that was lodged in his hip. After waking up he spends the rest of the film trying to regain his memory given that one cue. The cue…

Dr. Seuss once said, “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” Many people seem to know this quote, or have at least heard of it. Most of them even agree wholeheartedly with it. Why is it then, that we still feel the need to fit in? When watching Finding Forrester, the theme of struggling to fit in and the reality of how hard it can be when you stand out, become the most apparent to me. In the beginning of Finding Forrester, Jamal Wallace does his best to fit in with his group of friends…

Two different lives’ stories have been produced as movies. Temple Grandin was a true story about an autistic person’s life and how she became a successful person. Autism did not bring her life down, but it was an opportunity that allowed her to become a successful scientist. The movie had been produced to show how an autistic person acted and thought or exhibited how her life was different from other autistic people and was difficult being an autistic person. Still, she motivated herself and…

History is all one big lie. There have been many misconceptions about the history that has been taught to students throughout grade, middle and high school. Most of these misconceptions include the background information over topics such are Christopher Columbus, the pilgrims, Native Americans, and slavery. After reading books by authors like Howard Zinn and James Loewen it made it easier to understand how the history that has been included in textbooks is manipulated and altered by certain…

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a true genius? Good Will Hunting is a movie about just that: a young boy who has experienced a less than satisfactory upbringing, but through reading informational books at a public library in his youth and through having a photographic memory that allows him to remember everything he reads has resulted in him becoming very intelligent. It is shown just how intelligent he is when he solves a proof that is written on a chalkboard at Harvard University…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” said Nelson Mandela one day. But if there is no education how can we change the world? Shannen has done a lot of great things to Attawapiskat where Shannen lives. This video made me feel how youth can make a difference. This video inspired me and now I want continue Shannen’s dream to make First Nations education better. Shannen is a very brave girl because she is standing up for her own rights and she has lots of…

The largest theme of the movie is most definitely over coming trials placed in front of you and focusing on the hope for a better future. In the case of Nelson Mandela, he overcame an endless number of trials over the course of the movie. Not only did Mandela have to survive a long, and unjust, imprisonment, but he also had to face the challenges brought on of his presidency. The divide between the two cultures of South Africa was a seemingly impossible challenge to fix, but Mandela never loses…

Invictus and Mandela: “Is it Hollywood or is its History? Mandela once said,”A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” I watched the movie Nelson Mandela .After viewing the film Invictus and researching the true historical people and events, it is evident that the movie is more history than hollywood. During Nelson’s childhood, the white population increased in South Africa. This was because the discovery of gold and diamonds which started changing the country. Blacks were treated way…

The file Invictus starts off with Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) being released from prison in 1990. After being on Robben Island for nearly 26 years for planning acts of sabotage against the South African state, when Mandela was released the white’s and the blacks realised Mandela being released also marks what will become the end of apartheid in South Africa. A new election was in commenced and the blacks were able to vote, in which Mandela handily wins for his deposition, at the sage Mandela…