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Add Comment »Continuing from the last post about nothing, this is a review of the movie Pi. No, not American Pie. The mathematical Pi. Released in 1998, Pi was director Darren Aronofsky‘s first film which won him a few awards. A relatively low budget movie with unknown stars and a weird setting. The movie was shot with an extremely high grain, high contrast black and white film. This is one of the reasons I love it. It feels weird and it really is.
The narrator of the story is Max Cohen. A number theorist Max believes that the world around us can be explained with numbers alone. He thinks everything is a mathematical model. Everything is governed by a deterministic function. You can tell when a passion turns into an obsession. As soon as that hint of obsession is observed, things begin to get interesting. [Read more →]
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Add Comment »My practical exams are finally over and I have vamoosed into what people call a preparatory leave. People are supposed to prepare for exams during this time – hence the name. I am not doing anything even remotely close to it at this time. What I am doing is, watching a lot of movies and serials. I started with Californication, I then tried catching up with True Blood. I also watched Push, Blind Side, the International and the Condemned. I thought Condemned deserves to go first, mainly because I want to get back into the rhythm and this movie can be reviewed without the rhythm – it simply sucks.
The Condemned is a movie about savages. Some crackpot jackass millionaire (maybe multi) thinks it’s cool and justice to drop 10 criminals on death sentence on a deserted island, unknown to all the governments and intelligence agencies, and make them compete for 30 hours against each other in a match till death where the sole survivor gets to live, beating the death sentence. [Read more →]
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Add Comment »Requiem for a Dream – a movie about drugs, a movie about teens, a movie which is sure to leave you rattled for a long time, a movie which can leave you damaged even on first viewing… It is not, however, a don’t do drugs movie. It tells us… a story. A story of how drug addiction can leave people totally delirious and damaged, a story of how dreams turn into dust.
Requiem for a dream revolves around four people. Adapting the theme from his own novel, Hubert Selby Jr. tells us the story of four lost souls. A tale of four trapped entities trying to climb out of the hole they have been thrown in. The hope of happiness in form of some material possession, an interaction with the inner self, the downfall of the castles and breaking of the shackles woven by drugs around them – and their failure to do so. [Read more →]