La~mour

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Click.. stop clicking my life away...

Was back yesterday night/this morning in the wee hours at about 12.30-12.45am from the half-day activities with the HC gang and the ryl-sisters (my sisters and brothers). Well, it was a pleasant day out, though not as high as before. The movie-Click was one great movie worth my recommendation to watch this month!

From the tele-trailers, Click was presented in my perception as a comedy flick that's kind of a 'waste of time' movie, one which do not really appeal to me. Therefore i wasn't exactly excited about watching it despite many people around me encouraging me to watch. Nevertheless, i went on to watch yesterday evening with the HC gang and my sisterS. We had great seats all thanks to Genie kor kor's online movie booking. Finally the movie started. I was yet not very anticipating it. The movie starts with Adam Sandler (Michael) leading a mundane life trying to work hard, slogging his guts and time for work and sacrificing family time. (i shall not elaborate you guys go watch it yourself) Click seems to be a rather well-balanced movie, with adequate division of kick-ur-ass jokes, hilarious scenes, angsty feelings and the heart-wrenching moments. I was pretty much surprised that this supposedly ''comedy chic flick'' could be such a well directed all rounded movie where it encompasses the many morals and heart-felt feelings that many of us simply bury deep down in our hearts without knowing how to face them.

Sometimes i find myself cornered by those pressing moral questions about whether i have spent enough time with my family? Indeed, i can't remember any recent times we went out for a decent picnic at the beach with my grandmother and aunts with their children. I love company i like to be with people. I love family but sometimes i feel the warmth which i once loved and enjoyed gradually dissipating. But i do not want to waste my life and time away.
It is definitely inevitable that we will come to some points in time getting all so frustrated with our mundane yet not so smooth-sailing lives. Well, who wouldn't want a smooth-sailing life, life without worries, life with all comforts, with the future so perfectly laid out, one fit for a King's royalty. What a cliche to say "Time is precious" but how true is that? To people who regards every single minute as money-making opportunities, that three words mean their world. To the working population working their guts out, those three sentence holds true in ensuring wealth and good life for their families. To children whom we once were, Time plays both the villain yet also the good guy. Good when our family is enjoying quality family time; villain that puts our parents out at work away from home late at nights. So, how do YOU define those 3 innocuous words?

Michael also Adam Sandler was able to bring common scenario in most families in reality with working parents across to all of us, concealing a message within the movie that unfolds into a moral through the movie itself. Putting ourselves into Michael's turbulant life before his encounter with his life-changing super-remote control, i could almost feel his frustrations with his life as if my own. With a work-focused mind in a bid to give his family a better quality of life( we all will want that as well, you tell me who wouldn't?). He, being driven by his hunger on his career, forsaken family time for work which resulted in his unhappiness and grouchiness. Along came his super-remote control. What fun it is being able to fast forward his life, skipping mundane activities like eating or toilet visits and even ugly squaffles with family or the irating jams on the roads in the morning. He can even pause his life or rewind back to his past to remnise on. What a life movie. And what a huge price to pay when he relies so much on that freaking super-remote control that he lost his perfect wife, got estranged from his family and children that he seem so alone. Fast forwarding so much into his own life that he missed many memorable and IMPORTANT events one can ever forget as such of his divorce with his wife, his father's death, watching his own kids grow into handsome and pretty man and lady. Missing so much for glory and career empire?Is that all worthwhile? Can glory bring true happiness?

I'd definitely give a huge NO. Comparatively, as much as i'm career-minded, nothing beats family in line in priority. Whether or not i'm married in the future this holds true perhaps till the day i die? So what if i am the richest woman in the world? If i have no family, no one to share my wealth and joy, wouldn't it be worthless? I have money but no warmth, i have a title and reputation but no family to share those with. How useless. I remembered feeling sorry for Michael that his wife divorced him, also his misfortunes, extremely remorseful when his father passed away. Plus he wasn't even there at his funeral while he was on 'auto-pilot' mode. I supposed this was the part that made me unable to hold back anymore tears but to let all freely down my cheeks: When Michael revisited the last time that he saw his father alive, the auto piloted Michael, devoid of feelings, was so cold to his father that i could have smacked his face hard if i was there. Yet the Dad told him "I love you, son"..despite his cold respite. His words hit me home, hard. Whilst i teared quite uncontrollably, it made me think whether she would ever say such words to me. Or even give me a hug i yearn for since so many years. Will i have the heart to be cold as what she was?

Michael, learnt his hard and painful lesson when his life finally ebbs away. It was heart-wrenching how he braved the downpour with an ailing heart after his son and daughter; how hard he tried to call out and how he convinced his son never to follow his mistake to prioritise work above family but to value family time. He got a second chance to repent and prevent his workaholism-consequenced future. Good old Mody made him realise his mistake, as well as made us viewers realise family IS very important. Something so dear to us complexed yet fragile..though i always envy those families able to spend quality time together doing something altogether, or even a simple meal at the table. All i ask is this little, is that a lot?

LA~mour at 11:57 AM