Reel Steel
Oct. 24th, 2011 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crystal_clearDeliberate typo is deliberate.
Back to the topic at hand, though - I've been hearing nothing but praises for Real Steel from my friends, saying how great the movie was and all. My initial reaction? The trailer looked meh, I'm no fan of Hugh Jackman, and c'mon, a cliche'd premise...
But it came as a pleasant surprise. While I'm no fan of robots or mecha, this movie is different - it has heart. And when the fights in the movie almost made me cheer on enthusiastically, then they must've done something right.
The main robot, Atom, is a small sized, sparring robot. It's designed to take as much beating, but not really one for dishing out punches. So along the course of the movie, we see it getting punches and falling down...only to stand back up and fight on.
That's how life wants us to be, isn't it? It surely isn't about the size, it's not how many times we fall - but how many times we can get back up for another round. Because life is brutal, and only the strong will survive...or risk getting washed away and crushed into bits.
Also, even if the official victory isn't won in the end, what matters is the fight itself, and the knowledge that you very well deserve a pat in the back for a job well done. Screw those people in power - the corrupted will remain so, but as long as you can maintain your morality and play nice, it should be all right, yes? Because the real fight is within us - the fight between right and wrong, which He will Reward most fairly in the next life.
And so, I leave this quote from the movie:
"We work smart, be patient, and pray. Seriously, we pray."
Spot on, brother.
Back to the topic at hand, though - I've been hearing nothing but praises for Real Steel from my friends, saying how great the movie was and all. My initial reaction? The trailer looked meh, I'm no fan of Hugh Jackman, and c'mon, a cliche'd premise...
But it came as a pleasant surprise. While I'm no fan of robots or mecha, this movie is different - it has heart. And when the fights in the movie almost made me cheer on enthusiastically, then they must've done something right.
The main robot, Atom, is a small sized, sparring robot. It's designed to take as much beating, but not really one for dishing out punches. So along the course of the movie, we see it getting punches and falling down...only to stand back up and fight on.
That's how life wants us to be, isn't it? It surely isn't about the size, it's not how many times we fall - but how many times we can get back up for another round. Because life is brutal, and only the strong will survive...or risk getting washed away and crushed into bits.
Also, even if the official victory isn't won in the end, what matters is the fight itself, and the knowledge that you very well deserve a pat in the back for a job well done. Screw those people in power - the corrupted will remain so, but as long as you can maintain your morality and play nice, it should be all right, yes? Because the real fight is within us - the fight between right and wrong, which He will Reward most fairly in the next life.
And so, I leave this quote from the movie:
"We work smart, be patient, and pray. Seriously, we pray."
Spot on, brother.
