The Edge

‘The Edge’ is an adventurous survival thriller released on September 26, 1997. This movie was directed by Lee Tamahori and the screenplay was written by Lee Tamahori himself and David Mamet.

The cast includes the following actors:

Anthony Hopkins as Charles Morse

Alec Baldwin Robert Green

Elle Macpherson as Mickey Morse

Harold Perrineau as Stephen

Bart the Bear

LQ Jones as Styles

Kathleen Wilhoite as Ginny

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie begins with a scene showing a man named Charles Morse who is a billionaire. He wants to do a memorable photo shoot with his wife Mickey Morse. So they hire a very famous photographer in the town named Bob. Charles takes him and his assistant to a resort in Alaska.

 

The owner of the resort warns them not to keep any food open because there are wild bears that are very dangerous. All the people now go to their respective rooms. At night, Charles feels hungry so he gets down the stairs. There he finds some meet that was left open. He also sees that the door is open so he goes to close the door. At the very moment, he gets attacked by a bear. But surprisingly it was not the bear but Bob and they were just playing a prank. Since it is his birthday today, so his wife planned a surprise party. His wife Mickey gifts him a watch whereas the photographer gifts him a pocket knife. There was a note too with the knife but Charles doesn’t read that.

 

The next day is the solo photo shoot of Mickey. Bob clicks a lot of photos of Mickey. He even flirts with her and Charles was looking at this from far away. Bob tells that now they want a male model to shoot with her. Charles says that he would shoot with her but Bob declines that. Actually, Bob is Charles’s childhood friend and Bob is jealous of his success. Now Bob sees a photo of a hunter and tells that he wants him as a model with the owner of the hotel. The owner gives him the location. This seems to be in inner Alaska. So Charles, Bob and his assistant go to that location on a plane. But they find that the hunter has left a note there stating that they should come to the specified location in the note in order to find him. So they decide to go there. But on the way their plane gets hit by birds and the plane crashes in the lake. The pilot dies whereas the other members somehow save their life. Since they are totally wet now, they feel very cold and Bob takes his waterproof matchbox out. They burn the fire and stay there that night.

 

The next morning, Charles says that they should go to Hunter’s place because it is safer. They head towards that place but they get followed by a bear. They try crossing the river by putting a log over it. Bob and his assistant successfully cross the river but when it is Charles’s turn the bear comes and moves the log. Charles falls to the river and his sensors flow there. But somehow he is saved and they head towards their destination. But they find out that they have come to the same place from where they started.

 

They seem clueless because they don’t have food too. Charles tells the assistant to catch fish with the knife. But the assistant mistakenly hurts his own knee and starts bleeding. Charles puts the bandage over the wound and tells Bob to burn the cloth full of blood because a bear may come looking at that. They decide to spend the night there itself because the assistant can’t walk. That night, it starts raining. Bob had not burnt that cloth and hence the bear comes there. It attacks on them and it kills that assistant.

 

Now only Charles and Bob are left. They make a trap to hunt squirrels so that they can eat it. It starts snowing too. A helicopter comes for their rescue but it can’t see them because they were overshadowed by the trees so it leaves. Bob gets angry at Charles and starts shouting. He takes all his frustrations out by telling that he is jealous of all his wealth and success.

 

They continue their journey because they don’t have any other option. But they once again get attacked by the bear but they run away. That night, they sleep by making a fire boundary. Charles says that they should kill the bear because they can’t keep running like this. Bob doesn’t accept that because he says that it is very strong and they can’t confront the bear. But Charles insists and they finally decide to do it. Charles puts that knife over a stick to make a long weapon and he puts a cloth covered with blood over it. Bear comes there and starts chasing them. It even attacks Bob but Charles distracts the bear and kills the bear.

 

Now they have a lot of bear meat and fur too. And then they head towards the correct direction by making a compass with the needle of the watch his wife gifted. They reach a cabin but they don’t find anyone there. They find alcohol, gun, and map there. Charles looks at the location of the resort. Meanwhile, Bob goes out to see if the boat is working.

 

Charles looks at the letter that was with the knife. Actually, it is the bill of the knife and the watch together. This means that Bob and Mickey are having an affair. Charles asks Bob about all this and he accepts that. He even tells that Mickey married him just because of his wealth. Charles feels sad. Bob even points the gun toward Charles to kill him so that he can marry Mickey. But Charles smartly puts him in a trap and he falls into it. Bob gets heavily injured but Charles doesn’t leave him like that but rather takes him out and puts on a bandage and takes him into the boat to safely take him to the resort. Bob feels sorry about he couldn’t be a good friend.

 

They rest at the bank. Bob is heavily injured. Bob tells Charles that Mickey has no fault in this but it was him who put her in the delusion of love. A helicopter comes for their rescue but Bob is no more till that time. He comes to the resort which is full of reporters. Charles doesn’t say anything to Mickey but hands her that watch and she understands that he knows everything. Mickey with full guilt hugs Charles. Reporters ask him how the other two were killed and he emotionally replies that they lost their lives while saving him. This show how noble man Charles was. And with this, the movie comes to an end.

Hidden Figures

This movie was released on January 6, 2017. This biographical movie is about three African-American mathematicians working at NASA and their beautiful journey. The movie also depicts the bitter truth of racial discrimination prevailing in the past. The movie is based on the book of the same name ‘Hidden Figures’. This Oscars-nominated movie was directed by Theodore Melfi and the screenplay was written by Theodore Melfi himself and Allison Schroeder.

The cast includes the following actors:

Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson

Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughn

Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson

Kevin Costner as Al Harrison

Glen Powell as John Glenn

Kirsten Dunst as Vivian Mitchell

Jim Parsons as Paul Stafford

Mahershala Ali as Jim Jackson

Aldis Hodge as Levi Jackson

 

Plot Summary:

The movie begins with the time frame of 1961 in America. The opening scene shows Katherine Johnson and her two friends Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson. They work in the calculation department at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Katherine is a very good mathematician. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson are on their way to work in a car.  Just like every other day, their car stops working on their way. A policeman arrives there and asks for their ids. He even sarcastically comments on their color saying that from when the people like them (he meant black people) started getting jobs at NASA. Actually, the white and black people used to work separately at that time. Whites didn’t use to let the blacks come near to them and in the same way, didn’t even use to talk with them. There was heavy racial discrimination at that time.

