Notice the Danger, Don't Help in Any Way

A group of us went to see "The Life Aquatic" last night. I had been looking forward to seeing the movie for a while, and perhaps I was guilty of knowing a little too much about the movie before I went to see it. It was funny in the Bill Murray/Wes Anderson way, which to some people (Angela Meyer) would mean not funny.

The movie was a bit disjointed, but one of the themes that it explores is what happens when people experience tragedy. Sometimes it takes something awful to wake people up out of the perpetual sleep walk that their lives have become. After the death of his close friend and colleague, Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) faces up to the reality of what is going on around him. He is no longer the young man that he once was, his relationship with his wife is rocky, and he must deal with the appearance of a son that he had with another woman. Zissou searches for things to rely on and begins a journey out of the personal cocoon that he has created for himself. It seemed that Anderson wanted to tell us, work with who you are and where you currently are, instead of always worrying about what you were in the past. This is hard lesson to learn because we always want to compare our current situation to the "good old days."

Live today, and do not let that be hampered by the perceived failures of yesterday.