if you thought that here's finally a movie that treats homosexuality in a sensitive and sensible way, think again. firstly, the guys must have said about a million times in the movie that they are not gay, they are only pretending so that they can get an apartment and a green card. now we all know u don't get green cards faster if u're a gay couple, but that's typical hindi movie fluff so who cares. in fact, after proposition h8, who knows if they get it at all now? but when ideas start getting stolen from english movies and serials, that's so much worse! making abhishek and john stand in a public loo in adjoining stalls and having a guy walk in on them would remind u of a F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode where chandler gets his clothes stolen by julia roberts for revenge (Season 2, Episode 13 - The One After the Superbowl: Part 2). the faces collage that priyanka thinks up as a new layout for her magazine is so stolen from 13 going on 30 that it's not even funny! they dint make much of it in this movie, but if u saw the original, u'd spot it right away! john even shot the people holding frames!!! and who knows how many more ideas were stolen, just from movies we haven't seen yet! and here we thought bollywood was finally coming to maturity. shame, karan and tarun, shame!!!!
i really thought we'd see a movie about two guys who fall in love, maybe something along the lines of brokeback mountain, a truly gay couple, finally a breakthrough in hindi movies! but no, this made in fact a mockery of the whole community. boman could not have acted more cliched if he tried, and john and abhishek keep saying they're not gay, and in fact fall in love with a woman. they do have the first guy-guy lip-lock (all camera angles, no actual touching), but again the motivation is clearly a woman.
and apart from all that, it's not even a good movie!!! it drags and drags, the jokes are old, kirron's part sucks and is even more of a cliche than boman's, and i seriously do not know what sushmita mukherji was doing in the movie. frankly, the movie was so bad that it even made bobby deol look good in comparison!!! very disappointing.
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Monday, 24 November 2008
bowling for columbine
isn't it ironic that on the day i saw this movie, i also read this article. a man got shot at in the chest while mowing his lawn, and was saved only because he had his phone in his pocket. and it wasn't any revenge story either! it was a random bullet somebody fired maybe a quarter of a mile away just for target practice or something!!! can you believe that??? seriously, people should rethink the second amendment.
bowling for columbine was the usual michael moore fare, pretty much along the same lines as fahrenheit 9/11. i'm glad there's somebody out there tracking and talking about these things. making us think and rethink our choices. i agree with him that firearms should not be so easily available. it's like what i said about drugs earlier - easy availability tends to push borderline cases over the edge. and this is even more serious than drugs; people don't just hurt themselves here, but others. innocent others. i'm all for restraining sale of firearms to those with proper licenses, identification and records.
in this movie, moore made another point - hysteria created by the press keeps everyone scared and panicky, and that causes people to react in extreme ways. and with firearms in so many households, who knows what that could turn into? i agree with him about the press-created hysteria. nowhere else do i see such sensationalization of news as i do on cnn. if the economy is doing badly, it's not just doing badly, it's taking the whole world down with it. if there has been a terrorist attack on the US, it's not just been a terrorist attack, it has been the worst terrorist attack in the history of terrorist attacks. maybe it's the american obsession with supersizing everything. who knows? a canadian girl in the movie puts it best - people don't think, don't negotiate, don't talk, they just react; we'll just kill you, and that's the end of that.
there are so many great things about american society. u're path forgers for the rest of the world in so many ways. is this the kind of murky underbelly u wanna have? guys, get a grip?
bowling for columbine was the usual michael moore fare, pretty much along the same lines as fahrenheit 9/11. i'm glad there's somebody out there tracking and talking about these things. making us think and rethink our choices. i agree with him that firearms should not be so easily available. it's like what i said about drugs earlier - easy availability tends to push borderline cases over the edge. and this is even more serious than drugs; people don't just hurt themselves here, but others. innocent others. i'm all for restraining sale of firearms to those with proper licenses, identification and records.
in this movie, moore made another point - hysteria created by the press keeps everyone scared and panicky, and that causes people to react in extreme ways. and with firearms in so many households, who knows what that could turn into? i agree with him about the press-created hysteria. nowhere else do i see such sensationalization of news as i do on cnn. if the economy is doing badly, it's not just doing badly, it's taking the whole world down with it. if there has been a terrorist attack on the US, it's not just been a terrorist attack, it has been the worst terrorist attack in the history of terrorist attacks. maybe it's the american obsession with supersizing everything. who knows? a canadian girl in the movie puts it best - people don't think, don't negotiate, don't talk, they just react; we'll just kill you, and that's the end of that.
there are so many great things about american society. u're path forgers for the rest of the world in so many ways. is this the kind of murky underbelly u wanna have? guys, get a grip?
