I saw this movie yesterday and it really got me thinking about myself. I've seen that it didn't do well at the box office as it shouldn't. Movies like this are not the reason you go to the cinema. You go to the cinema because you want to be entertained and forget the life you already have and watch other men do something that you physically can't or God forbid you're afraid to do. This movie, however, has a different approach. It reflects on who we are as a person. Most of us had high hopes when we get out of college but that hope gets a little dimmer everyday as we learn that not everybody gets to be a hero. So we end up resenting ourselves for not being who we wanted to be. But as life constantly shape and reshapes us we have to change our plans accordingly. As the movie truly dictates there's nothing worse than all your friends moving up in life with you being stuck at the same dead end job. I like how he said he felt "physical" pain. But in the end it tries to tell us subtly that even those friends have their own problems that are much bigger than what we have. This is the point where I'd like to digress and state that not everybody that makes money have problems. We all have problems of different variety and they are all problems. Even though it ends abruptly leaving the audience to their ideas to finish the story, ultimately it tries to teach us that being content what we have is the greatest favour we can do ourselves instead of resenting ourselves and the world. But that doesn't mean we should strive for something better, it just means to be happy with what we've got until the next better thing happens.
Review of Brad's Status
