Insightful Captures(Ah-Haa moments)from Movies!

[tin]

I watch lots of Movies & Series mainly to learn. The thing which I can say I learned is Various ways of BEING.

The following are some Insightful Captures (think of a electric bulb suddenly glowing ) from various movies that stick in mind and which changed my way of seeing things and being.

I provide it in dialogue form (imaging A & B talking):

From the movie 'Grace is Gone':

B:
I mean, do you agree with him about everything?
You shouldn't.
A:
Why not?
B:
Because it's important that people have their own views based on an understanding of facts.
But it's also important not to trust the facts because most of them are lies.
A:
I don't understand.
B:
Well, it basically comes down to a...
gut thing.
..pause..
B:
You just have to be open to allowing for a truth which differs from your own opinions,
or else you'll never actually see the truth at all.

From 'Into the Wild':

A:
I'm gonna miss you when you go.

B:
I'll miss you, too, Ron.But you're wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships.God's placed it all around us.It's in everything.
It's in anything we can experience.
People just need to change the way they look at those things.

A:
Yeah, I'm gonna take stock of that.
But I wanted to tell you something.
..pause..
From the bits and pieces I put together, you know, from what you told me about your family, your mother and your dad.And I know you've got your problems with the church, too.
But there's some kind of bigger thing we can all appreciate, and it sounds like
you don't mind calling it God.
But when you forgive, you love.
And when you love,
God's light shines on you.

From movie 'Platoon':

at the end there is a dialogue:
"

Sergeant O'Neill!
- How are you doing? - Just fine, sir.
That's good, cos you got second platoon.
Yes, sir.
- Ready? - You bet.
I think now, looking back,we did not fight the enemy,
we fought ourselves, and the enemy... was in us.
The war is over for me now,but it will always be there,
for the rest ofmy days,as I'm sure Elias will be,
fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession ofmy soul.
There are times since...
I've felt like the child born ofthose two fathers.
But be that as it may, those ofus who did make it...
have an obligation to build again,
to teach to others what we know,
and to try with what's left ofour lives...
to find a goodness, and meaning, to this life.
"

From 'The Secret' ( not a movie, though):

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it to be, you are here to create the world around you that you choose,while you allow the world as others choose it to be to exist also.

will be updating more later!

[Maguru]

Originally Posted by tin

I watch lots of Movies & Series mainly to learn. The thing which I can say I learned is Various ways of BEING.

The following are some Insightful Captures (think of a electric bulb suddenly glowing ) from various movies that stick in mind and which changed my way of seeing things and being.

I provide it in dialogue form (imaging A & B talking):

From the movie 'Grace is Gone':

B:
I mean, do you agree with him about everything?
You shouldn't.
A:
Why not?
B:
Because it's important that people have their own views based on an understanding of facts.
But it's also important not to trust the facts because most of them are lies.
A:
I don't understand.
B:
Well, it basically comes down to a...
gut thing.
..pause..
B:
You just have to be open to allowing for a truth which differs from your own opinions,
or else you'll never actually see the truth at all.

From 'Into the Wild':

A:
I'm gonna miss you when you go.

B:
I'll miss you, too, Ron.But you're wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships.God's placed it all around us.It's in everything.
It's in anything we can experience.
People just need to change the way they look at those things.

A:
Yeah, I'm gonna take stock of that.
But I wanted to tell you something.
..pause..
From the bits and pieces I put together, you know, from what you told me about your family, your mother and your dad.And I know you've got your problems with the church, too.
But there's some kind of bigger thing we can all appreciate, and it sounds like
you don't mind calling it God.
But when you forgive, you love.
And when you love,
God's light shines on you.

From movie 'Platoon':

at the end there is a dialogue:
"

Sergeant O'Neill!
- How are you doing? - Just fine, sir.
That's good, cos you got second platoon.
Yes, sir.
- Ready? - You bet.
I think now, looking back,we did not fight the enemy,
we fought ourselves, and the enemy... was in us.
The war is over for me now,but it will always be there,
for the rest ofmy days,as I'm sure Elias will be,
fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession ofmy soul.
There are times since...
I've felt like the child born ofthose two fathers.
But be that as it may, those ofus who did make it...
have an obligation to build again,
to teach to others what we know,
and to try with what's left ofour lives...
to find a goodness, and meaning, to this life.
"

From 'The Secret' ( not a movie, though):

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it to be, you are here to create the world around you that you choose,while you allow the world as others choose it to be to exist also.

will be updating more later!

".But [B]you're wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships."

Yikes! Are you being brainwashed? Be careful not to lose yourself in others' philosophies.

[supertom]

lols proberly from star wars i notice the difference between the sith and jedi. The jedi dont have any leaders just respected members, they care about everyones thoughts on the matter, they discuss things , they never work in absolutes.

[Eisho]

A movie that changed my life is Gallipoli. I saw it on video when I was a kid and remember the final sequence when they are all getting ready to 'go over the top' and basically, as they all well knew, be slaughtered.

That captured my imagination and has, in part, caused me to travel the world studying warrior cultures, with the same, consistent question: How do societies inculcate a desire, or at least a willingness, to kill and be killed in their young warriors?

This questions has fascinated me now for well over half my life and I continue to study it in detail.

