Podemos aprender muito com os filmes

Há sempre clássicos que nos animam e nos dão vontade de enfrentar a vida. Mas quantas vezes nos sentamos perante um filme recente e damos o mesmo valor aos seus ensinamentos? Acreditando que "All of life's riddles are answered in the movies" como dito por Steve Martin em "Grand Canyon", esta lista do IMDb revisita algumas grandes lições dos últimos 25 anos.


"What we do know is that, as the chemical window closed, another awakening took place; that the human spirit is more powerful than any drug, and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. This is what we'd forgotten the simplest things." Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams), Awakenings (1990)

"Power is when we have every justification to kill and we don't." Oskar Schindler,
Schindler0s List (1993)

"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things — and no good thing ever dies." Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption (1994)

"Wyatt, you ever wonder why we been a part of so many unfortunate incidents, yet we're still walking around? I have figured it out. It's nothing much, just luck. And you know why it's nothing much, Wyatt? Because it doesn't matter much whether we are here today or not. I wake up every morning looking in the face of Death, and you know what? He ain't half bad. I think the secret old Mr. Death is holding is that it's better for some of us over on the other side. I know it can't be any worse for me. Maybe that's the place for your Maddie. For some people, this world ain't ever gonna be right." Doc Holliday (Dennis Quaid) para Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner), Wyatt Earp (1994)

"Guilt is like a bag of f--kin' bricks. All ya gotta do is set it down." John Milton (Al Pacino), The Devil's Advocate (1997)

"The more we all know about each other, the greater the chance we will survive." Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), Meet Joe Black (1998)

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you." Yoda (Frank Oz), Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999)

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Fight Club (1999)

"It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." Spoon Boy (Rowan Witt), The Matrix (1999)

"I always tell the girls, never take it seriously. If you never take it seriously, you never get hurt. If you never get hurt, you always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends." Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), Almost Famous (2000)

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." Príncipe de Genovia, The Princess Diaries (2001)

"To feel. 'Cause you've never done it, you can never know it. But it's as vital as breath. And without it without love, without anger, without sorrow breath is just a clock ticking." Mary (Emily Watson) a John Preston (Christian Bale), Equilibrium (2002)

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more." Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), The Hours (2002)

"When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around." The Prime Minister (Hugh Grant), Love Actually (2003)

"We've all got both light and darkness inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

"He gets down to the end of his life and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life because they made him who he was. All those years he was happy, you know, total waste. He didn't learn a thing." Frank (Steve Carrell), Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

"Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled." Cutter, The Prestige (2006)

"Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised." Dan Burns (Steve Carell), Dan in Real Life (2007)

"It is only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve." Professor Barnhardt (John Cleese), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

"You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do." Rorschach, Watchmen (2009)

"Perfection is not just about control. It is also about letting go." Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) Black Swan (2010)

"It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions." Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård), Thor (2011)

"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. While there is life, there is hope." Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), The Theory of Everything (2014)

" makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a whale? You know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you'd think that was pretty magical, right?" Dad (Ethan Hawke) on being asked if magic exists by his son Mason (Ellar Coltrane), Boyhood (2014)

"All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave... It is because they make love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds... until it returns, as it does, to all men... and then you must make really good love again." Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll), Midnight in Paris (2011)

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