Since I am a father there are certain news, certain stories that have acquired a different meaning for me, I no longer see them the same, every time I see a misfortune on TV and a child comes out, I do not see the eyes of that child, I see the eyes of my children, I see their pain and sometimes, it is as if I could feel it myself. News that before I was a father I did not like to hear, they seemed to me injustices, now I get really pissed off or my soul shrinks.
The same thing happens to me with movies, now that I am a father there are many movies that I have seen that no longer mean the same thing, and even some I have not been able to see them again, they are too painful, I can not disconnect, I can not stay as a mere Bystander, the suffering or joy of those parents is mine. Here you have a selection of 21 films that acquire another meaning now that you are a mother or father.
Surely we are not able to tell the number of movies we have seen throughout our lives, but there will be a few that we will keep in our memory for different reasons, their history, their interpretation, for having seen them at some special time, I suppose Each one will have his motives. This is my selection of those films that have acquired a special meaning once I have become a father.
The oil of life
How far are some parents able to go to help their child? A magnificent film based on a real event.
Life is Beautiful
If there is something that is really complicated is to disguise the atrocious reality before your children, swallow all your fears, fears, tears and smile, look into your child's eyes and tell him that everything is fine. Surely it is a situation, that saving the distances, today many fathers and mothers have to go through when reality and the crisis hit their faces.
Tremendous, hard and at the same time endearing lesson of love of a father towards his son in the most difficult moments.
I am Sam
Amazing film and amazing performance by Sean Pen. In it, the viewer will be continually forced to ask about the weight of those values necessary for the development of a child, the family, cover the basic needs or unconditional love of a father.
Hard film that shows the judgment that society makes on those different from us. To know more.
Kill a Mockingbird
'Kill a Mockingbird' is one of those films that could serve as an educational subject in any school in the world, for its purely human values.
One of those films for which the term masterpiece seems to fall short. His gaze goes beyond what are the childhood memories that recall distant summer nights, he enters them with an astonishing ease, and treats you to a child's approach to the incomprehensible attitudes of adults.
Looking for happiness
The story is Based on a true story It happened in the early 80's, when Chris Gardner goes out of his way to get his family ahead, but day after day he sees how his dreams seem increasingly impossible. His wife will leave him leaving him with his son, and he will accept to work for six months in a company doing internships, with the possibility of a job at the end of them. During that time, they will have to be managed to solve the enormous economic problems it has.
Paris, Texas
The story of how a man with amnesia is slowly recovering his life, his son, his wife.
Winner of several awards, including the Palme d'Or de Cannes. To know more.
The orphanage
One of those movies that you see once, but it costs a lot to see again once you know how it ends. Of course it is one of those films whose meaning changes completely if you are or father.
Even so and despite knowing that I will not see her again and much less her remake, I can not stop recommending her.
Stay by me
Isabel Roberts (Julia Roberts) is a photographer who falls in love with a divorced man with two children (Harris). Winning the love of children will be difficult, since the mother (Sarandon) is not willing to make things easier. But something will cause them to join forces for the education of these children.
An interesting and difficult situation for a mother. All this under the umbrella of comedy. To know more.
Look who's talking
One of the most hilarious children's comedies I've ever seen. It tells the life of a baby, a son of a single mother who knows and befriends a taxi driver (Travolta) just when she is going to give birth and that will gradually enter their lives. Tremendous comedy about the world of adults seen from the perspective of a baby. You can not stop staring at her. To know more.
Three men and a baby
Or its original French version Three singles and a bottle.
Three single friends share an apartment in New York: Peter (architect), Michael (cartoonist) and Jack (actor). While Jack films a movie in Turkey, his companions receive a surprise: someone leaves a baby at his door. The little girl's name is Mary and she is Jack's daughter, although he doesn't know anything about it. Peter and Michael must take care of the baby and realize how difficult this task can be.
If I did not stop laughing throughout the movie when I saw her in her day, now that I am a father even more, because there are many of the scenes in which I feel identified, especially as a rookie father, although I stay with that feeling I know that without Your children, your world is no longer complete. To know more.