Cheers,

Eisho

[WhiteLight]

The movie "Waking Life" by Richard Linklater is like one "Ah-ha!" moment after another. Heres a few that I like:

"I feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality. Voila. And this? This is like my little window to the world, and every minute it's a different show. Now, I may not understand it. I may not even necessarily agree with it. But I'll tell you what, I accept it and just sort of glide along. You want to keep things on an even keel I guess is what I'm saying. You want to go with the flow. The sea refuses no river. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. Saves on introductions and good-byes. The ride does not require an explanation. Just occupants. That's where you guys come in. It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now, you may get the 8-pack, you may get the 16-pack. But it's all in what you do with the crayons, the colors that you're given. And don't worry about drawing within the lines or coloring outside the lines. I say color outside the lines. You know what I mean? Color right off the page. Don't box me in. We're in motion to the ocean. We are not landlocked, I'll tell ya that. So where do you want out? "

"There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack of life and those who suffer from an overabundance of life. I've always found myself in the second category. When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved."

"Why so few? Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes. No greater values have developed. Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago were just as advanced as we are. So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question, and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic - fear or laziness?"

"There's no story. It's just ... people, gestures, moments, bits of rapture, fleeting emotions. In short, the greatest stories ever told. "

"If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true, then everything is possible.

On the way to discovering what we love, we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our path of what we desire.

The comfort will never be comfortable for those who seek what is not on the market.

A systematic questioning of the idea of happiness.

We'll cut the vocal chords of every empowered speaker. We'll yank the social symbols through the looking glass We'll devalue society's currency.

To confront the familiar.

Society is a fraud so complete and venal that it demands to be destroyed beyond the power of memory to recall its existence.

Where there is fire, we will carry gasoline.

To interrupt the continuum of everyday experience and all the normal expectations that go with it.

To live as if something actually depended on one's actions.

To rupture the spell of the ideology of the commodified consumer society so that our repressed desires of a more authentic nature can come forward.

To demonstrate the contrast between what life presently is and what it could be.

To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of actions and know we're making it happen.

There will be an intensity never before known in everyday life to exchange love and hate, life and death, terror and redemption, repulsions and attractions.

An affirmation of freedom so reckless and unqualified, that it amounts to a total denial of every kind of restraint and limitation. "

[BlueCrane]

If one sentence in a movie struck a chord with me, it was in 'Paycheck' with Ben Affleck : “Once you know the future, you don’t have a future anymore”.

I have written a post about our obsession to know the future on my blog and this helped me to accept some uncertainties in my life.

[tin]

From the movie 'Man from Earth' one of the best movies I saw:

A:
 do you believe literally
everything in the bible, edith?
B:
Yes!
A:Before you say it, I know it's undergone a lot of changes,

B:But god has spoken through man .... To make his word clearer.

C:He couldn't get it right the first time?

B:We're imperfect! He had to work to make us understand.

C:(sarcastic) He couldn't get us right the first time, edith?

D: taken alone, the philosophical teachings of jesus are 
buddhism with a hebrew accent- kindness, tolerance, 
brotherhood, love,A ruthless realism acknowledging 
That life is as it is here on earth, here and now. 
The kingdom of god, meaning goodness,
Is right here, where it should be.

"I am what i am becoming. "

That's what the buddha brought in.
And that's what i taught.
But a talking snake
make a lady eat an apple,
So we're screwed.
(pause)
Heaven and hell were peddled So priests could rule 
through seduction and terror,
Save our souls that we never lost in the first place.
....

D:
I see ceremony, ritual, processions, Genuflecting, 
moaning, intoning, Venerating cookies and wine,
And i think...
It's not what i had in mind.

B:
But that's vatican flapdoodle.

It doesn't have a thing to do with god.

A:
As you said, john, everywhere, religions...
From exalting life to
purging joy as a sin.
Rome does it as grand opera.
(sarcastic) A simple path to goodness needs 
A supernatural roadmap.

C:
Supernatural...
A stupid word, i mean...
Anything that happens,happens within nature,
 Whether we believe in it or not.

[wachusettgirl]

I had forgotten almost everything about Platoon. I think the first, and probably only time I saw that movie I was so emotionally wrecked by it that I had blocked much of it out of my mind. But when I read that narrative I remembered seeing it as vividly as though it was yesterday, the beautiful soundtrack in the background, the wrenching fear, tears streaming down my face... I think that it really was some great writing.

This isn't exactly "Ah-ha" worthy, but in Apollo 13, when the Gene Kranz character, played by Ed Harris says "Failure is not an Option!", I just loved that.

[tin]

This is from my favorite n ONLY series which I watch, HOUSE.M.D:

A: I just want to die with a little dignity.
B: There's no such thing.
Our bodies break down.
Sometimes when we're 90.
Sometimes before we're even born.
But it always happens,
and there's never any dignity in it.
I don't care if you can walk,
see, wipe your own ass.
It's always ugly. Always.
We can live with dignity.
We can't die with it.

[Geiger]

Originally Posted by wachusettgirl

I had forgotten almost everything about Platoon.

I'd just like to note that the soundtrack is Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings. One of my favourite quotes is from a movie that I've even not seen yet; Secondhand lions.

Hub: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

And i'll say it again: Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

[openyourize]

Originally Posted by Maguru

".But [B]you're wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships."

Yikes! Are you being brainwashed? Be careful not to lose yourself in others' philosophies.

is this a serious comment or sarcastic?

[wachusettgirl]

Originally Posted by Geiger

I'd just like to note that the soundtrack is Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings. .

Thanks, I love that piece. Music in film has a way of stirring our emotions just as well as a poignant screenplay or talented acting...