A Mountain Is A Mountain

Today I saw a wonderful movie ‘To Find a Man’.

It’s about a teenage boy, Andy, who gets his teenage friend, Rosalind, out of trouble. Rosalind is pregnant and desperately wants to have an abortion. The trouble is that her ex-suitor doesn’t want to take up the responsibility and she doesn’t have the resources to get it done all by herself. Moreover, she doesn’t want her parents to even get a hint about this. This is where her friend, Andy, comes to her rescue. He does all he can right from taking her to a public hospital to arranging all the money for the abortion. In the process, he also gets robbed of his money which he got after mortgaging some of his things. He is doing all this JUST for HER. Rosalind is perfectly aware of this but doesn’t pay much attention to his feelings and just wants to get over with the abortion.

In the end, Andy realizes that he just can’t make her realize what he thinks of her and that he should better get on with his life. He accepts this gracefully, and the movie ends with Andy making an indelible statement to Rosalind, ‘I used to think that a mountain is a mountain and a stream is a stream. Then I learned a mountain is not a mountain and a stream was not a stream. I have realized now that a mountain is a mountain and a stream is a stream.’

The italicized statement has a subtle but a deeper meaning. Think about it! I would not have liked the movie as much as I do now if this statement was not there.

This movie was made primarily to highlight teenage sex in US but I think it’s very relevant in an otherwise context also.

Take a look at its IMDB profile at To Find a Man

Au Revoir