 

At that time, America and Russia were in the competition of launching satellites into space so that they could spy on each other. Al Harrison is in charge of this project and is even the head of NASA. Everyone from the military and defense are pressurizing him to launch the satellites as soon as possible because Russia was getting way too forward. No one is helping him but just wants the result. Harrison asks to call someone who is very good at analytical geometry. But no whites were really good at that. So Secretary Mitchell goes to the West group (where the blacks used to work). Katherine and her friends are black. There she gets to know that Katherine is very good at that so she hires her to assist Harrison. Also, her friend Mary gets appointed to the hit shield department. There an engineer Karl Zielinski motivates Mary to become an engineer. But since Mary was a black girl, she was not allowed to study in a school where whites study.

 

Katherine now goes to the East group from the West group. There she doesn’t get much of a warm welcome. One of her co worker even hands her a garbage bin thinking that she must be a cleaner. Everyone stays farther from Katherine. When Harrison gets near to her and talks, he understands that Katherine has the caliber to work. Harrison doesn’t support racial discrimination. Paul, the chief engineer of the workplace doesn’t like Katherine.

 

Katherine asks one of the lady coworkers where the washroom is but the lady denies to tell her. She then goes to the west wing to use the washroom. They don’t even let her use their coffee machines. At the end of the day, Harrison throws all her calculations in the dustbin because he thinks she did everything so quickly in a hurry.

 

Another day a group of astronauts come there. They are getting ready to go to space for the very first time in history. One of the astronauts named John Glenn meets Katherine and her friends. He becomes happy and optimistic looking at them.

 

Paul starts getting more and more troublesome to Katherine. He hides some of the lines of the document so that it becomes difficult for her calculations. But Katherine with all her senses from the remaining data finds out the reason behind the failure of the past missions. Katherine does it so well that Harrison and Paul doubt if she is a Russian spy. They even interrogate her and they find out that she has genuinely done the calculations. Hence he gives him the other set of data for further calculations. Anna on the other hand has cased a file so that she too can study engineering in a white school. She gets approved to join the night class.

 

On the other hand, a piece of news spreads that Russia has successfully sent its astronauts into space. This news makes Harrison mad and makes everyone work overtime. When he checks Katherine at her desk, he doesn’t find her and he gets angry. When she comes there, Harrison shouts at her badly and asks her where she was. Katherine replies that she went to the washroom. He cross-questions her telling her who goes to the washroom for the whole 40 minutes. Katherine replies confidently that she doesn’t get to use a washroom here and that she has to walk half a mile to use the washroom. She even adds that no one comes near to her or talks to her. She tells that she is even given a different coffee machine and after working as hard as possible, she gets only half of the salary she gets. Harrison didn’t know about all this. He goes to the door of the ‘colored washroom’ breaks the board and tells the black ladies that they can use the washroom wherever they want.

 

NASA had to perform very precise calculations to send astronauts to the satellite. So Katherine had to attend high-level meetings too. Before that, neither a lady nor a black human had gone to such meetings. But now Katherine gets to go to the meeting and throw light on her calculations. Everyone attending the meeting gets impressed. Glenn too gets happy looking at Katherine’s work.

 

Katherine does all the calculations of the mission using her skills. But now since the IBM machines have arrived, Harrison tells Katherine that she doesn’t have to do calculations any longer and hence she can go to the west wing back. Hence Katherine has to go to the west wing now. At this time, Paul and his friends have stopped practicing racial discrimination.

 

Rocket is on the verge of launching now. But in the end moment, the calculations done by the IBM computers look faulty. No one gets any idea how that happened. Harrison calls Glenn and Glenn answers that he is ready to go to the space if Katherine does the remaining calculation. Harrison calls Katherine and she performs the calculations. At first, she is not allowed to come inside but later Harrison takes her to the operating room.

 

The calculations become precise and Glenn successfully gets to space and even lands safely. Paul and Katherine become good friends too. Also, Mary successfully graduates from the engineering school. Their other friend Dorothy also becomes the first colored supervisor of NASA. And the story ends with a happy ending. The movie ‘Hidden Figure’ depicts the oppressed hidden figures like Katherine behind the success of such a great project and gives a real view of racial discrimination prevailing in the past and a deep message against racial discrimination.

 

Into the Wild

The travel drama released on September 21, 2007, is an American movie based on the life of Christopher McCandless( better known as Alexander Supertramp). The movie was extracted from the same book named ‘Into the Wild’ which is the life story of Christopher McCandless who decided to live a very different life apart from normal people. The movie with two nominations at the Oscars was directed by Sean Penn and the screenplay was also shaped by him only.

IMDb: 8.1

Rotten Tomatoes: 83%

The cast includes the following characters:

Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless

Kristen Stewart as Tracy Tatro

Wince Vaughn as Wayne Westerberg

Brian H. Dierker as Rainey

Catherine Keener as Jan Burress

William Hurt as Walt McCandless

Marcia Gay Harden as Billie McCandless

Jena Malone as Carine McCandless

 

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie shows the timeframe of 1999 AD where Christopher is seen graduating from his college with a grade A. Being happy with their son, his parents want to gift him a car. But Christopher tells them that his old car is still fine and hence he doesn’t want a new one. But his parents still want him to take the car but he doesn’t accept that.

 

Sometimes after that, he destroys all his identity cards, his documents, credit cards, and certificates. He had 24000 dollars in his account which his parents had given to spend him during his studies. He gives all that money to a charity, takes his bag, and goes far in his car. He is not happy with his parent’s relationship and everything so he wants to leave back all his identity and go to a place where no one knows him. On his way, he stays at a place at night in his car. This area is a flooded area and hence at night his car gets stuck in the flood and hence he has to leave his car there itself and continue his journey on foot. Before leaving the place he takes the number plate of his car off so that no one can identify that it is his car. He even burns all the dollars he had.

 

Now Christopher has nothing but his dreams and his vision and his bag. During his journey, he gets to his destination by asking for lifts. He sleeps anywhere in the forest and stays anywhere he likes just like the whole world is his home. Now he changes his name to Alexander Supertramp. On his journey, he meets a hippie couple. Their names are Rainey and Jan. They give a lift to Christopher and tell him that they are similar to him but the only difference is that they travel in their vehicle whereas Alexander (Christopher) walks on foot.

 

Christopher stays with them for a few days and Rainey tells him that Rainey and Jan have problems in their relationship. Jan was with someone else in the past and he left her so she can’t forget about her past and hence likes to be alone. Rainey even adds that he loves Jan very much.  Christopher tells him that some people think that they deserve love and hence want to be alone to fill the past voids up.  His thoughts make Rainey impressed. As Christopher lives with them, their relationship gets better.

