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Winter 2015

Arts

George Lucas with the film's protagonists at the 66th Venice International Film Festival

I want to write about simple, wonderful and adventurous cartoon film. “Up” is the name of this film. The story of it revolves around a boy and girl who love adventures. He met her by chance in an old house. The strange thing was that she looked like him. Her way of talking gave the start a kind of suspense and he listened with great attention to the degree that he did not say any words. He was watching her with the fear that he would miss something from her facial expressions that reflected her love of adventure and expressions. After a while during their first meeting, he broke his arm and the girl came to see him from his room's window. She wanted to share her little and innocent secret with him which was an adventure book. It had some pictures, but the rest of the pages, she wanted to fill them with her adventures when she grows up. With a childlike face full of enthusiasm, she asked him to promise her to take her to Paradise Falls when he grows up. With time, they grew up and got married and beautifully they bought that old house. The most beautiful thing was they worked hand in hand from the first moment in their home in their wedding clothes. They could change the broken, old house to a warm and beautiful nest full of a lot of meaning-the simplest one was love. They shared everything, even their fingerprints on their mailbox. They did a lot in their life. Collecting money was what they tried hard for to make their dream come true, but every time a new problem came along- the money was gone. In time, the wife became sick, so the husband bought her a ticket to go to their childhood dream, but the disease was faster than him. She was in the hospital when she gave him that book, which she wanted to fill before she got old and died. She died and left him alone in that home filled with her memories in every corner. He was angry when he got in trouble, so he thought of an almost impossible idea. He stayed all night blowing up balloons so he can move his home to the waterfalls. And that was what actually happened. He faced a lot of difficulties, but he challenged them and at one point he realized he wanted to think with himself too much. nostalgia for the past made him open that book. By opening it, his face changed. He found his wife had filled it with their memories together. When he needed to choose between his past or save that little boy who shared his journey by chance, he abandoned all that and hurried to his rescue. His eyes were following the house when it flew away-carried by balloons. Maybe their pure love with the help of their innocent dream had led it to its last place to be a witness of love story that made the impossible possible. It is true who said that, "love does work miracles."