Normally, I try not to post a post without something relating to my works/progress in them because I am trying to make this solely about the projects and not me. But tonight, I will make an exception. I have been watching a variety of movies lately and encountered a similar theme in all of them. Perhaps, they are just cliche themes, but it made me think. Some of the movies I watched was Junebug, Megamind, Curious George (The Movie), and Tron. A huge theme was escaping. Escaping the world we live in, the person we are, and being put in a new environment, and how we all want it so bad but perhaps the world is just too cruel because we lose it in just a flash.
In Megamind, though a cartoon, still had that theme in its greatest simplicity. Its main character was the typical "bad guy" who wants to take over the world. He becomes a bad guy because everybody around him made him feel inferior, despite the good he did he was considered a bad kid because there was someone better. He tried to please others but instead was misunderstood. So after unfair treatment he decides he wants to take over the world and after years of plotting, he gets what he wants. But as time passes he wants to escape his life, his character and be in an environment where he is happy. He is able to escape and eventually find his happiness because he was given a chance, an opportunity. But I guess thats not the case in all scenarios, I mean this is a child cartoon movie.
In Junebug, I have actually never heard of it, I've seen the picture on a dvd back in the day when walking through a blockbuster but never really picked it up to read the summary on the back. But a friend had recommend I watch it, so I did. Junebug is about this outsider who marries a guy from South Carolina and six months after their marriage they visit his family for the first time, mainly because they were down there on business so it was more out of convenience and free stay if anything. The family there is very dysfunctional. It is even more stressed when the son and his wife come to visit, as she is a very liberal person and different in many ways. The father keeps everything inside but is very wise, the mother feels under appreciated and cries a lot, the youngest son impregants a girl who lives with them but he is jealous of his brother who left south carolina. Eventually the "escapees" start to lose their sanity and they start doing other things to "escape" such as smoking etc. They all want to leave but stays for each other because of that "blood bond" The only one that leaves is the son. Obviously, another cliche, the son leaves with his wife in the end and all is good again. So I what I realized is the only way one "truly" escapes is if we are released. If we are let go by those around us. Its a movie, you have to watch and pay attention to, perhaps i'm just reading into it too much. My review probably doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Anyways i'm not going to write a review for every single movie I watched because that would be a really long post. When I watched these movies I was able to sympathize with some of the characters. And realized that my whole point of "let go" is not the whole point that "let go" which ironically is the title of my blog and have been for a long time now is not fully understood, at least by me. I say let go, and I personally want to let go of the past, and present. But I think i'm coming to the point in my life that its not me to let go but for others to let go me.
{to be continued...}
-R
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