Saturday, 22 November 2008
movies and other hallucigens
i'm on such a high! i saw three movies in the last two days! now i gotta tell u, in case u already don't know - i just love the movies. LOVE! i would watch anything once. but sometimes u see such fantastic stuff that's so right, carries the beat so well, that u get high on it. and when u see three in a row, u can't miss right? something's gonna work out!
yesterday was slumdog millionaire. if you have not watched it already, i strongly recommend that you do so now. before you read on any further. u have been warned - spoiler alert!!!!! that said, i could not believe this movie was not made by an indian, it was so indian. being from india, i pretty much have to wriggle and sigh my way through a lot of stereotypes about my country in hollywood movies, but this one rocked! i loved it! i didn't cringe once, except for the way they portrayed 'who wants to be a millionaire'. they touched on so many issues, so many many issues that we, real indians living in india now, are concerned with and dealing with right now - terrorism, the underworld, police brutality, religious riots, poverty, child abuse - and it was all so subtly done that u'd never guess it wasn't a straightforward movie about the life of the central character if u didn't know the context! for instance, did u realize that the anti-muslim riots in mumbai that killed jamal's mom were probably the awful riots post babri masjid demolition in '91? awesome how many levels this movie has. and it was soooo bollywood, in such a good way, in a way acceptable to young indians who love bollywood. i loved that! they even had a song and dance routine at the end, with good choreo, not snarky bullshit with people running around trees! people in an all-white audience in norway (and boy, u do not get more white than scandinavian white) clapped at the end of the movie! i felt like i was back home in india! brilliant effort guys. but i would like to say, u really dumped on 'who wants to be a millionaire' for no reason. they always have the politest hosts, no host has any stake in the winnings or losses of the contestants, you don't have to decide whether or not you're gonna carry on playing before even hearing the next question, and they definitely never, ever go into an ad break before the participant has answered a question (though they may before they tell u if he's right). it's a huge phenomenon in india, loved by all. seriously, if u ain't been there, u can't fathom it. i mean, they got amitabh bachchan to host it, for crying out loud! there's people building actual temples for that guy and worshipping him, he's that much of a god! (seriously, it was in the news, there's actually a temple in india dedicated to the big B). well, anyway, i'm not nuts, i know it's just a movie, and who wants to be a millionaire (or kbc - kaun banega crorepati - as we lovingly call it in india) is just a show, i can take a lil playing around with that concept. bottom line - this movie rocks!!! it's the kind of movie that makes u regret that there aren't more like it, that makes u feel depressed that such a fantastically indian movie wasn't made by an indian, that leaves u on a high that goes on for days! go watch it, guys.
the second movie we saw was zach and miri make a porno. well, obviously, nowhere in the same genre or anything hehe, to put it mildly. apart from scatological references - watching people getting covered in shit (actual shit) two nights in a row is a bit much for me, i think i'm done with that for the rest of my life, thanks guys. but apart from that, it was not as bad as expected, not as funny as expected, but pretty much a cute chick flick that u could sit thru once. quite formulaic though, which was unexpected, considering the title. my advice? go watch slumdog millionaire.
the third, phew, was annie hall. i love diane keaton, have done for years, and this is THE definitive diane keaton movie, right? made for her, around her, about her, who could ask for more diane keaton in a movie? a lil bit much on the talking tho, and a lil dated now with all the taking yourself so seriously and the philosophy and the marijuana and the psycho-analysis, but still quite delightful so far. that's all i'm gonna say about it cos i haven't finished it yet cos my hubby fell asleep half-way hehe. woody doesn't work late friday night after watching zach and miri make a porno till 11:30 p.m.! no offence, woody. see u tomorrow night!
hubby registers a protest against the falling asleep midway remark. well alright, so he did find out about the movie and locate it and download it so we could watch it. and he does make a lot of effort reading reviews on imdb to find more stuff to download. and the stuff he downloads is always interesting. but he still fell asleep midway right? i mean, i'm just stating a fact :D
finished annie hall, original impressions remain intact.
