“I
haven’t seen this movie in a while,” I whispered to myself.
Then, the
last thing I can remember is that I started to think about the movie’s main
protagonist. Her name was Cecilia. She reminded me about all the things I want
to accomplish. But, unfortunately, I fear that my reality has overcome my
dreams. At that moment, I got up from my bed and I turned my ipad on. I log into
my Netflix account. I was decided to dream for one last time.
“Who
knows?” I asked to myself, “Maybe, this is all the strength I need to dream again.”
I searched
the title everywhere, until I found it. “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” I
exclaimed, “this is it!” I hit the play button and got ready to finally discover
the place where all dreams come from. As the story went by, I remembered how
limitless dreams are. And I discovered what Woody Allen wanted to say about
them. Undoubtedly, up on the screen, anything is possible. Anything is
reachable and ready to go. Egyptian adventures, spending your whole night in a
big city, affording expensive drinks, wearing fine clothes, enjoy popular night
clubs, etc. Anything you could dream of comes together onto a screen.
As I
mentioned it before, Cecilia, the movie’s protagonist is a woman ready to follow
her dreams. I got inspired by her just by thinking that she never lost a bite hope
despite the time in which she was living in. As you may or may not know, Cecilia
was a young woman living in the Great Depression; a time in which millions of
hopeful people escaped their crappy lives by going to engaging theatres and
watching the same movie over and over. Cecilia, undeniably, saw the theatre as the
most beautiful of all oasis. She knew that just by looking at that piece of
paradise, all of her problems would go away. And she was right.
On her
fifth time around the theatre, the film’s most notorious and flawless character
appeared and seemed to call Cecilia by her name. “Me?” she says in disbelief,
“You mean me?” All of a sudden, this character steped out from the
black-and-white screen and went into her color world. Here, I struggled with what
is truly real.
“What is
reality?” I cried out to heaven, “What is real? Can someone explain me the way
life works? I’m tired of getting comments such as grow up or open your eyes to
reality! I’ll open up my eyes whenever I want to! ‘Till then, I’ll remain
hopeful and I’ll strengthen myself with dreams and nothing else but dreams.” I’m
sure Cecilia felt this way. Sadly, Cecilia ended up choosing what was real for
her. She gave up her dreams for something she thought was going to bring
nothing else but happiness into her life. Big mistake if you asked me. This is
just another reason why I can’t comprehend women. Why she chose that? I don’t
know. All I know is that you never have to give up your dreams by any
circumstances. No matter how tough they may be. The only thing that soothes me
is that Cecilia got to live the moment she was waiting for entire life. She had
long dreamt about meeting some impossibly adventurous and romantic character
from the movies, and she got to live this after all.
