This is my second movie review on this blog and I was quite surprised that I would be recommending this movie to other people. When i first saw the trailer i had the preconception that it would be another boring movie made by marvel that was just to bridge the story that started with the other marvel characters and to make some dough for marvel. The movie was very subtly mind opening( I find myself more of an intuitive person so i am more intrigued by things that are mind blowing in a sense).
MOVIE: Doctor Stephen Strange( Benedict Cumberbatch) is a brilliant and unique surgeon that specializes in surgery that deals with the nervous systems. He has never failed any surgeries in his career, he has a perfect record not just because of his talent and knowledge but also because he never takes on a surgery which he thinks he will fail. He was driving on a cliff to a talk that he was supposed to give on medical science on a rainy night and he was talking on the phone at the same time, choosing which patient to take on next when he got into an accident as he lost control of his car for a moment. The impact of the car crash crushed both of his hands, damaging all the nerves in it, he went from being one of the most skilled surgeons in the world to a guy who can barely lift up a pen to write his own name. With his ego damaged, he was desperate, loaning money from banks to try different procedures to cure his hands so he could go back to being the surgeon he was. Western medicine, which he was so invested in his whole life, could do nothing to even make his hands a little better. Until one of his colleague told him about a man who had a spinal injury which was seemingly incurable( which was one of the patients he turned down to protect his perfect track record), was able to recover completely and was able to walk. Having no other options he went to find the guy who was compassionate enough to give him the location of the place which he sough treatment. It was a place in Nepal, and Stephen Strange used the last of his wealth and possessions to get a one way ticket there. When he first met his master, The Ancient One, he could not believe his eyes, it was a bald headed woman, who explained to him that she healed the man with a seemingly incurable spinal injury with spiritual practices. Confined by he limits he placed on himself, Stephen was in a rage, he could not believe what he flew all the way to Nepal for, until he was shown the infinite dimensions of the infinite universe that we're in and how much he didnt know about the world( my favorite scene;). From then onward began his training in the mystical arts and blah blah blah......
MORAL/ what i took from the movie: I saw Stephen Strange as an ordinary human being going through life, thinking that is all there is and that they know everything which is the mindset we all have but are afraid to admit. We like to have a sense of control over things, we have a desired outcome and an undesired outcome in everything, and our whole life we chase the desired and avoid the undesired, kind of life pleasure and pain, chase one avoid the other like Dr Strange refusing patients that he doubt he could perform a successful surgery on. Main point is, we do not like to fail and do not like surprises, especially nasty ones or ones we feel are negative.
However, life is all about failures, surprises and the unexpected and the unknown, these are the zest of life itself! I am a big fan of basketball, and i used to care a lot about winning so i did not play in the games which i think i would lose, but what makes the game fun is the competing and going against the odds, thats why we feel more alive when we take risks and gamble, because we do not know what will happen. If you do know about everything and anything then life would be one big bore i feel. So embrace the unknown as it is what makes life fun and thats why we play! :)
This is all just food for thought, think about it especially if you have never thought deep about anything before, it very very intriguing.
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