It's never too late to make a change

I love films. My favorites are the ones that blows my mind away and make me want to clap my hands even if I'm alone in my living room, or the ones that leave me thinking of something after the end. The message doesn’t have to be anything special. The best ones are the messages about normal life, you know, growing up, love, loss, happiness, marriage, children, getting old and so on. The film is good if it stops you to just think for a minute.  A good film does that. It stops you. It makes you forget your life and and focus on other story. Either imaginative or based on true events, doesn’t matter. Every story has its’ message.

Today I had one of those moments. A film stopped me to think. The film wasn't any special, just an usual British rom com called The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011). It’s about these seven pensioners who travel to India, each one hoping to find different kind of exotic adventure. I don’t want to tell too much about the story, but let me say that characters struggle with normal fears for older people, and of course, problems of love. The characters just make you laugh. Maggie Smith’s Muriel is just hillarious with her fear of foreign people and food. (You can see some of it in trailer below) With Maggie Smith there’s other legends in cast, such as Judi Dench and Bill Nighy. Also Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel is in the film. (His accent is awesome :D)

What the film made me think was that it’s never too late to make a change. It's never too late to do things you haven't done. If after 40 years of marriage you’re not happy, you can always change it. If you have been in love with the same person for your whole life, have never told about it. It’s never too late to tell about it. Were you 15 or 65 years old, age doesn’t matter! What matters is if you want to make a change, you just have to find the courage to actually do it. Don’t explain to yourself that it’s too late, cause it never is. 

In conclusion, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is an usual romcom. It doesn't give you anything new, but it makes you laugh, leaves you in a good mood and sends an important message that everyone should take in. A perfect movie-cheering-up for boring rainy day!

- lovesme