My Simple Life

Crashing our Hearts and Souls

It was a surprise for everyone that CRASH got this year's OSCARS top award as best picture. most of us Pinoy moviergoers thought that BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN will get the title. anyway, Ang Lee got the best director's trophy.

i watched Crash when i was still in Manila early last year. the movie was not a big hit being a non-commercial production and having talented and well known actors. for the second time, i watched it two days ago inside the coach with other students from my university after our educational day trip in dublin (republic of ireland) to attend a free international conference on water, wastewater, waste and transport... watching it for the second time gave me the chance to reflect deeper on the issues that the film wanted to convey to the viewers.

racism is not the only main issue in the film, but it also tackled our own personal issues/conflicts or differences in terms of our relationships with other people, especially with our loved ones; and how we perceived other people's attitudes towards us as an individual. at the end of the day, everything that we do is somewhat interconnected with other people's lives, and we have to face the consequences of it - bad or good!  ironically, we only change the way we treat other people or even our outlook in life if something badly happened to us...

well, the film is quite disturbing and it really CRASHING our hearts and souls... and maybe that is the reason why it got the top prize!

everyone's brokeback mountain

the movie reminded me of our relationships with other people in different forms - father-n-son/daughter,husband-n-wife,brother-n-sister, man2woman, men2men, girl2girl, boss-n-staff, etc... name it... it was an emotional story of two men struggling to accept the reality of life...it is also our reality of life, i believe - how we cope with our own fears and doubts of crossing our limitations as human beings - not to be judged by other people, especially with our loved ones! it is a journey for everyone to make every relationship works... it is a give and take situation, and to some extent a compromise not to hurt other people's feelings...

we have our own brokeback mountain that gives us the comfort zone to accept what we are and who we are - and at the end it offers us the place to live on with our dreams and our hopes that life will be kind to the one we love most!