Well, finally no more exams, at least not now, though next week still has this tupid Biology Re-trial, really dunno why she wants this (whack!!!)
So, i let myself, took a one night free, fulfilled my own promise to my restriction, i watched "Mulligans".
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Its really a great one, i should say. Can't really point out any flaws; the only flaws i think is its too short! Felt like somewhat rushing, without realize its already one and a half hour and the credits is on showed already. Can't get enough of it.
But ah, for those who more into action movies or like those movies with @#$%^&* argue llike no tomorrow one, you might have to reconsider to watch this movie, because even i personally admit that if i watch this movie two or three years ago(lucikly it was made this year :)), i would have snoozed off in the half way.
Well, already 20-years-old, guess somehow mind will change, which i can take in movies such as these types that deal more with the inner feelings of the characters.
hmmhmm...
So, for those who had been reading up my posts, i think i had made a short synopsis for what is this movie deal for, let me paste it here:
"I think for those who play golf, you know what is meant by mulligna, it means a second swing after a failure first swing during a practice or gameplay, but you can't do a mulligan in real competition. i.e. the theme of the movie resolves on life. Some may have the second chances, but sometimes, life is just no second chance.
So this movie resolves around a succesful father(means got family, got great financial etc). Nathan, who has been successfully hiding his true sexual orientation for 25 years, get into dilemma when his son, Tyler, brought his's best friend, Chase (who is gay and Tyler not know bout it ) for the summer vacation. Well of course Nathan and Chase got into the unspeakable affair, and i really want know how will the mother solves this tragedy, what will happen between Nathan and his wife, Nathan and his son and daughter, Tyler and Chase.
[oh yea, this is kinda a bit of LGBT movie but there's no exploitation on xxx-scene, even watchmen is more exploited if you know what is it. but still, if you are homophobic, please don't critisize anything, you can just walk away and forget about this post. The thing that i want to look into is, how a family work. Just like the story writer, Chalie Davod(roled Chase) saidthe thing that this movie wanted to come up with was what and how exactly was behind a family. They can be great in front of anyone, but after the door closed, noone knows.]"
From: Restriction
So yeah, Mulligans means a second action or a second play for a player after a failure swing of golf. But what about in real life? Do you get a chance to swing for the second time?
Dan Payne who starred Nathan Davidson, the father, really made this movie into a real-show of a reality. Be it the problems of his affair with his son's best friend, Chase or the problems with his wife, Stacy. Throughout this whole drama, you can see that its the compressed mode of the dramas everyday you can see in your life.
One point i wanna point out though, Stacy is the typical mother who so scare about his children on early exposure to sex-related matters while her daughter, Birdie Davidson, is the typical modern kid who knows more than they should. And just think bout what grandma said to Stacy:" She will find out some days, beside, its nothing wrong with an earlier education."
See, just how importan sex education is??!!
Chase and Tyler, the buddies, also put more dramatic effect into this movie, sometimes you just donno you should laugh or worry, the timing things happen is just so unexpected. and they made it even better, really like both of their acting skills.
Its really a nice movie, even though its gay-orientated, there's no exploitation. Nice quotes, nice drama skills, nice storyline, touching reality, and i tell you, its ending, kinda...
(scroll down and see!)
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Quotes:"..Make you wanted to do the things you want, you know, it all goes by so fast" and "I'm just saying that to just leave my mark somehow." by Chase Rousseau (starred Charlie David)
This quote shows life passes by very fast before we know, and we all wanted to leave something behind. I guess this pretty much is true, i suppose each and everyone of us got our own dream, rite?
"You can't blame a person for who they are." by Stacy Davidson (starred Thea Gill)
A person is still the same person no matter what has happened; i guess this is pretty much most homo-friends been want others to look on them.
There are pretty much more quotes that are meaningful, and the one i most like is this:
"Choice is after you made it at that time, and your make them and your new life becomes your life." by Nathan Davidson ( starred Dan Payne)
This qoute is the first quote stuck in my head tonight, we did hear something like these before, but the storywriter(Charlie David) used another way to present it---after you made a choice, that choice evntually becomes your life no matter how you don't like it."
So imagine it, for 25 years Nathan has been living a lie to himself, he denied his own sexual orientation and chose to build a family; no matter how "unreacted" he is with women, he already made the choice his life.
So friends, let's learn something from this movie. We got dreams, and some of us might just not be able to pursuit our dreams, we have to make sacrifices. This is reality because sometimes life just s merciless. But pals, don't live a life that you have to lie to yourself. Well of course you don't want to live a 40-years-plus like Nathan and realize that you have been living a lie and everything is fake??? That's the real nightmare in your life.
I know most of us started to figure out what to do after STPM, local universities, going oversea, choosing what degrees, getting what careers; all these, i'm sure, have been ringing in everyone's mind these days. Well, i just want to say, after almost two years after my UEC in STTSS, i learnt something and that is called:" don't choose something that you not even have any interest in."
Your life, your choice.
Seriously there is noone else can interrupt your decision. However, as i said, reality doesn't always goes on the way we hope, so if you have to choose something else than your dream, choose an alternative that at least, you have the interest in.
Don't be like my friends those who went oversea study for let say pharmacy and reason? their dads want them to.
I know parents play a major role here, but the even major decision-maker is in your hand. Use it wise. Because, we might not have the chance to do a Mulligan; a second swing.
Don't let things like, " oh, how i wish the time could be reversed." happen.
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The secne i liked most, The Ending. (contain spoilers!)
The ending is really touching, really unexpectedly simple and yet touching. You see, at the end Nathan leaves the family and pursuit his life, all over again, wtihout losing his own family(huh?). Means he leaves the house physically, but mentaly he is still there, loving everyone of them. That's why its titled Mulligan-the second swing.
While i really wonder bout Chase, because the ending(or so) didn't mention about what happened on him except Tyler accepted him back as the buddy and he is leaving the town. So, what happen bout between Nathan and Chase?
Credits is rolling~~~ i was like @_@, don't tell me this is it, i will scream like hell one!!! no ending?!!! out of dismay and kinda started to dissapointed, i left the credits rolled because the ending song, Turn Around by Ben Sigston is really good....
Then a scene cut in, with Chase sitting on the bus stop's bench, a white bus stopped by. Chase put belongings on the bus, and he left. The scene showing the bench without anyone on there; all these times the background music is Ben Sigston's Blind, with lyrics:
Open you eyes open your mind you know that truth is hard to find
say that you see say that you free with nothing to know is to be told
there goes my life is passing by where does it goes i'll never know there goes my dreams...
So, Chase was just a passerby, after all...
I can't really coice out the feeling, it will be better if you watch it yourself, its really mixng, and at that moment, i felt like tears are rsuhing out alreayd, Charlie David is really amazing because this final ending is acted without showing facial expression, we can only see his leg, hopping up on bus..then gone...
This is a really nice movie, i am just so touched...
Remember, your choice is your new life, and you new life becomes your life.
