BEST MOVIE EVER!!!

I know it has been a LONG time since I wrote about movies on here, but there is one that I saw a few months ago that I give major credit to for helping me recover from a life or death situation regarding my physical and mental health. I'm not really exaggerating here, much.

Back around my birthday, at the end of May, I got terribly sick with some very mysterious illness. I was so sick I had to come home from school to be in L.A. and I eventually ended up in the E.R. b/c I got so dehydrated that I needed to get fluids pumped into my veins. Not a fun experience... even for someone as seasoned as I in the field of getting sick. I'm a childhood cancer survivor, and... I don't want to go into detail... this is supposed to be about this great movie... anyway... point is I was afraid I was going to die, for the second time in my life...

So... long story short the E.R. fixed me up, and I felt so much better, better than I had in years in fact, and that night I watched this amazing film with my family. To preface a little more, my mom had rented it for my brother as he was about to go off to college for engineering, and the movie centers around 3 Indian engineering students ( yes it's an Indian movie w/subtitles... but sometimes they speak English too)

Anyway, we popped in this movie "3 Idiots," and by the end of it I had had an epiphany... I was struggling b/c I had abandoned my life's passion. I hated school in SB, and I then knew if I didn't immediately drop out, it would kill me. So I did, and now I'm at Antioch University, healthy, and happy.

So to sum up the film, besides being about engineering, it is really about friendship, life, and enlightenment. The basics are a group of 3 young men who become friends at an Engineering College in India. One is there in hopes of supporting his family, one is there b/c his parents think he will be happy with the life/money being an engineer will bring, but his real passion is photography, and one is a genius who loves engineering, and is both more and less than he appears to be. The movie starts on the journey of the two friends, and this one other odd and pretentious former student going off in search of the "genius" character as after having graduated, they have completely lost contact w/him. The movie then flashes back to when these characters were in school, and tells how they got to know each other, and why the "genius" "Rancho" is so important to the 3 searchers.
The film is both heartbreaking in places, and truly exalting in others. It is the perfect blend of drama, humor, and a touch of romance. I think everybody will be able to get the message, and yet it doesn't beat you over the head with it. It is a wonderful and unique movie, the best I've seen in a very long time. And the title... "3 Idiots" ... also has awesome songs!!! It is available from Netflix. :)

So if you're in the mood for a moving film, I suggest this one.