Saturday, June 30, 2007
Tuesdays With Morrie
- "You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you’ve find meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward."
- "When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Tuesdays with Morrie is a very interesting movie. It was based on best seller book. It inspire the viewers to think about life. Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy and emotion.
One of the main character in the movie is Mitch Albom, the author of the novel, a successful sports writer who wrote about famous athletes and worked for newspaper and freelanced for magazines.But despite of his good career, he was struggling to define dissatisfaction with his own life and career. He buried his self in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, he believed he could control things. “ According to Morrie “ You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. So Albom searching for the answer in his question: “ What happened to me?” through the help of his old professor, Morrie Schwartz. An old and wise man, former sociology professor at brandeis university who diagnosed of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS), a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system. There is no cure. Morrie knows he is going to die in about two years. Morrie allowed himself a time to feel self-pity, fear and anger. He fully experienced those emotions so that he could know the feeling and move on. If we accept the truth, we are free to choose our response to them.
Morrie share his views on life, death, happiness, money, marriage, family, and other such issues. Morrie doesn’t believe that dying is something to be ashamed of, so he reaches out to people and shares his experiences, treasuring the time he has left to connect with people and to say goodbyes. I think the predominant conflict in the movie is why people afraid in death. Not many people take death into consideration and ignore it throughout their lives. Death is a very hard concept to accept and very hard to understand. Ignoring death doesn’t make it go away, nut instead cuts off an opportunity to treasure our own lives and the lives of others. By denying death, we make it harder for people to accept their mortality, and we miss the opportunity to allay other’s fears about what will happen to loved ones after they’re gone.
According to Morrie “ So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
Labels: Drama
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Minority Report
In the year 2054, murders are predicted before they happen. They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future future and they see murders exactly the way they will occur. Through advanced technology, Pre-Crime officers are able to see what the “Pre-Cogs” see, and they analyze the data, identify the perpetrator and victim, and try their best to stop the murder from occurring. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) one of the cop was accused of murdering a man he has never even met, causing him to run from Pre-Crime and prove his innocence. . He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton is innocent.
This is a perfect combination of action, suspense, thrills and film-noir. The plot is intelligent and entertaining and very realistic glimpse of what our future may look like, as technology becomes more advanced and intrusive. The film creates many moral questions and issues, and should leave you thinking. Is being arrested for doing something you actually haven't committed yet is fair? This film is worth seeing again and again.
Labels: sci-fi
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Monday, June 11, 2007
X-MEN
The best show of all ages. It had a good story lines, that where easy to follow and where you couldn't get lost. The attitudes of all characters of the X-Men where just a good enough of a mix to have them get together good. Each personality helped the team out.
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Monday, June 4, 2007
Birds of Prey
A show dealing with supposed extraordinary potential introducing the bloodline of Marvel Comics most explosive characters, Batman and Catwoman.
Birds of prey are fantastic tv series about Helena “The Huntress” possesses cat-like abilities inherited from her mother Catwoman. She enhanced agility, strength, healing and a sixth sense for danger, as well as the ability to shift her eyes to a feline form. She has taken up Batman’s mantel and under cover of the night who happens to be her father. She fights to protect the innocent and helpless that teamed up with the paralyzed hero, Oracle, who was once Batman's protégés, Batgirl, a master of the cyber-realms and mentor and trainer to heroes. Together, they have taken in a young runaway, Dinah, a metahuman with powers to open hidden doors to the mind, powers that she is only beginning to explore. Together, these three are the protectors of New Gotham.
Birds of prey runs for 1 season with 13 episodes from October 9, 2002 to February 19, 2003 on WB network.
Labels: Action
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