Activity 2: 3 fav movies

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Part A: If I were stranded on an island, what three movies would I like to have taken with me?
Part B: Reason for choosing these movies

1. Avatar - the main character is disabled,  but when he is enters the other world, he can do anything he sets his mind to. I also enjoyed how the love story unfolds. I find it intriguing how the corrupt outside world tries to destroy the magical inner world.

2. My Fair Lady - I guess I am a sucker for rags to riches stories. I love the accents, the music, the love story, the finesse of Mr Higgins, and the linguistic tools he uses to make Eliza speak proper English. I believe this movie to have influenced me to choose my academic degree many years later.

3. The Book Thief - it is based on a novel, which in turn is based on a fictional but plausible family during the Nazi regime. Being both German and an avid reader, I loved this story. I like to feel, even when it is sad, and I remember this movie to be deeply moving.

 Part C: What do they have in common? How are they different?

Each story is a journey with a quest, to rescue the inner world, to teach a poor woman to speak properly and give her a better life or to rescue books. Each of these films is emotional. They provoke pity, excitement, adventure, love, fear, hope, faith, sadness, tragedy, sweet joys.

Yet the one is a fantasy, another an old English classic and another a historic tragedy. In each I laughed, I smiled, I cried. I lived a mini life. And I enjoyed it. I trusted it would end well. Or at least that the story was worth telling.

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