What comes to your mind when I say Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? A movie starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka? Alternatively, A movie that takes you to the biggest and fanciest chocolate factory? Both are correct.
This movie was released almost 17 years ago, back in 2005, when I was in the 2nd grade of primary school. Yet I knew this movie when in junior high school.
This movie overall tells the story of a lucky boy who got a golden ticket from 5 golden tickets released by Willy Wonka as the owner of the Chocolate Factory and won. More than that, there are a lot of lessons I've got from this movie.
On IMDB, the rating of this movie is 6.6 out of 10. But as I always, I enjoy a movie not based on the rating because it's given subjectively.
For the synopsis, you can read it here: Synopsis
And for the full movie, go to Movie
And now it's time for me to drop what I consider valuable lessons from this movie subjectively based on my own opinion personally. Here we go.
Willy Wonka sends 5 golden tickets within the chocolate, and 4 of them have been successfully gotten by 4 kids from different countries.
The left one was surprisingly taken by a modest boy who lives with his family in a small house.
When his grandfather tells him to go to Willy Wonka's invitation to go to his chocolate factory, the boy rejects it because many people would pay the tickets with a large amount of money to support their financial situation. Fortunately, his other grandfather tells him by saying "money is printed everyday, and there are only five tickets out there".
Eventually, Charlie goes to the factory with his grandfather.
He is with the other four ticket holders in front of the gate.
Long story short, four of them failed the mission because of their behavior, and Charlie won. When Charlie is offered to live in the Chocolate Factory without his family, undoubtedly, he rejects it because he loves chocolates and shares them with his family.
Willy Wonka meets his father, and he realizes that family is a precious gift.
At the end of this movie, Charlie lives happily with his family in the chocolate factory.
The valuable lessons I've got from this movie are all about the meaning of family, which is more than just a physical asset; a business, job, or position.
Every night when I go to sleep, thoughts of family strongly occupy my mind because there are many families out there that are not intact anymore because of divorce or death, and God still gives me a lot of opportunities to build a strong bond with my family and I'm trying not to waste them, even just for a second in my life.
