For all non-bongs, thats Happy new year in bengali. Today is the Bengali new year and like all new years is entitled to a new year resolution. :) Mine is to revive my sense of humor. Like all illuminating ideas, I suddenly realized that life would be better if seen with a spoonful of sugar.
I was also seriously contemplating changing my blog to be a movie review site, which it already is. But then everyone (as my wish-to-remain-anonymous friend calls it) needs a hobby/past-time. Watching movies would not fit the category of a hobby, but then it is just one of the things which can take my imagination for a ride. And I am extra indebted to Netflix, considering that is what has made me survive the last two years literally.
So the latest additions were Namesake, Vertigo, Dial M for murder, half of Charulata, Dead Poet's society. And though I liked the Alfred Hitchcock's, my favorite was the last one. I have always been a sentimental fool, and the last one moved me to tears. Thanks to Shriram that I came across this movie.
About Namesake, well for me it was just home (considering it was filmed mostly in Kolkata too). I had found the book very depressing though good. I sort of identified with the plight of being aliens in an alien land. Strangely enough, so far I have only heard guys saying they liked it. :) Does that show that the guys were able to skip the nuances of the screenplay and get to the gist of the movie ? Or does that show that girls have moved on, and see no big deal or don't identify themselves with the movie ?
But after dead poet's society, I have found out that something missing from my life is poetry. :) As if there aren't other things...... but the jack of all trades that I usually aim to be, it is but too alluring not to try poetry.
At this moment, the center of my life is a compilers project which thankfully to two weeks of work, is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel finally. And I seriously feel like framing and hanging the 3000 lines of code , written solely by yours truly as one of my most enduring tests of patience. But there are still test cases to be done, projects, finals and presentations and all in 28 days. :)
p.s: on re-reading my own post, I cannot help but criticise that I have no idea about what I have been trying to write or whether I have been trying to write at all. I have skimmed over everything that I wanted to say and left many a thing unsaid, and I think this is the most logically written piece of the entire post..... but well , sometimes you can just indulge to be mad. :-|
3 comments:
Happy Bengali New Year or as you said Subho Nabo Barsho. That's a good new year resolution and we hope to see more humorous posts in the future.
I haven't watched or read Namesake yet (I remember you mentioned having read it in your July 05 2005 post)but having read Interpreter of maladies, I didn't feel that strong of an urge. I found most of it morose with a somber undertone something which I didn't find palatable. Anyway your observation that guys liked the movie more than girls was interesting and I also wonder why ?
Btw vertigo is a good movie, a little slow but a good watch.Dead poet's society is a great movie and one of my favourites. Robin Williams was in a league of his own. I am sure you have noticed that in this movie, except for Shakespeare, most of the poets named were American poets and if I am not mistaken, most of them were from the American Civil war era. Thoreau's Walden and Whitman's O Captain My Captain are masterpieces. The poetic imagery in Walden is moving to say the least although walden is not a poem.
Btw, I couldn't help but comment that it will be sad loss for your readers if this blog gets changed to a movie review site. There are n-number of them on the web. You have a thoughtful and distictive style of writing something which I/We enjoy immensely and it will sad to see it being changed to something else, although again it's your blog and you can choose to do whatever you want with it(-:. Just a thought.
Anyway the project seems a lot of work. Good Luck with it. Another 28 days to go...Carpe Diem !!
didi..admirers galore eh?:-)incidentally,the movie which made me cry was Schindler's List.And our mutual recommendation of movies shall continue..:)
shriram
I know you want to be a teacher and you enjoy being around students...so just wanted to suggest this movie which I watched recently "The Freedom Writers" starring Hilary Swank. It's a great movie and based on a true story. I know you are about to move to Seattle soon and may not get a chance to watch it now but just wanted to suggest it. I am sure you will enjoy it.
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