| Two movies I saw this week. Both oldies, well known 'Godfather' - part I and 'Some Like it Hot'.
'Godfather', as all know is a serious movie. The life I live is certainly different from the one shown in this movie. But I know that there are people who live such lives as these. Wonder how miserable they must be. They do not seem to have any fun only blood shed and selfish ambition. 'Some Like it Hot' is a good one. Sent me laughing even after the show. I think such movies do good to health as 'laughter is the best medicine', as proven by many. In fact I watched this one twice. Worth watching. |
The book is titled "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck and is a true story of a farmer in China before the revolution. This farmer was a poor man and he married a slave girl...not beautiful/ugly.. because this was the best he would do then. But eventually he became a rich man. In the process his wife was faithful and hardworking and having been a slave in a rich house knew many things of life at a higher standard in society. But she worked hard with the poor farmer while he became rich...they had to go through a terrible famine with four children and she was faithful to him all along. But eventually when the farmer became rich he came across a new thing in life... such as visiting tea shops with harlots. He fell in love with a beautiful harlot and then he started noticing that his wife is ugly. He even married the harlot and brought her home offering her a better standard of life. The first wife was heart broken and she cried saying she had borne him sons...even though the terr...
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