My favourite movie

I don’t think I have an absolute favourite movie, I think that our perception of films changes as we grow older and watch them again, however there are a couple of movies that I’ve watched repeatedly over the years and I still enjoy them.  One of them  is High Fidelity, starring John Cusack and based on a novel by Nick Hornby; the film is about a record shop owner in his mid thirties who breaks up with his girlfriend and tries to make sense of the situation by making lists or rankings just like he ranks the music that he sells on his store. The first time I saw it, I was thirteen years old and enjoyed it firstly because of the great soundtrack and secondly because I thought of it as a light and funny romantic comedy, however I watched it again when I was sixteen and found a deeper meaning to it, I realized that the movie revolves around loneliness and escaping that loneliness through shallow relationships. Then I watched it again at 25 and found that the movie also talks about purpose in life, how every person is secretly responsible for their own happiness and how there is no pre-established meaning other that you can do whatever you want with your terribly short life. I quite like watching movies like this, I like films that don’t expose everything so blatantly, films that may seem shallow but the whole meaning is there and you just have to look for it. I enjoy black comedies (Monty Python and the Holy Grail was the first movie I owned on DVD), science fiction and drama; I also enjoy the film noir from the 40’s and 50’s and I love horror films, my older sister and I used to watch horror films when my mom was asleep.
The last movie I saw was Aquí no ha Pasado Nada, a chilean film based on a real event. In 2014, son of a senator was driving drunk and killed a person on a hit and run accident, however because he is the son of someone important he didn’t spent anytime in jail. The movie focuses on his friends, particularly one who took all the blame because he was intoxicated to the point of not remembering anything. I though the movie was great but I wouldn’t say I loved it because I left the cinema enraged and infuriated at the social injustice, the tag line for the movie was “there is a 2% of the chilean population that no matter what they’d do, they’ll never go to jail” and that’s true... That's why I was so frustrated when the movie was over.