This post took me a month beofre i could post it. The hype of TBATB has already died by now but i wanted to share this.
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"How does a moment last forever?
How can a story never die?
It is love we must hold onto
Never easy but we try"
We all know that disney movies are about happily ever afters and such. In this world already filled with despair and hurt, everybody dreams of their own disney tale. Everyone wants their own happy ending.
Having read the story a thousand times, i pay my respect and i commend the people behind the classic tale for not dissapointing the believers of hope and love.
"Sometimes our happiness is captured
Somehow, a place and time stand still
Love lives on inside our hearts
And always will"
It actually has the most beautiful music score from all of the disney films. That's for me. *winks* Indeed, The soundtrack touches hearts but it somehow goes beyond what we can see and hear. It stirs emotions... thoughts... memories. Though, these kind of films are about damsels in distress and how they find their prince charmings who'd sweep them off their feet, it has a much deeper story line like any other walt disney films. This one showed how little people thought of the world and of other people. In the story it emphasizes the beauty of literacy, of books and reading and how they appear to make a small corner of one's world seem so much more. The plot revolves around memories and one's willingness to be free from the tangles that holds them from realizing their potentials and are sometimes set by the kind of life we live in. Our idiocracy is the very notion that hinders us from our dreams.
It has a lot of lessons... lessons that have been told from one story to another.
"Maybe some moments weren't so perfect
Maybe some memories not so sweet"
Perhaps, the peculiar feeling of having Emma Watson play the lead role had somewhat to do with the feeling of nostalgia when she used to portray Hermione Granger in Harry Potter. It was odd seeing her differently. Though a few didn't love the way she sang because of her accent, still she did the character and her principle justice.
Professor Sybill Trelawney, the Seer, is in the movie as Mrs. Potts. An applause for her for also giving a great rendition to the song that has been in every growing child's music library.
"But we have to know some bad times
Or our lives are incomplete"
It was hard to be holding back tears through out the movie but i got a good grip of myself. I thank it though for bringing me back to my childhood because I was from the era of disney on videotapes. It allowed my thoughts to travel back to those good old days when Papa, Mike and I would rent video tapes from the nearest store. I dug down memory lane and visited the memories of my childhood... to those days when life was sweeter and easier.
"Then when the the shadows overtake us
Just when we feel all hope is gone
We'll hear our song and know once more
Our love lives on"
But what does the story really tells us?
It is the very fact that love sees beyond all flaws and mistakes. It chooses to forgive... to continue to love. And it endures everything forever. That genuine kind of love that you can rarely see nowadays. Like all Disney tales, it makes you hope that in this world filled with pretentious people somewhere, somehow that kind of love exists. It lives on.
I have a vivid thought about the tale of love. I believe in second chances, of forgiveness and the ability of people to change. Now, i couldn't help but think of that very same feeling which makes me joyous and sad at the same time and it makes me smile.
It will always be enough.
"But when all else has been forgotten
Still our song lives on"
