a MOVIE a day: "Gramercy Park Hotel"

I saw "Gramercy Park Hotel" movie last night, about a well-know hotel in NYC and its history. From the family of its first generation owner, to people who reside in the hotel for more than thirty year and who refuse to leave it even during renovations, and the builder of studio 54 -new designer of the hotel- and his social concerns on raising his two daughter, to Paris Hilton and Karl Legerfeld, it's all there.
The movie, like most films that document the course of a time and a place, is about "change." how some people resist it, how some leave with no choice but to accept it, and those who make it happen with their unique vision, despite those resistance.

a MOVIE a day: "The Jack Bull"

I'm not really a fan of "made for TV" films but I don't mind watching them from time to time. They are mostly story-based and there is always a lesson to be learned from these stories and understanding that comes next if not last.
Tonight I watched the movie "The Jack Bull," and I liked it. The movie is incredibly emotional and yet revolves mostly around some very basic facts:
That there is no miracles in life.
Justice usually comes when it's too late.
The truth is never simple.
and adversity may not make a man wise but it may change his whole life.

I praise the idea of the whole movie being around just two horses. Their value equalled the life of two persons and no less. And horses are supposed to be the symbol of freedom.

Here are some of the few quotes I picked from the movie:
" In one way or other, justice will happen. Sure as sunshine..."
"I'm a free man like you. You can say NO, I will say Yes."
"Never give up son. Just be smarter than I was."