Brave Enough To Take Choices ?

Recently, I watched a movie called "Legend of 1900". It is about a man who was born on a ship and spent all his life on it. He was named after the year he was born in, 1900. "1900" naturally played the piano. He was so talented that people took the trip from America to Europe on this particular ship to only enjoy his music.

He had the chance to leave the ship couple of times, to publish his music and become the most famous musician in his time, but he refused to leave. The reason wasn't revealed till the last moments of the movie, when he preferred to be blown up with the ship and not to leave it and continue his life on land.

For him, the reason was so clear and simple. His life was limited on this ship, his choices was countable. He was able to decide everything in his life so easily, he felt that he was in control with his own life on this ship. So, he simply refused to leave his life, as he knew it, and live on land with tons of choices to choose from. He just couldn't get how people can decide which way to take for work, for example.

For me, it was a normal musical movie which is full with piano solos, till its last 15 minutes when the reason was said and the point of the story was revealed.

I though about the story after the movie ended. It would be normal if he died on ship before it was blown up, it wouldn't be affective. But to choose to end your life because you're afraid of living a different life, is another story. It pushed me to think about me. I don't like choices myself. It takes me some time to decide doing anything but I am not that afraid of choices to give up my life to avoid taking them.

In life, we face choices, take some and take responsibility for them. It is life's nature. I can't imagine life without choices, it would lose its meaning and taste.

May be, "1900" was right not to leave the ship, because it was the life as he knew it. May be, he was wrong to give up his life, because he had the choice to try something different but he chose to die instead. In both cases, I can't blame him, but I can blame who have choices and don't take any. I can blame who have the choice and leave others to decide for him.

Life is an adventure we take and we are the ones who write its end. Make sure you write your own end as you like it, as you want it, with your own free-will as you are the one who takes its results. So, "think wisely".

If You Believe

I decided that the next post after my birthday must be about something I love. Today, by chance, I found a video for a song from my best movie ever "A walk to remember", I memorize this movie by word :D

The song is called "If You Believe" by Rachel Lampa. I love the lyrics and the music and it's similar to my mood.

So, Here it is.

Rachel Lampa - If You Believe lyrics

Amazing Movie to Watch

Few days ago, I watched an interview with Dr Madkor Thabet. Dr Thabet is one of the most experienced people in movie making field. He held important positions in the Egyptian Ministry of Cultural. The interview was about his new movie that is called “Magic of the past in the video’s treasures سحر ما فات في كنوز المرئيات”. This movie is produced by Dream TV.

In the movie, dr Thabet tried to tell the history of Egypt over the past century since 1889. He went on a search travel to collect the rare videos taken in important events happened over the past century. He collected some videos from Lemerre Brothers Corporation in Paris, Egyptian and Arab Production Companies.

Dr Thabet arranged the videos he collected in such an amazing creative way. While watching the movie, you will hardly notice that these scenes were taken by different people over different times. And this is the most amazing thing about this movie. While watching the movie, you will be accompanied with a comment written by dr Thabet and voice of both great actors “Mohamed Wafee” and “Mahmoud El gendy”. Dr Thabet asks really important questions that worth thinking in.
The movie contains videos that record important moments in Egypt history. Most of these videos were never seen before, and this is what makes this movie a real treasure.

Some of the scenes I saw were the Egyptians gathered to meet Saad Zaghlol when he came back from his exile in1919, the arrival of King Farouk as a handsome young man to Egypt to rule it and a meeting of the Arab leaders upon the Palestinian war in 1948. There are also many scenes during July revolution, 1952. One of the rare scenes (in my opinion) was a march for President Mubarak between normal citizens in an open ceiling car.
There are videos for many other moments of the history of Egypt. You can see parts of the movie on YouTube. You will find the introduction of the movie here

The movie forced me to think about the past. If you look closer to the history, you will notice that history always repeats itself. This is a fact. You will see that people are still the same. People in that movie don’t differ much from us now, same appearance, same look and same differences.
It made me think how Egypt will look after 100 years from now. I couldn’t imagine that there will be people living in the same places we are living in now, without even knowing that we had ever existed here. It is a strange thought but that is what I thought of.

Anyway, I only watched few scenes from the movie, but I can’t imagine how I will feel while watching the whole movie. I can’t wait to see the whole movie.