{a weekly series – guest contributions welcome via email, twitter etc. Do share your ideas}
A reminder of our format :
- Three movies with meaning
- One sentence on the core meaning you take from it
- Send me a link to a YouTube clip from the movie that speaks to that meaning
WARNING: Many of these include spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the movies…
This week all three are from me, and each of them I could have taken multiple meanings from. These are the meanings from each of them that resonate for me right now.
Unbreakable (2000)
“What if Superman was here on earth and didn’t know he was Superman” ~Quentin Tarantino
To me, the lesson of this movie is that we all have power and abilities we don’t own, and some of this we consciously or evenly unconsciously disown. Personally, I love seeing untapped potential in others and supporting them to unleash it.
I won’t give a plot spoiler video, this is simply Tarantino, himself a master filmmaker, giving a short review of what he considers one of the masterpieces of our time. I agree, Quentin.
Dead Poet’s Society (1989)
“Believing in others is one of the most powerful gifts we can give” ~ umm.. “me”
In this scene, the power of the belief shown in the student has him believe in himself and unleash his “barbaric YAWP!” and more.
So many wonderful moments of leadership and humility and belief in this movie!
Groundhog Day (1993)
“The Universe will keep giving you the same lessons, over and over again, until you choose to learn from them” ~ Ed Percival
Wildly entertaining, Bill Murray at his best, and also a lesson in the power of abundance.