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YOU ARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE
-- On The 1985 Movie 'One Magic Christmas'
I've been trying to write this movie review for weeks, unsuccessful. For each time I made up my mind to write, tears blurred my view, and I then went to watch the movie again from the link a friend posted in this Web Forum. (http://web.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=mysj&MsgID=63089)
After watching this movie for the first time, I went to Amazon and read some reviews there. Gladly, most people are like me and they like this movie a lot for its holiday spirit and for the hope it gives us. However, there are some different people who think it is depressing and so doesn't fit the holiday season. I recall one of Benjamin Franklin's famous quotes that goes: "some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." (http://web.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=mysj&MsgID=44136) Why do these people die so prematuredly? It's because they stop growing, and they stop growing by stop dreaming and believing.
Among the many details in the movie that touch me deeply, are the following scenes:
- When the hockey ball flies toward Abbie, Gideon, the angel, interfered. The ball changes its course and hits a window instead. Whenever I think of this movie, I hear Abbie's sweet and innocent voice saying: "the window is broken!"
- Great grandpa gives Cal an old bedtime story book his mother used to read to him and Abbie a snow globe of the North Pole as Christmas gifts. It reminds me of those brand new 10/20 cents bills my father and uncle gave us during Chinese New Year many years back when I was around Abbie's age. Back then, my family wasn't rich, but we kids were always treasure. When New Year was approaching, dad always went to the bank and got those "ear cutting" new bills for us, just as mom never failed to prepare new clothes for us by the same time.
- After time is reversed, Ginny gives the potential gunman, who would have killed her hu*****and Jack, 50 dollars for his useless tool, to save this guy as well as Jack's life. My grandma had taught me since I was little: one cent could kill a hero.
- Both Gigeon and Santa tell Abbie that they can't fix things like that (bring her dad back to live), only her mother can do it. ---- Dream can become true, only if you believe it!
After watching this movie, I recall a fact that "there are countless ways to break a glass, but the only way to put it back together is traveling back in time".
All in all, "I am a scientist, and I believe fairy tale!" (Grace in Avatar)
