Been a while since I last wrote here.

I watched "Pan's Labyrinth" last evening. I won't go into details about the movie here, I'm sure there are lots of reviews to be found around the web (try Here for some).

It's one of those movies that makes you think beyond the obvious. It's not the eye candy, it's the two layers of stories that are entwined, and where the magic/imagination meets the cold hard reality. Sometimes you just cannot tell the difference, and that is where the film's greatness lies.

You come to empathize with the heroine of the film. That's a big thing, since she isn't one of those plastic superheroes you find in fantasy films.. Her strength is in her humanity.

It all made me think of choices in life (I think I wrote about it back when), and how each choice we make brings us to a different place in life, a new branch, a new situation, and another crossroad where you need to make a new choice. You can let the wind decide your destination, or take control (even if a partial one) of your own course in life.  

Change is difficult, but it doesn't have to be (or maybe its just what I try to tell myself ).

It basically has to do with how you take things, how you approach the world. Your attitude. Some fear change, other just like stability. And to adopt a new attitude is like having a new character transplant..