I remembered when I was about 6 or 7 years old, I used to go over to the video rental shop nearby my house to rent this video: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.
I'd watch it over and over again. And I probably rented the video more than 10 times.
As a kid, I was so mesmerized about everything in the movie.
The chocolate factory was a dream of mine..and I really did believe that something so magical could exist in this world.
Before I slept, I'd think about what I would do if I were to be given a chance to just be there in his factor.
I'd even buy chocolates and pretend that it was from the Wonka factory.
I looked up to Willy Wonka as the maker of all the candy and chocolates of the world, a person who has magic to make every kid (like me) happy. Yeah, I was simple minded like that.
The movie would glue me to the television from beginning to end..I would totally refused to move. haha.
Many years down the road..I stopped renting videos..because it has evolved to CDs..and then out came the DVDs..I once swore to myself (when I was 7) that I would purchase Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory but I never really got to it.
So time passed...and the memory totally slipped out of my mind.
A few years ago, a new version came out : Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
As much as I liked Johnny Depp, somehow, I felt that it was missing something..yet, I just didn't know what it was.
I began having flashbacks of the first Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory but I couldn't remember how Willy Wonka looked like. I felt like I was having an amnesia.
I tried looking for the first version but to no avail..
Until..
2 days ago when my sisters came back and showed me that they bought the first version.
I felt so excited. It's like I was 6 again.

When I placed the DVD in my dvd player and hit the "play" button, I couldn't anticipate my own reaction. I was asking myself:
After all these years, would I still feel the same as I did when I watch this once magical show which made me feel that such a lovely world exists?
Or would it feel like "oh my goodness, the movie's so cheaply produced I can't believe I actually watched that and liked it so much"

Well..

My reaction was far beyond what I could comprehend:
The moment Willy Wonka stepped out of his factory with a cane, limping, I almost teared.
I looked at that TV screen and I remembered myself being mesmerized at how gentle he was...how he was able to look at the screen and makes you feel as though he was looking right through your soul.
He has the most gentle looking eyes and his voice....his voice sounds like an angelic melody even when he isn't singing.
Yes, that was the Willy Wonka I once adored so much and even now, I still adore him as much. Probably even more.
Although I can see now, that the effects made in that movie weren't as "cutting edge" as the recent one, Gene Wilder has etched a picture in my mind as the Willy Wonka which no one can ever replace.
It may be just a movie for some people, but to me, it was the movie which made me believe in imaginations, the realisation of dreams and that..the world is a beautiful place.