Don’t Move – A Film about Human Misery and Psychological Conflicts (Non ti Mouvere)!

Don't Move

Being a great fan of Drama Films and passionate about the expertise that is exhibited through the storyline, dialogues, screenplay, acting, casting, direction, art direction, and production is a matter of my deep observation. I am a fan of non-contemporary movies that might get a Premier in some Film Festivals. These are really a delight to watch, and I am not even concerned about how many awards it has gotten, and not about IMDB or Rotten Tomato Rating and even about the Gross Earning.

So the different approach of mine has led me to the corridors of experimentation and wonderful insights on films that might not be highlighted in general. Here I am telling about an Italian Film named “Don’t Move” and its Italian name is “Non ti Mouvere”. For Penelope Cruz fans this movie is one of her best assets, and she has performed par excellence. 

Penelope Cruz is one such actress who is a great combination of Beauty and Brain, and it is clearly depicted in the selection of roles and her choice of films that she works in. In fact, I got a chance to see Non ti Mouvere with English Language Subtitles. I tried to watch this movie that is translated as Don’t Move for Penelope Cruz. But the beginning just paralyzed my emotions when I saw a single heeled RED shoe amidst a passage to a building which later revealed as a hospital. 

Why that Red Shoe was there and Who placed it there just entangles a mystery bound around, and you are spell bounded in it till the end. When the end comes and you see the reel of names then you want to cry out loud, and ask one question to yourself. Is it all Life and What is the Use of Living it when everything will end like that? 

Italia being the name of Penelope Cruz in the film made me feel reluctant to live like a normal being who runs behind worldly success and gains. My Perceptions about Life and Human Existence has changed, owing to this film. A poor woman who was raped by a Rich and Famous Doctor when he was overheated and drunk, and then as aftermath when he felt guilty. The guilt conscious took him again and again to that ordinary woman who did not belong to his class. 

The irony of the situation is that he is married and having quitter a comfortable life. Italia is so different from her life, thought process and has her own opinions about LIFE. When they got closer than he realized that people become insane and pathetic due to extraordinary situations and sufferings. He got so close to her that he tried to flee away with her to another land. But she died on a way, and there is a whole climax behind all events.

I can never forget one dialogue when he said to her colleague while his daughter as a teenager has a fatal accident, and being operated. He said to his best friend and colleague “I do not know where people go when they die but I surely know where they remain, and that is the heart”. Watch it out for seeing a mature cinema of the world, and “Don’t’ Move” deserves a standing ovation with respect to many fields of artistic presentation.

Swirling Ways of Life !!

We think we are on a continuous path of growth but there is a little child in us who keeps on telling us, we have not mastered the skills of laying all new foundations of Nature. We are born with few instincts and then rest of these are learned by the environment, culture and of course society. But we are individual human beings and when something happens in our lives, mostly our instinctive calling that comes form unconscious mind is far different from what we have learn to act! 

Human psyche has so many different shapes and designs that it puzzles me to tackle with different persons in a same kind of linkage. We are born to prove our worth with what we do and how we deal with the outer world. But I am just too much into this finding that whatever we have suppressed for long, and we are happy with it, and it just sprouts out of a small incident. We see in our very own self the craving and desire to do the same act that might have bitten us so bitter in the past. 

I am not talking about exceptions but I try to give you simple examples like we keep on training ourselves with anger management. But at any moment we snap so high at others, and afterwards we see that we feel guilty that it was only our perception that kept us in most of ways. Similarly we get swayed with false emotions even at a continuous alarm from our mind that it is going to be hurting or difficult to handle. This is how life is taking us in different turns.

We need to separate our irrational beliefs from the rational ones, and then look at the list as what is wrong with adopting a way that is crystal clear in front of us. We can be as successful in mastering our instinctive reactions that is not our self nurturing. Living a successful life depends on prompt actions and reactions that are based on logical reasoning. The emotional element must be hiding behind, and everything must be done in order to make us satisfied afterwards and not to get into any kind of guilt or blame.