CITY OF EMBER (2008) (a)

“The main thing is, pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, everything you see. Notice what no one else notices. And you’ll know what no one else knows.”

Comment:
Successful people are people who can predict the future and be prepared for it. Carefully, make use of every opportunity.
There is a legend about why God created three look alike animals (donkeys, Horses, and Zebra). It is said that long time ago God saw that humans found it difficult to travel in a long distance while carrying goods. So God decided to send donkeys to help human to travel and to carry. Donkeys became the first animal to help human to travel and to carry. However, God noticed that donkeys weren’t fast and strong enough to help human in their activities. Therefore God sent horses to be human’s partners in their transportation activities. Horses became the best animal to be human’s partner in transportation. But still, humans were too busy and they finally became dull, and again, God understood about it. And so, God sent down Zebras to amuse humans. Zebras became the unique animal to accompany humans to live their lives.
The point that I am trying to convey to you is that pay attention and be grateful for everything around you. Then you will find chances and opportunities. Never be hesitate to take them because intentionally, as the children of God, You could be the first one to find the opportunities, the best one who can take advantage of the opportunities or you could be the unique one in dealing with opportunities. Any way will do.


Summary of the Movie:
When mankind is about to come to an end, a group of scientists decide to create and populate a city deep underground. The city of Ember is to last for 200 years after which its inhabitants are to retrieve from a strong box instructions to return to the surface. Over time however, the message is lost and life in Ember is rapidly deteriorating. Their power supply is failing and food is being rationed. It's left to two young adults to unearth the secret of Ember and to lead the way out.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008) (d)

“Be whoever you wanna be. There is no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There’s no rule to this thing. We can make the best of our worst time. I hope you make the best darling.”

Comment:
We, as human being should be grateful that we are given the free will. As long as we are alive and well, we have the same chance to do and be whatever we want to be. And o what a feeling if we could reach the moment when we can be who we want to be. However, it doesn’t mean that we are free to do anything we want. We must be careful, may lose control in using the free will. Therefore, there are rules, laws and religion to help us control our free will so that no body may suffer by other’s free will.

"Arthur Schopenhauer put the puzzle of free will and moral responsibility in these terms:
Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life. ... But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns...." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will)


Summary of the Movie:
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams nee Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being born an old man who was diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met
Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years. Written by Huggo.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008) (C)

“There is no age limit as long as you do work.”

Comment:
What would happen to senior people who used to work hard and got so much enjoyed with their job in the past and one day we ask them to quit? They’d feel like time moves so slowly. They’d feel like time is torturing them.
I got this experience whenever my grandfather, an 80 year-old man who couldn’t be far away from his beloved truck came to visit us. Can you imagine? A man as old as him is still driving a truck? Well I have to admit he is the most powerful man in real life compares in all the movies I’ve ever watched. Sitting and doing nothing would be the last thing he wants to do in a day.
In other occasion, I found a woman in her 70s who’s still working as a parking crew in a souvenir shop in Jogjakarta. She does it not for the sake of money, but for the sake of “something to do.”
The point that I’d like to share with all the young people around the globe is that, the spirit. We all must possess the same spirit as what they have. I believe our future will be brighter if we have that sirit within.


Summary of the Movie:
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams nee Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being born an old man who was diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met
Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years. Written by Huggo.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008) (b)

“It’s not about how you play; it’s about how you feel what you play.”

Comment:
Do you remember when you, for the first time learnt how to dance? You looked at every step you made. You were afraid that you would step on your partner’s foot. But then, as you went along with the music, you became one with the music and your partner as well, you flow with the rhythm and bit of the music. In the end, without you even realizing it, you’d been a very good dancer. Just like a swan dances on the water.
Did you ever wonder how and why you could do it? That’s because you put your feelings in it. When you put your feeling into everything you do, then everything you do will be just perfect. Remember to put your feeling to catch the feel. Feel your day with good feelings and you’ll be dancing though the day in glory and victory.


Summary of the Movie:
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams nee Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being born an old man who was diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years. Written by Huggo.