Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Blank....!

Hmmm..... here I am in front of the computer. I thought I would write something but my mind seems to be blank right now. What do I write.... am open to ideas people! ;-)

We watched Akiro Kurasowa's 'Rashomon' today. Good one about how people lie to others and to themselves to save their skins. Watch it for the portrayal of the bandit Tajumoro who is superb as the uncivilised, brutal villain. Unlike New Wave Cinema in Italy which hardly had any emotional portrayal, this had the characters oozing out emotion from their eyes. The film ends with a question but the story is unimportant here. The story of who murdered a man is just a medium through which Kurasowa tells us that all of us have the vestiges of a primitive nature that we think civilisation hasdone away with. In those ways, we are no different, if not worse, than the most cruel of animals. Movies that make you think this way are not just a way to claim to be more intellectually superior than the next person. Instead, it has to make you accept that some things are just inherent in human beings, some bits of primitive behaviour that will not vanish even after millennia of "civilisation".

3 comments:

San Nakji said...

Damn spam comments! Kurosawa really was a genius don't you think? If you were to recommend some Indian films to me, what you you suggest?

Deepa Bhasthi said...

where do i start? there are hundreds of movied that i could talk about. in kannada, there are movies by puttanna kanagal.... bengali by satyajit ray... tell me what language you would like. there are many commercial movies which are great too

San Nakji said...

No idea. Anything you think is good and that I might be able to find here....