Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Reflections of the movie If Only

Last Sunday, I watched a movie made in 2004 called If Only. At first, it tells a dream that the man called Ian had. The dream is about the last day of Ian' lovely musician girlfriend Sam who loves Ian very much. Ian is a successful businessman, but most time, he just takes Sam' s deep love for granted and seldom gives enough care and attention to her. Still on Sam's last day, he focuses much on his work and negelects her, even her important graduate performance. In his dream, then at the 11 o'clock, Sam has a car accident in the car that she gets on after she quarrels with Ian. The serious accident makes her lose life. Ian is heartbroken to death. And after back to house, he see the diary of Sam and begins to recall the love and care she gives him. It makes  him very painful and regrets what he has done to his so good girlfriend. Fortunately, it is just a dream.
After he wakes up, he finds that everything happens just as it did in the dream, except that the order and the form of things change. This makes him afraid, because he is afraid of really losing Sam. So he trys his best to give her happiness, and also, during that time, he feels again and again how good his girlfriend is and how bad he is before. However, unfortunate thing finally comes. They meet the same taxi and the same driver at 11 clock as they did in the dream. Ian makes sure that it is their destiny. But this time, instead of quarreling, he gets on the taxi with her and protects her when the car crashes the taxi. He dies finally and leaves Sam alone.
The love story touches me and more importantly, it reminds me of some lessons. We should cherish the things we have already had now, especially the love among us. It is a easy lesson but we seldom can do it. What we always do is to take all of them for granted and persue other things that we do not own. To be honest, many times, I do not care and appreciate much about the help and care from my friends. Instead, I care and thank more for the favour a acquaintance gives me. That is totally wrong and unfair. After watching the movie, I began to imagine that if I lose all my friends, what my life will be. So I realized that I need them and I really appreciate all they have given me. Thanks, my friends and all the people giving me the love.

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, I also have some similar reflections, though, not on this movie...Cherish all the things we already have. It is an easy lesson but hard to be put into practice. We all still need to learn, to experience...

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  2. Cherish everything we have already had. Especially when I left my home and keep facing more and more people passing away,I can feel how life is frail! Sometimes I even worry my relatives and friends will suddenly left me. What I can do is just to cherish the moment and never have a chance to regret.

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