Always Here by PG

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This is not the first time I watching this film. However, I don’t have much memory about it from last time. It was in an art class five or six years ago. I have to say that the name of the film didn’t bring anything in my mind, until the huge orange pineapple-liked creature appears. The film brings more thinking this time. Instead of the appreciation of Tan’s artwork, deeper meaning makes more sense to me.

The life of the boy is not special. He lives with his parents in a neither big nor small city. However he is the only person who notices this creature. I like the word “they are all too busy doing other stuff I guess”, which brings me back to the beginning of the film. Trains, buses take people everywhere around the city. People are like robots, walking around senselessly. Then the boy takes this creature around, asking people where it belongs, no one knows and no one really pays attention. At home, his parents ignore it and sometimes even feel annoyed of this lost one.

The boy starts helping finding its home. He knows exactly what he wants, so even if there are so many arrows on the road, representing the difficulty of the task, he finally finds the place.

The boy stands for kids. They are curious and willing to explore. They observe and find all interesting things around them. They are not stingy to use time and focus on their goals. Those things are just too ordinary for adult to notice, or they lost their interest in those tiny things.

Busy is not an excuse. Tan told his readers that these are not really unnoticeable. The huge creature sits in the beach, television shows mystery happening, the tailed and glorying thing stands next to the post etc. as long as we want to pay more attention to the surrounding world.

However, as he grows up, the less creatures he can see. Gradually he becomes the one like other adults, busy working, getting lost in his ordinary life. They are the actual lost ones.