For a moment happiness and then it slips through your fingers

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2013)

Undoubtedly my all time favourite movie.
What is it all about? It's about failure. We live, we fail, we die. Short moments of happiness slip through our fingers into a puddle of despair.
Dr Zhivago, played by Omar Sharif, is an icon of failure. His career as a doctor fails, his marriage fails, his love for Julie Christie fails, his freedom is taken from him, his country fails, his morals fail, his prominent position in life collapses.
Zhivago is like all of us, whether we live in a communist country or a capitalist country, eventually society cripples us and kills us. It eats away at our aspirations and our ethics. It forces us to comply. Zhivago's final submission to society is his compliant, illegitimate daughter working for the state on a dam.
You too must have experienced utter despairing failure to enjoy this movie. If you haven't lost a love one or been helpless when someone is dying, you won't get this movie. This movie lets you know that you are not alone in being pushed and shoved around by the society you live in. You are not alone in wanting something you cannot have and regretting you ever had the desire in the first place.
I give it 10 out of 10 for expressing these feelings simply because there is no other movie that does it so well.