Midnight in Paris

It's not very often i watch a film at the cinema. Recently i went to see a movie called 'Midnight in Paris'. An interesting story about a nostalgic writer who, while walking on the streets of Paris at midnight was invited to take a ride in a 1920's car which actually transported him back in time to the 1920's.

This writer had an obsession with the 20's, believing this was the era he should have lived in. As he travels back in time, he meets great writers and artists including Hemingway and Picasso, but also a young lady who is obsessed with the 1890's era, expressing that the 1920's are not interesting at all.

Eventually they are transported back to the 1890's where he sees that there's nostalgic and uncontent people in that era as well, and suddenly realizes our nostalgia actually creates a fantasy of how nice it might be to live in the past. The present (today) will be tomorrow's nostalgic past, so we should learn to appreciate the era we live in and make most of the moment at hand.

How often do we wish to see old times again? How often do we wish we could turn back time? The fact is that we never can turn back time, so we need to accept and make most of each moment at hand.