Dear Zindagi (Dear Life, Hindi; 2016)
We think we got it all sorted out. It is only we that matter. We make a mistake, we say sorry and move on, expecting others to forgive and forget. We tell ourselves that to err is human. But when others do the same, they wrong us, all hell breaks loose.
Is it that only ourselves matter but not others? We coil into a cocoon live a bitter life, blaming others for our misery. Others too have their self-interest their need to satisfy. Dialogue to trash out these issues is not going to be smooth. The fear of losing out is the hurdle. Anyway, nobody has the crystal ball to guide us the right path. What we have is speech. Words and persuasion which may make sense at that time and space. In the end, the personal ego is the one that needs to be fed, not social equilibrium; not others' desires.
So, we are left with individuals working within their walls, fulfiling their own needs without a care of the other. For a while, peace can be restored until the next crisis erupts.
In this movie, a talented cinematographer falls in and out of love and leads an unfulfilling life. She ends up in a psychologist's couch for some lessons in the handling of life. With his cheesy one-liners which would make anyone of the profession to cringe, he manages to make sense of the reason for her uncertainties in life. Any viewer can see that he, as a therapist, reveals much more than is needed and he is no role model in making relationships last a lifetime, but we choose to see what we want to look at. At the end of the movie, everything seems to have been solved, and everyone is okay - as a person and in their lives.
If only life can be so easy; problems can be solved by some limited timed therapeutic sessions.
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We think we got it all sorted out. It is only we that matter. We make a mistake, we say sorry and move on, expecting others to forgive and forget. We tell ourselves that to err is human. But when others do the same, they wrong us, all hell breaks loose.Is it that only ourselves matter but not others? We coil into a cocoon live a bitter life, blaming others for our misery. Others too have their self-interest their need to satisfy. Dialogue to trash out these issues is not going to be smooth. The fear of losing out is the hurdle. Anyway, nobody has the crystal ball to guide us the right path. What we have is speech. Words and persuasion which may make sense at that time and space. In the end, the personal ego is the one that needs to be fed, not social equilibrium; not others' desires.
So, we are left with individuals working within their walls, fulfiling their own needs without a care of the other. For a while, peace can be restored until the next crisis erupts.
In this movie, a talented cinematographer falls in and out of love and leads an unfulfilling life. She ends up in a psychologist's couch for some lessons in the handling of life. With his cheesy one-liners which would make anyone of the profession to cringe, he manages to make sense of the reason for her uncertainties in life. Any viewer can see that he, as a therapist, reveals much more than is needed and he is no role model in making relationships last a lifetime, but we choose to see what we want to look at. At the end of the movie, everything seems to have been solved, and everyone is okay - as a person and in their lives.
If only life can be so easy; problems can be solved by some limited timed therapeutic sessions.
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