There are many graduates who often forget how intense and stressful student life can become. Terms, exams, labs, courses, studying hard and balancing a job in the meantime can take its toll on anybody’s moral. Students must find clever ways to cope with this stress and find an exhaust valve for all that pressure, which might help them find a sense of purpose in their life again. Watching a movie which depicts events resulting in characters finding their happiness, can bring along this sought-after therapeutic effect. We’ve put together a list of 5 of the Asian movies bound to have a positive impact on increasing the viewer’s level of joy.
Postman to Heaven
Although not the usual ending for a typical love story, it’s still a movie out of which we can receive plenty of teachings. It can also serve as an inspiration point for an essay about happiness by analyzing a different take on the matter. At the center stage of this movie, there are two different characters, a supernatural former CEO, currently the entity which takes letters from people on Earth to their departed loved ones in Heaven and a human woman who is delegated to take back the answers. It’s a beautiful rendition of the importance of healthy communication with our loved ones, not leaving crucial things left unsaid until it’s too late. It also talks about the possibility of pursuing happiness even after a traumatic event, after we’ve made peace in our inner self.
3-Iron
A film much appreciated by critics, this Korean picture presents various themes, the most obvious being:
- the issues which derive from marriages between spouses of different social status
- allegiance to a specific social class, represented by correlations with golf throughout the entire movie, including the title and how it shapes the behavior of men
- the invention of the concept of ghost practice, depicting how representatives of the lower class are invisible, with the main character actually becoming actually invisible
The theme which might just be sensed in the background, perhaps in the secondary plain, not really the main focus of the director, is that of happiness. The two protagonists managed to find each other through an improbable contest of circumstances and did whatever needed to be done, just to be happy together, even if it meant becoming immaterial.
I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK
The title of this movie makes us think rather of action packed films than the romantic and sensible depiction of friendship and even love. It’s meant to make everybody see that happiness can be found anywhere, regardless of the place where they live, the issues they are facing, or their own quirkiness. Sometimes though, finding this intense feeling only needs help from a peer who properly understands the struggle. Also, for students who are assigned with writing happiness, we could hardly find a better movie to review. The plot takes place in a mental institution, where the lead character is hospitalized, believing to be a cyborg. She is taken under his protection by an already institutionalized kleptomaniac. Their meeting seems to be the best thing ever happened for both, as the friendship makes them keep each other out of trouble while managing to keep each other happy, living in their made-up reality.
Starry Starry Night
Consequent to the previously chosen theme of finding happiness with the invaluable aid of a friend, this movie has a different take on the affectionate relationship developed between two kids, placed one aside from others, as neighbors. Both of them are newcomers in the town and school, so they are naturally drawn to each other for comfort. Confronted with the hardships that their families are going through, they return to happier memories of a starry sky, which was only visible from the grandfather’s shack in the woods. The film also presents a classic Asian happy ending, leaving the auditorium in a cliff hanger, although suspecting that a joyful finale has happened.
Always
Perhaps the most appreciated movies are, however, those who clearly depict a love story, rather than those filled with philosophical considerations. Also, the best essays on happiness reside in reviewing classic scenarios of two people belonging to very different environments, which get past any endeavor to live out their bliss together. This movie has a former boxer and a telemarketer, which slowly loses sight.
Conclusion
We’ve been writing about the above-mentioned movies from our heart, hoping that you’ll gain a new introspection into the complicated subject of happiness. If these weren’t on your to-do list by now, perhaps they managed to find a way on it. And if the films were already known by you, at least we’ve managed to reignite the great memories you might have had about these great motion pictures.
