Non-practice

The Smurfs 2 (2013)

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The Smurfs 2 (2013)

I recently saw The Smurfs 2 (2013). Some feed-back? What did I like? Pleasant characters, I enjoyed it. The movie was, at times, funny. Not all the movie. Quite relaxing & joyful. What I didn’t like as much: The story is not coherent. At times, it goes from A to B without a clear logic. Quick changes, sudden changes, no smoothness. Not realistic. Having a huge wheel go through Paris without hurting people is not realistic. Plain weird. The negative guy turns positive and then negative again, just like that. The smurfs where supposed to be caring & happy & joyful & a family. Yet, at the beginning of the movie, they make classifications and decide who is worth going on the trip and who isn’t based on skill. (more) The bad guy, Gargamel, really suffers in the movie. Physical pain & stuff. I didn’t like that as much.

„Yes, I am wrong, but I am wrong because of … and this makes things right! Let me tell you more about the reasons for being wrong!”

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In a recent training, I had the time & opportunity to reflect more on sayings such as this:

„Yes, I am wrong, but I am wrong because of … and this makes things right! Let me tell you more about the reasons for being wrong!”

In my opinion, people tend to create justifications. So, if you ask me if I want to go into town with you, can’t just say „no”, I have to explain you why I do so. If you ask me to do something, I can’t just say „I won’t do it”, instead, I’ll have to focus on providing a good reasoning for this. My view on this?

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Why am I irritated?

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Two states:

  • Happy in non-intese way, joyful, pleased with the world, not caring, zen-like. Not productive.
  • One of the two:
    • Extremely happy about everything, motivated by extreme happiness, laughter, positive states. Productive. I argue that this is a very hard to keep state, and instead people go to…
    • Upset, annoyed, unhappy, non-pleased, motivated by stress, irritated. Productive. I argue it’s the place where most things in life lead you to. I am in this state.

I discussed about these two states (zen, and either extremely happy or extremely irritated) in what I consider to be the best article I’ve written (it’s in Romanian).

I am upset. Why is that?

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Planes (2013)

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Planes (2013)

Planes (2013) – IMDb – the problem with this movie is that they kept exaggerating. You can’t go from first to last, then again last, then again first (everybody else just seems to keep their positions, the real fight is only for the first place). You can’t take a few training lesson from an ex-military and all of a sudden be much better than anybody else who flies in the competition. You can’t have a problem with heights the whole movie, and then you just stop having this. You can’t lose your place in the formation in the previous-to-last step in the race and then continue the race in the last stage as if nothing happened. You can’t have a stalled engine, and via the mere power of high altitude currents be better than the top performer. You can’t beat your system so easily (a plane built for agriculture be better than another one built for races), with no reasoning for this. You can’t get to be the second to finish the race, milliseconds behind the winner, and everyone to boo you. These are questions you can’t answer just like that – „well, it’s not anymore”. You can beat your condition, but it shouldn’t be at a blink of an eye. You need more than this. Things are soooooo much exaggerated.