This is a too late review post...but nevertheless such a timeless topic and just in time for Oscars..hehe.
For me one of the best and most unforgettable movies of 2009 is another animated film from Pixar...Up. With 5 Oscars nominations on the bag including the Best Picture contesting Avatar( which I also love by the way) I'm super crossing my fingers that it may grab The Best Original Score...so beautiful (so beautiful I wish i can play the piano).I adore you Mr. Michael Giacchino!
I'm such a movie buff. And I always cry as in mega cry especially if it's such a touching movie... and at times shaking during a very intense, thrilling and action pack scenes..:D After reading Up's reviews I was convinced to watch it on DVD(full of regrets that I wasn't able to catch it on theater during it's actual play dates).
From the very first scene until the last credit rolled... I swear I'm not the same anymore. I may sound so exaggerated but I really am. I never thought it would make me cry really hard. I didn't have a tissue with me at that time that I managed to use my t-shirt na lang...(imagine the tears and oh never mind) ahaha. Yes, it's so gross.
I mean who would expect that an animated film such as Up would really touch people's hearts in so many ways. Yes it has the qualities that all animated films usually have, the visual and special effects, colors and all.But what makes it different is how it successfully voice out its message to the people - people from all walks of life. People like Carl, Ellie and the boy Russel who are searching, dreaming, waiting, loving, hurting,hoping, and learning that the greatest adventure of all is love and that even letting go of that love when the time comes is the ultimate way of showing it.
Up is a movie of enlightenment. Enlightenment that one is never too old or too young to reach his dreams, that we should never stop dreaming, that losing is not a defeat instead a new chance to finally win, that life is like a book full of chapters to fill in with new experiences and memories once an old chapter ended, that heart is capable to love again and again, that everyone deserves to be loved and no doors should be closed to anyone.
Up aside from being an adventure movie is a love story. I admire Carl and Ellie's love for each other despite some things that lack in their marriage...how they dream together and how despite coming on the dawn of their lives, their love towards each other never changes. I want that kind of love story in the future...hehe. I belive that kind of love still exists and I know it will happen.
Therea are so many touching scenes in the movie,(parang sasabog ang dibdib ko nun sa kakaiyak..hehe). It never intended to make you cry but it will. Kumbaga mga eksenang tagos sa puso mo...
So for everyone let's continue to love,live and dream. Always aspire for that badge, for whatever or whoever we always want to be.