yesterday was slumdog millionaire. if you have not watched it already, i strongly recommend that you do so now. before you read on any further. u have been warned - spoiler alert!!!!! that said, i could not believe this movie was not made by an indian, it was so indian. being from india, i pretty much have to wriggle and sigh my way through a lot of stereotypes about my country in hollywood movies, but this one rocked! i loved it! i didn't cringe once, except for the way they portrayed 'who wants to be a millionaire'. they touched on so many issues, so many many issues that we, real indians living in india now, are concerned with and dealing with right now - terrorism, the underworld, police brutality, religious riots, poverty, child abuse - and it was all so subtly done that u'd never guess it wasn't a straightforward movie about the life of the central character if u didn't know the context! for instance, did u realize that the anti-muslim riots in mumbai that killed jamal's mom were probably the awful riots post babri masjid demolition in '91? awesome how many levels this movie has. and it was soooo bollywood, in such a good way, in a way acceptable to young indians who love bollywood. i loved that! they even had a song and dance routine at the end, with good choreo, not snarky bullshit with people running around trees! people in an all-white audience in norway (and boy, u do not get more white than scandinavian white) clapped at the end of the movie! i felt like i was back home in india! brilliant effort guys. but i would like to say, u really dumped on 'who wants to be a millionaire' for no reason. they always have the politest hosts, no host has any stake in the winnings or losses of the contestants, you don't have to decide whether or not you're gonna carry on playing before even hearing the next question, and they definitely never, ever go into an ad break before the participant has answered a question (though they may before they tell u if he's right). it's a huge phenomenon in india, loved by all. seriously, if u ain't been there, u can't fathom it. i mean, they got amitabh bachchan to host it, for crying out loud! there's people building actual temples for that guy and worshipping him, he's that much of a god! (seriously, it was in the news, there's actually a temple in india dedicated to the big B). well, anyway, i'm not nuts, i know it's just a movie, and who wants to be a millionaire (or kbc - kaun banega crorepati - as we lovingly call it in india) is just a show, i can take a lil playing around with that concept. bottom line - this movie rocks!!! it's the kind of movie that makes u regret that there aren't more like it, that makes u feel depressed that such a fantastically indian movie wasn't made by an indian, that leaves u on a high that goes on for days! go watch it, guys.
the second movie we saw was zach and miri make a porno. well, obviously, nowhere in the same genre or anything hehe, to put it mildly. apart from scatological references - watching people getting covered in shit (actual shit) two nights in a row is a bit much for me, i think i'm done with that for the rest of my life, thanks guys. but apart from that, it was not as bad as expected, not as funny as expected, but pretty much a cute chick flick that u could sit thru once. quite formulaic though, which was unexpected, considering the title. my advice? go watch slumdog millionaire.
the third, phew, was annie hall. i love diane keaton, have done for years, and this is THE definitive diane keaton movie, right? made for her, around her, about her, who could ask for more diane keaton in a movie? a lil bit much on the talking tho, and a lil dated now with all the taking yourself so seriously and the philosophy and the marijuana and the psycho-analysis, but still quite delightful so far. that's all i'm gonna say about it cos i haven't finished it yet cos my hubby fell asleep half-way hehe. woody doesn't work late friday night after watching zach and miri make a porno till 11:30 p.m.! no offence, woody. see u tomorrow night!
hubby registers a protest against the falling asleep midway remark. well alright, so he did find out about the movie and locate it and download it so we could watch it. and he does make a lot of effort reading reviews on imdb to find more stuff to download. and the stuff he downloads is always interesting. but he still fell asleep midway right? i mean, i'm just stating a fact :D
finished annie hall, original impressions remain intact.
Monday, 22 September 2008
pippa
sometimes some books can touch you so deeply, like they're written about yourself. the private lives of pippa lee, by rebecca miller. i am filled with emotion, touched to the heart. scared. this life that i am building for myself, sacrificing everything else to be a wife, hoping to be a mother, will i end up being superfluous in the lives of everyone i love and work for? am i really doing this for myself?
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
aerosmith guru
You ain't that good/ Is what you said down to the letter
But you like the way I hold a microphone
Sometimes I'm good but when I'm bad I'm even better
Don't give me no lip/ I've got enough of my own...
Falling in love is so hard on the kneeeeeees!!!
Genius! Pure genius! :)
But you like the way I hold a microphone
Sometimes I'm good but when I'm bad I'm even better
Don't give me no lip/ I've got enough of my own...
Falling in love is so hard on the kneeeeeees!!!