 

Christopher wanted to complete his journey to Alaska all alone so he leaves them and moves forward. He was in Northern California and then he reaches Eastern South Dakota. It has become two months since he left his house. There he meets Wayne Westerberg who has contracts of hectares of fields. Christopher works for him in the field. He operates big machines to harvest the grains. He asks for a gun with Wayne because Alaska is a jungle and hence he wants to be safe and hunt animals too. He gets the gun and Christopher moves forward.

 

Now he has to cross the Colorado River but for that, he has to get permission and hence he goes to the office. The officer tells him to fill his name in the waiting list but it states that his turn will come 12 years hence. He gets shocked and leaves the office. Then he decides to illegally cross the river and gets into it. On the way he finds another couple who tell him that he can go to Mexico from the same route too. He gets followed by the police so he runs away to Mexico. On the way, he stays in a cave for 36 days. He reaches the city and feels very uncomfortable. He moves forward in his journey through cargo trains since he has no money to pay for the passenger trains. But one time, he gets caught by the authority and gets beaten very hard.

 

Then he again decides to ask for a lift. Then once again he gets to meet the same hippie couple Rainey and Jan. There he meets another girl named Tracy. Tracy starts falling in love with him but Christopher doesn’t show much interest in her because first she was too young and second he had to complete his journey. After staying for someday, he continues his journey to Alaska. On his way, he stays at Sheldon City for two weeks in a camp where he meets a man who does leather work. Christopher finds that old man very interesting and starts spending time with him. He tells him that he lost all his family in a car accident. He Christopher leather works too. After learning that Christopher makes a belt for himself where he carves his whole journey in the picture. After spending two months there Christopher decides to head towards Alaska. Both of them had a very good mutual bond. The old man didn’t want him to go but rather wanted him to stay so that he can make him his grandchild. He respects that but he tells that he has to get to Alaska and once he gets back from there they will talk about this.

 

One traveler gives him a lift to the Alaska border. He gives him long boots too. Christopher has now reached his destination Alaska and it has become 21 months since he left his home. He lives in a camp and it is so cold there. He fires the woods and hunts small animals. Now he crosses a river to go to the order side and leaves his hat there as a mark because that would help him know the way when he wants to get back. He finds an old bus and makes it beautiful to live there. He starts getting short of food. He keeps on making new holes in his belt because he gets thinner day by day. Now he realizes that he has to get back and that life is beautiful when lived together and when joys are shared. He realizes that no one can win over nature’s rules and he wants to get back home. He tries to cross that river back but now the river has got very big that it is not possible.

 

Christopher has a habit of writing everything in his journey. Now Christopher has started getting weak because of a lack of nutrition. He eats the roots and fruits of different plants by checking the book. One day he mistakenly consumes a poisonous wild potato and hence starts getting sick. It has been 100 days since he got to Alaska. He starts feeling that he is going to die soon. In his book, he writes “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED”. He gets into his sleeping bag and remembers his family and leaves a note for the world stating “I have had a happy life and thank the lord. Goodbye and may god bless all!”. He leaves the world on September 6, 1992. This scene leaves viewers in tears and makes them realize that we should definitely live the life we want to but life is colorless and incomplete without family, the loved ones.

Everything you need to know about Oppenheimer

The movie Oppenheimer, releasing on July 21,2023 is a biographical thriller movie directed by the legendary Christopher Nolan. Nolan, who has directed masterpieces like The Dark Knight, Inception, interstellar, and many more has stunned his fans this time too with the goosebumps-giving trailer. This movie is based on the book American Prometheus written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Hence the movie is somewhat a biopic of the ‘Father of the atomic bomb’, an American theoretical physicist  J. Robert Oppenheimer. The fans are eagerly wanting to see the collision between this movie and the movie Barbie since the release dates have crashed.

The cast includes superb incomparable actors:

Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer

Robert  Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss

Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock

Jack Quaid as Richard Feynman

Matt Damon as Leslie Groves

Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer

 

This movie depicts the incidents that happened during World War II at the Manhattan Project. This project, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer gave the world the first-ever nuclear weapon, the atomic bomb.  Not only this, but the movie also displays the psychological rollercoaster and the guilt running through their nerves of Oppenheimer after he made the creation, that holds the potential to destroy the whole world and mankind in a fraction of a second.

 

The 3 minutes trailer makes every viewer overwhelmed and lost in the beauty of the cinematic universe created by Nolan and the team. The trailer shows the huge atomic bomb, which is going to change everything, being created, and the hands behind it. The trailer, beginning with the ticking sound gives every viewer a surreal vibe. We can also see that the scenes post-bombing are shown in black and white depicting how colorless people’s lives have become after the event. These bombs, created by the manhattan project are the same bombs that blew Hiroshima and Nagasaki off. On the other hand, we can see the very guilt and confusion in the eyes of Cillian Murphy, and Oppenheimer(creator of the atomic bomb) in the movie. Murphy’s eyes are filled with deep emotions and his acting skills are seen to be so touching and magical that every viewer watching the trailer feels like they too are Oppenheimer and they are in that very time frame of World War II.

 

The VFX of the movie, as expected, seems to be outstanding as seen in the trailer. Every small detail of the sparks, lines, explosion, the timeframe of world war II shown, the flow of the trailer, how it keeps us engaged and many more gives viewers a very big expectation and assurance that the movie is undoubtedly going to be the counted in Nolan’s masterpiece.

 

The trailer depicts the dilemma in Murphy’s(Oppenheimer’s) mind created due to the confusion of ethics on science on the one hand and political interference, responsibility, and pressure at the same time on the other hand. Nolan has aroused the human psyche and leaves deep questions in the minds of every viewer about whether the atomic bomb, that evaporated the blood of millions is worth being regarded as one of the biggest scientific achievements or not.

The movie Oppenheimer, following the movie Tenet(Lowest scoring movie of Nolan),  is more than simply a biopic and  is confidently expected to mark  its position as the greatest of all time.

 

 

What is summary of To Kill a Mockingbird?

