Friday, November 27, 2009
up up and away! Time to let go!
I'm totally a sucker for such heart-warming animations.
Up deals with several issues close to heart and closes up on the hearts of the elderly.
Well, it begins with a quick journey of the protagonist and his wife, Emily 's relationship and we can see how in love the couple as they aged from the simple domestic scenes-building the dream home, bit by bit with all they had,a wife doing the tie of her husband daily, taking occasional walks to the hill near their small house. Naturally, as a couple, they had their ups and downs and we see compromise and effort made by either party to make it work and it did.
The producer used about twenty minutes to convene the deep love shared by the couple. Well, then Emily passes away before the couple could do some travelling together, something they always wanted as a kid and the old man was left with only regrets.
The first scene shown after the loss of his wife was symbolic, his old unchanged house stood awkwardly among constructions sites and the modern buildings, as if time stood still for him. The old man sticks with all his routines, a striking similarity to Great Expection's Satis House, though I must say his house is far cheery with its colours. It cast a foreboding feeling as if the old man has begin his transformation to decay inwardly.
Well, he becomes a grumpy old tired man. Anyway, he got into trouble when he desperately tried to protect all physical reminders of his beloved wife so he hatched this plan to achieved his wife's dream of living at the Paradise Falls.
It's incredibly comical to see the house floating because of the thousands of balloons he blew and tied overnight. Well, on the way he met a lot of difficulties that coerced him to break away from the past and start living in the now and he did.
There was another symbolic scene where he tossed everything that he once hold dear out of the house in his haste to honor a new promise.
In all, the animation concluded wonderfully-the old man learnt to let go of his past and live a fresh new life.
I must add that the animation's target audience aren't children but adults who can appreciate the imageries cleverly used and the theme.
It's really cool though, I love it. Hahah =)
Up deals with several issues close to heart and closes up on the hearts of the elderly.
Well, it begins with a quick journey of the protagonist and his wife, Emily 's relationship and we can see how in love the couple as they aged from the simple domestic scenes-building the dream home, bit by bit with all they had,a wife doing the tie of her husband daily, taking occasional walks to the hill near their small house. Naturally, as a couple, they had their ups and downs and we see compromise and effort made by either party to make it work and it did.
The producer used about twenty minutes to convene the deep love shared by the couple. Well, then Emily passes away before the couple could do some travelling together, something they always wanted as a kid and the old man was left with only regrets.
The first scene shown after the loss of his wife was symbolic, his old unchanged house stood awkwardly among constructions sites and the modern buildings, as if time stood still for him. The old man sticks with all his routines, a striking similarity to Great Expection's Satis House, though I must say his house is far cheery with its colours. It cast a foreboding feeling as if the old man has begin his transformation to decay inwardly.
Well, he becomes a grumpy old tired man. Anyway, he got into trouble when he desperately tried to protect all physical reminders of his beloved wife so he hatched this plan to achieved his wife's dream of living at the Paradise Falls.
It's incredibly comical to see the house floating because of the thousands of balloons he blew and tied overnight. Well, on the way he met a lot of difficulties that coerced him to break away from the past and start living in the now and he did.
There was another symbolic scene where he tossed everything that he once hold dear out of the house in his haste to honor a new promise.
In all, the animation concluded wonderfully-the old man learnt to let go of his past and live a fresh new life.
I must add that the animation's target audience aren't children but adults who can appreciate the imageries cleverly used and the theme.
It's really cool though, I love it. Hahah =)
i know that i have loved you ... at 11/27/2009 03:51:00 am
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