As Good As It Gets
There are many things which are ready to inspire us in many ways. Among them the best medium which gets easily a very synchronizing connection to our brains is movies. The emotions of movies always gets us carried away in their world as our mind is not tuned to differentiate between fiction and reality. Our brain’s greatest asset is it always lives in the momentum. That is why though fictitious our emotions are effected by the the horror, happy and tragedy elements of movies. The best movie which won two Oscars and had the power to influence audience as per my belief is ‘As Good As It Gets.’ It displays the story of a person who is gripped by his obsessive Compulsive Disorder followed by his inability to be a good human in terms of loving and treating others in a humanly way.
Melvin ,a writer who by his nature is confined to himself with his own element of obsessive compulsion. It propels him to stick to the same schedule everyday with the same restaurant, same table followed by same diet. This movie can be viewed in three phases. Melvin at the beginning, Melvin at the middle and Melvin at the end. In the beginning Melvin hates everybody and he has no world other than himself contained completely. A neighbor by name Simon is a painter and he had a dog which is hated by Melvin in the beginning. But the robbery at Simon’s home and attack on Simon changes the lives of Simon and Melvin drastically. Under these circumstances as Simon is restricted to hospital and there is no one to take care of his dog, Melvin is forced to take care of the dog. The life with the dog ignites the spark of love in Melvin.
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As Melvin is compulsive person in every aspect, he can’t have his lunch in his same restaurant in the absence of his daily waitress Karol. Karol is on leave as her son is sick. Melvin, convinces his publisher to get Karol’s son cured completely and he agrees to pay the bills. This is the middle stage of Kelvin life. In this incident Karol is related to him someway.
But by the end of the movie he also helps Simon by helping him to move into his apartment as he is forced to vacate his under the financial crisis caused by the robbery and attack incident. This is how Melvin’s life changes under given circumstances. The person who is hated by everyone in the beginning turns up as the best person at last.
The only thing that we need to understand is there is no perfection in the entire universe. But there always exists some ways for everybody to turn up good under any kind of life experiences we are surrounded with. You can even bring out and fuel the best in you by the way you are focused to welcome the good in it.
