Good acting. Intelligent script. No explicit sex. No violence. Mature actors. Sounds like the formula for disaster, right?Wrong.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a movie based on 2004 novel, These Foolish Things, by Debra Moggach, is proving to be what Hollywood calls a sleeper hit.
Some stories have great transformational power, and I applaud The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for being one of them.
According to GATE (Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment), there is a growing audience for consciousness-enhancing media that touches and inspires, rather than entertainment full of negativity, fear and lost hope.
In a post called Wisdom Films/Consciousness-Enhancing Media, I wrote about award-winning media composer/producer Gary Malkin's inspiring short films at Wisdom Films. These films feature spoken wisdom from around the world combined with time-lapse cinematography and musical soundtracks - meditations to help slow us down after a stressful day.
Though longer in length, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with its spoken wisdom and wonderful cinematography and soundtrack, fits this genre
I'll leave you with a few lines spoken by Judith Dench in this fine story, followed by the movie's trailer, so you can decide for yourself if you, too, belong to the growing audience for transformational entertainment.
"This is a new and different world. The challenge is to cope with it. Not just cope, but thrive."
"India, like life itself, I suppose, is what you bring into it."
Fox Searchlight Pictures specializes in independent and British films.
Has a nice ring to it.
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