War of the Worlds

In March 2020, I watched War of the Worlds on TV. The movie was released in 2005 and based on the novel The War of the Worlds written by H. G. Wells in 1898. The director is Steven Spielberg. The story tells a fight against invaders from space. It is said that the 9.11 terrorist attacks had affected it. After watching it, I became depressed because I felt blue most of the time. Although it would have been more enjoyable if I had watched it at a theater, yet I did not like it because it was gloomy over all. I want to watch a movie that makes me comfortable. 

Tom Cruise superbly played the main character who is a kind of spoiled father. He was forty-three years old at the release but he was running vigorously in it. Then, he looked in his thirties to me. In September 2018, I watched Mission: Impossible – Fallout where he was running strenuously despite being 56 years old. What an energetic actor! 

Dakota Fanning also appeared in it and was 11 years old at that time. I had seen her for the first time in I am Sam and I had felt her really cute in it. She, however, seemed just cute in the science fiction movie. She might have changed for the four years between the releases of the two movies, or my memory might have gradually changed because human memories are basically ambiguous. In October 2019, I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but I did not realize that the former child star acted a woman in the film. It might be because I was too absorbed in the two leads who has been superstars for a long time. The other day, I saw a recent photograph of the former child star on the internet. She had a remnant of her childhood but had changed a lot. Time flies really fast.