IS NOVEMBER ENOUGH TO LOVE SO MUCH?

Humans need to face hard situations to realize that the best things in life do not have to do with money, but these simple things are important to human life. We can find a good example of this situation in the film called Sweet November. The main characters of the movie are Keanu Revees as Nelson Moss, and Charlize Theron as Sara Deever. Through this movie, I became conscious that money cannot fulfill our lives and that there are things with more value than money that can make us happier.
This movie starts when Sara and Nelson meet each other while they are taking a test to renew their driver’s licenses.

Nelson Moss is a hard-working man. He is very dedicated to his work. As I concluded, he has most probably lost value of the other things in life that make it worth living. While renewing his license at the local DMV(something like that:) ) Nelson has a chance meeting with Sara Deever. This event is very interesting and funny actually:) Sara is thrown out of the testing center for responding to a question that Nelson whispers to her. Without a license, she persuades Nelson to act as her chauffeur one night. That night has a special meaning. Because she breaks into an animal shelter and save two puppies from being put to death. As a joyous, beautiful, young woman, SARA has learned not to take life for granted for even a second. Sara AS a result, she presents Nelson with a proposition. For the entire month of November, she will invite him to move in with her, and spend every minute with him. Nelson thinks she's crazy.

After a failed meeting the next day and a nasty confrontation with his boss, Nelson finds himself fired from his job. To make matters worse, Anjelica leaves him. With nothing to lose, Nelson finally accepts Sara's offer. Her goal, of course, is to make him a better,humane, person. As Nelson gradually falls for her, Sara is frightened to find herself attracted to him in a way she never has before.

.. . . While living with her, Nelson falls in love with Sara, but still does not know that she has an incurable disease (which is never named in the movie). When Nelson finds out about her disease, he gives her all his support and tries to be with her all the time. Sara thinks it would be a good idea to help him to improve his life, so she proposes that he moves into her apartment to undergo a spiritual rehabilitation. After Sara meets Nelson, she notices that he is a self-centered and humorless man, whose life revolves around his work and that he is living only superficially. Sara refuses to be with him and asks him to leave her, telling him that he has to continue without her, and that his life is already better because he has learned the real value of life.

People work to get all those material possessions that never will fill their spirits, but we need to leave the materialism behind and start becoming a better person. I realized that money is not everything and that what we have right here, right now, is the only thing we can ever be sure of, and that money can not buy the most valuable thing on this world, a life. This movie made me realize that the best things in life are concentrated in those things that we do not usually pay attention to, things that seem simple, things that have no economical value, but are really the most important things in our life, such as, the feeling of freedom or just the beat of our heart. Life could change in a second, and we had better enjoy those things that life offers us for free.

The aspect of the movie I appreciated the most was the lesson I learned through this film. Nelson at first rejects that proposition, but after all Sara’s insistences, he agrees to live with her and accept that proposition. For example, in this movie, Nelson never thought that the woman who changed his life, the one he really loved, was going to died, and he could not use his money to save her. In this movie, Sara Deever, a woman who is living her life as simply as she could, and dying from an incurable disease, knows Nelson Moss, who is the typical money obsessed advertising executive man but who changed because he realized that the money has not the value it seem to have. From that day, he goes back to his life, but this time knowing the real meaning of living.

The language in the movie is not difficult to understand. I was able to catch most of the words and sentences..Some of them were very interesting to hear for me:)

For example, while watching the movie at home, Nelson tried to change the channel. At that moment, Angelice entered and he said:

" Us...Right..Hey, is not there some kinda limit on us talks? You know, one okay, two is necessary, three, cruel and unusual."

While Sara and Nelson were going in the car, Sarah said that: "Does your mother know you treat women like hookers? Or did she raise you to think being nice means patronizing the whole world?" In this sentence, I had not known the meaning of the hooker, nevertheless, after having looked at it, I realized that it means bad woman.

In the movie, most of time, Sara said "Yup!" It represented that Sara was not pleasant the condition happening that moment, therefore she used it in order to show her feeling. One of the scenes, again while she was with Nelson in the car, She said that: "Yep, Face it. It is your fault. I cannot drive. The least you can do is schlep me somewhere. It is quick, painless..." Actually, have you known the word 'schlep' ? I have not heard it before. It means someone who is dense.. This wasa another word that I learnt with this movie:)

Again, in one of the scenes, while Sara and Nelson was at home, it was raining very much. Nelson went out. Sara immediately follwed him and said that he should wait a second. Nelson turned and said: "I have no words to describe how totally whacked you are!" Here, most probably whacked means something negative. When I looked up the dictionary, I found that it means being tired very much. Nevertheless, after the sentence of Nelson, Sara got angry very much and said: " What are you so pissed of about! " 'Piss of' means 'damn you'. Therefore, 'whacked' is much more then what it means... Why do not yu help about that? Perhaps you know the exact meaning of it, or you may have much better idea:)