"Feelms" about LOVE FOR THE NEEDY
1. “The Kid”, Charles Chaplin, 1921.
Synopsis: When a single mother of scarce resources (Edna Purviance), is abandoned by the child's father, she decides to leave the baby, hoping that a rich family will adopt him. The little boy will end up in the hands of a tramp (Charles Chaplin), who will soon become fond of him and will do his best to get him out of poverty.
"The Kid" is a film about child abandonment and how its terrible consequences for the children who suffer it can, in a certain way, be alleviated with affection, charity and education. The film has clear autobiographical dyes, since Chaplin himself lived a childhood of abandonment, going from hospice to hospice. However, he later commented that even in those hard moments of his childhood, he already knew that he would become a great actor. Great movie that doesn't lose effectiveness today.
2. Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac, 1998).
Synopsis: Based on a true story, the film is the biography of the physician Patch Adams (Robin Williams), who revolutionized the official medical community by applying unique therapies consisting in laughing and providing affection to patients suffering from cancer.
Are you in big trouble? You don't see any solution to your problems? Have you lost faith in Humanity? Maybe health is not at its best? If so, I really recommend you watch this movie. It will make you feel better, it will fill you with optimism and hope, it will stir you up inside and make you want to re-connect with life again. In the end, it's all about attitude, believe me!
3. Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009).
Synopsis: Clareece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) is a black and obese Harlem teen whose mother (Mo'Nique) constantly mistreats her. Clareece can neither read nor write, and when she is found to be pregnant, she is expelled from school. In spite of everything, the director of the center founds her an alternative school to try to redirect her life. Her new teacher (Paula Patton) is the first person to trust Precious and treat her with the respect she deserves.
Intense "feelm" about social marginalization, which shows us how violence and cruelty between human beings leads nowhere, builds nothing but hate and only serves to destroy. Just putting ourselves in others' skin, listening to them, helping them, having patience and treating them with affection and intelligence... brings good things. Good performance by Mariah Carey, for the most curious.
4. The Intouchables (“Intouchables”, Olivier Nakache y Éric Toledano, 2011).
Synopsis: Philippe (François Cluzet), a French millionaire aristocrat who has become quadriplegic due to a paragliding accident, hires Driss (Omar Sy), an immigrant from a marginal neighborhood just out of jail, as a caretaker at home. Even if at first glance he doesn't seem the most appropriate person, the two of them make compatible eloquence and hilarity, etiquette and tracksuit, discipline and spontaneity. Two conflicting worlds that, step by step, learn to get along forging a friendship as crazy, funny and solid as unexpected.
This multi-awarded film teaches us that you can learn interesting things from anyone, wherever they come from and however they are. Only requisite: to open one's mind and free oneself from prejudices. If we can't do that, we face the big risk of losing many things, mainly, pure life itself.
5. “Les Misérables” (Tom Hooper, 2012).
Synopsis: The ex-convict Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is pursued for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Russell Crowe). When Valjean decides to take care of Cosette, the small daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), their lives will change forever. Cinematic adaptation of the famous musical "Les misérables" by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, based in turn on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo.
Traditional story about poverty, war, revolution, victory and death, set in the 19th century in France. Also a story about compassion, courage or the value of forgiveness, which comforts the soul. In short, a classic full of universal values (common trait for all cinema classics), 100% recommended. Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway.
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