What luck! Rented three great recently made movies under $10. Never happened before.
The first one called "Sahara". Indiana Jones Style adventure story. About two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship loaded with gold mints. Ventured into hostile countries in Africa. At the same time, have to give ride to a lady doctor who works under WHO looking for the cause of a plague which was spreading in the same area. Like Indiana Jones, full of crisis and challenges at every turn of the corners, this one also add a lot of humor improvised by the actors. It breaks up the tension, makes it a lot easier to sit through the whole movie. Clean movie. Must be fun making it.
The second one is "Ladies in Lavander". A story happens in Cornwall, England. Two seventy odd years old ladies found a young man washed on shore uncouncious. They nursed him back to health and discovered that he is a brilliant violinist from Poland. Weeks and months go by, the ladies developed a special sentiment toward this young men. Then came a pretty young woman whose brother is a well known violinist. The young woman want to introduced him to her brother who would be performing a concert in London. She wrote to the two old ladies for their help. But the two ladies concealed the matter fearing the young man would be lured away. So the young woman had to make a quick decision to run away with the young violinist. Fearing the worst had come, the two old ladies felt so helpless. Then the young man wrote them and told them to listen to his concert performance on the radio. The story ends when the two ladies showed up at the concert in persons by surprise. They were gratified to hear him play. The young man spent a brief moment with them after the concert and was wisked away by his friends. the look in his eys say volume. The two old ladies decively let him go, to where he belongs. Isn't that emotion too familiar to every person on earth who once appoint a time, cannot keep what don't belong to them in the first place?
The third movie is "Saint Ralph". A 14 years old whose widowed mom was in a coma. He attends a Catholic school which was ruled by the iron fists of the head priest. Somehow the boy got the idea of wanting to make a miracle for the comeback of his mom. So he willed himself to be trained to run for a marathon in Boston, N.Y. His head master was against him. His friends all laughed at him. Except one priest who was a marathon runner himself when he was young. He went against the wish of the head priest by putting his calling on line to help this boy practice. The boy just about tried everything he could to prepared for the run, including stretching his faith in God and keeping himself pure in thought. All the time, he talked to his mom often telling her what he was doing. Of course, he was not perfect and sometimes fell flat on his face. Even burned down his own home by accident when he was in despair.
The day of the marathon came, all hopes were high, he was neck to neck with another runner. Within the last 10 yards, he was straining himself so much, you can see the pain on his face. Disappointingly, he came second. But when he returned to school feeling rejected, his friends cheered him , so did the head priest. They encourage him to run again. Last but not the least, his mom pulled herself through the coma. It was a miracle that he wanted, not the way he wanted to accomplished it, otherwise it won't be a miracle!
I love the stories of those unquenchable human spirit which wakes up the sleepy spirit within us. I hope more people will be inspired to make movies like that. It is not very hard to find good scripts. These kind of storiess are all too often written in real life, especially in the good old 1950 and back. Except they may not be the most popular for the general public now who care more for the glamorous appetite. But they certainly are classics, like good books that deserved to be read again and again. Somehow, they leave behind a fagrance that lingers in the air.
The first one called "Sahara". Indiana Jones Style adventure story. About two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship loaded with gold mints. Ventured into hostile countries in Africa. At the same time, have to give ride to a lady doctor who works under WHO looking for the cause of a plague which was spreading in the same area. Like Indiana Jones, full of crisis and challenges at every turn of the corners, this one also add a lot of humor improvised by the actors. It breaks up the tension, makes it a lot easier to sit through the whole movie. Clean movie. Must be fun making it.
The second one is "Ladies in Lavander". A story happens in Cornwall, England. Two seventy odd years old ladies found a young man washed on shore uncouncious. They nursed him back to health and discovered that he is a brilliant violinist from Poland. Weeks and months go by, the ladies developed a special sentiment toward this young men. Then came a pretty young woman whose brother is a well known violinist. The young woman want to introduced him to her brother who would be performing a concert in London. She wrote to the two old ladies for their help. But the two ladies concealed the matter fearing the young man would be lured away. So the young woman had to make a quick decision to run away with the young violinist. Fearing the worst had come, the two old ladies felt so helpless. Then the young man wrote them and told them to listen to his concert performance on the radio. The story ends when the two ladies showed up at the concert in persons by surprise. They were gratified to hear him play. The young man spent a brief moment with them after the concert and was wisked away by his friends. the look in his eys say volume. The two old ladies decively let him go, to where he belongs. Isn't that emotion too familiar to every person on earth who once appoint a time, cannot keep what don't belong to them in the first place?
The third movie is "Saint Ralph". A 14 years old whose widowed mom was in a coma. He attends a Catholic school which was ruled by the iron fists of the head priest. Somehow the boy got the idea of wanting to make a miracle for the comeback of his mom. So he willed himself to be trained to run for a marathon in Boston, N.Y. His head master was against him. His friends all laughed at him. Except one priest who was a marathon runner himself when he was young. He went against the wish of the head priest by putting his calling on line to help this boy practice. The boy just about tried everything he could to prepared for the run, including stretching his faith in God and keeping himself pure in thought. All the time, he talked to his mom often telling her what he was doing. Of course, he was not perfect and sometimes fell flat on his face. Even burned down his own home by accident when he was in despair.
The day of the marathon came, all hopes were high, he was neck to neck with another runner. Within the last 10 yards, he was straining himself so much, you can see the pain on his face. Disappointingly, he came second. But when he returned to school feeling rejected, his friends cheered him , so did the head priest. They encourage him to run again. Last but not the least, his mom pulled herself through the coma. It was a miracle that he wanted, not the way he wanted to accomplished it, otherwise it won't be a miracle!
I love the stories of those unquenchable human spirit which wakes up the sleepy spirit within us. I hope more people will be inspired to make movies like that. It is not very hard to find good scripts. These kind of storiess are all too often written in real life, especially in the good old 1950 and back. Except they may not be the most popular for the general public now who care more for the glamorous appetite. But they certainly are classics, like good books that deserved to be read again and again. Somehow, they leave behind a fagrance that lingers in the air.
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