Category: Movies

I think Charlie Chaplin’s movie, ‘The Great Dictator’ is really just his excuse to deliver what is one of the greatest inspirational speeches…

Interesting quotes from ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’: Uncle Ben: You’re a lot like your father. You really are, Peter, and that’s…

Interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Verbo’: Sara: Our history teacher told us something. A big mess in the Church a…

Thoughts while watching the movie ‘Valkyrie’ the second time, this came to mind: Soldiers who do not obey orders are…

Super Short Story (66): Tension Having seen many heartbreak movies with the similar theme, he still doesn’t understand why precious…

Thought after watching ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’: How do you really trust anyone, including yourself? If you are completely trustworthy,…

‘Your mission, should you choose to accept it…’ So goes the line after the mission is spelt out. But as…

Batman in the comics never uses guns, because his parents were killed by a gunman. Reminds me of why it’s wise…

From an episode of ‘The Mentalist’ – Patrick Jane: Mmm, liar. Bad liar. Mrs Doverton: How dare you. Patrick Jane:…

From the movie ‘Precious’ – Here Precious: And, I never really talked in class before. Ms Rain: How does that…

From the movie ‘Peepli (Live)’, which is social tragedy of about how a poor farmer was tempted to kill himself…

From the 1957 movie ‘The River’directed by Jean Renoir – Same But Different Nan: Why can’t you be good like…

From the movie, ‘An Education’ Headmistress: Have you set a date? Have you decided on a church? Jenny: We won’t…

From the movie, ‘An Education’: Jenny: David, if tomorrow night does happen, it’s only ever going to happen once. David:…

From ‘The Avengers’ movie: Steve Rogers: Doc… I think now is the perfect time for you to get angry.  Bruce…

From the remake of the controversial classic ‘Straw Dogs’: Charlie: Hey Mr Sumners, can I ask you a question? David:…

Emma: (During year one of their meeting, after which they part for a year) Whatever happens tomorrow, we’ve had today. And…

The Japanese movie ‘Helen the Baby Fox’ is surprisingly more life-affirming than expected, bearing in mind that ‘School Days with…

From the movie ‘Tower Heist’: Lester the old doorman: All those years on the job, and it turns out that…

Sometimes, the key message of a film is right at the end (or maybe I missed subtler messages along the…