Uplifting in every way, Pixar's UP is a lovely story about second chances and about adjusting the lenses. Adjusting it so as to see how the concept of an adventure can be more than the conventional meaning it carries. An adventure isn't necessarily the discovery of Paradise Falls in an exotic land; it can be the everyday events of the business of life and living where ordinary moments take on an extraordinary meaning when they're done with love for a loved one.
That is the beauty of Ellie's 'Adventure Book' that Carl discovers only after Ellie is long gone, and at a time toward the end of his own life when he believes he wasn't able to make Ellie's dreams come true. The sheer simplicity and magnitude of this revelation is a lesson for us all: could it be that we might also be able to view our own life's ordinary moments in this manner– where they are not just mundane, but rather marvelous for what they are: moments to enrich our life and give it meaning; moments perhaps even bigger than the joy experienced in the sighting of a natural wonder such as Paradise Falls.
Up is also a story about how sometimes, the best is saved for last; how one ought never to say never; how good things happen when least expected; and how one ought to never stop dreaming one's dream. It is also a story of how sometimes persistence and sheer willpower transcend the impossible: balloons that make a house fly up high and away; dogs and birds that talk and reason with you; and a little boy who gets and gives more than he'd bargained for.
Love, that impossible human emotion bears down on all creatures, human, bird, and animal, and lifts them UP, time and time again!
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