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The film first opens with wide-eyed, 7-year-old adventure scout named Carl Fredricksen, who dreams of going to a lush place in South America called Paradise Falls. He then meets his match in a girl named Ellie, another young explorer who shares the same dream and is even more avid than Carl is. This at first seems like the setup for a typical children’s adventure but then quickly and surprisingly segues into a lovely opening montage of their eventual courtship and later marriage. They save money to pursue their dream of traveling to Paradise Falls but everyday life and welfare intervenes with their savings. A tire breaks down, the house needs repairs and hospital bills stack up particularly as Ellie becomes progressively ill in their older years. This montage that is so impeccably and movingly told without dialogue and serves as merely the setup for our 78-year old protagonist, Carl (Ed Asner) and the rest of the movie is worth the price of admission all by itself.
Soon, Carl is left as a widower and is then threatened to be placed in a retirement home. So what does he do to honor Ellie’s memory and fulfill their dream without ever actually stepping outside his home? He tethers thousands of balloons to his house to float it to the sky. Everyone who has seen the poster or the previews already knows that but the sequence of the house making its ascent in its entirety is a pure, colorful marvel to behold on screen, particularly with the equally elegant score by Michael Giacchino, as it perfectly captures that blithe feeling one gets when seeing a hot air balloon lift off the ground.
Just when Carl is about to relax by himself all the way to Paradise Falls, however, he suddenly hears a startling knock on the door and finds that there is a stowaway on board, an Asian-American boy named Russell (Jordan Nagai) who is aspiring to be an adventure scout not unlike how Carl was when he was young. Carl, being the initially cranky man that he is, finds him a nuisance particularly after due to his earlier encounter with Russell and his unusual persistence to help out an elderly man for a merit badge from his scout leader. Of course, Carl does not have the option to kick him out of the house (although there is a brief, funny fantasy moment in which he fleetingly entertains that thought).
Love is a wonderful things that happened to us.
Love is what we learned since we was little.
Love to our mommy.
Love to our daddy.
And at certain stage of life, we learn a different phase of love.
Which introduce us with a proverb 'Love is blind'.
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Is it true that love is blind?
I'd vote for YES.
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Love is blind until we can't see the ugly truth about him.
Love is blind and we would just ignore what we don't like bout him.
Love sometimes makes us ignore what people say.
Love makes us blind.
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Really? Someone might ask.
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I'm in love.
People might say bad things about him.
But I ignore.
People might say he's fat, ugly or bald.
But I don't care.
People might say he's not for me.
But who are they to judge my love?
Love is blind babe!
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If it's the true love, then perhaps it is eternal.
And if it's not, then I'll take that as my journey to find true love.
But eventho' love makes us crazy, always take care of ourselves.
Girl, we have pride and virgin to take care of.
Because our journey of love doesn't end here.
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Love is wonderful, but it is blind.