Just watched The Leap Years on DVD - its not too bad a film. Nothing to really rave about but nonetheless it is one of the better local films that appeared on the big screen this year. Btw, i do feel that Singapore was portrayed rather beautifully throughout the show.
If you wish to learn more about the film, you can visit the official website - http://www.mediacorpraintree.com/TLY/
What really caught my attention was the quotes used at each junction of the movie. Two of them especially.
William Shakespeare: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Robert Frost: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
I find it very Zen like, very much in the spirit of buddhism. Just like what Buddha has once said, "You are the child of your past, parent of your future, the captain of your own ship."
These quotes remind us how we are the ones who really determine how we live and how impermanent all conditioned things are.
Things and events are always in a constant flux and though we may not have complete control on how these events will turn out but we definitely can influence them and even more so, to decide on our own mindset about them.
It goes on, does it not?
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