Friday, August 14, 2009
an everlasting love against time...
Finally i got to watch the movie UP with her, I can understand why alot of people feel this movie as boring. Because it was like telling a grand father story with the movie starting in black and white pictures explaining about some outdated adventure man in the 1950s. For those who understand the meaning of memories and how memories can make a person feel,touch and recalls..this movie is tailor made for them...
The movie begins with Carl Fredricksen who was a kid with adventure mind but shy after watching a 1950s movie while he was young, he met another kid called Ellie who is a outgoing and rather eccentric girl..They met and shared the same hobbies of going to a place in South America call 'Paradise Falls' and they growed up together and become couples and get married.
During their long marriage life they are happily together like drawing the mailbox going out together to the park for a walk... etc..In their marriage love they made 2 wishes... first is to have a baby... but unfortunately the doctors told them they are unable to make that wish come true and they look forward for their second wish which is to travel to 'Paradise Falls'
But when they always rise up enough money to go 'Paradise Falls' for vacation.. something always cropped up and they have to use up all the money they saved...
Slowly they got old, during the times going to those parks Ellie was unable to walk as fast as before... she was struggling and the last chance of going to 'Paradise Falls' was gone as Ellie was old.. sicked and passaway...
Carl Fredricksen was feeling so sad.. his long life partner is gone... all is left is all memories together..Even the changes of times is testing him and their relationship, buildings are changing around his house area and the development company even wants to takeover his house and force him to retirement house...
Inorder to escape all this and to achieve the adventure he promised to his passaway wife.. he flooded his rooftop with balloons and made the house float and flying towards the 'Paradise Falls'.This movie presents a memory of an everlasting love and the test of time against them, also the fated of those old people in real-life where some of their old houses are really being removed in order to create new developments.
I am touched with the love story that test against time but my girl friend felt it's boring.. maybe a cartoon should be simple? :)