Movie Weekend

(Possible spoilers ahead)

I watched 2 movies over the weekend.

I wasn't feeling sleepy last night, and thought I would just catch a midnight show... At home :) I have a few DVDs sitting in my room I needed to catch up on. I thought I would watch Crash, having gotten the DVD from the video shop couple of months back.

Crash is known for it's powerful blend of interwining stories between the different races in America. The movie isn't your regular slapstick fare, though there were some funny moments here and there.

It is very interesting to note that the director/producer carefully included the whites, blacks, hispanics, asians and middle-eastern characters into the story. Beside displaying about the racial clashes, the movie also talks about the struggle within the race itself. In fact, everyone has almost the same problem as everyone else.

Also, I like the way the movie writes about discrimination from two sides of the coin. On one hand, we may be pointing at the person in front of us and say, hey, why do they get all the good stuffs? It seldom occur to us that the other 4 fingers were actually pointing in our direction. It reminded me of the verse Jesus spoke in Matthew 7:

3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

And Jesus' recommendation for the eye surgery we should get?

5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Really, sometimes, we need to first look at ourselves before we blabber.

I recommend "Crash".

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The other movie I caught was "Click". I was suppose to sit down to do my homework this evening, but I felt thoroughly restless. So I opt to be glued to the chair, watching the movie instead.

It's very unusual of me to recommend an Adam Sandler movie (The Wedding Singer was another acceptable movie), because most of his movies are rather crude, or chor-lor. However, this movie goes a little bit further (and yes, in true Adam Sandler style, there were some crude moments) and would you believe it that I end up tearing at the later half of the show?

From the trailer, we know that Mr Sandler has a wonderful remote controller that he can use to control his life, the way he wanted it to be. Fast forward some, mute some, lower the volumes, go back in time, etc. Yeah, it's all fun and stuffs.

Then come later part of the show, the movie takes a serious look at the way we live our life. Living in an age where we can literally own and control alot of things in our life, we are sometimes too absorbed in our own self-created world that we overlook and miss the things that are more important.

If we get to live the kind of life we choose to live, ie. the way we think it should be, we may not reap the outcome we hope to have. It's just like when sometimes, we wanted certain things to happen, but God didn't make it happen. We cry "UNFAIR!" and blow hot air. However, it doesn't get into our head that God didn't want the "it" to happen to us. By "it", I mean it as a turn of destiny, which may not necessary be good for us.

No bible references here, but I'd like you to think of the traffic light (I picked up this small lesson when I was teaching preschoolers in PC years ago).

When you ask God for something, there can only be 3 answers:

*GREEN* - Go ahead. I am going to bless you and prosper you and give you success.

*AMBER* - Slow down a little there. Watch it. Wait.

*RED* - No, my Beloved. Don't go any further. I don't want you to get hurt taking this lane.

I recommend "Click".