In a couple of lines

Very few pieces of a movie or a book leave you with a light feeling in your head. Like all your neurons just found something new to network like it never has before. After every such movie or a book, the deep feeling cannot be shrugged. A part of it follows you. I thought I will put down only a very few books and movies that at some point, in some dialogue or quote gave me that feeling. These are quotes from memory, therefore may not be the exact line.

PS: These are not necessarily my favourite books or movies just a select few that stuck to my head despite the bird brain!

Sleepless in Seattle:
Yes, starting with a cheesy chick flick. Tom Hanks after he lost his wife.
On the radio to “What are you going to do?”
Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.

All the King’s men.
I think I should have read the book. This is just an extra ordinary movie to describe the faultiness of nobility, if that makes any sense. Jack tries to reach out to his childhood buddy, but only for a purpose.
“Everyone has only one friend from their childhood. And this friend represents all their lost ideals, mostly lost. And this friend is probably only a mirage from memory.”

Shawshank redemption:
No explanation needed here I guess.
Red’s narration after Andy helped the guard keep his money,
“You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards. Or, maybe make a few friends among us cons. Me, I think he did it just to feel normal again, if only for a short while”

Apocalypse now:
Well, I did not like the second half of the movie. But there were some brilliant parts about the movie. Something that will always help me connect with Vietnam war veterans and its probably this line by Kurtz.
“I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving”

Picture of Dorian Gray:
That’s just a great book. Should make it more than a book. It should be a religion or something. Here are some of my favourites:
“ “”You are much better than you pretend to be”
““I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.””
“Conscience makes egotists of all of us”

Fountainhead: This book sort of changed my thinking steering away from an underdog socialist, here is one of the lines, probably the most quoted line.
“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress”

On a lighter note

From Ice age:
Ice age is my favourite movie. My comfort rainy day movie and I love Sid, so every line is almost my favourite. Here is a sample:
Sid: Whats the problem?
Manny the mammoth: YOU are my problem.
Sid: Well, I guess you are just stressed. That’s why you over eat. Otherwise its hard to get fat on a vegan diet.

Blind side:
“I never thought we will have a Black son before we meet a Democrat”

Madagascar, again a rainy day comfort movie.
On hearing the train announcement
Did he just say "Grand Central Station," or "My aunt's constipation"?

Dobhi Ghat

First of all, its "Dobhi GHAT" not gat. I was told this repeatedly before seeing the movie. But who cares, I am tamil! Its dobi gaat.

I thought the movie was caught between a documentary and a real movie with characters. The documentary part was great, did what the characters failed to. To me, someone who was never a mumbaiite other than just a visitor, the movie was soulful. I saw immigrants in India, how the city was built, whose existence I had not paid much attention to. The husband next to me kept asking, "So whats the point of this movie?" continuously. Well, I thought Kiran Rao was caught between trying to explain a story and romanticizing Mumbai. The latter, she did a very good job at. The layers of economy in India. These, a visual treat to the foreigner was not enough for the Indian in me. I expected to see that more, given the name of the movie. I wanted to see more of life in Dobhi Ghat, not a camera snap shot.

A friend told me it was a beautiful poem, another said the movie was like a painting. But to my unartistic head, I felt the movie lacked direction and it could have been great if there was only one purpose, either to tell a story or to capture the shades of Mumbai. The colours were beautiful. Mumbai, was pictured really well. I feel I would have had more appreciation for the movie without the three main characters in it. But to me, a person who loves places, likes to know the history of a city, it was a get away to Mumbai.