I'm back!!!

It is high time I stopped neglecting this blogsite. I mean, I went to all the event of creating it and making it different from the Sharona Tree one that I should really use this one. Ok, here goes nothing:

I love movies. I love all movies. Ok, not all, but I can watch basically anything. I love watching movies that I get something out of: not just entertainment but stimulating phisophical theories. So, I thought I would do movie reviews on this blogsite. Or maybe music reviews or just plain reviews on stuff that is going on around me. Let's give this a go.

Movie: Man on Fire
Ok, I was deterred from this movie because someone had said that the violence factor was just too much. The reason why I listened was because this person appears to watch a number of violent movies so I just concluded that this movie must be really bad and I didn't want to watch it. But the other night we watched it (I had my friends with me just in case, which was great). Ok, yeah, there is one or two scenes which are a bit disturbing but it wasn't that bad.

The first half hour or so is building a relationship between this hardered retired assasion turned bodyguard and the little girl who he is protecting. This is the sweetest part of the movie and I think it was done quite well. It was strange, because I just didn't want it to end. I wonder if that was because I knew there violence and unsweet stuff coming?

I will try not to ruin the story for you but the little girl gets kidnapped and the bodyguard goes in search for her and revence. The determination to do anything and to go to any means to find her is remarkable. His informant also went to extreme measures to get information and she hadn't even meet the little girl. I was just amazed. This little girl had taught the bodyguard how to live, how to laugh, how to love again. And now that she was missing, he would do anything to get her back.

Ok, ok, I realise that it is just a movie and they are just acting, but I think there is characteristics in both people that we can learn from. Learning how to live and be happy and then teaching those around us. Learning how to love and teaching those around to love. And when things get tough, we do everything we can for the people we care for (of course, the means and methods that the bodyguard uses I wouldn't promote). But also, we need to be careful not to care too much or go so far or else we can damage ourselves. A nice balance is needed and I guess we all need to discover the appropriate balance for ourselves.

Anyway, that was the conculsion I got from Man on Fire. Watch it, it is great. A bit of a teary one, too, in places. :)

Stay tuned for the next review