This drama was released on December 25, 1962. The drama is based on Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. The movie was directed by Robert Mulligan and the screenplay was written by Horton Foote. This movie was nominated for eight Oscars namely: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, best-supporting Actress, best director, best art direction, best picture, best cinematography, and best original score the movie received Oscars for:

Best Actor (Gregory Peck)

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Horton Foote)

Best art direction(Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, and Oliver Emert)

 

 The cast includes:

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

Mary Badham as Scout

Philip Alford as Jem Finch

Brock Peters as Tom Robinson

John Meghna as Dill Harris

James Anderson as Robert Ewell

Frank Overton as Sheriff Heck Tate

Estelle Evans as Calpurnia

Crahan Denton as Walter Cunningham S

Collin Wilcox Paxton as Mayella Violet Ewell

Paul Fix as Judge John Taylor

Ruth White as Mrs. Dubose

 The opening scene of the movie starts with the narration by an adult lady named Scout. The scene shifts to the flashback where Scout as a little kid is living with her father Atticus Finch and her elder brother in. She has lost her mother and hence her father is a single parent.  They live a happy and simple life together. They have a housekeeper too. During summer Scout and her friend Dill play near the same place that is her neighbor’s house. His name is Arthur Radley. They call him ‘Boo’. Boo is Nathan Radley’s son. People don’t have a good perception of Boo and hence these kids too feel scared around his home. But they have never seen boo since boo never comes out of his house.

 

 They find some items near Boo’s house. The items are a broken watch, a medal, a small knife, and two toys made up of soap which are as same as Scout and her brother Jeremy(Jem). This makes them think suspiciously of Boo. Scout’s dad is a lawyer and he always tries his best to give the right justice to people. Most of his clients are poor farmers who can’t afford to pay for his service and hence they give him grains. Atticus being a lawyer, his children have also understood the racism undergoing in the town.

 

Atticus has got a case where he has to defend Tom Robinson who is charged with raping a white girl. Atticus taking that case leaves the town in shock and even his children are getting affected by wrong behavior in school. One evening when Atticus comes near to the local jail to meet Tom to talk about the case, some people from the town come to him. They are angry with him and want to start a fight. His children come there too. In the angry crowd (which the children are unknown why they have come), Scout sees a known face. His name is Mr. Cunningham. She asks him how his son Walter(who is her classmate)  is and tells him to say ‘Hello’ to him. The whole mob now sees Scout. Mr. Cunningham is silent and the crowd, feeling embarrassed, leaves the place.

 

On the other hand in the court trial, it is said that Tom who works in Ewell’s home came there because Mayella called him and he had started making a wooden wardrobe. Atticus says that Tom is handicapped with his left hand and someone who raped Mayella molested her with his left hand and beat her too. He also adds that Mayella’s dad is a left-handed guy and maybe when he knew his daughter was getting close to Tom, he might have done something out of anger. Mayella was not even examined by the doctor. Tom says that Mayella had kissed him without his consent. He even adds that he used to help her with her chores. He feels bad looking at her situation. Listening to this, the white prosecutors get angry at him.

 

Giving the closing statement, Atticus tells all the jury members that for one time should forget racism and prove Tom not guilty. But they not being able to take off partiality out of their mind decide Tom is ‘guilty’. Atticus, while leaving the court receives respect from all the black people who give a standing ovation to him. Now he goes to his home and Sheriff Tate tells him that they killed Tom when he tried to flee away while getting shifted from one jail to the other. Atticus, with his son, goes to Tom’s home because he wanted to let them know about this heart-wrenching news from him.  Mayella’s father comes there too and spits at the face of Atticus.

 

One day, the children have a fancy dress competition at school. Scout has become a ham and has put on a heavy ham costume. Scout and Ham are returning back to their home through the forest. And suddenly Jem gets attacked by someone. Due to the ham dress Scout is safe but the attacker attacks Jem and the attacker gets killed by someone else. And this savior taking Jem in his arms runs towards Jem’s house. Scout can’t see the savior’s face properly because she is in that costume.

 

Scout runs towards her home and tells everything to her father. Jem is hurt in his hand and feeling weak too. Sheriff informs that it was bob ewell(Mayella’s dad) who attacked him and he has been killed. In the same scene, it is seen that a guy is hiding behind the door. He is Arthur Radley(Boo). It was he who saved the kids. Although the town had suspicious perspectives about this guy, in reality, he was a good human with a shy nature.

 

Atticus says that he will tell the court that Jem killed Bob in self-defense. But the sheriff tells him that he will be telling in a police file that bob ewell lost his life after falling over a knife because he feels that he cannot send someone like Arthur to jail because he saved two young kid’s life.

 

Atticus comes to Arthur and thanks him for saving his children’s life. Scout goes to drop him to his home and the movie ends there.

Dead Poets Society

This American drama was released on June 2, 1989. It was directed by Peter Weir and the screenplay was written by Tom Schulman. The movie received an Oscar for Best Screenplay. The cast includes

the following actors :

Robin Williams as John Keating

Robert Sean Leonard as Neil Perry

Ethan Hawke as Todd Anderson

Josh Charles as Knox Overstreet

Gale Hansen as Charlie Dalton

Dylan Kussman as Richard Cameron

James Waterston as Gerard Pitts

Norman Lloyd as Mr. Nolan

Kurtwood Smith as Mr. Perry

Carla Belver as Mrs. Perry

 

Plot summary:

This movie displays a well-reputed and strict school named Welton Academy where only boys are allowed to study. A new boy gets admitted to the school whose name is Todd Anderson and he is paired as a roommate with Neil Perry who is one of the best students in the school. In a short period of time, Todd Anderson becomes good friends with Neil Perry’s friends.

 

A teacher is teaching in a class where he uses a very old method of teaching where the students have to tell exactly what he has written. Students reading there follow this method without any question and with full discipline. After that, it is shown that the next teacher enters the class who seems to be an English teacher and it is his first class in that very class. He enters the class whistling from the front door and leaves the room from the back door. All the students get amazed at him and look at the back door and he asks them to come out with him. So everyone follows him outside. After they come out, he first says,” O captain, my captain” and asks the student if anyone knows where the words are taken from. No one replies so he himself says that it is Walt Whitman who wrote the line for Abraham Lincoln. He explains what it means and everyone laughs.

 

Now he asks one of the students to read a poem. After that he tells the Latin word ‘Carpe diem’ and asks for the meaning. One of the boys replies that it means ‘seize the day’ and the teacher again asks the students why the writer used the line.  One of the students light-heartedly replies that the reason may be because he was in a hurry. The teacher declines the reason and explains that the writer used the line to depict that one day our hearts will stop too and we will be all cold and we will die, each one of us will die. And hence carpe diem means to live each day, to live every moment.

