Ah, the benefits of watching a good movie. So much time to waste, yet so much to be amazed at. For instance, The Manchurian Candidate really makes you think. And yet again my mind is treated to another great actress. Pardon me, it's just that some actors and actresses are really 'great' in my book if, when they play antagonists, they really make you hate them in the film. Meet the Fockers was an instant 'I wanna watch again and again' movie for me too. That movie lived up to all its hype, but I still disagree with how they promoted it here. Entertainment Central is really starting to get on my nerves. They had a featurette on how they slapped 'Fockers on Board' stickers on cars and a clip on something like a 'promotional meal' or something. The sticker gimmick is just wrong. First of all, I wouldn't put that sticker in the rear of my car if I had no clue who was driving behind me. What if it was a kid, a conservative grandpa, my parents, or my future mother-in-law? Or worse, what if it was a Gabriela (AAAIIIIIEEEE!!) member? Second of all, the message of the sticker is stupid. Tyler Durden said "sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken". I say slapping a painfully pathetic 'Fockers on Board' sticker does not make you a Focker. And what the fuck. When, oh WHEN will we all get over the whole 'Look, he sweared on TV, he's so funny heeheehee" thing, huh!? Now I just wish that they NEVER showed South Park on a semi-publicly available TV channel.
Anyway. We're planning to watch Constantine tommorow. It had better be up there with these movies I mentioned. It's funny, see. Keanu Reeves, the 'non-conformist', chalking up another weird role in his resume. Okay, he's been a dumbass 80's high school boy who travels through time in a phone booth, a bomb-disposal expert, a guy who falls in love with a dying woman, and a geek turned savior of the mechanically dominated human race (thrice!), and now he wants to be the guy who talks to demons and angels. Some advice, keep it on the low low after Constantine. You still have a long way to go to catch up with a guy who played a freak with scissors for hands, Ichabod Crane, a chocolate connoiseur, a chocolate FACTORY owner, a crooked CIA agent, a busted druglord, a buccaneer, a guy with a Peter Pan fetish (or so the movie seems), etc, etc, etc...
Here's a feel-good movie: The Last Samurai. Every time I watch this flick it makes me more and more interested with Japan. Impressive background music too.
There's a line I recall in that film, said by antagonist-turned protagonist Katsumoto; "He is here for a reason.... it is beyond my understanding."
Did you ever sit down and think about the reasons some people passed through your life and raised you up/hurt you? Are we all in the same situation wherein we have more in that list of people who have not, in any way, made us understand why they passed through? Some time ago, I made an effort to reduce this list by assigning shallow-yet-acceptable reasons to some of those people, and shallower generalized reasons to the rest, the most used reason being 'TO FORTIFY MY PATIENCE'.
As time passed and these people kept showing themselves up and displaying the changes in them, it seemed like I did the assigning a bit too soon. Another question in my mind popped up during this period of reckoning: Why does it seem like the people you like at first are the people that you are more likely to despise in the future, and the people you despise at first turn out to be more deserving of respect as time passes? Clearly I made a fatal mistake in my reason-assignment; I omitted a big factor which rendered the whole thing useless: The factor of CHANGE.
How biased of me. It became so apparent that human reasoning cannot tell me why Andreia came into my life,
why that guy punched me during that slam dancing thing,
why that girl never answered any of my emails,
why I fell for that guyish girl,
why I still talk to those women,
why I lent that guy money,
ad so ad infinitum....
I guess even if I got things right it would take more than one lifetime to learn why we met all the people we met. My point: It is virtually impossible to completely understand why people did what they did to you and why you did what you did to them. Therefore, it is beyond my understanding.
So what must be done? Should we all take the word of the Matrix protagonist-turned antagonist Cypher; "Ignorance is Bliss"?
No. We take the word of the protagonist of all time: "Trust in the Lord, and lean not unto your own understanding..."