Don't think me naive, but sometimes when I stop and think, my own mortality scares me a little bit. And sometimes a lot a bit. I recognize that turning 20 really isn't that big of a deal but realistically it's about a quarter of my life. I've been trying to use this as a friendly reminder not to take things for granted and to remember that I need to continue living a story that is worth telling.
This is on my mind right now because I just got back from seeing The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with my mother a couple of hours ago. It's about seven(or so) elderly people that decide to leave England and stay at this supposedly fantastic hotel in India, only one of them ever having been there before. I won't give away much about it but there are basically about half of them that quickly adapt and take advantage of the new situation they are in and the others just stay at the hotel and have a terrible time. In the movie one of the women says that living in a new culture is comparable to swimming in the ocean, if you swim against the waves you will drown but if you go swim with them you will get to the other side.
I wish someone had drilled that into my head before I went to Costa Rica last year.
It was refreshing to see a movie that focused on the culture of any other group of people than Americans and it really made me want to go overseas again and this time immerse myself in the culture more.
Overall the movie was a fantastic one in that it reminded me that regardless of how old you are it is never to late to do anything until you die.
Oh yeah, it also reminded me that you won't get anything you don't believe that you deserve.
While it's not about other cultures, per se, it more focuses on the whole mortality aspect, feel like you would really enjoy the film Synecdoche, New York.
ReplyDeleteOK Aaron. I feel like there is a disconnect here. I don't understand how women going to a hotel and either adapting to the culture or not (and you having to adapt to it in Costa Rica) has anything to do with living and dying. So please enlighten me: please explain what you are trying to articulate more in terms of the information that you have provided and the connections you are trying to make.
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