Genius! Pure genius! :)
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
tick tock tick tock clockwork oranges are exploding...
i never thought i'd say this, but i think the movie made more of an impact than the book!!! shockers! it's just that violence in print does not get the kind of graphic, sub-cutaneous reaction that it gets in visual. but in one way the movie missed the point completely - the book is not about violence inherent in all of us, it's not about finding out that no matter how sick this is making you feel there's a part of you that knows that urge and understands it and you're mr. hyde too ha ha ha! in fact, the book's true motive (yes i'm the messiah so shoot me!) is really revealed in its ending, in a few short lines that deliver a punch so hard you're left gasping for breath and thought - it's about youth!!! youth striving to shed shackles, youth caught in self-loathing awakening to a sick new world, violent fuck-you i-don't-give-a-damn youth!!! and THAT's why it's a book that every generation must have a copy of!!!
Inkie ji ko salaam
I've been reading my friend's blog recently, right from 2004! I am in total awe that I know this woman, I mean, how brilliant is she???? You don't believe me, go check it out yourself: http://inkspillz.blogspot.com/
Jaane Tu... Par Na Jaanu Main!
spoiler alert - you have been warned...
i don't see what the fuss is about. everyone's raving about it. a friend whose taste in movies i most humbly respect told me it's better than dil chahta hai! PSHAW!!!!!!!!!!!! like hell! nothing can ever be better than dil chahta hai!!!!! i'm a die-hard fan, don't ever mess with that hehe... and no, i do NOT think this was better than taare zameen par, which was so moving, so nice, apart from one song... i thought JTYJN was a cute movie, but that's just about it. i seriously did not understand the deal with the girl's bro - sensitive is one thing, but resenting ur sis making friends is just crazy. i did not get that! get a life, dude, make ur own friends! and many things were overdone - which we do not expect from the A folk - Aamir, Apple... :P sohail and arbaaz were overdone (but they always are) (but good to see mainstream people in aamir's movie!). the evil fiance totally wrong for her was soooo totally overdone and unnatural!!! c'mon, somebody can be wrong for u just cos u love somebody else, they don't have to be mean evil bastard for u to see that. give a smart gal some credit yaar, and not punches in the eye! and the naseer-in-a-photu angle was so monumentally stupid i could not believe i was seeing that kinda lame-ass bullshit in an aamir movie! will somebody please give that super-talented actor some decent work??????? aamir, did u make this one from the heart???
that said, the first part with the lead pair's camaraderie totally rocked, Imran and Genelia are soooo cute and it was a lovely feel-good movie at the end of it all, even if it was a no-brainer! and the stylistic element of telling the story and converting the non-believer also added a nice touch, i thought... and the ever-delightful ratna pathak shah ahhhh!!!
there, i said it! phew! i am so sick of trying to smile as people rave about this movie! i don't get it! are people now praising movies just because aamir is making them? have they forgotten why he was so great after all? subtlety! content! this one is definitely below par... :( i guess that's part of the problem - super-high expectations based on past performance... looking forward to the next one, aamir, i love your work!
i don't see what the fuss is about. everyone's raving about it. a friend whose taste in movies i most humbly respect told me it's better than dil chahta hai! PSHAW!!!!!!!!!!!! like hell! nothing can ever be better than dil chahta hai!!!!! i'm a die-hard fan, don't ever mess with that hehe... and no, i do NOT think this was better than taare zameen par, which was so moving, so nice, apart from one song... i thought JTYJN was a cute movie, but that's just about it. i seriously did not understand the deal with the girl's bro - sensitive is one thing, but resenting ur sis making friends is just crazy. i did not get that! get a life, dude, make ur own friends! and many things were overdone - which we do not expect from the A folk - Aamir, Apple... :P sohail and arbaaz were overdone (but they always are) (but good to see mainstream people in aamir's movie!). the evil fiance totally wrong for her was soooo totally overdone and unnatural!!! c'mon, somebody can be wrong for u just cos u love somebody else, they don't have to be mean evil bastard for u to see that. give a smart gal some credit yaar, and not punches in the eye! and the naseer-in-a-photu angle was so monumentally stupid i could not believe i was seeing that kinda lame-ass bullshit in an aamir movie! will somebody please give that super-talented actor some decent work??????? aamir, did u make this one from the heart???
that said, the first part with the lead pair's camaraderie totally rocked, Imran and Genelia are soooo cute and it was a lovely feel-good movie at the end of it all, even if it was a no-brainer! and the stylistic element of telling the story and converting the non-believer also added a nice touch, i thought... and the ever-delightful ratna pathak shah ahhhh!!!
there, i said it! phew! i am so sick of trying to smile as people rave about this movie! i don't get it! are people now praising movies just because aamir is making them? have they forgotten why he was so great after all? subtlety! content! this one is definitely below par... :( i guess that's part of the problem - super-high expectations based on past performance... looking forward to the next one, aamir, i love your work!
