"This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke."
Carl Fredricksen
Up
2009
The skies the limit. A dream is unlimited. A plan for adventure, escape and sacrifice comes with more than an idea, it comes with the courage to look up.
Up was a creative film. Animation aside, the morale of this film was true and heartfelt and exceptionally coincidental to many of us in our life's adventures. I think about the sky and its endless opportunity and meaning. I think about the scientific aspect of what is going along in that very existence as clouds form and rain begins to follow. I think about how much wind and sun and energy it takes to find a blue sky.
We can only look up for meaning, and into ourselves for definition of our dreams.
Time, age, and motivation are sometimes what allows and at the same time hinders making dreams come true. What I liked about his film was that ongoing charisma towards finding solitude and comfort with the world. Between all the travels, the people that were along the way, and of course the characters in themselves, Up gave a different look into a search for paradise; Paradise Falls that is.
Think about balloons for a minute. They house either air or helium and they are drawn towards the sky. It is not like they just aim for the ground first. That occurs over time, as the air or helium become less and less needed. Are balloons carrying us up up and away for a brief moment, or are they giving us something to hold onto.
Children are fascinated with balloons. They are intrigued with string and how a balloon flies away if you let go.
Is the weight of the world on individual balloons? Is the weight of the world on a string? I like to think of it as the dreams of the world our on a string, waiting to be full of air and soaring above the land in which we live. The greatest part about balloons and dreams is that both are allowed a second flight. All you have to do is take that first breath, and find your inner child.
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Balloons, like imagination, are uplifting, not down drifting. But you said it better.