{"id":1596,"date":"2017-01-23T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2017-01-23T20:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T20:35:37","slug":"fighting-for-your-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2017\/01\/fighting-for-your-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for your rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fighting for what\u2019s yours is a theme of Woman in Gold<\/em> (2015), a drama starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Bruhl.<\/p>\n

Maria Altmann, played by Mirren, is a retiree living in Los Angeles. She discovers a painting of her family\u2019s had been stolen by the Nazis in the 1940\u2019s. The painting, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, is now in the possession of the Austrian government.<\/p>\n

Maria decides that the painting is too valuable to let it alone. It should belong with her family and she is going to prove it’s theirs with the help of a young lawyer and a journalist, Randol Schoenberg (Reynolds) and Hubertus Czernin (Bruhl).<\/p>\n

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Helen Mirren (Pictured). Image sourced via google images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Just a painting?<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s just a painting I tell myself. To Maria, an elderly Jewish refugee, the painting symbolized a Nazi takeover of what belonged to her Jewish family. There is a sense of justice here as well as reclaiming something beautiful and personal.<\/p>\n

Therefore Woman in Gold\u00a0<\/em>is about fighting for what is rightfully yours (without a selfish sense of entitlement).<\/p>\n

Fighting for your rights may come down to essentials\u2014the fight is about what you\u2019re entitled to by birth and by law.<\/p>\n

Everything else may be not essential. One may stick to the essentials and let the rest drop.<\/p>\n

Was one born to be a ballerina? Was one born to sprint? Does one have a talent? These are birth rights that one can fight for in life.<\/p>\n

There are rights by law. Is one legally entitled to some benefit from the government? Is one legitimately entitled to something stated in a contract? Is one entitled to some sort of care? Fight for these because if the cap fits they are yours.<\/p>\n

Fighting for a painting may seem insignificant. However, an elderly lady living out her days thinks reclaiming the painting is essential to her family pride and heritage.<\/p>\n

Woman in Gold<\/em> reminds us of the rights we can claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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