Review of The Intern (2010) by Sanjay C — 24 Dec 2015

Few movies will enthrall you like stroking in a feather, lets you feel a gentle breeze and to go back to bed with a quiet mind like a pristine lake. This is one such movie. It throws many good things for everyone to learn, understand and live but you will see them in the movie only if you want to.

I could not say just a few things - there were many. The story line was pretty straight. Is Jules going to run her dreams by saying no to a ceo or stays back and let a ceo in. As an audience you feel saying it in the very beginning of the movie itself like "Come on jules you can do it !!".

But that not how its going to work in real life. To advise others is the easiest thing to do. You might knew what's right for your friend but we miss to see the situation from their shoes. You should wait for them to realize and analyze the crisis and let them swim it.

And that's what ben does and the character was scripted as on how a matured and righteous person will react to every situation. When davis had problem to find a place he didn't offer his home right away, he did let him find things by himself but when he had no other option other than leaving the place, he offered help to share his home.

Ben felt bad seeing matt having an affair and could not say it to her. Marvelous acting by Robert De Niro. You cannot hide all your emotions and he revealed that in a great acting. After seeing matts affair, when in office where jules and everyone finds out that ben is disturbed - Ben could not swallow and digest what he saw and could not spit the same out.

Revealing it to Jules and might have had egregious consequences in her life. But when jules finds it out, he was there to listen and talk with her. Dialogues were crucial there. He didn't advise even a bit anywhere about the situation.

He asked not to worry as she can be burried next to him. Consoling with a magical touch. Even when jules stopped by his home in the end of the movie - he delivers his thought on why she should run a company in a pleasing way stating you might have taken that decision by now but you stopped by here to see me to get an assertion that you are making the right decision.

That was so awesome. He didn't advise on that topic throught out the movie. Few would have advised the moment they over heard the conversation jules had in conference room. The character of ben is a summation of maturity and all goodness that a human being should possess.

Listening to people, helping when needed, clean up things even if its others mess without ego, never stop to learn new things, respect fellow human being, never forget to laugh, what empathy is, when to talk, how to handle a crisis in life, respecting your spouse and to be happy with what you have got.

Awesome work by director for coming up with such a script. This is a movie to preserve.