The Luzhin Defence Customer Review: Follow your bliss!
There’ s a big difference between these three concepts: duty, passion and bliss. Usually a great majority tends to overlap the first concept over the other two and that reveals an absolute clumsiness. The duty itself is bounded with all kind of unpleasant activity.

But if you examine briefly the Greek concept of the term amateur you will surprise: Amateur is that person who loves what does. So the little difference between passion and bliss is in the involvement or commitment level you decide add to your activity.

In this sense Luzhin defense deals about this last term: to follow your bliss, no matter how high be the prize you pay for reaching that goal . This inner satisfaction has nothing to do with economic profit. And that explains the devotion, vocation or frenzy according the case you face your reason to live in the world.

A Nobel Prize is simply a human being who has decided to study six thousand hours for instance to analyze a special issue. And the over passion of a Chess player it can not be understood but through this consideration.

Luzhin followed his bliss without care about any other consideration. The countless obstacles he had to overcome worked out much more as a challenge than a real warning. He did not mind any other issue.

This crude and painful portrait is superbly by John Turturro in his best performance on screen to date. The astonishing actress Emily Watson as his devoted lover is splendid too and the rest of the cast is excellent. Art direction and photograph deserve a sonorous applause , the script is memorable and the lesson of life is a perpetual evidence of integrity and trust in oneself far beyond the risks you may find on the road.

This film to my mind still remains among the greatest in this decade.

Based on the famous Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The defence!

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