Californication
I am so high on Californication right now! Just saw 8 episodes back to back! It's fast-moving, it's got a completely riveting central plot, interesting sub-plots, a wonderful parent-child relationship - who needs more? Maybe a little less of the self-pity would be nice, but hey, there's hope! And it's a writer with a writer's block - I'm hooked!!!! Haven't been this way since I first saw Sex and the City!
Monday, 28 April 2008
Juno
oh man, what a feel good movie!!! totally fell in love with juno (ellen page) and with the music, the story, the sensitivities - what a long-remembered, long-cherished experience! sometimes you come across artistic efforts that you really feel are speaking to you - as if you're singled out among the teeming masses and it's thrown a spotlight on you - so intimately does it seem to be talking to you! like american beauty... like pieta... like ijaazat... like this! :) i am feeling so good right now, i have a smile on my face, and the world seems a better place to be in!!! definitely recommend this movie!!! i know i'll be watching it again and again!
Thursday, 3 April 2008
daytime television hell!
ugh! daytime television has hit rock bottom! i just saw an ad for a programme called "women who sweat"!!!! 30 minutes of seeing women sweat... man, are we that addicted to tv that we'll sit in front of it even if it's showing ugly people dealing with bodily functions best not mentioned? ok, it's a part of life and you deal with it if you have such a problem, but what kind of a concept is that for a programme? how did it even get network approval??? bah!
Sunday, 2 March 2008
तारे ज़मीन पर
nice name, lovely movie, what amazing acting from such a lil kid!!! maybe not the first and definitely not the last movie on this subject, but made direct dil se! real feel-good factor - so important in a hindi movie. makes you fill up with emotion. and actually gave me a new thought, for the first time, about different children - they're born to perfectly normal people! the function in which tulip school kids act in a play - did you see the parents in the audience? that could be the audience in ANY school! tomorrow, that could be you or me with a kid like that! it's not anything we can control! there, but for the grace of God, go i! it filled me with a new emotion for those children, like they were my children, and i was following their every movement with pride and joy like the parents in that function! how traumatic it must be to be completely normal yourself, with every expectation of normalcy from your kid, and to have to deal with something that is so unexpected, so un-understandable! and yet it's your kid, and you love him and want him to succeed and be happy! we just can't tell what cards we'll be dealt... itni lambi zindagi hai... in the end, life takes all!
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
i will...
"who knows how long i've loved you
d'you know i love you still
will i wait a lonely lifetime
if you want me to, i will...
love you forever and forever
love you with all my heart
love you whenever we're together
love you when we're apart
and when at last i find you
your song will fill the air
sing it loud so i can hear you
make it easy to be near you
for the things you do endear you/ to me
oh/ you know/ i will"
a friend of mine once said that when she fell in love with the perfect guy, she wished this song would play in the background when he proposed! and i thought that was the most romantic idea i'd ever heard! well, that was school and we were romantic back then... when he did propose to me, there was no music, no wine, no dancing, no wining or dining, even no ring! he did get down on one knee though (heehee, so sweet!) and sheepishly said those 4 words - will you marry me - and i giggled and said yes, and then i dropped him off at the railway station and came back home to an empty room... that's life! life doesn't always come with frills, but it has its way of filling you with soul-happiness! and then, even if this song doesn't actually fill the air, you can still hear it!!! and mean it!!!!!!
d'you know i love you still
will i wait a lonely lifetime
if you want me to, i will...
love you forever and forever
love you with all my heart
love you whenever we're together
love you when we're apart
and when at last i find you
your song will fill the air
sing it loud so i can hear you
make it easy to be near you
for the things you do endear you/ to me
oh/ you know/ i will"
a friend of mine once said that when she fell in love with the perfect guy, she wished this song would play in the background when he proposed! and i thought that was the most romantic idea i'd ever heard! well, that was school and we were romantic back then... when he did propose to me, there was no music, no wine, no dancing, no wining or dining, even no ring! he did get down on one knee though (heehee, so sweet!) and sheepishly said those 4 words - will you marry me - and i giggled and said yes, and then i dropped him off at the railway station and came back home to an empty room... that's life! life doesn't always come with frills, but it has its way of filling you with soul-happiness! and then, even if this song doesn't actually fill the air, you can still hear it!!! and mean it!!!!!!
