It requires embracing life in its entirety, with all its joys and sorrows, as if one would willingly choose to relive it all again and again. To live with such awareness is to live authentically, to seize the present moment with gratitude, knowing that it is all we truly have.
The eternal recurrence is a thought experiment, a challenge to confront the totality of existence and to live in such a way that one could affirm the repetition of every moment infinitely. (1/2)
Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a surrealistic ode to the people, culture, yesteryear songs and movies of Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
Mammootty effortlessly inhabits the persona of James and Sundaram while Lijo's static, wide frames evoke a dreamlike quality to the proceedings.
When a person has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he can do.
Siddharta can wait calmly, he knows no impatience, he knows no emergency, for a long time he can allow hunger to besiege him and can laugh about it.
So Wes Anderson won the Oscar for Live Action Short Film and it wasn't covered widely in the media because he wasn't present at the ceremony?
That's two of my favorite directors winning on the same night!
Unfortunately I didn't bother to watch the telecast.
Austin Butler's unhinged turn as Feyd-Rautha, the psychotic antagonist in Dune 2 reminded me of a younger Christian Bale during the American Psycho days.
Butler is menacing, intense and electrifying in a twisted way. Terrific performance.