A Single Man (2009)
So, what do you do when someone in whom you put all your hope disappoints you? What do you do when your dreams come crashing down? How do you reconcile with the situation when everything seems hopeless and there is nothing else to look forward to?
Do you call it quits? Do you live the rest of your life, miserably, in the memory of the good times you had with the special other? Do you get real, be a pragmatist, be level headed and start life anew and do it all again? Do you call that betrayal or realistic as life has to go on? Do you recoil into a world of solitude where you are king and nothing else matters? Do you recharge yourselves and keep your sanity by engaging yourself? They say your life is your making, your karma; your suffering your making. You decide your life is heaven or hell. They make it sound so simple as if we control the rein to the path that we go. It can be simple if there are no others involved in the journey. Otherwise, it can be too complicated as it involves too many variables. And one cannot, just at will, disentangle himself from worldly commitments and sins of his previous actions.
Do you focus your time and effort in other non-emotional duties? Perhaps, you can plunge head-on into your vocation for clear-headedness. Divert your attention to other equally fulfilling work.
Do you console yourself that you had had a time of your life and just spend the rest of your living life in memory of the glorious past you once had? Is it not living in the past and forgetting the present, now and future?
Do you put the past aside and start life anew, morphing into a new creature? You want to live life to the tilt when there can be no better time than now!
Do you re-live your life to go astern and re-do all the things that you always wanted to do and never had the chance to!
Or do you just throw in the towel and call it quits? Just leave the building?
These are just some of the questions that go through the mind of the protagonist of this movie. Set against the background of a 1962 America where the threat of nuclear annihilation with the Cuba standoff is looming in the background, he, a university professor, is grieving the loss of his boyfriend. In keeping with the sensitivity of the times, he also has to keep his sexual preference in the closet.
As in many things in life, the answers to all our questions spring out on its own spontaneously without any probing. It is a funny but evil way to smack things right on our faces. Life has a cruel sense of humour. Just when you think you had it made and everything is under control, boom it hits you!
So, what do you do when someone in whom you put all your hope disappoints you? What do you do when your dreams come crashing down? How do you reconcile with the situation when everything seems hopeless and there is nothing else to look forward to?Do you call it quits? Do you live the rest of your life, miserably, in the memory of the good times you had with the special other? Do you get real, be a pragmatist, be level headed and start life anew and do it all again? Do you call that betrayal or realistic as life has to go on? Do you recoil into a world of solitude where you are king and nothing else matters? Do you recharge yourselves and keep your sanity by engaging yourself? They say your life is your making, your karma; your suffering your making. You decide your life is heaven or hell. They make it sound so simple as if we control the rein to the path that we go. It can be simple if there are no others involved in the journey. Otherwise, it can be too complicated as it involves too many variables. And one cannot, just at will, disentangle himself from worldly commitments and sins of his previous actions.
Do you focus your time and effort in other non-emotional duties? Perhaps, you can plunge head-on into your vocation for clear-headedness. Divert your attention to other equally fulfilling work.
Do you console yourself that you had had a time of your life and just spend the rest of your living life in memory of the glorious past you once had? Is it not living in the past and forgetting the present, now and future?
Do you put the past aside and start life anew, morphing into a new creature? You want to live life to the tilt when there can be no better time than now!
Do you re-live your life to go astern and re-do all the things that you always wanted to do and never had the chance to!
Or do you just throw in the towel and call it quits? Just leave the building?
These are just some of the questions that go through the mind of the protagonist of this movie. Set against the background of a 1962 America where the threat of nuclear annihilation with the Cuba standoff is looming in the background, he, a university professor, is grieving the loss of his boyfriend. In keeping with the sensitivity of the times, he also has to keep his sexual preference in the closet.
As in many things in life, the answers to all our questions spring out on its own spontaneously without any probing. It is a funny but evil way to smack things right on our faces. Life has a cruel sense of humour. Just when you think you had it made and everything is under control, boom it hits you!
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