I Still have Time...

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"Don't even think of using this potion"
童梦奇缘: A fairytale reminding us the meaning of life
Source: http://fun.china.com/zh_cn/movie/news/205/20050909/12641093.html

Yes! I finally get to catch the Andy Lau's movie "Wait Till You're Older" at Tampines Mall. My friend came online and asked if I would be keen to watch the movie with him (of coz!) and since I will be having cell in Pasir Ris in the evening later, we arranged to meet in Tampines.

I still do not get it... The movie is barely released for just a few days but then you don't find it screening at many places (at least not in the city). Even the screening slots are so few... At tampines, there were only 3 slots, 2.30pm, 5pm and 11.30pm... This is a new release yet the slot allocation for this movie made it seem like it is an old movie waiting to be taken off the screen. Anyway, as I walked into the cinema to get the tickets, a movie poster for an upcoming movie release caught my eye. It was for the movie "Cello" and the poster presented a women in blood stained dress standing in front of you with blood stained windows behind her... Is this what people love to watch? No wonder the world is becoming more topsy-turvy nowadays... all codfishy can do is sigh...

Anyway, never regret watching "Wait Till You're Older", in fact I do recommend that people watch this show to balance their movie diet... I learnt many a lessons from this movie.

The movie was about this troubled boy who hated his father for making him lose his mother (to suicide) and lamanted being in his new family. Every once in a while, you would find him running away from home, going to their old home where he once stayed with his mother. In fact, he has done this so many times that his father, including the police, will know where to find him everytime he runs away.

To persuade the child to return home, his father will usually negotiate terms with ths boy and pay him to return... and because the police once told the boy "there is no point running away because we recognize you and will eventually find you", the boy have been saving up day after day and waiting for a day when he has saved enough and run away and noone can find him because noone can recognize him. You journey with this boy as he grows from a defiant little boy to the time he meets a vagabond scientist with his "fast growth" potion and finally to the time he learns important lessons of life, only to realize that despite regretting his decision, there is no turning back... he was outgrowing his father and would soon die.

My friend has told me to bring along tissue just in case I need it and I thought "bah! I won't cry". But the ending was really touching, too touching. Well, I almost teared. OK OK, I teared a bit... OK OK I cried la... In fact, was hoping that they do not switch on the lights too soon after the show ends so that my tears can dry up, or else very paisay one... :) I love the twist at the end of the movie but will not spoil it for you by telling you about it.

The movie had with it a lot of lessons to be learn. Lessons for parents to learn that parenting is not just pampering your child with money and material things that he/she wants. Lesson for families that everyone in the family is important, you can't do with anyone less. Lesson for all of us that there are usually many perspective to a problem and we should always be open to those perspectives. Finally a lesson about time, you may feel you have a lot of time now to wait but at the end of the day, what matters most is relationships as everyone yearns to be loved and understood. All of us are given the same amount of time, it is just how we use it (hahaha, seems to be reinforcing what I am hearing at sermon). It is not too late... I particularly loved this scene in the movie where 光仔 (the boy played by Andy Lau) went to look for the vagabond scientist, throwing tantrums, making demands that he fix the situation, only to learn that there is no turning back... the vagabond scientist said:

"It is never too late, just as I told you that there will always be hope tomorrow. Though we cannot turn back time, we can always cherish what we have and live each day properly, valuing it!"

Seemingly being awoken by the scientist, 光仔 finally found courage to meet his father, telling him about his ordeal, sharing with him the lesson he had learnt:

"I have now learnt that we are all given the same amount of time in our lives, it is how we are using this time allocated to us"

Finally, there was this scene where he stood outside the cinema standing besides his girlfriend (who did not recognize him because he had aged tremendously). His girlfriend was waiting for 光仔 to turn up. As the cinema was closing, the old 光仔 turned to ask her why she is not going home yet? She replied that she is still faithfully waiting for her boyfriend to arrive. At this point, you can hear 光仔 mumbling to himself as he was walking away:

"Everyone, except me, seems to have all the time in the world"

Definitely a good show to watch!