This movie tells you the story of Carl Brasher, the first African-American to achieve the rank of Master Diver.
An emotional trip of courage for the person who does not want to give up on anything to pursue his dream. Therefore, he has to overcome his educational shortcomings and discrimination.
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This seems to be about the military. Yet, it is a love story movie.
The main protagonist is Mayo (Richard Gere), a young man who wants to become a Naval Officer and go to flight school to become an aviator. His background and emotional issues make it difficult for him to be a team player and to recognize when to start trusting people. He starts changing when he loses his best friend to suicide. Therefore, he will fight his past and move on with his future.
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I start this post with a big thank you to https://film-authority.com/ for writing about this movie and making me decide to watch it.
As a teacher and adult student, I have seen in schools both the excellent and very pathetic teaching. I have seen the screwed up children with the even more screwed up parents. I have also seen a lack of concern for the student’s well being. Watching this movie reminded me about all of them.
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Jacquou le Croquant is a French historical film based on the 1899 novel by Eugene Le Roy and the 1969 TV serial “Jacquou le Croquant”. The book is often translated as “Jacquou the Rebel” even if the word “Croquant” has a more pejorative meaning as a “yokel”.
However, the action is set in the Dordogne, just after the Napoleonic period and filmed in Romania, at the Corvin Castle.
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Beauty and history are my words to describe a place where you would think you were into an old medieval castle: Corvin Castle.
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Humanity’s history of hatred goes back many and many years, and it still goes on today, but in disguised forms.
This true story movie paints that hate and racism. A female journalist, Hazel Brannon Smith (Jen Seymour) is the one who speaks out for black civil rights. Even if she knows insults, violence and death threats from the local Ku Klux Klan, she is not intimidated by the racists of the town and sticks to her ideals.
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Roger: “You’re a legend, Fred”
Freddie: “We’re all legends.”
Bohemian Rhapsody
I know Freddie Mercury as a legend, because of his talent as songwriter, singer and performer.
Things as writing songs, ruling the stage and holding sway over thousands of fans make Freddie a special person and the film focuses on them.
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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham ‘It’s all about loving your parents’.
A wonderful film that makes you live the real emotions, laugh and smile and cry. To feel the unconditional love coming from a mother and egoistic one coming from a father. To see how the brother’s love helps to reunite the family.
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In a Love World 