In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

2015 documentary film directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

2019 film directed by Lu Qingyi

新垣结衣饰演30岁的OL深海晶，笑容满满，工作完美，是被大家喜欢的理想女性，但她其实只是为了周围人的眼光而努力和忍耐，对工作和恋爱都感到烦恼而疲惫。 松田龙平饰演的33岁精英会计师根元恒星，擅长处世，很受欢迎，但内心不相信任何人，冷眼旁观一切。 故事讲述了两个内心包裹着坚硬铠甲的人相遇后展开的恋爱喜剧。 “如果可以像野兽一样自由生活就好了。”

2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

《东京女子图鉴》改编自在《东京日历》上连载的同名四格漫画，电视剧版的导演由《百万元与苦虫女》的棚田由纪担当。水川麻美将演绎女主角绫从20多岁到40多岁的成长过程，绫从家乡来到东京工作生活，随着年龄的增长、生活环境的变化，她的人生也随时面临全新的挑战。本剧在惠比寿、银座等多个地标性的外景地取景，全方位展示一个真实的东京。

1983 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

这是饶平如一生的故事。 他不是一个想打仗的人，但他还是义无反顾去打仗了。又因为和美棠在一起，他最终厌倦了战争，想要回家。 六十年的相守历尽坎坷，命运让他们长久分离。好容易最后又在一起了，美棠却身患重病且渐渐失去记忆。 平如推掉了所有工作，全身心照顾妻子。每天5点起床，给她梳头、洗脸、烧饭、做腹部透析，每天4次，消毒、口罩、接管、接倒腹水、还要打胰岛素、做纪录，他不放心别人帮。 美棠在病痛中渐渐不再配合，不时动手拔身上的管子。耳朵不好，看字也不清楚了，平如就画这画劝她不要拉管子，但画也不管用，只能晚上不睡一整夜看着她，毕竟岁数大了，不能每天如此，还是只能绑住她的手。“她叫‘别绑我’，我听到很难过，怎么办……很痛苦。” 美棠犯糊涂越来越严重，有一天称丈夫将自己的孙女藏了起来，不让她见，平如怎么说她都不信。他已经八十多岁，坐在地上，嚎啕大哭。 她看着他哭，像看不见一样。 他们一生坎坷，到了暮年才有一个安定的居所，但是老病相催，她却已经到了生命的尽头。 当美棠最终离开后，平如画下了他和美棠的故事，留下了关于她和他们的最美好的回忆。 柴静曾在节目中问老爷爷：“您已经90岁了。难道这么长时间，没有把这个东西磨平了，磨淡了？”老爷爷回答说：“磨平？怎么讲能磨的平呢？爱这个世界是很久的，这个是永远的事情。” 老爷爷还说：如果能够年光倒流的话，我宁愿再回到从前那一段比较艰苦的时代，两个人相守。 这是普通人自己的故事。 只有如此平凡而美好的东西才能拥有长久的感动力量！

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.