rise of the guardians

this is easily one of the best animations these few years.

not just something to laugh your 1-odd hour away like a giggling toy while you munch silly on your nachos and popcorns. i mean, it's easy for animation movies to make people laugh. it's what they're meant to do anyway. at least for most of the animations.

all the guardians watch over children, along with their hopes, dreams and joy. they lose their magic and strength when children stop believing in them. obviously, all the guardians have undergone some sort of revamping programme, they become militarized and they appear much cooler. how often do you see a tattooed santa, an easter bunny equipped with boomerangs or a tooth fairy who is not airy fairy, like a winged princess?

i really think this generation of kids, this world and the emotional state of humans needs this kind of movie. I guess when we believe in something which we used to have faith in, when we were young and naive, we lit up something in us which glows and warms us up. it's like when you look like children, their eyes, all sparkly; when you talk to them, so full of sunshine.

Things change when people grow, they want other stuff. they choose to put their trust in (most of the time) material stuff and cast everything about imagination away. But how can you live, like really live like a person, if you cease to imagine and enjoy the happiness it brings?

Wouldn't everything be tasteless and monotonous like chewing on white chalk?
But people still fear, and choose not to do anything to change it except for blabbering on and on about how difficult life is. isn't it ironic? You choose to be limp and pathetic; you choose to stay on in this state; and still, you want to stay on in this rut?

WHY OH WHY.

when you forget the real meaning of being happy, then at the same time, you must have wasted all yours years just living like a single-celled organism.

and just let me exclaim, the easter bunny is so darn cute and cuddly when he loses his power.
CUTE.

and and jude law doesn't sound like Pitch, or Pitch doesn't sound like him, any way you like to phrase it.

anyhoos. great movie.
catch it if you can ((: