Blast from the Past

stayed home on a Sunday morning to do some uber delayed chores. usually when i do stuff around the house, i need to have some noise (music or TV) on the background to keep me going. for today, its the teli.

i don't watch local channels much, so i am very dependent on cable.  the suspect for today, Star Movies Channel. what's on? Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. talk about old school flick.

Ted is played by a goofy looking, awkward walking, silly talking keanu reeves.  the matrix guy has gone a long way after that.

i think this is the genre where the words "dude", "awesome" and "totally" got popularized.  and who would ever forget those invisible guitar riffs when they are ecstatic. classic.

when i watched it in my early teens (not giving away my age of course..) its mostly about 2 lame best friends, funny antics, silly humor and just plain fun movie.

but now, having viewed it again. I have a different perspective with the story.  weird, i know. maybe its me, growing up? maturing perhaps? or nothing better to do?

i haven't seen a movie who has God, grim ripper, humans, aliens, even albert einstein get together to fight the futuristic Bill & Ted robotic evil version. 

i mean.. good, evil, weird, crazy, wise mixed in past, present and future.. how interesting is that?! 

segue: thinking about movies and life. i guess, you could say they go hand in hand. 

going through the plot of the story, the real bill and ted are off to have a dream come true on joining battle of the bands to hopefully kick off their music careers. then an evil character from the future makes a reel bill and ted to kill that dream. 

we have our own dreams, our aspirations.. and when we finally get there, some people tend to pull us down. for Filipinos, its the classic "crab mentality." why do people do it? of envy? despite? bitterness? insecurity? who knows!

like in the movie, in the end they ask God how to defeit the fakes. even the grim ripper knows where to run to with the predicament.

in life.. when all hope is gone, we run towards the last resort we can think of. God. when you think about it, it is quite unfair that we only recognize Him when we are on the deepest end. during the happy-filled sugarcoat moments, He doesn't even slip our minds. Does it bother Him? of course Not!

complex as it may sound, but its simple when you look beyond it. 

i don't want to come across as spiritual, we are talking about the bogus journey here.  kinda ruins the whole spirituality theme, right?

situations we dealt with, the people we meet and encounter, the journey we have to walk through.. all has a purpose, has a meaning. 

Bill and Ted realized the importance of their friendship, their dream and the people around them at the end of the movie. acted in a loser, uncanny but somewhat funny kind of way.  

movies most often have happy endings, but life doesn't. it's not always bed of roses, sometimes it has torns. it is up to you to remove those torns and throw away the old petals to give room to the new ones.

we may pattern our lives through the plot of films, in the end, there is only one thing that will matter.  where are we going to run after the credit rolls.

so dude! totally live your life! 
do the invisible guitar riffs.
maybe get the same hairstyle too. 
awesome!




~A