Category: Movies
The Group Vs Sole Survivor Paradox: Players are expected to be loyal to their teams, while expected to betray individuals,…
A paradox of horror flicks: The victims are also the hero(ines), who despite being very afraid, are also very brave….
In the movie ‘Tokyo Sonata’, there is dissonance, hidden tension in a family, between every member of the family… that drives…
‘Assault Girls’, from the makers of ‘Ghost in the Shell’, is quite a letdown, lacking the usual profound philosophising. Its…
‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’, simply put, is an ode to life. An ode to living itself: He who…
In the movie ‘Already Famous’, we see the classic tension between struggling to be recognised by others to be talented…
From the movie ‘Win Win’: Coach: Now, did you guys see what Kyle did the other day? He exploded up…
‘3 Idiots’ is the most amazing Indian movie I have seen so far. Truly wonderfully moving, funny yet insightful. (It…
Woody Allen said this – To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one…
If Caesar* was ‘dumb’, he would be downtrodden, discriminated. If Caesar was ‘normal’, he would be neglected, discriminated. If Caesar…
When in China, a TV program caught my attention, that focused on demystifying myths. It was about the cultural belief…
In the original version of Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, as in his book, Benjamin is born…
In the ‘brutal’ game that is Survivor in one of the recent seasons, Fabio, seemingly a simple-minded goofball at first,…
I’m generally not supportive of domestication as it is a often form of exploitation but in the documentary ‘The Monk…
While the humans try to nip the problem in the bud by preventing Skynet from forming, why doesn’t the robots just nip the problem…
Something funny because it was said seriously in the ‘Green Lantern’ movie: Bob: Watch your back. Hal: That’s impossible, Bob….
Zombie Koan #09 How do you decide whether and when to kill a bitten walker-to-be as there might be a…
Saw a modern gangland movie version’s retelling of Macbeth, which I studied in school years ago… A case of listening…
A short review of the movie ‘DMC (Detroit Metal City)’: Acting as a demon from hell, and singing the dark and…
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