.... Peter Rabbit, and Little Children. Three great movies in a matter of days! Miss Potter (Beatrix) was a real genius, who really deserved to become so famous in literary circles. I only wish I can write and draw like her! Who can forget the cute little rabbit, with the blue coat, giving trouble to his neighbour? Or the mother duck who was looking around for a place to hatch her eggs? Or that adorable fat kitten?Not only that, she was also a conservationist who fought to keep the beautiful scenery and farms of England's Lake District, which she considered her place of inspiration, intact! My idol! Doing things I have always cared about - writing and conservation!
Little Children and Babel are two complex, deep movies involving several people whose lives are interlocked by someone or something. In the former, a group of suburban housewives (and a househusband) lived in a neighbourhood home to a former paedophile, who was still ostracised due to his former deed. He was the main link between the main characters, as in the process of keeping their little children safe from harm, they found their lives meaningless and started an affair, but at the end went back to their respective families.
The ex-paedophile was upset due to being outcast and almost reverted to his old ways, when his mum died while defending him. His mum's last words were for him to be a good boy, so he resorted to castrating himself to stop committing the same crime. The show's message was that everyone deserved a second chance, and no matter how bleak one's life seemed, people could still survive. What was past was past, what mattered was the future, of starting over. Very meaningful and true!
In the latter show (Babel), the underlying message is that one gunshot could be heard all over the world. Everything started due to a hunting rifle. And because of this rifle, problems arose with a Moroccan farmer's family, the nomad who sold him the rifle, the Japanese ex-hunter who used to own the rifle, an American couple holidaying in Morocco, and their two young children back home in San Diego. All because of one rifle, tragedy befell several non-related people around. Something like a butterfly effect.
If not for the rifle, the two Moroccan farming boys would not have tried to "out-shoot" each other, the shot would not have hit an American lady; her husband would not have been in a frenzy trying his best to keep her alive; the tour bus would not have just dumped them in a small village and left and they would have to wait a full day for the American embassy to send a chopper to bring her to the hospital; the incident would not have been blown up into a terrorist attack and the elder Moroccan boy got shot at and the nomad who sold them the rifle got beaten up as a result; the two American children would not have been left behind in San Diego under the care of a Mexican nanny, who would not have brought them along to her son's wedding in Mexico and would not have gotten arrested while going back to the States; and the rifle would not have been traced to a Japanese guy whose deaf-mute daughter would not have been so messed up over her mum's death (as she shot herself).
The show reflected human nature at its best and worst. For some people, it needed a disaster and crisis to realise just who are most important. For others, a crisis could show the true colours - considerate and helpful, or selfish and unaccommodating. The show also showed the distinction between the American and Japanese middle-class suburbia and the Mexican and Moroccan villagers and farmers, how some people in some parts of the world can have everything, yet others seem to have nothing.
Brad Pitt seemed to have aged twenty years in the show. No doubt he is no longer that young, but in that show, he looked like he was past fifty. I still prefer him in his youthful, boyish look, like this!
If not for the rifle, the two Moroccan farming boys would not have tried to "out-shoot" each other, the shot would not have hit an American lady; her husband would not have been in a frenzy trying his best to keep her alive; the tour bus would not have just dumped them in a small village and left and they would have to wait a full day for the American embassy to send a chopper to bring her to the hospital; the incident would not have been blown up into a terrorist attack and the elder Moroccan boy got shot at and the nomad who sold them the rifle got beaten up as a result; the two American children would not have been left behind in San Diego under the care of a Mexican nanny, who would not have brought them along to her son's wedding in Mexico and would not have gotten arrested while going back to the States; and the rifle would not have been traced to a Japanese guy whose deaf-mute daughter would not have been so messed up over her mum's death (as she shot herself).
The show reflected human nature at its best and worst. For some people, it needed a disaster and crisis to realise just who are most important. For others, a crisis could show the true colours - considerate and helpful, or selfish and unaccommodating. The show also showed the distinction between the American and Japanese middle-class suburbia and the Mexican and Moroccan villagers and farmers, how some people in some parts of the world can have everything, yet others seem to have nothing.
Brad Pitt seemed to have aged twenty years in the show. No doubt he is no longer that young, but in that show, he looked like he was past fifty. I still prefer him in his youthful, boyish look, like this!
Hope everyone enjoyed their Valentine's Day!
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