February 8 2009

The shortcut to Happiness
The concluding part of Stone's novel, also the conclusion of the movie: "Remember son, there is no shortcut to happiness" eventually indicates what is the true happiness to human beings.

Jabez Stone, the talentless and useless writer, has almost no renown on his career. That is to say, misery always attach to the miserable, when he loses his job, together with his gal on the day his very close friend, Julius, gets attainment on his novel "Feeling loss". Coming back home with sadness and sorrow, he throws his typing machine out of the window, and indeliberately kills a pedestrian. While everything can't be worse, and it seems like the sky collapses upon him, the strangle gal (turns out to be the devil) from no where suddenly appears, saves him out of the swamp, and is willing to bring whatever he wants, just with the contract of taking his immortal life after 10 years.

His immotal life???


Being pushed into the corner with no way out, and under the supercilious beam of faith, he accepts the deal to exchange his so-called success, respect from other, money and sex.
Then... after one standing night (so-called contract sign) with the devil, his life immediately reverses from the dim shadow to the blade of glory. Success seems to flush into him with the book deal with well-known publisher, respect from everybody he sees on the street, and love as well as sex gained from ladies.

Bathing and soaking in fame just happen continuously on and on...
"One must fail for the sake of the other". The devil takes the work of his friend Julius "Feeling loss" together with Julius's life, and makes it become his best-seller ever book of the year "The loss of feeling", the one that brings him to the top of the world and a lot of rewards.
Bathing and soaking in fame just happen continuously on and on...

The deadline of the contract hasn't come yet, and he constantly finds out that the more fame and respect from the others he gets, the more he loses his friendship, respect and trust from people around him. Just 5 minutes with his closest friend, he doesn't even have. Loneliness and sorrow shadow him when it is also the last time he has a chance to see his friend. That guy is died because of the severe disease.

What is so-called happiness, while he doesn't have even a moment with his closest friend Mike from the childhood?

He wanna withdraw, he wanna take back the contract with the devil, he's upset, he regrets... He cries while holding the reward of his best-seller novel "The loss of feelings" on his hand.

"Remember son, there is no shortcut to happiness"


This emotional film has planted successfully a seed of thinking inside our mind. Our hard work and effort themselves determine our future, our success. There is no easy way that leads to the happiness. And the happiness itself inside our soul is far more important than those ordinary materials and fame

Guys, it is not a lousy counsel...
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly"
"Do all the good you can, to all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as often as you can"

So that when you grows old, you wun regret the past, you wun regret what you have lost.

Treasuring all moments to all people that you have.... And remember, there is no shorcut to Happiness

Kiha.