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I’m not much of a writer of essays, since I’m more interested in technology and technical literature, but one book impressed me, and I return to this book usually in my mind. I always loved books about characters that set a goal and must reach it.
In my childhood, my favorite movie was the one you might know very well. “Finding Nemo”, a 2003 animated full-length cartoon, where Marlin does everything to find his son. He was able to reach the goal.
And I want to tell you about a book that has a similar idea. The same one I mentioned a bit ago.
This is Richard Bach’s “Johnathan Livingston Seagull”, and it’s been turned into a classic, and has influenced the 1970’s peoples’ psychology and worldview. It’s strange, but many don’t know that there’s a movie based on this book filmed in 1973 and directed by Hall Barlett, which got a Golden Globe and the Grammy for music and was nominated for the Oscar for the filming job. In my opinion, the trainers of the seagulls deserved an Oscar.
A group of Seagulls that live on a landfill are thinking about how to save their lives, but one seagull, Johnathan Livingston, decided to change his life by going up to the sky, and this is the mind of his life.
He knew that the sky had something better to offer than the landfill. One time the groupmates decided to kick him out of the group, but this didn’t really anger him. He continued to train hard, and one time he found similar ones, which had the same ideas in their minds as Johnathan’s.
When I watched this movie, it impressed me a lot. Despite the text being read in the background, the visualization impressed me. I turned a seagull by myself for that time, I flew with Johnathan, I dropped down and tried again with him.
The movie is like the continuation of the original book. While watching it, I thought I read the book again.
Author: Aleksandre Khutsishvili
