Disney's Pixar's UP
I am on Pixar Movie Marathon right now and the first movie I watch is UP. I have watched it before when I was in college, it's pretty good, however I watched that with my family so the tension was quite different when I watched it by myself now. I admit I am not really passionate on writing it then, so I just watched just to watch.
I read some reviews about how it is a film about the horror of growing up (or older) but complete with some packed up adventure to not bore you. I agree, yes, that was how I'm gonna describe the film, especially when I just watched it the first time. I'm still waiting for the Honest Trailer of it, yet sometimes later it is still not up on youtube.
I think the movie is very well done if even there is honest trailer for Inside Out but not with Up. It's pretty straightforward film, sure there are some life lesson subtly slip into it, but not as 'obviously subtly put' as Cinderella.
Since the theme is growing up older, I find a relevant consistent running gag in the film. Those are moments when :
In Fredricksen imagination, he hanged Russel on a cloth in when they are feets above the city and the boy fell down.
Russel said he got a GPS from his father but accidentally throw it pass the window when they are feets above ground and the device fell down.
Russel was setting up a tent for the night time, yet he got the tent catapulted into the bottom of the valley.
The balloons, Fredricksen cut off from the chimney to move down the house are released to sky.
In short, it is all telling that everything that has fallen, is permanently gone. Heck the main goal is even named, Paradise Fall, if you want to be ironic.
You can't go back to pick it up again like when your house is still on the ground and something is thrown out in the backyard. It's not about consuming sources until it's gone, they don't even use the stuffs that much or even for that long.
It's telling the value of things in dimensions.
It's pretty scary if you want to nitpick the details. But being pessimistic and stopping there is not what the movie is about.
For every fallen sources, there is new thing happening immediately. And the best part about it, is that the protagonists were not given something better for it. They need to acquire what is coming after that.
If you can imagine first before doing something because you're upset, you might avoid the inevitable.
After the GPS flew away, they got into a thunderstorm if commulonimbus clouds but which later is revelaed to be getting them to the Paradise Fall.
3. After the tent Russell set up is gone, they got to have a fireplace chat and knowing each other better. Looking at Fredricksen temprament, he will probably just go to tent and sleep after the tent is done.
4. If balloon is gone, balloon is gone. Don't think too much about it. But don't be a stingy hoe about it.
Like your age and time, you'll run out of those things eventually. Be prepared for what's coming rather than over-preparing for the worst to come yet. Head forward to reach your goal like Fredricksen and Russel bringing their house along and overcoming obstacles to arrive at Paradise Fall.
