One Saturday morning, I spotted a piece of article lying on top of the car
that just pulled up in front of my car. As I followed behind the car, I pressed my
car horn to get the attention of the driver but the driver kept on going and seemed to have picked up some speed . Then just as I had hoped for, the traffic lights turned red and the car
had to come a halt at the junction. The driver completely ignored my honking.
When I tried to get into the lane besides the car, the driver made way for me. It was apparent that the driver might have mistaken me as some aggressive driver who was just trying to get ahead.
Finally I pulled up beside the driver who turned out to be a lady and
reluctantly she turned to look at me when I wound down my car window. I could
not bear the thought that the article might drop off her car along the way and the
person would be wondering what had happened to the article. Perhaps the person
deserved to lose the thing but since I was so close to getting across the
message, I was not going to give up. I was just simply amazed that the person
could be so intimidated by my honking without even looking to see who and why I
had been honking.
When we recall about the occasions how we have been forgetful and careless, these incidents are hilarious
with hindsight. As one gets older, one
experiences memory lapses and it is probably due to aging. There are also times when we
misplace things because we are pre-occupied and not paying attention. Sometimes I
find it burdensome to keep unhappy memories so I try to master the art of
forgetting certain unpleasant incidences. It is not easy to forget and move on as these unhappy memories
have a tendency to cling on like leeches. We choose to remember what we want to
remember but when one cannot
remember what he or she wants to remember, memory loss becomes a grave concern.
Alzheimer disease accounts for one of the major causes for dementia and since memories form an integral part of a person, it is
definitely tragic when one suffers memory loss.
At BAFTA this
year Julian Moore won the best actress award for her role in Still Alice. When Dr
Alice Howland , an ambitious linguistic professor finds herself
having memory lapses such as losing words in the middle of her lectures
and losing bearing when she goes
jogging, she visits a neurologist. When she is diagnosed with the early onset
of the dreadful Alzheimer disease, she is devastated and Julian Moore has given
the character another one of her best performances.
Boyhood won the best
picture at BAFTA this year. Boyhood
is interesting in that the plot is
a work in progress and the film has taken literally 12 years to make as the
child actors grew into teenagers. All the actors participated in the writing
process while the director keeps the general plot intact. The central theme
of Boyhood
is about coming of age and though the theme is not novel, the plot is
compelling indeed.
Both Still Alice and Boyhood are good
films that deal with issues in real life and subjects that are realistic.
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