Landing is not an easy task to some people...

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2010)

"So you get married and buy a house... Have a kid, and another and then Christmas, thanksgiving, spring break... Going to football games, and then all of a sudden they're graduating. They're getting jobs, getting married. And, you know, I'm a grandparent. And then I'm retired. I'm losing my hair, I'm getting fat. And then the next thing you know I'm dead. I'm just, like...I can't stop from thinking, what's the point?"
There is no point. All you have to know is what to do with the time that was given to you. Everything else, it's just, you know... Pointless. Some people can see trough the veil of impositions that is pulled right on our faces since the day we was born and feel uncomfortable with that. They just want to live out of the patterns, because patterns make them feel like a robot, a creature without soul, with roots so attached on the ground that makes impossible to walk further.
The main character ask you an important question: "What is in you backpack?" among all the stuff we buy and collect just to fill our backpack to mask the loop and the emptiness of our modern lives, you will find just a very few things which is really important to us. Everything else, is just dead-weight that make us unable to walk, grounding us in the land so deep, that the roots grow... And you could never fly again.
"And what's so nice about flying around?" they say. They will ask you loud and clear, that the echoes of that question will hit you so often that you, once in a while, will ask yourself the same question and most times, you won't have a concrete answer to reply them.
But make no mistake: It's all about flying. When you are above the clouds, watching the landscapes below with a wider perspective, you begin to understand again, and the sensation of being complete, even without having strong roots, take you by assault louder than the question. In fact, you perceive that you don't need the "QA's", you just need to be yourself and ground your plane only when the tower tells you that the wind is calm, the airport is free and you are good to go.
But of course, it's always better to fly around with a co-pilot by your side, even that you trust your life on the automatic...
** this movie REALLY deserves the Oscar. **