The last king of Scotland

The movie is a drama based during life and times of the carnivore Idi Amin, the ruler of Uganda. It is about this young bloke who’s passed out from medical college who is uninterested in joining his pop in the business of mundane treatment of people and wants to explore places. He reaches Uganda and makes an impression on Idi Amin. What happens after that is a blend of splurge, love, ego, narcissism and violence.

Learning from the movie –

On Risk taking – The protagonist at the beginning of the movie, closes his eyes and rotates a table world map. Whatever name comes first, he chooses to go. He does not know where he is bound to, but is excited about the journey.

Many a times, we too need to take the risk of the unknown. It is only when we do that, life starts opening up its gifts to us.

On over confidence – Idi Amin tells the protagonist that he knows when he is going to die. Confidence is a great thing, but over confidence could pull the mat off anybody’s feet.

On fear – Adi Amin “A man who shows fear is weak and he is his own slave”.

On the worth of life – “If you are afraid of dying, it shows it’s a life worth keeping.”

Accepted

This movie is about 4 friends who do not get admission in one of the best schools around town. In order to satiate their parents’ wishes, they fake a college admission certificate. The best thing is that there is no college of that name as such “South Hermon College”. They rent out an old dilapidated psychiatric hospital and turn it into a college for their convenience. They also make a fake website of the college. The trouble starts when they get in a lot of reject students to college through an admission through the website. The movie is a humorous and beautiful portrayal on giving non convention a chance

Learning from the movie

On reason to get into a good college – The only reason to get into a good college is to get a good job and earn a great salary

On acceptance (This is what a student tells) – When I got accepted here, that was the first time when my parents said that they were really proud of me.”

Have you heard the emotion somewhere?

On syllabus – Here students are asked what are they interested to learn rather than teachers vomiting the rules of the syllabus to students. To take an example, if you are interested in food why don’t you try your hands at culinary

On exams – There are no exams and results. The college lives by the philosophy of letting creativity ooze out and not be confined on the rooms of examination

300 - The movie

300 – The movie

This scene is one of the most powerful one in the movie where the queen of Sparta requests the councilmen to send soldiers to be sent to help the 300 Spartans who are fighting the multitude of Greek Soldiers.

“Councilmen, I stand before you not only as your queen. I come to you as a mother, I come to you as a wife, I come to you as a Spartan Woman.

I come to you with great humility. I am not here to represent Anidus ( the king). His actions speak louder than my words ever could. I am here for all those voices that cannot be heard. Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons.

300 families that bleed for our rights and for the very principles that this room is built upon!
We’re at war, gentlemen. We must send the entire Spartan army in the preservation of not just ourselves, but our children.

Send the army for the preservation of liberty. Send it for justice, send it for Law and order. Send it for reason but most importantly, send our Army for hope.
Hope that a king and his men are not wasted in the pages of history, that their courage bonds us together, that we are made stronger by their action and that your choices today reflect their bravery.