The City That Never Sleeps
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posted : February 13, 2009
The curious case of Benjamin Button. A good watch. Although a purely fictional plot, the movie did trigger off some thoughts as I headed back home to catch up on my academic obligations which were staring right through my eyes. And so I realised that the movie did actually bring up very raw human emotions. Like for some of us, how we wish we could slow down or hasten our biological clock. How sometimes we wished we didn’t need to compete with our physical body to pull through another day or so. How we need to let go when the time comes instead of holding on. How sometimes love is all about sacrifice. About allowing them to grow as you mature as well. How sometimes Man wants to defy nature. Wishes he had the ability to do so. Some kind of superpower. Like a hero, probably! But also wonders if nature was actually natural. Could Man’s interference have moulded it along the way, someway, somehow? How would it have been if over time we actually grow looking younger on the outside but age internally. How we wish time could come to a standstill; allow us to cherish the very present we have with us now with the people we need. I wanna remember us just as we are now. The scene when Benjamin Button says this to Daisy as he holds her in the dance studio is powerful. Making us realise the value of time. And how if only we could make the clock tick in the opposite direction. Another powerful scene worth mentioning was the series of event which ended up in a tragic turning point for Daisy. The entire 3 to 4 minute scene had wonderful screenplay as well as voiceover. Awesome shit! Things meant to happen would definitely happen and some things need to run its course to see what the outcome is like. Enuf’ said about the movie. I wish my brain could be compartmentalised in some ways. Coz right now my thoughts are all over the place. It’s like I’ve too many things running through, which needs to be voiced out somewhere, given some thought about. My mind is a very complex matter and I’m proud of it. Right now, I just need to time to slow down a bit so that my thoughts can be arranged and stacked up according to urgency, maybe. As much as I need the next week to fly past like seriously, I need to buy time. Submitting a design assignment, a proposal for our SS group project as well as churning out a formal lab report on Frequency Response is very VERY daunting. Wish me luck seriously if I’m alive on Fri 5pm. It’s Friday the 13th, btw. And I’m not superstitious. Period. |
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