Push

For all the logical flaws and production blunders an audience can all too readily spot in the movie, it is still an enchanting entertainment of science fiction and action-packed thriller. It makes me wonder whether there are really people with special abilities around us, let alone an abundance of them as the film suggests, and not to even mention the specific powers of the "pusher", the "mover", the "watcher", and all those imaginative categories cooked up in the movie.

But then I am convinced there are indeed a lot of people with special talents, if not so much as psychic abilities, around us. Just watch how Tiger Woods, or even any of the top 200 PGA players, play golf with their amazing consistency; how Nadal, Federer, and the likes of them play tennis like magic; in fact, how the Olympic or professional athletes in any sports perform miraculously to break previously held records; and beyond sports, in science, literature, art, computing, Internet, or any other disciplines of human endeavors where we can readily trace enlightening discoveries or inventions, what are they if not the results of special abilities in the mind or the body, or a combination of both?

Of course, hard work has its necessary part, but is not in itself sufficient to consistently guarantee the spectacular kind of phenomenal exception which may be more convincingly inferred as the outcome of some special ability.