 

 Now he shows photos of some old students who are no more in this world and he too was a student from the same school and he survived. He adds that there is no freedom of thought in this school and the students are taught just like the machines.

 

In the next class, the same teacher Keating asks Perry to read the introduction page. Perry reads it very well. Now  Keating tells everyone to rip the page off. All the students get surprised and ask him once again to make sure they heard right. Keating once again tells them to rip that page off. All of them do so with confusion. When everyone is tearing the paper, the silent class becomes noisy and as a result a teacher from the next class comes to ask why there is so much of noise. Keating had gone to bring the dustbin. That teacher after looking at Keating tells him that he thought he was not there. Keating now explains why he told them to tear that page. The reason is that there is a formula to rate a poem in that page and it is not correct and adds that poetry is something that they cannot rate. Keating also adds that we don’t write poems because it is beautiful but rather because we are humans and humans are full of passion. Law, business, and engineering are necessary to sustain life but poetry keeps us alive.

 

Keating now takes students from one of the classes to the courtyard where he asks three of the students to walk differently. When they walk, all the other boys start clapping. Mr. Keating asks them why they started clapping and the boys reply that we need acceptance in our lives. Keating is actually teaching the student the real way of living life. Now the strict headmaster who was looking at the students tells them to not break the rules. Now the students get to know that during Keating’s time, they had a group called the dead poets society but actually no such groups were allowed in that academy. They restart this society once again. They go to hidden places like caves and recite their poems and their thoughts. But the school is unknown about all these. Time flies and due to the way of Keating’s teaching and the dead poets society, a huge transformation is seen in the thoughts of students and their way of living life.

 

In all these, Neil discovers that he is very good at acting and he even wants to joat a play at his school. But his father doesn’t allow him to do so. On the other hand, Keating is teaching in a class where he stands at a table and asks the students why he is doing so. One of the students replies that he is doing so to look taller. But he replies he actually did this to look from a different perspective. After that, he asks all of them to stand there and have a different look.

 

One day Keating asks each of the students to come forward and speak something. Todd Anderson looks a little hesitant to come. Keating asks him to say the word ‘yawp’. He hesitates at first but finally tells it loudly after Keating motivates him. He asks Todd to speak whatever came to his head when he saw the picture on the wall. Todd gets hesitated at first but Keating calms him down and as a result he is able to generate a really beautiful poem. Each of the students gets amazed at him.

 

In the same school, there is another student named Charlie too. In a school magazine, he posts an article saying girls should study in their school too. And he posts the article by the name of the dead poets society. This makes the principal very angry and he calls Charlie to the office. He angrily asks Charlie the name of students who are involved in this society. But Charlie doesn’t take the name of even a single student. This makes the principal angrier and he starts beating Charlie in a very inhuman manner. But hens also Charlie doesn’t speak a word.

 

As a result, the principal tells Keating to make students understand that they cannot question the authority like this. Keating teaches them to understand the result before stepping into anything. Neil’s father comes to him to tell that he can’t take part in a drama. Neil tries to convince him in the best way possible but he can’t do so. Neil goes to Keating where he says that he should definitely do what his heart tells him to. He should prove to his dad that he definitely loves acting. So Neil decides to perform there. During his play, his father arrives there and eventually, he tells Neil that he has removed him from Welton and has admitted him to a military academy where he will prepare to go to Harvard and become a doctor. Neil becomes helpless, he can’t take that and commits suicide. Hence his father thinks that someone definitely was brainwashing his son and hence asks the principal to find it out.

 

On the other hand, one of the students from dead poets society, Cameron puts all the blame on Keating he does so because he wants to escape the punishment from being a part of the dead poets society since the principal has already known that the society exists and the members are too. Cameron even tells the members of the dead poets society that they should blame Keating for all this. This makes Charlie angry and as a result, he punches Cameron and due to this he gets rusticated from the school. On the other hand for all the allegations Cameron has put on Mr. Keating, a report is prepared and everyone is made to sign there. Todd Anderson says that he doesn’t want too but since he is helpless he signs too.

 

Mr. Keating is thrown out of his job. And now, the principal has started teaching English. He asks one of the students to read the introduction page but since they had already torn it off, he tells that they had torn the page. So the principal gives him his own book to read. And at the very moment Keating is seen leaving the classroom since he was taking his belongings out of the class. Todd Anderson gets up and tells him that he doesn’t know whether Mr. Keating will believe him or not but they were made to sign forcefully. The principal gets angry and warns him to not speak even a single word and asks Mr. Keating to leave.  But as Mr. Keating has reached the door, Todd gets up on the bench and starts telling “O captain my captain”. This was something Keating taught them and hence Keating stops for a while. And now half of the class students get up turn by turn in the same way. Keating becomes happy looking at the bravery of the students. The principal, who thought he has won by removing Keating out of the school because he thinks that he disturbed the four pillars of the academy, now, feels that he has lost. Keating had taught the students that they should call him ‘O captain my captain’ only when they think they have the courage in them. So he becomes happy looking at their courage to stand for truth, to stand for originality.

Rain Man

 This Oscar-winning Melodrama was released on December 12, 1988. The movie was directed by Barry Levinson who received an Oscar for ‘Best Director’ and the screenplay was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. The screenplay too received the ‘Best Original Screenplay’ Oscars award.

The cast includes the following actors:

Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbit who received an Oscar for ‘Best Actor

Valeria Golino as Susanna

Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbit

Gerald R. Molen as Dr. Bruner

Bonnie Hunt as Sally Dibbs

Lucinda Jenney as Iris

 

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie introduces Charlie Babbit who is a car dealer in Los Angeles. Charlie buys four Lamborghini cars for his customers by taking down payments from them and also by taking some loans. But his cars are questioned by EPA, Environmental Protection Agency which certifies cars after looking at the pollution measurement and now the cars stopped at the port. Charlie has a small office where he himself, his girlfriend Susanna, and his friend work. The customers now start asking for the down payment back because the cars are not delivered yet. He assures them that the cars will be soon certified by the EPA and hence will be delivered.