Manolito goggles
Based on the series of eight novels written by the Spanish author Elvira Lindo, which tells the story of a boy with myopia and his family in the Madrid neighborhood of Carabanchel Alto and which stands out for the characterization of characters that are typical of Spanish society They describe the life of a group of people from a normal neighborhood, without many luxuries.
The series has been so famous that two films and a television series have been made.
What to expect when you're expecting
I remember that when this movie came out, everyone recommended you to go see it before being a father and the truth is that for my taste maybe it has too many clichés, but still I think it can be entertaining to watch and that it acquires another meaning when you are a father.
Adaptation of the most popular best seller on pregnancy, with more than 20 million copies sold. Four couples are about to know the emotions, fears and headaches of being parents. Enthused with the idea of forming a family, the fitness guru on television, Jules, and his partner Evan, the star of a dance program, soon discover that they cannot continue their explosive celebrity life before the Unexpected demands of a newborn.
Artificial intelligence
Nothing bad can come out of the union between Kubrick and Spielberg and of course this film is an example of that. Uncomfortable, even cruel in many places, the film takes us to a world in which the robot acquires human consciousness and parents grieved by the death of their son try to impersonate him with one of these robots. A movie to watch with a clear mind and willing to face some awkward questions. To know more.
Gattaca
The film takes us to a futuristic society, determined to achieve the perfect human being, to play with genetic engineering to polish our defects, which drinks directly from the spirit of Aldous Huxley is nothing new, nor strictly original. But it is the starting point that Andrew Niccol takes to address other deeper issues about our self, about the union of body and mind and the ability to overcome, beyond what is written in genes since we were born. Thus, in 'Gattaca' we find our protagonist, a human being conceived under the shelter of love, with all its virtues and its defects. Although, in that not too distant future, the virtues are covered by the preponderance of the physical deficiencies that genetics has been responsible for underlining. Especially because society has reached a dehumanization phase, where the slightest physical tare is indicated and relegated.
Billy Elliot
In 1984, during a miners' strike in Durham County, clashes between pickets and police followed. Among the most exalted miners are Tony and his father. He has insisted that Billy, his young son, receive boxing classes. But, although the boy has a good set of legs, he completely lacks punch. One day, at the gym, Billy watches Mrs. Wilkinson's ballet class, a woman of severe character who encourages him to participate. From that moment, Billy will devote himself passionately to dance. To know more.
Everything about my mother
Madrid. Manuela, a single mother, sees her son die the day she turns 17, for running to get the autograph of Huma Rojo, her favorite actress. Shattered, Manuela then travels to Barcelona in search of the boy's father.
Not that I am a fan of Almodóvar, but I think it should not be missing on this list. To know more.
Matilda
Mathilda Wormwood is a very curious and intelligent girl, quite the opposite of her parents, who often ignore and despise her. After discovering that he possesses telekinetic powers, he concludes that he could use them to do good, helping those who are in difficulty, but also to punish cruel and perverse people.
I think the word that sums up the movie would be, "strange."
Steel magnolias
Comedy of a choral character that reflects the daily life, not without drama, of a group of friends of various ages from a small southern city. The protagonist, Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), is a young diabetic of very precarious health who has just married and whom doctors have advised not to have children.
If you have not seen it, you should not miss it.
Fried Green Tomatoes
Adaptation of a novel by Fannie Flagg and with some air to the previous film, Steel Magnolias, how much the story of Evelyn (Kathy Bates), a mature woman who lives frustrated by her fatness and the insensitivity and simplicity of her husband, knows coincidentally in an asylum to Ninny (Jessica Tandy), an old woman who is telling her a dramatic story in a small town in Alabama. The story becomes increasingly fascinating: it revolves around the great friendship between two women (Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker) and the mysterious murder of one of their husbands.
The boy with the striped pajamas
A film that tells the crudest adult reality through the eyes and mind of a child who attends without understanding the world around him, without belonging to him. A hard film that takes us to a dark era of the human being.
Mrs. Doubtfire, dad for life
Daniel Hillard is father and husband. His children consider him a wonderful father, but his wife is tired of behaving as if he were also a child. After an accident divorce, although he struggles with all his might to get custody of the children, the judge does not grant it. He then decides to impersonate an older lady to be, at least, the babysitter of his children. A magnificent performance by Robin Williams.
