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i just finished watching the curious case of benjamin button and i have to say it's a good movie.
not because of the original plot. or the amazing acting.
there was none of that.
if you're looking for this type of movie... i suggest 7 pounds. will smith is amazing.
in fact... if it weren't for the main character growing younger as the years past. it'd be the same as every other romantic drama i've watched. the notebook. other stuff...
but brad pitt does get younger throughout his life. how is that possible? i thought the same thing myself. but they actually did it. they created an old baby. even uglier than real newborns.
well that's not really the point.
the thing that makes this movie anything memorable. is that it actually makes you think.
it makes you think about your life and actually makes you appreciate it. your youth. your old age...
no matter what stage of life you're at. this movie will make you appreciate it.
a lot of movies attempt to do that. they attempt to make you think. get you scared that you're wasting your life away. and before you know it. you're going to die. and your life has slipped through your fingers.
you've lost your chance.
old people have always said that life is wasted on the youth. while young people have always thought that wealth is wasted on the old.
but this movie makes you think that life is not only wasted by the young. but also by the old.
because it shows that no matter your age. no matter your ideas of the possible. and the impossible.
you can still live.
it seems that no matter your age. you always look back on your life and think you've wasted your chances. you always think that the world of opportunities was more open then. one year ago. two years ago. a decade ago.
i look back on my past and wish i had lived a more carefree childhood. perhaps then i would be happier.
someone somewhere is looking back at their college days wishing they had been more carefree. perhaps then they would've been happier.
but what makes it easier to do the things we want to do in the past? why was it easier then than it is now?
we like to think that there were less fences and more open fields then. but we forget that the barriers may have been different. and the land may have change a little or a lot through the years.... but the options are still the same.
no matter where we are in life. the option is always there. to change. to change your scene. to change your life. to go where ever the wind takes you.
but why is it that every thing seems so much easier to accomplish in our past lives?
maybe because we're scared.
we're scared to change the present. so we make all these excuses.
we yearn for a different past.
but all it takes. all it takes is one step forward. and our whole world will change. today will after all eventually become the past.
all this time i thought i was so much freer in the past. but maybe it's because i've forgotten what the past feels like. i've forgotten all the burdens of my past lives.
but now i know that the older you get the freer you become.
when you're young you have all these restrictions. all these rules. all these different voices. your parents. your teachers. your friends.
holding you back. tying you to the ground.
but when you're old who is there to tell you how to live your life? no one. no one is there to steer you. no one is there to stop you. no one is there to help you when you struggle.
you only have yourself to depend on.
you only have yourself to hold you back.
all this time i've been so scared to grow old.
i don't want to become a wrinkly old lady.
i feel like the older you get the less you live.
all the doors are open to them.
but life is wasted by the old.
not because of the original plot. or the amazing acting.
there was none of that.
if you're looking for this type of movie... i suggest 7 pounds. will smith is amazing.
in fact... if it weren't for the main character growing younger as the years past. it'd be the same as every other romantic drama i've watched. the notebook. other stuff...
but brad pitt does get younger throughout his life. how is that possible? i thought the same thing myself. but they actually did it. they created an old baby. even uglier than real newborns.
well that's not really the point.
the thing that makes this movie anything memorable. is that it actually makes you think.
it makes you think about your life and actually makes you appreciate it. your youth. your old age...
no matter what stage of life you're at. this movie will make you appreciate it.
a lot of movies attempt to do that. they attempt to make you think. get you scared that you're wasting your life away. and before you know it. you're going to die. and your life has slipped through your fingers.
you've lost your chance.
old people have always said that life is wasted on the youth. while young people have always thought that wealth is wasted on the old.
but this movie makes you think that life is not only wasted by the young. but also by the old.
because it shows that no matter your age. no matter your ideas of the possible. and the impossible.
you can still live.
it seems that no matter your age. you always look back on your life and think you've wasted your chances. you always think that the world of opportunities was more open then. one year ago. two years ago. a decade ago.
i look back on my past and wish i had lived a more carefree childhood. perhaps then i would be happier.
someone somewhere is looking back at their college days wishing they had been more carefree. perhaps then they would've been happier.
but what makes it easier to do the things we want to do in the past? why was it easier then than it is now?
we like to think that there were less fences and more open fields then. but we forget that the barriers may have been different. and the land may have change a little or a lot through the years.... but the options are still the same.
no matter where we are in life. the option is always there. to change. to change your scene. to change your life. to go where ever the wind takes you.
but why is it that every thing seems so much easier to accomplish in our past lives?
maybe because we're scared.
we're scared to change the present. so we make all these excuses.
we yearn for a different past.
but all it takes. all it takes is one step forward. and our whole world will change. today will after all eventually become the past.
all this time i thought i was so much freer in the past. but maybe it's because i've forgotten what the past feels like. i've forgotten all the burdens of my past lives.
but now i know that the older you get the freer you become.
when you're young you have all these restrictions. all these rules. all these different voices. your parents. your teachers. your friends.
holding you back. tying you to the ground.
but when you're old who is there to tell you how to live your life? no one. no one is there to steer you. no one is there to stop you. no one is there to help you when you struggle.
you only have yourself to depend on.
you only have yourself to hold you back.
all this time i've been so scared to grow old.
i don't want to become a wrinkly old lady.
i feel like the older you get the less you live.
all the doors are open to them.
but life is wasted by the old.