 

Now Charlie goes on a date, basically a drive with his girlfriend Susanna where he receives a call. It is his friend Lanny who tells him that his father is no more and tomorrow is his funeral. So Charlie goes there. Now they go to their dad’s funeral. After going there he gets to know that his father has just left a vintage car and a bouquet for him although he had a lot of wealth. He also gets to know that he has left his three million dollar property to an unnamed trustee. This leaves Charlie in shock because according to him he was the only child. Charlie after a thorough search knows that the unnamed trustee is in a mental institute. Charlie goes there and for the very first time gets to know that his elder brother Raymond lives there. He never had an idea that he had an elder brother too. His brother Raymond is autistic, which means he has some developmental disability due to differences in his brain. There he meets Dr. Bruner who informs him that Raymond himself is the unnamed trustee. He also adds that Raymond doesn’t have any money concept and he doesn’t even understand that his father is no more in this world.

 

 Charlie starts spending a lot of time with his brother. He even takes him out of the mental institute telling the concerned that he was going to take him just for a stroll. He takes him to a hotel to stay. But since his brother is autistic, his routine seems to be disturbed because Charlie has brought him there. Raymond starts becoming difficult asking for those things. This makes Charlie so irritated that he starts misbehaving with his elder brother. This makes Susanna sad and tells him that he only uses others for his benefit and nothing more and leaves the place. The next day Charlie and his brother go to the restaurant for breakfast where he calls the doctor and says that his brother Raymond will now stay with him and if they want to take him back, he should get 1.5 million dollars from that three million. Doctor Bruner rejects such a deal but Charlie adds that they can’t even case a file of kidnapping since he is his brother. He further tells that he will bring him back if his deal is fulfilled and otherwise they will meet in court. While returning from the restaurant, Raymond crashes with a waitress and the toothpicks from her hand fall off. The next moment Raymond tells the total count of the toothpicks. At first Charlie and the waitress do not believe him but after the waiter counts them it turns out to be true. This leaves Charlie impressed.

 

Now they go to the airport so that they can head towards Los Angeles. There he gets a call from Lanny who tells him that it has become difficult for him to keep the customers waiting and they either want the payment back or the car. Charlie asks for some more time. Raymond doesn’t agree to go by that airline because he knows that there had been many crashes on that airline before and it is not safe to go by that airline. And hence Charlie takes the name of other airlines but Raymond keeps on giving the crash count of those airlines. Raymond has a keen sense of remembering everything he reads and since he had read about the airlines in the past, hence he knows everything now. Charlie gets frustrated and starts taking him forcefully but Raymond starts crying loudly and as a result, he has to take him by the car. But the problem doesn’t end here.

 

 There was a deadly accident on the highway and as a result, was a huge traffic jam. Raymond feels very uncomfortable and decides to go on foot. But Charlie somehow manages to stop him from doing that. It starts raining the next day and Raymond refuses to travel since it is raining and hence they have to stay a whole day in the hotel. The next day, Charlie restarts the journey, and on the way he stops at a phone booth for a call but he realizes that his brother is not in the car. He gets worried and finally finds him after a search. Charlie takes Raymond to a psychiatrist. After some examinations and interrogations, they get to know that Raymond has a special ability. He can do very big mathematical calculations within some seconds. The psychiatrist even adds that Raymond should join NASA because his capabilities seem to fit there. Charlie now stays in a hotel with his brother where he asks him how he can do such calculations so fast. But Raymond replies that even he doesn’t know how he does so.

 

Charlie gets a very old photo of him, Raymond, and his father from Raymond. Now after looking at the photo, Charlie figures out that Raymond is the same guy whom Charlie used to call ‘Rain Man’ instead of Raymond in his childhood. Now in the next scene, it is seen that Raymond gets afraid of the hot water tap and now Charlie remembers the incident in his childhood where Raymond saved him from hot water but his father considered Raymond as the one who did that to him and sent him to the asylum. Charlie has now started understanding his brother. He even brings a special tv for Raymond since he kept on telling that his schedule was disturbed. Charlie again gets a call that his cars are not certified by EPA. This leaves him in shock. Charlie now has a debt of eighty thousand dollars.

 

Charlie in order to know more about his brother’s counting skills spreads cards on the bonnet of his car and takes some of the cards to his hands. He asks him which card is on the bonnet and which is in his hands. Raymond correctly tells all of them. And hence an idea strikes his mind. He teaches him how to play cards and takes Raymond to the casino and he plays it so well that they earn a sum of eighty-six thousand dollars. Everyone around them gets amazed at their play. Charlie is very happy with Raymond that he has helped him get his debt off in a single day. They go to a beautiful hotel that day and Charlie teaches Raymond how to dance there.

 

It is seen that love for his brother is growing more and more in Charlie’s heart.  Susanna also comes back to Charlie’s life. The next day, three of them go to the same casino but the owner rejects them from playing and even threatens them to not be seen nearby. Now they get back to Los Angeles. Dr Bruner comes to meet Charlie and offers him a check of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and asks Raymond back because it is the best place for him and he had even promised their father that he will take care of Raymond. Charlie now replies that he doesn’t want anything from him and neither from the property but wants custody of his brother so that he can keep him for his lifetime. They bring a psychologist from the court to decide whether to give custody to Charlie or to the institution. He asks Raymond for number of times but he doesn’t give clear answers at all. The interrogations seem difficult for Raymond and hence Charlie asks the psychologist to take the decision on the basis of whatever he has asked till now.

 

Charlie has now started feeling that he probably won’t get Raymond’s custody. Charlie gets emotional and tells Raymond that he feels lucky to have a brother like him. The next day he gets to know that he has lost custody. The next day he goes to drop Raymond off the train with Dr. Bruner. Charlie assures Raymond that he will come to meet him every two weeks.

The Pursuit of Happyness

This movie, released on December 15 2006 is based on the life of American businessman and motivational speaker Chris Gardner. The movie was directed by Gabriele Muccino. The cast includes of following actors:

Will Smith as Chris Gardner

Jaden Smith as Christopher Gardner, Jr.

Thandiwe Newton as Linda Gardner

Brian Howe as Jay Twistle

Dan Castellaneta as Alan Frakesh

James Karen as Martin Frohm

Kurt Fuller as Walter Ribbon

 

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie takes viewers to San Francisco in 1981 AD where a man named Chris Gardner is shown spending all his savings to buy portable bone density machines. But these machines do not work well in the market and it becomes very difficult for him to sell those machines. Gradually, his financial condition keeps on degrading. Chris lives in a rented house with his wife Linda and son Christopher. They have to bear so much of the expenditure such as Christopher’s school fees and the house rent. Now the economic burden has come to his wife’s head and as a result, they start having fights with each other. They start struggling financially so much. In order to run the house smoothly, Chris has to sell at least four scanners but he can hardly sell one scanner.

