Miranda Priestly: This… ‘stuff’? Oh… ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put [...]
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Stanley Kubrick on Words
I watched only four Stanley Kubrick movies: Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. Spartacus did not feel very much like a Kubrick movie to me even though I had watched only three of his other movies by then. I later learned [...]
Slumdog Millionaire: Reality in the Other World
Before I knew anything about the movie, I made a sweeping statement. “The West loves poverty in India, and India loves what the West does,” I told a friend with that hollow, distant, ungodly voice. I was wrong. We must thank the filmmakers behind Cidade de Deus and Slumdog Millionaire for bringing forward a truth [...]
DVD Review: Remember the Titans
First posted on Desicritics on 28th September, 2008. “Based on a true story” is one note that tunes our minds to suspend disbelief more willingly than we normally would. We have come to accept that truth is stranger than fiction, at least when books are written or movies are made about them. As an outsider [...]