Once is Enough

If you want to find something entertaining yet inspiring, watching movies, especially dramas or based on true stories, is one good choice. If you are into comedy, horror, action, or science fiction, you still get the inspiration, too. It depends on how you interpret the meaning of the movie for your source of inspiration. But of course, the inspiration you get is about doing good things, right?

There are times when you watch a nice movie and you want to watch it again and again. Or maybe you don't have any intention to watch it again, but when you know it is being played in front of you, you still can enjoy it. You enjoy it because of the funny stories, the excellent graphics, or perhaps the handsome actor. You have already got some inspiring lessons from that movie the first time you watched it.

However, there are other times when you watch a movie which is so painfully heart touching  that you don't want to watch it for the second time. You don't want to watch it anymore because you know the effect while watching it; you can't stop crying. You can't stand feeling the pain and sadness of the actors or animal actors in the movie. Have you ever felt that way? If no, that's not a problem. Maybe you are the type of a person who always considers that watching movies is just about enjoying a pure entertainment. You don't get carried away with the emotion in the movie. If yes, you have the same problem with me.

I won't ever watch these three movies anymore: Black Hawk Down, Eight Below, Hachi: A Dog's Tale. The first time I watched those movies, I couldn't stop crying while watching. There were shootings, killings, and brutalities in Black Hawk Down. But that's not what makes me want to not watch it again. It's the feeling of one soldier (played by Josh Hartnett) who had a war in his own heart about that war. It was his big empathy for the victims and his questioning himself about his essence in that war  that made me hard to stop crying. I felt very tired after watching that movie. Perhaps it was because of my hard struggle to be strong when watching the brutalities while finally ending up crying.

About Eight Below and Hachi: A Dog's Tale, remembering some scenes from those movies already makes me try hard to hold back my tears. I am not a dog lover, but my heart melts and my tears flow when seeing a dog's loyalty to his dog friends in Eight Below and a dog's love for his human in Hachi: A Dog's Tale. So, once is enough for me to watch those movies. Once is enough for me to know that animals have feelings, too.