 

One day when Chris is talking to his client on the phone, a dashing car stops nearby him. Chris keeps on looking at the car and can’t help himself from asking the owner. He asks him what he does and how he does it. The man points towards a building and replies that he is a share broker. When Chris looks at anyone coming out of that building, he realizes that everyone is coming out happily. He decides to start working as a share broker. He tells his wife that he is no more going to do business with the scanners. His wife humiliates him by telling him that no one was going to buy them anyway. He adds that he will work as a share broker. His wife insults him saying why he won’t be an astronaut. She tells this because she has no faith in him. Chris feels bad about everything she told. Finally, his wife decides that she will no longer live with him. She takes her son and leaves the place. Chris becomes angry and tells her that she can leave if she wants but she has to give his son back to her. Chris loves his son very much but he also knows that he can’t keep his son legally because he has to stay with his mother. But fortunately, Linda gets a job somewhere in Europe and hence she has to leave the place and as a result, Chris gets to keep his son.

 

One day the house owner comes to him and informs him that he has not paid the rent for months and since he has to paint the house, he wants his house empty. Chris asks for a few more days so that he can earn some money. The owner accepts Chris’s request asking him to paint the whole house if he wants to stay there for one more week. Chris has applied for the job in the share market and tomorrow is his interview. While he was painting his house, he gets caught by the police because he has not paid the parking rent for a long time. They take him to the police station. He asks him to let him go but they don’t do so because they too have some rules. Chris gets out of jail the next day and goes straight to the share office running. He doesn’t even have a shirt on but an old jacket with dabs of paint all over his face and his clothes. He gets called in for the interview but at first, he doesn’t have the courage to get in. but finally with full courage, he goes to the interview room. The interviewers get confused looking at him and how he can be this ignorant on such an important day. Instead of making excuses, he tells everything that happened yesterday. They ask for his qualifications but that too doesn’t impress them well. Chris tells the jury that he has the capability to seek the answer anyhow if someone questions him. One of the judges asks him if someone comes to give an interview without outing his shirt and he gives him the job too, what the reason may be behind this. Chris tells him that he probably has worn a very good pair of pants. The answer leaves the jury impressed. Hence he gets selected for the job. But this job is actually an internship given to 20 people for six months and at the end of the session only one of them will get the job. This leaves Chris a bit confused. So he tells one of the jury that he will inform him whether or not he will come to work. That man from the jury tells him that he has time till tomorrow morning to decide. He decides that he will work for the office.

 

Chris has sold some scanners and has a balance that will be enough for six months to live. He shifts to another house. But one day when he is returning from the office, he receives a letter from the government stating that since he has not paid the taxes the government has seized all his money. This leaves him speechless. Now he doesn’t have money to pay for the rent too. One day after returning from the office with his son he sees that the house owner has kept all his items out of the house. Now he is homeless too. He goes to one of his friend’s house to ask for the money he lent but his friend doesn’t open the door at all. Chris now has his belongings and his son but no idea where to go. So he goes to a metro station but has no idea where to go. He gets inside a washroom and his son falls asleep there. He decides to spend his night there only. He feels the lowest point of his life then and there. The next day he goes to a church to ask for the shelter but he is told that it is only for women and children. He asks for the next church and gets shelter. But the problem is that the church has limited seats and hence he should reach in time to get there.

 

 Now the real struggle begins. Although Chris has to work till seven in the office he works till 5 only. He doesn’t drink a drop of water because it will make him pee and it will waste his time. He doesn’t even waste a single minute and works continuously, brings his son back from school, and goes back to the church hurriedly. He still has the last scanner left and thinks about how to sell it. He goes to a hospital to sell but while showing the demonstration he realizes that it is not working. This wrenches his heart as it was his last hope.

 

While inspecting the machine, he finds out that one of the parts is not working but he cannot afford to buy it. So he goes to a hospital to sell his blood and buys the part from it. The machine starts working and he makes some money by buying it. With that money, he gets a room and sleeps easily with his son there.

 

 Chris on the other hand is preparing for a theory exam that he needs to pass in order to get the job. The exam day comes and Chris does it well. Now the result day has arrived and each of them is called upon by the same jury. Now it is Chris’s turn and he looks at the jury which is the same as in the first qualifier interview. The most senior of the jury tells Chris that he has worn a beautiful shirt. Chris replies that since it is going to be his last day so he wants to leave the place wearing a good shirt. He told this because he had no hope of getting the job among those highly qualified interns. That senior man from the jury asks him if he will wear the same shirt tomorrow too. This means that Chris has got the job. This leaves Chris in tears and he replies with a ‘yes’. Everything has changed in Chris’s life now. He is economically stable and living a happy life with his son. At the end of the movie, the real Chris Gardner is also shown on whom the whole movie is based. After working for a few years there, Chris establishes his own investment firm which he sells later on in multi-million dollars.

Forrest Gump

This movie was released on July 6, 1994. This romantic comedy-drama movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis who received an Oscar for Best Director and the screenplay was written by Eric Roth. The movie received six Oscars from thirteen Academy Award nominations.

The cast includes the following actors :

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump who received an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Robin Wright as Jenny Curran

Sally Field as Mrs. Gump

Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor

Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford

Rebecca Williams as Lady at the bench

Michael Conner Humphreys as Young Forrest

 

Plot summary:

In the opening scene of the movie, a man is seen waiting for the bus. His name is Forrest Gump. Looking at him, viewers can sense that he is a little different from the other people, and feels like there is still childishness in him. Then a lady comes next to him to wait for the bus. She looks at her torn shoes of Gump and tells that she too had similar pair of shoes. Listening to her, Gump remembers his childhood and starts narrating the scene where Forrest Gump is a small child. His mother takes her to the hospital where the doctor puts a pair of weird shoes on him with metal rod retainers. He adds that he can never walk properly because his bone is bent. Gump starts walking with the shoes and feels uncomfortable. But his mother motivates him by telling him that God has created every individual differently. And hence he too is different and special.

 

His mother faces difficulty in getting  Gump admitted to the school because his IQ levels seem to be very low. But anyway, she convinces the principal and gets him admitted. On the first day of school when no one lets him sit with him on the school bus, a girl named Jenny welcomes him. Gradually these two become very good friends. Gump’s mother is a single parent which means she had lost her husband. For earning she has opened a guest house. One day, a very popular singer Elvis Presley comes to stay there. When Elvis was singing in his room, Gump goes there too and performs a very funny dance. Elvis loves that and makes it his hook step which makes him popular all over the world.

