After 6 days at work on what was "officially" a 4 day week, I decided to treat myself with "The Terminal" after a goooood sunday lunch. What was expected to be a movie watching experience I would appreciate turned out to be an un-forgettable cupla hours...Absolutely brilliant characterization. 20 Minutes into the movie I started to wonder if the movie was a bit too laid back and slow paced...But That's where Spielberg scores...What he sketches with care in the first half hour is the back bone of the next hour and a half of absolute bliss... Most of the great directors use repetition and patterns to haunt and sink in the impact on the viewer... That is one of the high-lights of the movie...The "Napoleon-Josephine" dialogues and the Daily visits to the immigration counter of Viktor are classic examples...
Though I don't go to movies with a note pad in hand to take down the messages the director conveys to the viewer, I appreciate subtle hints at Values and an underlying message, of course, I hate it if the hero utters a 20 min dialog just to deliver the cliched "Message".... Subtlety is yet another hallmark of the great directors..
The importance of the Human Touch to business and the hidden pointers on how in-human today's workforce have become are totally of relevance to working professionals. The power of "Service with a Smile" and how you can win people to your way by just being a true honest helpful guy.....these were stuff I felt I should try and emulate if not in one month atleast over a period of time....
I have added Terminal to my list of all time faves....Strangely enough was reminded of Anbe Sivam Lots while I watched terminal....
ok....on to other stuff/..cant thank god enuf for saving my frnds from death...Oh man....20 mins....what a diff it made.....
Desply wanna see Marina and good ol' bessy in such a mess....How I miss seeing my beloved chennai go through all it has.....
I hope the new year dawns a non calamitous one for India....and the world...
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Tsu-Nami - Hindu tells me is Japanese for Harbour-Wave.....
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Dei bring this CD da..kaal or kai-la vizhundhu...
desply wanna watch it... ippo inga semma vetti..
RR won ragamalika finals..SPB judge...
anyaaya pedal..
J, sorry my first post in ur blog ( i guess) isnt very relevant to the topic, but something tht kept hitting my mind all through the last coupla days...
Question 1: Agreed that a tidal wave is unexpected by a earthuake 1000s of miles away. But once the tsunami hit the Andaman and Nicobar islands, the government should have sprung into action and warned the people on the mainland. Southern India could then have been better prepared to face the disaster. Once the tsunami hit the Andamans, we had at least 2-3 hrs to do this. Why was this not done?
Question 2: Why do we have all that government paraphernalia in the Andamans if we cannot keep an eye on developments in Southeast Asia? Damn we even have an air force base ther !!! and i hate to see it being destroyed! (ps: i always wanted to become an airforce combat pilot but cudnt cos of my partial color blindness...)
Question 3: What were ISRO’s numerous satellites (icl IRS-8 series meant for studying storms n the like?) doing at the time? From what i know, it takes 90 mins for them to circle the earth...so surely they wud have caught it (although its less likely - fact is tht the waves will only be 1m high in the sea, but when it comes to the mainland, when the waters are shallow, it can go to 10m high easily)
Question 4: If the US, Australia and other Pacific nations knew about the tsunami within 15-30 minutes, why did they not warn India and the others? It
is unimaginable that they allowed the disaster to happen just because SriLanka and India were not ‘members’ in a Pacific watch scheme. If, on
the other hand, they did not know, then all the research and money being spent on observing the Pacific watch is a waste. After all, the same tsunami could
have traveled south to the western coast of Australia. If they did know that the tsunami was traveling west towards the Indian subcontinent and did not warn the nations concerned, then they have failed humanity. My heart felt F%$^%^&%^& !!!!
Question 5: Today it is a tsunami; tomorrow it could be something else. What we know from this tsunami is that India, as a nation, failed. Indian scientists failed. Indian managers failed. Indian politicians failed.
Indian administrators failed. The Indian media failed — by wasting time and energy on trivial issues and showcasing soaps, rather than focusing on issues of importance. Why did the nation I am so proud of, and virtually part of, fail?
Question 6: Finally, if the people cannot be warned about a tsunami, can we trust the government of the day and/or bureaucracy to warn people of nuclear strikes or any other calamities?
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The search has just begun !!! (for an answer!)
And btw girish, i thot u watched it when u were in Singapore? Anywayz, I guess I watched it a coupla months back and shud say it was really nice. Gotta cd with me maams, but too bad cant send u one...s arun also ther already i guess!
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The search has just begun !!! (to treat myself - once again - by watching the movie)
Jus saw the last line of ur post..
"I hope the new year dawns a non calamitous one for India....and the world..."
lol...
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