Tonight I went to go see a new movie that just came out this weekend. In fact it was number 2 on the box office charts (just after Wall-E because who can resist adorable robots). Yes, I had the honor of watching Wanted tonight with my smuggled ice cream and new friends.
If you have yet to see it I promise to not give any spoilers that are too important to the story, but a couple quotes are sure to come out (so you can't say I didn't warn you). Wanted follows the story of a young accountant manager who is clearly not passionate about his job, boss, co-workers, or girlfriend. His life is worse than Office Space, minus the shitty copy machine.
On the other side of the city there is a battle going on. It is a fight between assassins and the winner of the duel is hard to predict until the last gunshot. Cut ahead and you find that these two situations are shockingly connected.
SPOILER: Ok, I lied, I will tell you a little of the set up for the hell of it. So the accountant is approached by Fox (Angelina Jolie) and brought into an assassins guild that is led by Morgan Freeman who reads tapestry to see who is the next to die. Accountant boy is the son of an assassin who is the only one who can kill the opposing assassin. Yadda-yadda-yadda and big twists you don't see coming after a lot of gore and action that are very interesting and fabulous. Cut to the end and the question is asked: What did you do today?
First off, great movie. It has gotten a lot of mixed reviews, but let me just say it was a terrific plot with lots of action that kept everyone guessing and enthralled, including those of us who traditionally do not look forward to gory action movies (cough cough). It is an interesting question to ask yourself every day.
What makes your day worth having? Are you following your destiny and/or fate or are you just wasting time? Life if a complicated game, but if you aren't having fun why play at all. And just because something makes one person happy does not make it the path for all. Set out and face your own individual challenges and make every decision and step lead the direction you want. On that same line, be flexible because goals change constantly and sometimes your dreams are different than those you imagined for yourself.
But enough of that philosophical stuff for now. If you find no other reason to go see Wanted let me let you in on another spoiler:
SPOILER PT2: Morgan Freeman, known for his multitude of roles with fantastic monologues and that fantastic voice trades sides for once and the words "this mother fucker" and his last word of the film is a shocked "FUCK".
One critic expressed his surprise that Morgan Freeman would stoop to taking a role such as this. Personally, I can see exactly why he took it. His speeches are just as inspiring and powerful as only he can make them, even in the throws of evil, but there is an aspect that for the first time makes him hard to like and impossible to hate. As one person I was with tonight mentioned "I thought it was suppose to be serious, but clearly it is a comedy".
Go to the movies and enjoy. And may I express my disappointment that Bon Jovi's Dead or Alive was not used in the movie.
And I hated my job before i saw the movie, but i quit my job a few days later. A call center job where i had to listen to assholes whine about their internet being too slow or their inability to use 3 way calling or speed dial. Do you know what its like to have to tell someone why they have to dial an area code for a number that isn't long distance, when they only had to dial the 7 digit number before, 50 times a day? I had to do this 40 hours a week with a possibility of mandatory overtime.
I had to get my wisdom teeth removed, so i took a few vacation days from work. I had some complications with the surgery and ended being off of work for 2 weeks. Every day that i was off, my will to work there grew to be less and less. After about a week i was going back to the surgeon and acting like i was in paint just to prolong the inevitable. On my first day back, i clocked out for lunch and told them that i wouldnt be back to finish my shift.
I have another job now. A job where i make less than half of what i was making at my old one. A job that only gives me about 15-30 hours of work per week. Now I have time to go to finish school, show my artwork in galleries, and hang out with my friends.
Great movie indeed.
"Prefiero morir parada que vivir la vida en mis rodillas"