 

One day when Jenny and Gump were walking through the forest, some bullies from their class come and start throwing stones at Gump. Jenny tells him to run as fast as he can. Gump starts running with his speed increasing. And the rods retaining his legs start breaking and he starts running even faster, as fast as lightning. And hence now, his legs are completely fine and this is the first time he has discovered that he can run so very fast.

 

Now that they have grown up, the bullies are still being troublesome to them. Looking at them Gump starts running. Although they are chasing him in the car, they can’t catch him because Gump runs as fast as lightning.  While running in order to escape them, he reaches a football ground where the people were playing rugby. There too he runs so fast that he wins over the rugby player who was running with the rugby ball. This impresses the coach so very much and he asks who he is. The people around him tell him that he is a local idiot. The coach decides to add him to the group. And for this, he even gets admitted to the college through sports quota. Gump only knows that whatever happens, he should take the rugby ball and run as fast as he can. He runs so fast that they win each and every match they play. This makes him so popular all over the country and he is even added to the national team. After five years of playing for the team, he receives a degree from the same college. He gets amazed that he received the degree for running.

 

On graduation day, he gets approached by an army officer who gives him a brochure and asks him to grab the opportunity to get admitted to the army. Now Gump is ready to go to the army training. When he gets on the bus, no one lets him sit next to him. But a guy gives him the seat and tells him that his name is Bubba. He adds that his family has a business of cooking shrimp and he too wanted to start a shrimp boat company but his family admitted him to the army. Bubba keeps telling the same thing time and again.

 

They get their training started. They are given a task to assemble a gun and Gump does it so fast that the trainer gets amazed at him and says that he has never seen someone doing it this fast. One day during training, he looks through a magazine where he sees that the college has rusticated Jenny because she had her nude photos leaked. Gump becomes so very sad and goes to meet Jenny. He gets into a club where she was performing. The viewers were inappropriately touching Jenny which makes Gump so angry that he beats everyone up. After the incident, Jenny tells Gump that he can’t save her from every situation of life like this and hence should stop caring. But Gump adds that they had planned to get married when they grow up in their childhood. Jenny gets angry and rudely asks him the meaning of love, the meaning of marriage. Now Jenny tries to get into a car when Gump tells her that the army is sending him to Vietnam. She tells him to put himself first and run if he feels unsafe rather than trying to become a hero.

 

Now Gump and his friends are taken to the war area of Vietnam. There too, Bubba makes a plan that after capturing everything they will start catching shrimp from the lake and start a business. Gump accepts the deal and they head towards the war area. And then suddenly the enemies start firing at them. Gump fires at them too and also remembers what promise he had made to Jenny. So he runs from there saving his life. But he remembers that his friends are still stuck there. So he comes back and saves them. He also saves Lieutenant Dan there. But Bubba loses his life because he gets shot in the firing. Gump becomes very sad after losing his friend and assures his soul that he will fulfill the dream they saw. Now Gump gets praised by the army. But Lieutenant Dan is not happy with him because he had already lost his legs so didn’t want to live a life being handicapped.

 

All the injured are taken to the hospital. As Gump also got shot in the butt, so he stays there too.  One of the patients teaches him how to play ping pong. And he learns it so very well that he masters it. All the patients get amazed looking at the way he plays.

 

In an award ceremony, Gump is awarded with a medal due to his bravery. There reaches Jenny who becomes so proud of him and hugs him. Jenny has now started living a life as a hippie. She is a drug addict too. She is in a live-in relationship with another hippie. During Gump’s visit, he sees that guy beating Jenny which furies him and Gump beats that guy so much. The next day that guy comes to ask for pardon with Jenny and she accepts the pardon and she goes with him. This makes Gump sad. Now Gump has become a professional ping pong player. He has become a national ping pong player and is even sent to China to play there. He has become very popular. One day on his way he meets Lieutenant Dan. He is living a very difficult life. He tells Gump that he is an idiot and the government has given the medal to such an idiot. Gump is a thick-skinned person so he doesn’t get hurt. But rather he shares his plan with Dan that he will buy a ship and catch a lot of shrimp and help Bubba’s family too. Dan doesn’t believe him and says that he will join him if he does so.

 

No Gump gets retired from the army and receives a lump sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. He goes straight to Bubba’s house and tells his mother that he had promised Bubba and hence will buy a ship. His mother asks her if he is crazy but he doesn’t care that too. And hence Gump buys a ship and starts catching shrimps. But he can’t even catch a single shrimp. There comes Lieutenant Dan and he joins him too. But these two can’t succeed for a few days too. And one day a heavy thunderstorm arrives and damages the ship. The only ship left now is Gump’s ship. Hence now they are able to catch tons of shrimp. They start getting rich. They start their nationwide trademark and hence get popular too. One day Gump gets to know that his mother is ill through tv. And hence he runs from the ship and gets straight into his house. After a few days of his stay, his mother passes away. Gump grieves the loss of his mother and decides not to go back to the ship and leaves the company in the hands of Dan. Dan one day informs him through the mail that he has invested all their money in the Apple company and hence will always have enough money for the rest of their lives. Gump gives a huge amount of money to the Church, the hospital, and Bubba’s mother too. Bubba’s family now has a very easy and luxurious life.

 

But Gump is not happy with his life. He misses Jenny so much. Surprisingly, Jenny, one day comes to his house. They talk a lot. He even tells Jenny this time too that he wants to marry her. But Jenny refuses him by telling him that he should not marry a girl like her. And that night they get intimate with each other. But the next day when Gump wakes up, Jenny had already left the house. This leaves Gump so sad. Now he starts running, running through every edge of the nation. He runs for more than a year. He becomes popular due to this too.  People start joining him too. After three years two months fourteen days and sixteen hours of running, he stops and tells that he is very tired and now wants to go home. After he reaches home, he receives a letter from Jenny where she mentions her address.

 

Now the scene comes back to the present day where Gump is telling his story to the lady. He shows the address and that lady tells him that it is very near to that place and hence he should not take the bus. And he goes to the place running. He meets Jenny and she shows him her son. Actually, he is Gump’s son. He becomes so happy looking at him. Jenny tells him that she has some kind of virus in her body and hence is not doing well. He asks her to come with him and he will take care of her. They get married and live in their house but very soon Jenny passes away. He misses Jenny so much. He spends the rest of his life with his son little Gump and teaches him everything he knows. They live a happy life together.