I watched Transformer 4 two times already. First
with my mother and brother (I told my mother, “It’s going to be more than 2 hours…” She arrogantly replied, “Even 10 hours, I don’t care.”). And
secondly with my friends (sponsored ticket). For me the movie is very good,
excited, entertaining, imaginative, fun, humorous – and undeniably too long. I
kind of ‘addicted’ to Transformers
film series since Transformers
(2007), Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen (2009), Transformers: Dark of
the Moon (2011) and now Transformers:
Age of Extinction (2014). Seven years being faithful followers.
Do you know? On 2013, there are three possible titles for
Transformers 4 which were Transformers:
Last Stand, Transformers: Future Cast and Transformers: Apocalypse. But after that they revealed one last
possible title, Transformers: Age of
Extinction. You know the outcome already.
The movie start after the
battle at Chicago
five years ago when geologists discover a dinosaur corpse turned to or covered
in strange unknown metal. Sixty-five million years ago, the flashback, there
were beings known as the Creators “denoted
many Seeds wiping out most of life on earth.” Then our new hero, Cade
Yeager (acted by Mark Wahlberg), a struggling inventor and single father, come
into the scene. One day he found an abandon old truck, bring it home and repair
it with the hope that he may sell it. His concern is to send his daughter,
Tessa (acted by Nicola Peltz) to college. He didn’t know that the old truck is
none other than an injured Optimus Prime. At the same time, an elite CIA agents
known as Cemetery Wind with the help
of Transformer’s intergalactic bounty hunter, Lockdown, hunt down Transformers –
Decepticons and Autobots – all together from the face of the earth. And so the adventures,
secrets and avengers begin…
Apart from some negative
receptions from my friends about this movie such as the overall directing,
length and script writing, I personally find that this movie (again) must be
praise for the action-packed scenes, great visual effects and Mark Wahlberg’s
acting performance. I also think that this movie should be praised for its
moral values. I learned:
1) To see that there is greatness and potential in
everyone of us. When Cade Yeager
found and bought the old truck home he didn’t know that it is the injured
Optimus Prime. The rusty truck is actually the legendary leader of the
Autobots! Some people that we meet or perhaps ourselves may look “rusty” from
the outside but inside if we look deeper there is a great potential within us
if only we let God change us from the inside out.
2) To (sometime) say “No” to good thing so that we can
say “Yes” to something better. When
Yeager found out that the truck was Optimus Prime, he changed his mind. He
doesn’t want to report it to the government and get the reward money but
instead he repairs it and work alongside Optimus because he know that there is
something big is about to happen – he don’t want to miss it! How many time we
missed a lots of opportunities that God have in store for us when we say “yes”
too soon?
3) To be royal and faithful to our leaders. When the remaining Autobots (Bumblebee, Crosshairs,
Drift and Hound) receive Prime’s command “Calling-all-Autobots!”
message and then get to know that Prime is still alive – they rejoice! In their
discipleship, they’re faithful to the end even that mean, to some of them,
loosing their own souls (“sparks”). Ratchet, the Autobot’s medical officer,
even willing to died than to reveal where Prime is to Lockdown. When Christ,
our Leader, called us into the new life in Him, He wants us to be Christians
that is royal (undivided heart) and faithful (obedience to His Word). We must
be willing to abandon and sacrifice our lives for Him if that is required of us
to serve Him. We are not just people (“Transformers”);
we are Christians (“Autobots”)!
4) To not underestimate others. After the incident at Cade Yeager’s house in Texas, the CIA hunts
down both Prime and Yeager’s family. They are looking for them but they hardly
find them. Attinger, the leader of the CIA said to his field leader, James
Savoy, “You said he (Yeager) was a nobody!”
Don’t underestimate others. Don’t underestimate what God can do through you.
Throughout the Bible and even today, God is still using the nobodies
(shepherds, tax collectors, fishermen, carpenters, young men and women, old
people, mechanics, dancers, security guards, teachers, uneducated parents,
etc.) to accomplish His purpose and plan. Are you a ‘nobody’? Good! God may use
you if you trust Him.
5) To take actions even if we don’t know what lies
ahead of us. Cade Yeager when he
realized that he is dealing with something bigger than himself said this: “I’m doing things out of my league” –
move ahead and doing his best to save humanity. He and his alien gun. When we
don’t know what lies ahead of us, just move on, not by sight but by faith – take
actions.
6) To realize that we can’t control our sinful nature. Joshua Joyce, the head of KSI, has perfected “transformium, a codeable, molecularly
unstable metal that the Transformers are made of” and created human-made
Transformers by using decoded dead Transformers’ brains. (Galvatron was created
using data from Megatron’s brain). When they tested the prototypes, they soon
realize that they can’t control all of them. Galvatron had manipulated and corrupts
all the drones. In the same way, we sometime think that we are in control but
actually we are being controlled. Maybe we are being control by our lusts,
anger or whatever manifestations of sins (“Megatron’s
mind and evil desire”) in our lives. Its time to let go of our sinful
nature and let God through His Son, Jesus Christ, to forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness.
7) To ask for help and to offer help when there is a
need. When Optimus Prime found out
that the Autobots and humans are in danger, he releases and tames the Dinobots,
the Transformers’ legendary heroes. With their help, they destroy Galvatron’s
army in no time. We need to be humble (even if we’re the leader) and ask help
from people. And when our help is needed, like Dinobots, we must ‘rush’ to help
too.
8) To love our enemies. Autobots was once an ally to the human. But after
the world is peaceful and the war end, they turned against them. The human
betrayed the Autobots. But what the Autobots finally do? They protect the human
beings from the real enemies. This is forgiveness. If the machines are willing
to forgive the humans (humorously speaking), and if Christ the righteous One
are willing to die for us the sinners (seriously speaking), aren’t we suppose
to forgive and love our enemies?
9) To have hope in humanity. Since the incidence in Chicago (Transformers 3), Optimus Prime has
lost his faith in humanity. He even considers leaving the planet earth until
Cade Yeager manages to talk and restore his faith in humanity. “We are human,” said Yeager to Prime, “we make mistakes.” He reminds Prime that
it is by ‘mistake’ that he found and saved him. Yeager continues, “Have faith Prime...” And then Optimus
Prime changed him mind. Though we read and hear many news about what is
happenings in Malaysia and the world today such as the missing of MH370, the
crash down of MH17, the war in Gaza, the persecution due to racism and
religious agendas, the corruptions and human slavery, etc. – as long as God is
on the throne, we still have hope for humanity. God will never leave us. God
will still use us – humans that makes mistake we are – to accomplish His will
in this world. Have hope in humanity because no matter how much we failed and
sinned, we still bear “the image of God”
within us. We are redeemable, we are savable and we can be righteous in the
sight of God by grace through faith in Christ. We can be useful and we can do
many good things and can make the different in this world if God’s Holy Spirit
works in us. Have hope people!
Cade Yeager asks Optimus Prime, “Will we ever see you again?”
“Cade Yeager, I
do not know,” he answers.
“But whenever
you look to the stars, think of one of them as my soul.”
Do you know what Christ would say to us now if we ask
the same question to Him?
He would say: “Be sure, I will be with you. You will know
that I’m always near you.
And whenever you look at the Cross, you know
that I love you.”
THINK
BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.
