GOODBYE!!!

It is a short film, ie. 15 minutes duration, however, pretty impressive. At least to me.

Again!! I didn't start from the beginning, when it caught my attention, the lady (the leading actress) who is the mother of a 2-year-old baby girl, on parol, was arrested again by police for stealing.

When the officer asked her about her 2-year-old baby, and mentioned that the children welfare is looking into the matter, the lady insisted that the baby girl was taken care of by the lady's mother as she didn't want the children welfare people to take her daughter away from her. The story went on... the lady was put into the detention cell, cause they just cannot release her, and the lady in the cell, worrying about her baby girl at home, ALONE!!

She kept trying to make calls to her err... boyfriend or ex-husband (I am not so sure, as I didn't start from the beginning of the show) and also her mum, to ask them to go to her house to have a look at the baby.

Boyfriend, never got through the phone, and mum? finally the old lady went to her apartment, the baby already stopped crying. Her neighbour (who hated the lady as according to her, the lady always brought different men back to her place) told the old mother that there was men in the apartment, when the mother asked if "a man has came by". Therefore, the mother left the place.

The lady was getting more and more worried in the detention cell. I was thinking, why didn't she just tell the officer that the baby girl was left home alone.

In the end, the lady gave up, called the police officer and her case officer, told them the truth, and went to see the baby... picked up her body. :-(

I was thinking... sometimes, human is easily blinded, blinded by self-justification, blinded by self-satisfaction. As a mother, she definitely loves her baby girl a lot and that's the reason she didn't want to give her up to the children welfare people, even though she's on parol, even though she's taking drug, even though she's taking different men home, even though she's not having constant and proper income. But she LOVES her baby, as every mother does.

However she was blinded by her own love to the baby, and that cost the life of a 2-year-old girl, and later, of course cost herself another imprisonment, for probably child-abuse, or child-ignorant, or whatever it is.

That somehow reminded me of a story I was told when I was a little child, mm... probably by grandma. (grandma always told us bedtime story, and then we'd start entertaining her by singing and dancing on her bed, ya, that time double-bed was our stage)

The story is pretty simple, probably finished by 1 or 2 lines...

Let's see...

Long time ago, (well, it'll always start with 'long time ago') 2 mothers were fighting for a baby, both claimed to be the mother of the baby. Nobody could solve this case so, 2 of them were brought to the king. After looking into the situation, the king suggested the baby being cut into half and each of them will have one. One of the mothers quickly applauded the idea, and thus the king knew who the real mother was.

Well... a very simple story, but it worked for small kids, when we were.

Human, is very weak. We are always blinded easily by loads of stuff surrounding us, outside us, and inside us. Particularly anger, jealousy, envy, greed, oh... what's the seven sins again?? :-) ka!! then.. this leads to another topic called 'SE7EN' huh??nah!!!

Anyway, ya, human, everybody, IS easily blinded.We are blinded by our own pride, that we forget how to love.We are blinded by our own greed, that we forget about family values.We are blinded by our own anger, that we forget to be considerate.We are blinded by our own gluttony, that we forget we need to take good care of our own health.We are blinded by our own envy, that we forget to give is REALLY to gain.We are blinded by our own lust, that we forget there IS real love in the world.We are blinded by our own laziness, that we forget the rest of the world around us have been working very hard.

Anyway, of course I am not in any authority to talk about "SE7EN" :-) that's my own err... "thought" and therefore, I chose to use some 'layman terms' :-)

Ah!! I am far from the movie topic again, however, I guess that's how human brains function right?

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