movies dat made me think.

ive been watching quite a number of movies at the cinema recently..today i even watched 2. one in the morning, one at nite.

i had been wanting to watch Up for a while now. and yea it's been out for a while now but im glad i finally got the chance to watch it. and within the first 5 mins, i shed tears. when ellie found out she couldnt have children and when ellie died. carl and ellie were such a sweet couple. they had the kind of love everyone wishes for, to still love each other when they r old and grey. and when one dies, the other is left lost and forced to continue on each day with the same old routine without the person they have spent the majority of their life with. it's sad. i hate it when ppl die. i kno if i get married and grow old, i would want to die first cos i kno i wouldnt be able to bear it if my husband died before me. i personally knew an old couple when i first moved to chch. after a few yrs, the husband died of heart related problems. within a yr, the wife died 3 weeks after discovering she had pancreatic cancer. it was tough for their daughters but in a way, i think the wife wanted to join her husband in heaven.

hmm i digress again. anyways Up was good. funny and cute. russell was cute and apparently he's asian. a fat asian boy whose parents had separated. poor boy really. for an animation film, it had a lot of adult themes dat i think most kids are prob too young to appreciate. and then i wonder, am i affected by the story more becos of my age, cos ive experienced enuf of life to realise it's not so perfect or would i be affected even if i had seen the movie when i was 10? maybe kids are having to mature a lot faster, esp those who are forced to deal with issues such as separated/divorced parents. good movie nevertheless.

then i watched 500 days of summer. summer refers to a girl, not the season as i had originally thought. like the ad says, it's a story abt boy meets girl but it's not a love story. it was a much better movie than had been anticipated. quirky and great soundtrack. everyone tends to feel for tom. for the way he is treated by summer. it's like she was his poison. everytime he was trying so hard to get over her, she would somehow reenter his life and give him pointless hope. there was a part where there were 2 perspectives of the same scene. one titled expectations and one reality. it reminded me of my own thought processes. each day,we have expectations of how the day would turn out. sometimes it would tally with reality. sometimes it is very different from reality. and usually, the expectation is always better than reality. eventually, summer ends up marrying someone else even tho she is not a believer in love. and the irony is she somehow knew dat it was rite with this other person becos of wat tom had previously said abt love. dat when it happens, u will just kno. i wonder whether i will just kno..

life is funny in some ways. u meet ppl who affect u in diff ways. like for tom, he spent 500 days obsessing over summer. then he meets this other girl during a job interview who had been in the same places as he had been in the past. and here he was at a job interview, which he wouldnt have been at if it wasnt for summer. if he didnt get all emo and quit his greeting card job. and then the film argues abt fate versus coincidence. does fate even exist at all? or is life just a whole bunch of coincidences? every decision we make has their own consequences and outcomes. it's like if i chose to stay at home instead of going out, i mite not have watched this movie at all, which would mean i prob wouldnt be blogging abt it and u wouldnt be reading this. my mind goes crazy thinking abt this kinda stuff. it's the wat if questions dat make my mind go wild with thinking. another good movie. highly recommended.