UP moview review (mabbe spoiler) but yah its past the first day =P
Whoo hoo.. so fast right. A movie review =P
Just watched UP with my family, my sis brought her bf so thats five of us!
UP is a show about dreams.
About dreams being crushed or laid to rest.. or giving up dreams.
The first portion was probably the saddest. You see the old'man "Mr Fredrickson"'s entire life flash before you.
Dreams unfulfiled (his wife) which he felt guilty about.. but actually his wife already laid that dream to rest to live another dream. With him.
Those dreams were their childhood dreams. They held on til adulthood, but had to put off those dreams for financial reasons. They dream of having kids, but could'nt. Then the fat kid comes along.
The fat kid was right though, the boring parts of life, are the ones you remember the most.
One thing that hit me is how caught with life we are. I would love to have a cosy sweet life. Living within my means and being satisfied. But it might leave me utterly unprepared for the future. Society and economics may not look kindly if I do not have the means to survive. In up, the pausible reality makes everything nice and rosy. But in real life one sometimes may never have a second chance. One can't simply yell squirrel and have everything work out.
Yet that is the charm of UP. There is the sobbering truth. And then there is the illusion that everything can be made right.
Me? I died a little when I saw the first portion. Its never right that something beautiful should come to an end and be defiled. That everything you worked so hard for can be taken away so easily. The part where the old man held on to the broken mail box was all the more heart wrenching when you see how helpless he is. Perhaps mortality is what makes life beautiful. But I hate it. I hate goodbyes.
But UP is also about letting go and starting anew... again it may simply be an illusion so easily achieved in a cartoon. But the simplest stories sometimes hold the greatest truths. Perhaps one simply have to let go and move on to a new adventure. Easier said than done surely. But such is life.
Just watched UP with my family, my sis brought her bf so thats five of us!
UP is a show about dreams.
About dreams being crushed or laid to rest.. or giving up dreams.
The first portion was probably the saddest. You see the old'man "Mr Fredrickson"'s entire life flash before you.
Dreams unfulfiled (his wife) which he felt guilty about.. but actually his wife already laid that dream to rest to live another dream. With him.
Those dreams were their childhood dreams. They held on til adulthood, but had to put off those dreams for financial reasons. They dream of having kids, but could'nt. Then the fat kid comes along.
The fat kid was right though, the boring parts of life, are the ones you remember the most.
One thing that hit me is how caught with life we are. I would love to have a cosy sweet life. Living within my means and being satisfied. But it might leave me utterly unprepared for the future. Society and economics may not look kindly if I do not have the means to survive. In up, the pausible reality makes everything nice and rosy. But in real life one sometimes may never have a second chance. One can't simply yell squirrel and have everything work out.
Yet that is the charm of UP. There is the sobbering truth. And then there is the illusion that everything can be made right.
Me? I died a little when I saw the first portion. Its never right that something beautiful should come to an end and be defiled. That everything you worked so hard for can be taken away so easily. The part where the old man held on to the broken mail box was all the more heart wrenching when you see how helpless he is. Perhaps mortality is what makes life beautiful. But I hate it. I hate goodbyes.
But UP is also about letting go and starting anew... again it may simply be an illusion so easily achieved in a cartoon. But the simplest stories sometimes hold the greatest truths. Perhaps one simply have to let go and move on to a new adventure. Easier said than done surely. But such is life.
posted by god_is_good478 at 9:33 AM
2 Comments:
i happened to stumble on your blog, i don't know if u'll read this or reply to it, but u're the first person i know who feels e same way as me about the first part of the show.. i totally cried and i think my boyfriend had no idea why.. like e story hadn't even really began.. but i went through the happiness of that couple all through till she was on her deathbed, and like u said so well, something so beautiful shouldn't have to end like that ): then i cried again when he opened e scrapbook and saw what his wife had written.. oh man now im tearing up again.. i will probably remember this show for a long long time.. glad to know someone felt the same way in the show..
ps. if u ever wanna talk my email is ivin6@hotmail.com. don't worry i'm no stalker (:
Hi Ivin,
glad you liked the show too =)
Nah I'm not worried about you being a stalker... but i am not really an email person =)
Are you Singaporean?
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