…..but you should give this a shot.

If you have a question to ask to me what my lifetime hobby is, I will answer, undoubtedly and decisively: learning how to live my live very well. I know that life is something very unique, it’s not ubiquitous to every person in every corner on streets in Jakarta, Paris, New York, Dakkar, Abu Ghrabi, etc. Everybody has his own story, not a common good. For some degree, I really like wise words from Forrest Gump, one of my lifetime favorite films, that are ‘life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get’. It accentuates the mystery of one’s life in it in a simple example of a common stuff. In everything I do, I can name it from something very simple up to the most elaborative I can do, I always starve for some kind of moral message in it as I believe that there is nothing I do or have done in vain for further development of me, but it’s not the aim of this posting. I just want to tell how a movie can really make you feel more aware, spirited, and moving at the same time, to the least.

For instance, every time I feel like watching movies, actually sometimes I have no special purposes in it, though. However, if you can learn something from doing it, is it like a bonus, yes? This film is a kind of a moving film, in a sense that it teaches you how to cherish the life you got, not to stop struggling and craving for unexpected extremely happy ending life, including your love story, and to remember something very memorable in your life because someday it can be very helpful, like the magnificent Jamal, whose life is full of surprises, fortunate, and happy events.

Yes, of course, you can’t learn how to live a life from merely reading piles of thousands of books or watching hours of movies. There is no text book, or alike for it. But, I this Slumdog Millionaire will give you some thought of how you should live your life, I suppose. Anyway, one of the interesting parts of it is that we can see how poor Indian is, only slightly different from Indonesian, especially Mumbai. Thus, there is still a big hope for us to thrive, focusing our energy on advancing knowledge. Oops, sorry, this is another story...