Momo

Momo is a fantastic fantasy movie. Written by the legendary writer of the Never-ending Story, Michael Ende, who takes us into the world of a little orphan who is set out to save the world. Love, a big heart, courage are the weapons she needs to save her little Italian village from time. This movie is just magical. This is a must see for my children, there is just way too much wiseness told to miss out on.

Beautiful images of an Italian village, a heart-warming story and great acting by Adorf, Mueller-Stahl, charming little Radost Bokel and the less known actors make this the ideal family movie. The Men in Grey, Master Hora and turtle Cassiopeia add depth to the plot, so you are free to read it as a warning of the neo-liberal episode we're in, with multinational trusts sucking the living soul out of everyone who falls for their false promises. You might even get an advice on how to overcome it -- if you want to.

Had Fassbinder lived long enough and had he not been as kaputt, he might have made this movie. Had Wenders understood a thing, he might have done it. Thanks to little-known director Johannes Schaaf at least one of Michael Ende's novels, Momo, has been adequately transformed into a great movie.

Quite strange but after all a really great film. For families to enjoy a sweet moment of time (in every sense). I liked the fact that contains three different languages, the acting wasn't great at the very beginning, but the effects and the story was fluent and easy to follow. No strange metaphors but a good connection between past and future. I won't spoil anything but there weren't any bad scenes, even if it had people who smoked. It didn't have any character that I hated a lot, such a bad feeling when it happens, because even the antagonists were well made as evil and didn't make any useless move.

A mysterious girl, Momo, and the gray guys who grab the time from her friends. There's the scene in which they tried making people convert by explaining the breakdown of time in their lives. It sounded convincing to me curiously.

Those are not only time for sleeping and working, but also are the time for caring for a parrot, talking to the hearing-impaired mother, hanging out friends and reading books. Too detail! I'm sure that gray guy is capable... On top of all that, he says that it's "waste" even if it's 30 minutes per day to go to see a wheelchair woman who a guy has been in one-sided love with. He totaled up 27,594,000 seconds of damage. I feel like dizzy.

By those cunning time robber, people came to save their time and be busy. But, the more they save their time, the more they lost it. People don't live to just work, working is the way to live.

This lesson was tough for my ears because I think I shouldn't be stingy with time. It's not a waste to spend time for someone. I hate these : "When are you free?" "Do you have a minute?"

If I must get time or money, I choose money without hesitating. Because I can buy time. If you struggle to think up a menu every day and choose the clothes, the better ways are to delete the selections or hire the person who decides that. If it's bad to spend a full of day working around the house, you can hire a housekeeper.

Still, I want to enjoy time to work and think basically. "The waste" is determined by the subjectivity. Also, a tough time is "the waste." But I would think that enjoying time itself is the knack to enjoy my own life. However, to enjoy that kind of time, it's necessary to have a room in our hearts. Additionally, we need some money to have the room. Everything related.

Maybe all of the things happen at the same time in parallel. But our time which we feel is absolutely only uniaxial and irreversible. Don't lose your standard of "the waste."

So, when are you free?

I've seen "Momo" when I was a child and it really fascinated me. The movie inspired me to read Michael Ende's novel. This story about time or better about people who steal other people's lifetime was so fascinating for me as a child. I haven't seen the movie for about 10 years, but I still can remember a lot of images, e.g. Cassiopoeia, the turtle who's leading Momo to Master Hora.