Since I stopped working at M3 Dialysis Center in Bacolod City, I spend my Saturday afternoon catching up of all the movies I missed by watching DVD at home.
Last Saturday, I watched this interesting movie Source Code. It is about a decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) who wakes up in the body of an unknown man. He later discovers that he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter-train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the "Source Code". This is a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Captain Stevens re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombing and prevent the next attack.
How I wish we can also re-live our life over and over again. Isn't it great if we can do this because we can correct our past to have a better future? Well, of course, this is only possible in movies.
What I really love about this movie is the realization that you can do a lot of things in eight minutes. In this movie, he was able to save the world at the same time express his feelings to the woman he loves in eight minutes. My point is that, in the real world, whether it is eight minutes or twenty-four hours, what really matters is what you do in the present.
I remember a scene in the movie Kung Fu Panda where Master Oogway said to Po "Quit, don't quit, noodles, don't noodles, you are too concern about what was and what will be, there is a saying, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift. That is why it is called present."
The truth is that, some of us cannot move on with our lives because we keep holding on with our past. Most of us are even busy preparing for the future when in fact, no matter what we do, we cannot control it.
So let us instead re-live the past by learning from it, be thankful of the present and be hopeful of the future. Thank God it's Saturday indeed.
Last Saturday, I watched this interesting movie Source Code. It is about a decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) who wakes up in the body of an unknown man. He later discovers that he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter-train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the "Source Code". This is a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Captain Stevens re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombing and prevent the next attack.
How I wish we can also re-live our life over and over again. Isn't it great if we can do this because we can correct our past to have a better future? Well, of course, this is only possible in movies.
What I really love about this movie is the realization that you can do a lot of things in eight minutes. In this movie, he was able to save the world at the same time express his feelings to the woman he loves in eight minutes. My point is that, in the real world, whether it is eight minutes or twenty-four hours, what really matters is what you do in the present.
I remember a scene in the movie Kung Fu Panda where Master Oogway said to Po "Quit, don't quit, noodles, don't noodles, you are too concern about what was and what will be, there is a saying, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift. That is why it is called present."
The truth is that, some of us cannot move on with our lives because we keep holding on with our past. Most of us are even busy preparing for the future when in fact, no matter what we do, we cannot control it.
So let us instead re-live the past by learning from it, be thankful of the present and be hopeful of the future. Thank God it's Saturday indeed.
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