Pick Flick: Everybody's Fine

I was feeling a little sad so I watched this feel-good movie I bought two weeks ago. But NO. I really thought it was a feel-good comedy because I saw the trailer one time and deduced from there that this is one of those family comedies. Was I ever wrong. Only ten minutes into the movie and my tears started to fall.

I love and hate family dramas. I love them because they almost always strike a chord because we all have our own share of family drama. And I hate them because they always leave me with a debilitating headache from all the crying.

Frank Goode (Robert de Niro) tries to connect with his children after his wife's death and in the process, he realizes that he was never close to his children. Maybe because he was busy working PVC stuff used on telephone wires. He was proud that he has four successful children but what he didn't know was these were all padded stories. When he paid his children a surprise visit, he discovers that it's not at all coming up roses. His children didn't want to tell him the truth for fear of disappointing him.

My realization (parang reaction paper ng high school ah) from this movie was parents will always want the best for their children. They would always push us to be the best of what we are. According to my mommy, Be the best of what you are/ If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, which she regularly recites to us. They mean well. They just think that if you become a successful lawyer, then you'll live comfortably and live a good life. We may think otherwise and it's in this situation that maybe we have to assert what we want. I can do what they want me to do but when it turns out it's not what I want, I don't want to go blaming my parents why I am miserable. And if ever my life turns out to be sucky, I have myself to blame.

My most favorite part was when he was preparing for his children's arrival for their reunion... so he bought these stuff including a $600 barbecue grill~ all the best for his children. And then suddenly everybody can't come. That scene made me super-depressed.

Good movie. Go watch it. Prepare to cry.