Watching Movies of Life - the Movie Meditation
These descriptions of certain emotional states of mind are intended to encourage us to watch specific aspects of our life as if they were a movie. A five star movie in this list is not rated necessarily as a highly entertaining, mainstream movie. Instead, a good movie suggested here may more accurately reflect the drama of life in all its facets -- the shadow of an emotion as well as its positive side. Find out what moves you and learn to simply let it be. Meditation is watching, unidentified and non-judging.
P -- Moved By Something Greater
The shadow side
Mourning after something or somebody, being obsessed by a certain idea, being afraid of separation and being without the others, falling out of rhythm with others, moving ambitiously to the top, being a cog in the wheel, functioning like a machine, being hooked on power, obsessed by an idea, being ambitious, moving others by one's own ambitions.
The light side
Being receptive for something greater, being moved by a bigger, intelligent force, following one's impulses, being open to divine inspiration, having psychic talents, being in rhythm with each and every thing, being able to direct others by intuition.
Movies with these themes
Being John Malkovich
The film revolves around the lives of a man named Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), an unsuccessful puppeteer involved in a forlorn marriage with his pet-obsessed wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz).
Persuaded by his wife to get a job, Schwartz begins to work as a filing clerk for a fictional company named LesterCorp at their offices in the Mertin Flemmer building in Manhattan. Lestercorp's offices are located on floor 7½ — wedged between the seventh and eighth floors. The ceilings are so low the employees cannot stand upright. "Low overhead," Schwartz's boss Dr. Lester (Orson Bean) quips, while an educational film about LesterCorp teaches about the supposed origins of the low ceilings: the founder of LesterCorp was in love with a dwarf woman, married her and suited the ceilings to her needs. After a short while Schwartz discovers a mysterious portal in a wall, which when entered transports him into the consciousness of actor John Horatio Malkovich (the actor's real middle name is Gavin) — allowing him to observe the world through the eyes of his host for about 15 minutes before being thrown into a ditch adjacent to the New Jersey Turnpike. The puppeteer demonstrates his discovery to Maxine (Catherine Keener), a co-worker with whom he is obsessively infatuated; shortly, she takes control and proposes the two form a business to sell the experience of being John Malkovich at $200 a head...
Cabaret
In early 1930s Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new arrival in the city, Brian Roberts (Michael York), moves into Sally's apartment building. A reserved English academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his German studies. Sally unsuccessfully tries to seduce Brian and suspects he may be gay (Christopher Isherwood, on whose semi-autobiographical book the film is indirectly based, was gay and reportedly "went to Berlin in search of boys to love").
Brian tells Sally he has tried to have romantic relationships with women, all of which have failed. The unlikely pair become friends, and Brian is witness to Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic. Later in the film, Sally and Brian become lovers despite their earlier reservations, and Brian and Sally conclude with irony that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls."...
Ghost
Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) and Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) are a happy and loving couple living in New York City. The only problem in their relationship is Sam's apparent discomfort with saying "I love you" to his girlfriend, only responding to her saying it with "ditto". This bothers Molly, who feels she needs to hear him say "I love you" in return.
One night, while walking back to their new apartment after going to the theatre, they encounter a thief named Willy Lopez (Rick Aviles). He pulls a gun and Sam is shot. Sam chases Willy, but loses him; when he returns to Molly, he sees her cradling his own corpse, and realizes that he is now a ghost, trapped between worlds. Lights descend to take him away, but he flees...
Dragonfly
Dr. Joe Darrow and wife Dr. Emily Darrow work at a well-known hospital in Chicago. While she specialises in pediatric oncology, he is the head chief medical doctor in the emergency room. Occasionally, Emily takes trips to Venezuela to help the native people who are unable to afford healthcare. At nearly nine months' pregnant, she was needed by the people in Venezuela. Joe disapproves of her going and insists she stay home in case she delivers the baby.
In spite of how her husband feels, she heads to the Amazon area without him. The weather takes a turn for the worst where she is located and the entire village is evacuated. In the midst of evacuation, the bus in which Dr. Emily and the people were on is hit by a landslide, rolls off the road, and plunges into the river below...
Remark
Although the movie list is inspired by Tibetan Pulsing typologies on the human mind, it does not claim to be completely accurate in its assessment.
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