One Life - Blog Posts

the comfort that comes with binge watching an old minecraft series from 8 years ago while you are stressed and anxious is a sort of serene i wish to always embody.

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Philza is cursed, and has been cursed for far too long.

The details are too blurry to remember, but it was old enough to be a myth long forgotten-- a mistake in a one-life world that itched into his blood and left him to wander eternally, looking for the grind and feeling of what might have been the thrill of expendable time. He walks with accumulating numbers of crows coming and going to keep him company with wings strapped to their black backs like he--they were born with it, he was not.

But not all of them always stay. They are smart, they are kind and close-knit, but they are not immortal. That is a consequence to him as well.

No one can stay forever, he learns. His blood will keep going down roads unfathomable, but not him. He knows his love, his goddess of death will watch them for him, but he?

He's cursed until he dies

And he still will be even after so.

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Context: Philza's curse involves the following:

- Conditional immortality, one life, we all know this

- His curse is non-hereditary, he thinks

- If he dies and becomes Ghostza, his curse isn't done

- He won't enter hell or the afterlife. He will no longer be tangible after so, and

- Because he would be stuck outside of death and life, a different realm in the curse, (most of? not sure?) his crows and Kirstin will no longer be able to interact with him.

- Might make his curse involve the end!

ONE LIFE

I’ve recently seen One Life in the cinema, and here are my thoughts about it.

SPOILER ALERT!

I LOVED the movie.

I love how different and real this felt compared to most hero movies. There was no scene where Sir Nicholas Winton delivered an emotional heroic speech to a crowd to get help and donations (given the time period and place they were in, that would’ve been incredibly unrealistic as freedom of speech was limited). “Show, not tell” was achieved beautifully in this film. Instead of everything working out in a night, they showed Nicky, Doreen and Trevor working long hours, racing time day and night.

Instead of Sir Winton saying he loved and cared about kids, they showed it by him photographing kids and doing everything within his power to find foster homes for them. I also loved the scene where he gives kids small pieces of chocolate and how happy the kids look during that scene. It also makes the viewers realise how small things most take for granted, such as chocolate, can be a privilege to some and how fortunate we are to have it.

I also loved how they showed Sir Winton grieving the loss of the children they couldn’t save. The producers didn’t change it to a perfect happy ending where everyone lives. Instead, they mentioned what happened to those who weren’t as fortunate, but the 669 lives they rescued are worth celebrating.

I also appreciate at the end of the movie, they told us what happened to Nicky’s friends. They weren’t just forgotten; instead, they were mentioned without too much screen time, as this movie is about Sir Nicholas Winton and the children he saved.