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
SATC
this blank box is one of the most intimidating things in the world!!!
have been maxing out on 'sex and the city'! it is a totally girly show for girls! i watch it for hours after my husband's fallen asleep or when he isn't at home.... hehe guilty secret no.1! it makes you think a lot, about married life, single life, relationships, casual sex, whatever...
personally speaking, i'm not a casual sex kinda person (major understatement from an indian - casual sex would mean a dimension or paradigm change for me!!!), and it's hard for me to understand sleeping with anyone without getting married first, let alone after just a couple of dates. it's got nothing to do with india though - the things kids do nowadays and the way they talk makes my hair go white. we've imported the western attitude alongwith the clothes, the junk food and the technology. oh, and of course, coca cola! kids nowadays dont go to school... they have oral sex in the hostel, which they secretly tape on their phones and send to all their friends. oh god, i never wanna have kids! anyway, the point is, sleeping with somebody you barely know or just met seems to me a little strange. being naked with somebody is the ultimate moment of truth. how can you invest so much in just a casual encounter? hmmm, but there's something to be said for the opposite point of view too - if you can't find love, atleast have sex in the meantime! :-)
another thing i noticed about the characters of the show - how to remain 'yourself' even while being in a relationship. i don't understand this at all! this assumes that you are one constant, static person, which you so are not! you're constantly reacting to changes in your environment, that make you think, analyze, evolve... change! then why not allow relationships to change who you are as well? after all, aren't you with that person because they're really special, because they stand out from the herd? being in a relationship is about both people meeting each other half-way, and how can you do that if you refuse to budge?
have been maxing out on 'sex and the city'! it is a totally girly show for girls! i watch it for hours after my husband's fallen asleep or when he isn't at home.... hehe guilty secret no.1! it makes you think a lot, about married life, single life, relationships, casual sex, whatever...
personally speaking, i'm not a casual sex kinda person (major understatement from an indian - casual sex would mean a dimension or paradigm change for me!!!), and it's hard for me to understand sleeping with anyone without getting married first, let alone after just a couple of dates. it's got nothing to do with india though - the things kids do nowadays and the way they talk makes my hair go white. we've imported the western attitude alongwith the clothes, the junk food and the technology. oh, and of course, coca cola! kids nowadays dont go to school... they have oral sex in the hostel, which they secretly tape on their phones and send to all their friends. oh god, i never wanna have kids! anyway, the point is, sleeping with somebody you barely know or just met seems to me a little strange. being naked with somebody is the ultimate moment of truth. how can you invest so much in just a casual encounter? hmmm, but there's something to be said for the opposite point of view too - if you can't find love, atleast have sex in the meantime! :-)
another thing i noticed about the characters of the show - how to remain 'yourself' even while being in a relationship. i don't understand this at all! this assumes that you are one constant, static person, which you so are not! you're constantly reacting to changes in your environment, that make you think, analyze, evolve... change! then why not allow relationships to change who you are as well? after all, aren't you with that person because they're really special, because they stand out from the herd? being in a relationship is about both people meeting each other half-way, and how can you do that if you refuse to budge?
Monday, 14 January 2008
a clockwork orange
Recently my husband and I have been on a total movie binge! Living without cable television has enriched our lives in many ways - we read more books, we talk more often, we actually select which movies we want to watch instead of watching whatever's on tv... it's great!!! (my husband doesn't think so - missing the premier league is no joke!!!)
So anyway, we watched Clockwork Orange lately. Very disturbing movie with graphic portrayal of crime, sex, rape, lobotomy, criminal urges, beethoven - you name it! Everything you would expect from a Stanley Kubrick movie... There is something about this subject that makes you want to keep it subliminal. A movie that makes you identify and sympathise with a criminal character who is everything you are taught to condemn - well, it shocks you so much it takes days to recover! You are left wondering if there is somewhere inside you that sort of a person, who would be beyond control, beyond restraint! A part of you even wants to be that person! And you thought you were normal??? Well, after such a movie, I just had to watch Allo Allo to bring the world back into perspective! :-)
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So anyway, we watched Clockwork Orange lately. Very disturbing movie with graphic portrayal of crime, sex, rape, lobotomy, criminal urges, beethoven - you name it! Everything you would expect from a Stanley Kubrick movie... There is something about this subject that makes you want to keep it subliminal. A movie that makes you identify and sympathise with a criminal character who is everything you are taught to condemn - well, it shocks you so much it takes days to recover! You are left wondering if there is somewhere inside you that sort of a person, who would be beyond control, beyond restraint! A part of you even wants to be that person! And you thought you were normal??? Well, after such a movie, I just had to watch Allo Allo to bring the world back into perspective! :-)
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