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Past Lives tells the story of the very common people. Human emotions are so complicated and vague, like Jaime Lannister said, "we don't get to choose whom we love."

The movies show that the protagonists fall in love with the ones they get to be with in their lives. But there are a few films who actually portray the other side of the coin, like Roman Holiday, La La Land- where we get to know that sometimes things don't go the way we want things to go. In this genre of films, I think Past Lives is the epitome.

It catches the emotion in the most accurate way with the way of storytelling and acting, the surroundings are not too cinematic, the daily life of the characters is not extraordinarily different than common people. It all fits so realistically.

Seeing this film is like visualizing a real story, so real that we all know about this, it's all around us, but it's too pointless to talk about it.

I don't know how to describe my feeling for this cinema. Yet, I'll try.

Why do we watch cinema? To me, I watch cinema, because it has a story in it, a story of a different life more precisely. We get to live only one life for a short period on this planet. Its cinema that lets me explore different lives through its portrayal. I simply know that I love cinema and I love every bit of it with all my life.

Cinema Paradiso is such a relevant film to me because I think I and Toto truly share the same love for cinema. Every cinema is like a new wonderful adventure. Like him, I too have memorized numerous dialogues of different films all over my life. Cinema simply works like magic on us.

The film not only shows Toto and his love for cinema, it also portrays his complete life. It's also so much relevant, because it's an ordinary life. "Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder."- Life lessons, taken from the cinema, just like Alfredo.

I just finished watching this film and sat to write this review. It's getting longer than expected. I think this somewhat explains why it's so special. Stopping it here (may edit later).

I'm pretty sure that at the time this film was released, the song Dui Prrithibi moved all the motorbike lovers in both Bengals. I was primary school at that time, couldn't even ride a bicycle, yet I loved the song. Now I'm almost at my senior year in undergrad, thinking about getting a bike this year, and I still love this song. It keeps playing in my head everytime I sit on a bike. I'll stop here, it looks like a song review instead of a film review.

The film is romantically lame. The idea of the story is okay. But the excessive use of the word Bhalobasha in every romantic scene made it absolutely lame.

But the brotherhood of men this film showed - *(chef's kiss)*. The personal conversations between Rahul and Shibu- every guy can relate to those scenes. The way Shibu looks at the Kawasaki Ninja, every middle class bike lover looks at their dream bike like that. Men love women. But more than that, men cherish adventure. Men want to be men!