Shine

I saw this movie last night for the first time, and I really enjoyed it.  First of all, the acting was amazing, which everyone knows because Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for best leading role and the movie won a whole bunch of other Academy Awards.  Secondly, I was prepared for it to be really depressing with a lot of physical child abuse, and while it was sad to see how manipulative and selfish David's father was, it wasn't as depressing as I was expecting.  On the contrary, I was inspired!  For two reasons:

His life finally had a turning point.  The whole point of the movie is that no matter how bad it is, you just roll with it.  There's nothing else you can do but survive and hope things will turn around, and sometimes they do.  

The other thing that inspired me is the value of one human person that was portrayed in the movie.  Here you have this guy who is totally crazy,...he can barely dress himself and you can hardly understand what he's saying, and yet when he walks into this little cafe and starts playing the piano he totally blows everyone's minds, and he's also so lovable.  So you can see how incredibly valuable he is as a human being, just as we all are, even though most people on first glance would laugh him off.