Over the last weekend, I was rather bored, went to cinema and watched one of the most boring and yet controversial movies of the year! Boring…, in the sense that the movie, “BURIED” is shot over-90 minutes, with only one actor and one scene throughout. Controversial…, in the sense that the storyline and the actor’s performance had clearly demonstrated the very real but cruel aspects of today’s lives… People get stuck, desperate and eventually die in a way beyond our control!
The main actor (Ryan Reynolds) in the movie is simply a man trying to make a living and is thrust and got stuck into a horrible situation (buried underground) somewhere in Iraq. All he wants is to get home to his wife and son alive. As the clock is ticking fast, he became desperate to safe himself, struggled hard, reacted irrationally in moments of panic and frustration, which is something every person can relate to in times of high stress and desperation before dying helplessly and miserably.
By the end of the show, it makes me wonder whether such a storyline also reflects the many facets of life stories of yours and mine, and perhaps many more out there. We may get stuck while in search of decent lives with our love ones in today’s globalised but segmentised world (where 90% of the world’s wealth are being controlled and manipulated by the top 10% of the world’s population), we enslaved ourselves for meagre incomes, along the way became so desperate to break free from our financial bondages and eventually ended up helplessly in a square box being buried four feet under!
Well, it’s rather sad indeed but I believe if we are not alert and not determined to take drastic actions, “BURIED” will become the His-story for you and me. For such, let me reiterate it once again, “Change We Need, Progress We Seek” and along the way to achieve breakthrough,
we need to Keep Focus, Be Patient and Be Positive. The only impossible journey is the one we never begin!
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