Little Mistakes

The Fly (1956) is the oldest version of a movie and the oldest movie I've ever watched. What made me keep on watching was its loopholes like how come the device never mixed up the cat, the milk and its container. How come only the fly and the man got mixed up? But oh, come on! It's fiction so let it be. Like action movies defying the Laws of Physics (think Mission: Impossible movies and Lito Lapid's epic splitting of a bullet using a knife), or even the common sense (think of Da King, FPJ taking down around 80 people with just one hand gun and only one magazine), just let it be. Those impossibru moments in the movies actually serve as spices. They got your attention, right? The characters do stupid things (Yeah, I hate the scientist's wife because she can't catch the fly. She should've just let her son do it.) but those stupid things of the characters were needed to complicate and twist the story, making the movies longer and inducing gigil to the audience. That's why many of us were screaming and holding on tight to our seats and/or to our classmates.

Speaking of attention, I recall that was the problem of the scientist in the movie. He was too focused on testing his machine that he forgot to pay attention to his surroundings. He didn't notice that a fly entered with him. Hence, The Fly. That little mistake reminded me of the mistakes I usually make in my own life. Those little mistakes turned out to be the ones that drew the line between success (or better yet, passing) and failure. Lesson learned, paying attention to little details can save you because big problems can erupt from small mistakes we don't always pay attention to.