Noble and Ever Loyal City: The Manila Tranvia
If you have been in Hong Kong or San Francisco once, then you might have seen their own tranvias still running, enduring the test of time. Manila had a working and efficient tranvia system, I daresay more extensive than the current LRT-MRT system we have today. The war and the emergence of the…
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Favorite scenes from movies/television:
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
The degree of anxiety, panic, and terror I felt in this scene is only matched by the complete admiration I immediately felt for Liam Neeson’s character upon speaking these words. The horror he and his daughter have just experienced is unimaginable; the absolute depravity of the situation, the gut-wrenching fear for her life, the inspiring devotion of a father spurred forward to any lengths for the love of his daughter—all bury you in the intensity of the scene. The pacing of the action, a slow-rambling, dawdling delay that keeps you holding your breath, praying that she will escape magnifies the absolute potency of Neeson’s words. You know that this is a man who will stop at nothing, take any risk, sacrifice anything to bring his daughter home.
(via staree)
