Monday, July 20, 2009
Have u watch Elizabethtown? It stars Orlando Bloom and Kristen Dunst. A friend passed me this show a long time ago. Since I got it on my harddisk, I have watched it twice. Well.. I don't think that it is a particularly good or exceptional film. It is very simply, a boy-meets-girl kind of movie. That was what I thought a long time ago when I first watched it.
I re-watched it again during the beginning of my stay in France. I guess it was my state of mind at that time. I could somehow identify with what the film was trying to say with the failure of Orlando Bloom's character. We usually lose ourselves in becoming successful or in attaining a certain goal that we neglect the small things in life that makes life itself matters at all, and it is not just love that we are talking about. At this point, I think that love is over-hyped but we shall leave this for some other time.
In any case, the main point of me mentioning this film is that I made me fall in love with the idea of road-trips. It romanticized the idea of going on a road-trip,town hopping and discovering the little things around that makes life beautiful. One of which that I found particularly interesting is The Survivor Tree (
wiki). In any case, I feel that I had a bit of an encounter with road-tripping when I took a 14 hour bus ride from Paris to Prague. It can be pretty thought provoking and inspirational. If I could, I would really wanna go a road trip someday.
The Origin. 7/20/2009 12:13:00 am