November 3, 2002

Movies about children …

I watched "Legend of the Red Dragon" with Jet Li in it. Lots of martial arts action, cute kids playing at Shaolin fighting and some pretty funny moments thrown in for good measure. One thing that sticks in my mind is the mother of the female protagonist (Jet Li’s character’s love interest) saying "If you’re going to court my daughter, you need to have money!" and Jet Li says "I respect her, isn’t that enough?" and she responds "Not in this day and age!" :p I might be being very cynical but while that was supposed to be ancient China, I don’t think that has really changed at all at any time or in any place in the world – not really. A lot of people seem to put money before love and happiness. Maybe they are realists and I’m just an idealist but I can’t but feel that love and happiness should come first. Oh well …
All the movies today seem to be about kids :p I also watched a Tamil movie about a guy who adopts a child after he loses his own wife and child and about their relationship. The child’s father comes in to the picture later on and wants the child back but the child considers the guy to be his father and doesn’t want to go to his real father. While it was drenched in emotion, I still loved the movie and the fact that a person can love somebody else’s child as their own. Some people seem to think this is impossible but I don’t – I think you should love any child irregardless of whether they are your own or not. Children are perhaps the best part of humanity and it’s sad that children are not treated that way instead of being subjected to the whims and fancies of adults – who really aren’t adult at all in some cases.

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Tracie 04 November 2002 at 3:49 am

Great job on the new journal, Fahim. And great post this was.

I have to admit I’m like, kinda weirded out that you’re -not- using Blog! I understand the reasons, but it still threw me for a sec. 🙂

And FYI: I keep getting an error message when I try to post his comment. Trying again!

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Tracie 04 November 2002 at 3:50 am

It worked that time because I added the email address (fake). You should disable that! hehe

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Fahim 04 November 2002 at 1:57 pm

Ah that explains the error :p I don’t get e-mail notifications of comments on the other system if no e-mail address is filled in but here it looks as if you can’t even post a comment without an e-mail address (even if it is a dummy :p) I’ll have to see if that can be changed somewhere …

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