a day of indulgence! films and food!

wow, it was a sunday, one like not seen in days...after a long time a sunday happened, when we could get up late and do what we wanted because there were also not many impending assignments or deadlines.
So I got up, had my breakfast and saw Forrest Gump. It was a brilliant film. Its quite wonderful what Robert Zemeckis does to his characters. He makes them do what they want, not thinking whether it is possible or not, so whether it is running for close to 3 years or living by the sea and living by oneself for years. There is a solid optimism about the film and there's nothing sorry about it. The accent sure was a little difficult for someone like me, who understands very little of a non-Indian English accent. This one was particularly bad. But watching a film on the computer is somewhat not so linear as watching a film on the big-screen when there is nothing you can do if you dont understand something. With Forrest Gump I had the privilege of going back and forth and back and forth if I didn't understand something.
But yes, life is like a box of assorted chocolates, you never know what you're heading for.

Ya so anyway, I slept for a bit in the afternoon and washed my clothes after getting up. It's quite an exercise to do it actually. I pile my clothes up for days and finally, when things come to a head, I wash them. So ya I washed them and got exhausted. But I must say Im quite thorough with that. I mean the best way to wash would be to soak them in a detergent for exactly 3 hours and then wash them with a nice cake. They come out with flying colours :D

Then I went out for a film with my dearest friends. The Last Lear. I hadn't really heard about the film. Only Debo had told me it's not nice. I couldnt imagine it was the way it was. If I were to describe the film in 1 word, it would be difficult. It taxes and teases the audience quite constantly. There were times I thought the actors had just learnt the script really hard and then regurgitated them. Sometimes, even when there were dialogues I thought they were soliloquies. More like a stage performance. Beautiful and radical looking people though. Shefali Chhaya was quite beautiful and acted well i think. And there's your Amitabh Bachhan who might have an extremely awe-inspiring voice, but I must say I dont understand much of what he says. Its like those handwritings that look beautiful and arty from a distance, with the right tilt and all but is illegible. And ya the film is very Bengali. Infact there's a whole lot of Bengali without sub-titles.
Oh by the way, it's quite unlike the other film by Rituparno Ghosh- Raincoat. That film was lucid and simple and amazingly rivetting. I mean it was bare and simple and Aishwarya hasn't looked better and both the actors were looking exactly their parts.

I also think, the film could have been a better academic exercise than just another film that you go for entertainment. I mean it could be a different more thinking kind of entertainment but not pure entertainment. Infact I look at films much differently than I used to. Sometimes I also see the arguments and what the film is trying to be. And mostly I dont like films much these days. And if I go to watch a film outside in the theater or something then I keep watching out for the interval. The last few films that I saw were A wednesday and Rock On, which were both liked by a lot by people. But I had doubts about the first one. I mean I liked it but something about it was suspect. I mean it was preachy and unthinkable and it kept me guessing, which was nice. And the second one I didn't like because it was just trying too hard. But everyone I spoke to outside of my college loved the film. So I dont know....but one thing i know for sure is that these films are all very different from each other and i like the confidence of people who make them because they treat their films so differently.

Oh yes, besides the film there were a couple of good things that I did today. I had the most amazing 'sev puri' that you get in front of FR, of which I dont think I have talked. It's quite brilliant, filling and yummy. I love all kinds of chaats actually, so 'sev-puris' dont have much more to do to lure me. :) I also had the 'bavarian chocolate' from baskin robbins which was again something to live and die and kill for. i sincerely love to eat. good food + good sleep + good money = good life. and i'm not sure about the last two :D

So that's that. Not much else to write. I think I'll begin my day early tomorrow and sort some things out.

Later