Premonition

I have watched the movie Premonition once before. I can’t recall when but I believe it’s been quite a long time already.

And just like before, I haven’t understood the full details of the story. All I know is its plot, how it started and how it ended. But in the middle of the movie, I know how it went, but I didn’t focus on the details. I believe my mind processed only selected parts and I don’t know why.

Anyway, all I have to do is react, right? I got plenty of it.

Being an avid film viewer, I have watched a lot of movies that involved tragedies. Premonition may be associated with Final Destination, Deja Vu, and Flash Forward. In all of them, characters knew what will happen in the future.

For one thing, it’s not easy being in a position of someone being able to foresee the future. It is very difficult. How will you react to it? How will you keep it? And say for example you’ve decided to share it to people involved, how will you say it? It affects your emotional side greatly. Someone or people you love and care for are at risk.

As I have observed, when you tell others what you know, it tends to become the main reason for the event/accident to happen. And since they know that you knew it, they will think of you as a suspect. On the other hand, if you choose to keep quiet and keep it a secret, it bothers you inside resulting for your disturbing treatment of others which will lead them to keep on asking ‘What is wrong? What is bothering you? Did I do something wrong?’

As I watched the movie, going back to the future, then to reality, and then back to future is kind of messing up my head. What more to the main character right? Once you share your story with others, they will think that you are crazy. But I admire what she had done. Facing it with courage even though at first, of course, it made her wonder what was happening. The only thing that I see as a regret is that when her husband already had a change of heart from what he was doing, it still ended up as what she saw, her husband died.

As I have read a quote, it says “Drive carefully. Why die in perfect health?” It makes sense. But if it is really his time, there’s nothing we can do but to accept it. But, everybody knows that it’s a lot better for it to have happened UNFORESEEN.