Vantage Point

According to dictionary.com, the word "vantage" is a noun, and brings the meaning:
1. a position, place, or condition affording some advantage or commanding view
2. an advantage or superiority


So, today I went to Mid Valley to watch movie. The initial plan was to watch "Step Up 2", considering that I need my constant sighting of hot guys and girls, but unfortunately, the good seats were all sold out. What to do? Watch "Vantage Point".

It was a really good movie though, perhaps better than "Step Up 2". The storyline was simple, but in no way boring. Easily understood, yet with twist. Makes you realised that there is no such thing as perfect crime, because the antagonist had already planned the whole crime perfectly. Seriously, you will be impressed by the way he set his plan into motion, how he took care of the little details, how he used everything to his advantage, and manipulate the technology to suit his purposes. It really was a clever crime.

But the interesting part about this movie is not the plot. You would have said that what's the big deal about good plot, though I would have said that not many movies out there will really make an impression on me. It's not the plot that really impressed me, it was the way the plot was being laid out that made an impression. The story first started with the point of view from a journalist. At first we didn't realised that the movie is going to unfold using different point of view from different people. So when the pictures got backwards again for the third time, we were like "How many times do they want to show us the bombing?"

I think it was the fourth point of view when things started to clear up. Overall, the first part of the movie showed six different kinds of angles (speaking like a student taking Journalism subject), the last one being the point of view from the antagonist himself. From there, the story progressed until everyone lived happily ever after. Well, not everyone. Lotsa people died, but the person that everyone was fighting to save survived, so it was a happy ending, in a way.

Other than interesting way of delivering a good plot, what stood out in the movie, well, at least to me, is two of the values that were portrayed. One of them is family love. Another is the loyalty of an employee to his employer. I felt kinda touched after I watched the last of the scenes and realised about the values.

After the movie, I'm proud to announce, I didn't go shopping. Lol. Instead, we ate early dinner and eventually ended up in Section 14, where we encountered a group of foreigners. They were waiting for bus to 1U, and since it was rush hour, the buses weren't frequent and they were all packed. One of the got frustrated, and they missed two buses because they couldn't squeeze into them. Another slipped away while they were waiting for taxi after they got tired of waiting for bus. Even if it is funny to watch, I understand their frustration. I myself waited for T628 for one hour. Makes you wonder what actually took the bus so long to come, especially when you saw two T628 passed by at the opposite side of the road, so it couldn't be no buses at the LRT station.