Orange!!

Why promise someone something and live a lie to keep that promise?

This is the theme/moral that I gathered from this movie. I just saw this movie and I wanted to say so much about it. And now I forgot what that was!

Whatever it was, it will sum up to this -- the movie sucked, songs were awesome!

At one point, no at so many points, I felt like banging my head on the nearest wall. But I sat through the whole movie because if the songs. Simply because of them. Two hours after the movie and I'm still listening to those songs :)

The movie had a good motive or idea rather. But it was communicated rather badly; like the script got misplaced and the movie was made based on the rough draft of the script. And there are soooo many atrocities that I won't list here.

Actually the only reason I'm even writing this now is because I'm feeling a little guilty :-/ There are a few symbolic references to smoking. The guy smokes. (For full details watch the movie) Naturally his friends, family, girlfriend don't approve of it. The guy starts feeling like they are trying to rob a bit of him. 

I do that too! I realised maybe I'm a bit prudish. Aaaand so, now on I'll try not to do that. Hopefully.

Crazy easy life!

It's wonderfully cold in the mornings these days when I wake up. My room so warm and the air smells of rain! I'd always want to sleep a little more. And I do! 

I can soak up in all the books I own. I can read them as much as I want, as long as I want - late into night, all day long, even while eating, with absolutely nothing nagging at the back of my head that I might be late for something, or I should get enough sleep or anything at all!

I can watch TV as long as I want. I can laugh at the silliest things without checking myself that someone might think I'm weird. 

I can eat happily. Home food! If I want to eat junk stuff, I can have that too! Now that I don't have to cook as a rule, I find cooking very interesting. I can cook whenever I feel like it.

I have a phone that had stayed with me through thick and thin :-D. I can call, text whenever I miss someone from the outside world. I can sit on the internet if everything else is boring.

If I get too bored with all the relaxing, I can start studying. It is hard work and it makes me tired by the end of the day. For the first time, feeling tired feels good! 

And if I feel sorry for myself that I have been working too hard, I can simply sit and watch the world go by! Just sit and sip the awesome coffee mom makes anytime I ask for one. Just sit by the window looking at the trees, birds, kids, anything and start dreaming with a big, content smile on my face. Sit and do nothing! 

Because I have all the time in the world!

BUT.....

I also happen to have a precious little conscience, that NEVER allows me to enjoy any of it!! Grrrrrr...! It - the stupid conscience - always keeps pricking me that I have to leave all this, that I have to try and work my ass off so that I can find another blood-sucking, slow-death inducing job!! It simply wants me to go find WORK and wants me to stop being content and HAPPY!!

Life is so unfair. It is some kind of a evil, twisted paradox isn't it?? 

Love at its purest - Mooga Manasulu

Maanu maakunu kaanu 

Rayi rappanu kaanekaanu

Maamulu manishini nenu

Nee manishini nenu!

Naakuu oka manasunnadi 

Nalugurila aasunnadi

Kalalu kane kallunnay

Avi kalatha padite neellunnayi... 

Pemidanu techi vottini vesi

Samurunu posi bema supeva!

Intha sesi eliginchenduku 

Enakamunduladeva!

Madisi thoti yelakolam aadukunte baaguntadi

Manasu thoti aadaku maava.. irigipote atakadu malla... 

Maanu maakunu kaanu 

Rayi rappanu kaanekaanu

Maamulu manishini nenu

Nee manishini nenu!

I always feel so bad when I see this movie. So many innocent people, so much emotion and a cruel fate. It's an old telugu movie and it is a typical plot but this movie always is always one of my favourites.

And this is one of my favourite songs! Beautiful song, touching lyrics - simple words, straight from the heart!

Whatever happened to leading a simple life! We want to complicate things. I mean some of the new songs now are....I don't know they try too much! Trying too hard to rhyme, to sound catchy and smart and cheeky! They are completely out of place, no where related to the story; simply there because a movie should have six songs, as if there's a rule!

Anyway I don't want to complain more. I'm not a poet and I don't know anything about it. But I can tell when I did or didn't like something.

I'll go back to listening to that song! :-)

Inception...finally!

I was a little busy when Inception was running in theaters and I regretted a lot later that I missed it. So I had to wait till the dvd release. I got it now and finally watched it! It was superb!! There are so, sooo many good reviews out there about this movie, and it is already one of the top ten movies in imdb. So I wont waste time gushing how good the movie is. I just want to dwell on some of the tiny details a geek could not help but notice.

• I wish I knew the technical details of the Inception thing. I mean the audience only gets to know what it does but not 'how'. They have little tubes taped to their wrists and that's it! They immediately start dreaming. 

• There are two important people in those dreams (movie is all about dreams y'know) - the subject and the dreamer. But it is the subject's 'world' the dreamer gets to see. I mean I would have thought it is the other way round. That is how normal dreams are at least. I guess it's a part of the equipment's functionality. Or maybe that is one of the main functions of it! 

• There are 'levels' of dreams; dreams within the dreams. This concept is lost on me. And its theory sounded a bit hypothetical. I believe that human subconscious is really powerful yet it is very vague. The concept of dream within a dream should imply that subconscious has another subconscious - a sub-subconscious. This is a little presumptuous. Presumptuous especially because of the time rule of these dreams... 1st level : 10 secs = 2nd level 3mins = 3rd level 1 hour. I can agree that 5 min in real world = 1 hour in a dream; mind works faster and "discovers" a lot on the way. But can you really apply the same rule to second and third levels of dreaming? I don't think so. The 'depth' of subconscious, I feel, is a totally different thing. It only deals with depth - you have to dig deeper to find things inside. But is it really possible that as you dig deeper, your mind gets more powerful? Either presumptuous or I should learn Freudian theories and then come back to comment. 

• Sedated people dying in that dream would be brain dead when they wake up. This, again, must have something to do with the machine or the sedative which should have some kind of effect on the brain directly when dreaming. Otherwise this theory is so not true. I had two dreams in which I died! I'm not joking!! That dream used to end there. I don't remember waking up either. I used to scared like hell though, but I never used to tell anyone because these people worry a lot! 

[[Someone who saw this movie said it was an original concept and this movie is the first of its kind. No, there were other movies like this before. Vanilla sky and Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind almost the same concept. ]]]