Just Like Magic...

I love this picture. It’s a still from a movie called ‘Before Sunset’ (as is obvious). It’s a sequel to a movie called ‘Before Sunrise’. To put it simply, I’m totally Gobsmacked by the sheer brilliance of these movies. (Thanks to Abhinav for recommending them :) The only movie that I liked as much was ‘If Only’, but that’s in a different league altogether. While ‘If Only’ was perfect and ideal and dramatic, ‘Before Sunrise’ and ‘Before Sunset’ may as well have been out of a day of your life. In fact while watching the movie(s), you forget it’s a movie at all. The acting is amazingly Simple and simply Amazing.

You know why I Love this picture? Because when you look at it you can actually see the Comfort between the characters as a Real, Tangible Force. That’s the beauty of the movie(s). What they’ve been successful in bringing about is the Comfort between the protagonists which I feel, makes the core of the movie(s). Never have I seen such chemistry between the lead actors. Never have I seen Communication being presented so well. The movie, in fact, is all Communication. The guy and the girl fall in Love in front of you, because, for the first time (in my knowledge) has someone actually shown the process of falling in Love. It happens right there, in front of you, scene by scene. To top it, this Magical process is not tainted by any outside element, because for all practical purposes, there are only two actors. And nothing has been captured except for their Love and its Magic.

I feel this movie would give a lot of answers to anyone looking for Simplicity. I wish ‘Before Sunset’ had ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ by Keane as one of its songs. It would’ve been Perfect. I was reminded of the song more than once while watching the movie.

The thing I loved best is- in both the movies, there’s no inhibitedness, no holding back, no pretensions, no games. There’s only Love, Communication, Impulsiveness, Honesty and Abandon. While the first one is more Honest, Pure and closer to my heart, the next one is equally Simple, heart wrenchingly Sensitive and just as Moving.

I’m not very sure if everyone will like the movie(s)… [it touched me, yes, but then I have a weird taste in movies… :)] but I’m sure of this: if the movies does Move you; does Touch you, you’ll discover a Whole New Feeling, a Whole New Emotion, which I simply can’t define, or express… for, like all Joys, and every Magic, it can only be Experienced.

The Love-Hate Relationship

'hate', as an Emotion (if you can call it that) confuses me. All I understand about it is that it’s Powerful... and most powerful things are dangerous.

I’ve never been comfortable with hating. Swapnil once told me long back… ‘You need to give a lot of importance to someone you hate, why would you do that?’ And I couldn’t agree more.

I don’t understand these communities in Orkut that say ‘I Hate Angelina Jolie’ or ‘I Hate Aishwarya Rai’… Man what difference does it make to any of them whether you hate them or not!! Why give them so much of importance? I’d understand ‘I Hate Child Labour’ but, Aishwarya Rai? C’mon!! I mean, do you know her personally or something!!

I hate too, of course… I mean I hate child abuse and eve teasing and injustice... but that’s about it!! It needs a lot of passion to hate, and I’d rather be passionately in Love than Hate!! :)

I mean, look at it this way… you Love a person with all your heart say Mr. X and he has no idea. You love him, it makes you feel good, and you’re happy to be in Love. Years later, you meet Mr. X who’s married and settled and you tell him you’ve always loved him. He feels good, you feel good and all is hunky dory. Now imagine you hate Mr. X and he doesn’t know you exist. You feel angry when you look at him, disgusted when you talk about him and years later you tell him you hate him. He feels important and amused, you feel worse and bitter and you’ve wasted a lifetime hurting no one but yourself. Why would anyone do that?!

If it makes anyone happy to hate, maybe they should go ahead and keep hating... but well, I doubt that... I don’t deny Loving can hurt you… but personally, I’d rather hurt loving than hurt hating!

And you know, in the end, it’s the Loving that defines you. If you had only one more day to live, you’d spend it with the people you love; you’d not spend it shooting the people you hate (I mean unless you’re a bit screwed up). In fact chances are you’d realize you don’t even want to kill them… but then that’s forgiveness we’re talking about; let’s not get into that in this post.

So here I’m talking about Love again. How hackneyed is that… God I hope I didn’t sound all soppy... I mean... I’d really Hate that!! ;)

Words

The people who read my blog regularly (God help them) would know my obsession with communication. Words fascinate me. Nothing quite compares to the joy I feel when I see a feeling expressed in a word. So you can appreciate my jubilance when I came across these words…

‘Wbi’ is Japanese for ‘the beauty of Simplicity’

‘Shibui’ is Japanese for ‘Restrained Elegance’

‘Torschlusspanik’ is German for ‘Fear of being left on the shelf’

On a lighter note,

‘Mvuki’ is Swahili for ‘shucking off your clothes’ (*evil grin*)

‘Drachenfutter’ is German for ‘peace offerings for wife from husband (literally, dragon fodder… hyuk hyuk)

‘Attacabottoni’ is Italian for ‘a bore who corners people with sad, boring tales’

And the most amazing one…

‘Razlyubit’ is Russian for ‘the feeling for someone you’ve once loved but now do not’ Brilliant, isn’t it…

I’m sure many of us suffer from ‘Torschlusspanik’ and 90% of us feel ‘Razlyubit’ for at least one person... *sly grin*

There’s nothing like Words, and there’s nothing like Communication… and there’s no one as repetitive as I am… so I’ll stop the banter now before I become an ‘Attacabottoni’ :)