I watched the Walt Disney-Pixar created animated movie UP last Saturday and I was completely blown away by the superb use of computer technology in creating the movie. Even the sunlight coming through the window looked so real! I must say that the animation industry has come of age and everytime its Pixar that leads the race by a million miles. Hats off to Mr. Jobs and the ground-breaking company he created!!!
However, more than that, I was struck by the underlying theme of the movie. The theme was refreshingly simple: It's never too late to follow your dreams. I could feel that the movie had an undercurrent of childlike innocence in the protagonist of the movie, an old retired man who was living alone in a small home he had built with his now deceased wife while both of them nursed a dream of making it to the mythic Paradise Falls somewhere in South America. The old man pushed to the wall by the modernising world of glass and concrete finally decides to take the plunge of real adventure carrying the dream of his wife and refusing to spend the rest of his years in an old age home.
The whole concept struck me deeply and I couldn't help thinking how much innocence we have lost as we grew up. Innocence here just doesn't mean inability to swindle or lie, but a simple and honest belief in one's dream. I could not help thinking how easily we give up chasing our dreams. A toothless, old, hunched man spending the last solitary years of his life refused to resigned to fate and got where he wanted to simply because it was a dream he had lived to accomplish.
The innocence of single minded dedication and hunger for accomplishment disappears so quickly from within us. Can we not live this life one moment at a time??? Can we not realise that the real purpose of life is to serve that one overarching dream we have nurtured from the bottom of our hearts??? Will the universe not conspire to help us achieve something we truly want???
However, more than that, I was struck by the underlying theme of the movie. The theme was refreshingly simple: It's never too late to follow your dreams. I could feel that the movie had an undercurrent of childlike innocence in the protagonist of the movie, an old retired man who was living alone in a small home he had built with his now deceased wife while both of them nursed a dream of making it to the mythic Paradise Falls somewhere in South America. The old man pushed to the wall by the modernising world of glass and concrete finally decides to take the plunge of real adventure carrying the dream of his wife and refusing to spend the rest of his years in an old age home.
The whole concept struck me deeply and I couldn't help thinking how much innocence we have lost as we grew up. Innocence here just doesn't mean inability to swindle or lie, but a simple and honest belief in one's dream. I could not help thinking how easily we give up chasing our dreams. A toothless, old, hunched man spending the last solitary years of his life refused to resigned to fate and got where he wanted to simply because it was a dream he had lived to accomplish.
The innocence of single minded dedication and hunger for accomplishment disappears so quickly from within us. Can we not live this life one moment at a time??? Can we not realise that the real purpose of life is to serve that one overarching dream we have nurtured from the bottom of our hearts??? Will the universe not conspire to help us achieve something we truly want???
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