Before the year closes, the Chonnam Tribune would like to recommend three books and movies just to warm your heart and make you think about the importance of relationships. I hope these recommended books and movies will touch your heart. Read them, watch them and let’s take a dip in love.
Consideration
The last book is called “Consideration”. This novel is about an egocentric’s life. The main character is a symbol of modernization; he has a selfish and aggressive personality, so his co-workers and family members hate him, because of he thinks “Only I am important”. But he meets the guider and realizes what real consideration is and becomes a consideration considerate person. And finally he gets back everything that he has lost. Through the process that the hero realizes, we can learn that caring for each other is the most beautiful thing in the world. ”One good turn deserves another.”
The Things Come after Love
The “The things come after Love” is a love story between a Japanese guy “Jun-go” and a Korean Girl “Hong-yi. They love each other, but the culture gap and loneliness make her leave him. But seven years after the breakup, they meet by accident and fall in love again. This book consists of two parts; one from the woman’s view and the other from the man’s view so you can see the difference between the male and female perspective. These two series make the perfect love story. It is one of the book’s merits. By reading it, your heart will be filled with love and passion. “Do you believe that eternal love really exists?
Dead Poet’s Society
Maybe you heard this movie was originally a book. The story is about a group
of Welton Academy students. They are forced to study a lot and annually over 75 percent of them go to IVY leagues universities. But one new English teacher “John Keating” comes to the school and the students learn something more important than knowledge. These teaching methods are unorthodox by Welton standards. Inspired by Keating, the boys secretly revive a school literary club, the eponymous "Dead Poets Society," to which Keating had belonged, by meeting in a cave off the school grounds. Even though this story is sad because one of the students commits suicide we can feel the care of the teacher and the friendship between friends, and moreover we can learn what real education is. “Seize the day! Carpe Diem!”
Pay It Forward
The movie is about a boy’s attempt to make the world a beautiful place. This is
the Theory he says in the movie, “That's me, and that's three people, and I'm going to help them, but it has to be something really big...something they can't do by themselves. So I do it for them. Then they do it for three other people. That's nine. And I do three more. That's 27, so I'm not really good at math but it gets big really fast. You know?” This little trial becomes a movement and he becomes famous. But the boy gets killed by doing a little help. Although this tragedy makes the movie sad, the movie touches the heart. Actually the real world is not Utopia. But if you pay it forward, it can be possible.
Love Actually
If you look for it, I have got a sneaky feeling you'll find that "love actually is all around”. This movie consists of 4 story lines; the first one is the love between prime minister and his secretary, the second one is a young boy’s love, the third is a writer’s love with a Portuguese housekeeper and the last is a man’s love for his friend’s wife. And there is also the friendship between the singer and his manager. These are all examples love presented really beautifully. Among them, I was touched by the writer love who overcame a language barrier by studying Portuguese to communicate with his love. This Christmas day, let’s go to the person that we love and say “I Love you”, because it is Christmas.
Life Is Beautiful
This movie is about the sacrifice of a father. A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humor, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. In an attempt to hold his family together and to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, the son imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank. Actually the real life of this family is desperate but the main character overcomes it humorously. I couldn’t help crying at this beautiful father’s story. “Buon giorno, principessa (Hello, My Princess!)”
