A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away -- where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met -- he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.
The moral of the story is quite hard to be understood by kids although the entertainment is successfully delivered in amusing way. Look at the scene when Shrek tried to escape from Rumpelstiltskin’s palace, also when the Piper made all ogre dance. Prepare to have a good laugh when Shrek tried to ensure Donkey that he’s his friend, when Donkey was asked to woo Dragon, when Puss-in-Boots begged Donkey to lick his wet body… very, very funny!
Anyway, the moral is simple yet the hardest thing for us to apply… gratitude. Be gratitude with what you have. Shrek’s wife, Princess Fiona, was astonished when Shrek wished to be back to the time when he hadn’t saved Fiona, the time when he was a furious ogre, full of adventures. Fiona said to him “You have 3 cute children, a wife that loves you so much… but why it’s you that can’t see this?”
The grass in neighbors’ garden is always greener than ours. Other’s possession and life is always better than ours, well, at least from our view. We will keep having this in our mind until one day (hopefully) we’ll realize that ours are not less than others’, it could be that we are actually having more than others. Mr. Sutanto whose daughter, Velisia, is in treatment for her leukemia, ever wrote in facebook that if we want to see how people struggle for life survival, try to go to the oncology room, then we’ll realize how lucky they who have good health, how we should learn to appreciate more of what we have now, take good care of ourselves, and remember to thank God for these all. These words come from a father who has to watch his daughter goes on heart-breaking treatments every day.
I always think that from time to time we have to look up to the successful people to turn on the ambition in us to try even harder for a better life. However, we do need to balance it by looking around for the people who are less lucky than us; this is to light up the gratitude in us, to enable us to appreciate what we have in hand now. Let’s learn together…
Anyway, I always cherish my movie time with my daughter, just two of us, there’s always something new to learn. If it’s not new, it’s always good to refresh!!
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