It bit me – the movie bug…
Believe me…I saw some 15 movies in the last 20 days or so…it all started with a harmless conversation when somebody told me to watch three Audrey Hepburn movies and I thought to myself – “Yeah! I am gonna do this! All my life I have been waiting for someone to come and tell me to watch a movie that kindles that spark of interest in me! N here it is!”
So I set about downloading those movies…now our LAN is a pirate’s paradise and before long, I was watching them. I had a couple of major submissions along with end-term exams then – but nothing was to come in my way! Not that I didn’t do justice to those commitments – I did more than enough – but that is another story…
Let’s get on with this one…
Audrey H set the ball rolling…she was cute, more than that – I finally knew what all these people looked like – Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis and the rest of the gang of yore…now my dear reader (assuming I have any) - if you are expressing wonderment at the fact that I didn’t already know them, let me tell you that Yours truly has not seen too many movies…I usually consider watching movies a waste of time…I only watch movies which are highly recommended by reliable sources!
So then I went on a spree of watchin classics…I couldn’t get enough of them! I even watched a couple of musicals! N then a friend of mine started ribbing me about my new-found love for the classics and my illiteracy regarding movies in general…so I decided to continue watching and watching all sorts…
Now this post is not about this movie-buff lifestyle of mine – it is about this one movie – Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind…it has made some sorta impact one me…
For the uninitiated – it is about this couple – poles apart – they have a sort of fight and the woman who is extremely impulsive employs the services of a memory-erasure clinic to erase all memories of the man. The man, on finding out, in a fit of anger, proceeds to do the same – only half-way through the procedure, he starts realizing that he has actually spent a lot of good times with her and he does not want to go through with it.
The movie is beautifully made – the past and present and interwoven amazingly well…
The concept got me thinking - erasing memories – I am sure we all have certain memories we want to forget…but to forget altogether that the person or people involved with those memories ever existed – well…not such a great idea…
We are what we are because of the experiences we have had, because of the people we have met and to erase them would be like to feel something every time you see that Titan showroom but not know why you feel that way.
What I also like about the movie immensely – she tells him in his mind inside a memory – Meet me in Montague – and he actually goes there on an inexplicable (to him at that point) impulse to Montague the next day. She is there and they see each other…and she talks to him and both feel some stirring…
A similar thing happens with another person in the movie…she continues to feel an irresistible fascination for somebody she had an affair with and had the memory of whom erased…
Wonders that our minds work…it is so fascinating what our minds make us do – utterly inexplicable stuff…
You know - when people say – choose between what the heart says and what the mind says – I do not understand what they mean…there can be no emotions without the mind - the mind is, in fact, the seat of emotions as opposed to the heart – which is an over-glorified organ (a very important one at that – I have heart disease in the family, I better be respectful towards it ;)) In other words, feeling is just another way of thinking…
On a tangent, I have this thought sometimes in my mind – Whom we get together with, is most times, dependent on circumstances – somebody we happen to meet when we are in that particularly fragile frame of mind; or who we end up spending the entire party talking to, when nobody else you know turns up…well, that is kinda crummy, isnt it? I know that given the circumstances, the fact that two people have to connect is also important – but sometimes, don’t the circs dictate whether you connect or not? Not totally, but to a certain extent?
Maybe, one could have got along much better with somebody else, but the opportunity never presented itself…
On another tangent - lately, I have started feeling that I expect too much from life…I should get down to earth and get real.
Believe me…I saw some 15 movies in the last 20 days or so…it all started with a harmless conversation when somebody told me to watch three Audrey Hepburn movies and I thought to myself – “Yeah! I am gonna do this! All my life I have been waiting for someone to come and tell me to watch a movie that kindles that spark of interest in me! N here it is!”
So I set about downloading those movies…now our LAN is a pirate’s paradise and before long, I was watching them. I had a couple of major submissions along with end-term exams then – but nothing was to come in my way! Not that I didn’t do justice to those commitments – I did more than enough – but that is another story…
Let’s get on with this one…
Audrey H set the ball rolling…she was cute, more than that – I finally knew what all these people looked like – Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis and the rest of the gang of yore…now my dear reader (assuming I have any) - if you are expressing wonderment at the fact that I didn’t already know them, let me tell you that Yours truly has not seen too many movies…I usually consider watching movies a waste of time…I only watch movies which are highly recommended by reliable sources!
So then I went on a spree of watchin classics…I couldn’t get enough of them! I even watched a couple of musicals! N then a friend of mine started ribbing me about my new-found love for the classics and my illiteracy regarding movies in general…so I decided to continue watching and watching all sorts…
Now this post is not about this movie-buff lifestyle of mine – it is about this one movie – Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind…it has made some sorta impact one me…
For the uninitiated – it is about this couple – poles apart – they have a sort of fight and the woman who is extremely impulsive employs the services of a memory-erasure clinic to erase all memories of the man. The man, on finding out, in a fit of anger, proceeds to do the same – only half-way through the procedure, he starts realizing that he has actually spent a lot of good times with her and he does not want to go through with it.
The movie is beautifully made – the past and present and interwoven amazingly well…
The concept got me thinking - erasing memories – I am sure we all have certain memories we want to forget…but to forget altogether that the person or people involved with those memories ever existed – well…not such a great idea…
We are what we are because of the experiences we have had, because of the people we have met and to erase them would be like to feel something every time you see that Titan showroom but not know why you feel that way.
What I also like about the movie immensely – she tells him in his mind inside a memory – Meet me in Montague – and he actually goes there on an inexplicable (to him at that point) impulse to Montague the next day. She is there and they see each other…and she talks to him and both feel some stirring…
A similar thing happens with another person in the movie…she continues to feel an irresistible fascination for somebody she had an affair with and had the memory of whom erased…
Wonders that our minds work…it is so fascinating what our minds make us do – utterly inexplicable stuff…
You know - when people say – choose between what the heart says and what the mind says – I do not understand what they mean…there can be no emotions without the mind - the mind is, in fact, the seat of emotions as opposed to the heart – which is an over-glorified organ (a very important one at that – I have heart disease in the family, I better be respectful towards it ;)) In other words, feeling is just another way of thinking…
On a tangent, I have this thought sometimes in my mind – Whom we get together with, is most times, dependent on circumstances – somebody we happen to meet when we are in that particularly fragile frame of mind; or who we end up spending the entire party talking to, when nobody else you know turns up…well, that is kinda crummy, isnt it? I know that given the circumstances, the fact that two people have to connect is also important – but sometimes, don’t the circs dictate whether you connect or not? Not totally, but to a certain extent?
Maybe, one could have got along much better with somebody else, but the opportunity never presented itself…
On another tangent - lately, I have started feeling that I expect too much from life…I should get down to earth and get real.
