"Midnight in Paris"

WARNING: THIS BLOG IS PRETTY MUCH A SPOILER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE, SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I saw Mr. Allen's film "Midnight in Paris" a while back ago and I think I might have tweeted about it when I saw it then, but something happened  recently to remind me about it. 

For me, the moral of the story is to appreciate the things that make your generation so special and unique.  Don't wish you were born in another time or don't get stuck soley adoring the past generations because doing so is unappreciative of your own generation and current events - and some day someone in the future will look back on your current generation and wish he or she was born in your generation; don't take this current generation for granted essentially. In a more general sense even, the moral could be just don't dwell on the past events, live now and appreciate things how they  are now.

I think we've all done it before once at least, I mean, I have.  For some people, it may be more in the extreme sense like the character Mr. Owen Wilson played, and for some others, the same type of wanting to go back in the past can come in the more innocent form of the nostalgia of looking back at the "good ol' days".  I'll admit, sometimes I have even thought that I was born in the wrong generation, lol.

More so now than ever since I'm taking a literature class that I need to remind myself of how important it is to appreciate the times now, but I do have to say that I'm reading about all these amazing stories and prose and rhetoric from the classics to just shy of a hundred of years ago and sometimes I'm seriously blown away of how beautiful and profound the works are, many even relevant today, and how different the good ideals were.

But as to the point the movie and this blog suggests, I definitely need to appreciate more of the now.