Spirit - Movie review

Film: Spirit

Director : Ranjith

Cast: Mohanlal, Madhu, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Kaniha and Thilakan.

 

      This movie is  an attempt to answer some of the contemporary questions such as,

    Is it possible to  have a stable relationship amidst all the complexities of life?

    How can we make life meaningful in a situation where technology  and many other external elements like alcohol rule over the people?

      According to this movie, life  becomes  meaningful in a mutual affirmation and love. Technology  and spirit disrupt the rhythm of life. According to Meera, we cannot live our life with a computer though it is highly intelligent. So she  had to leave Raghu (Mohanlal), a man who  led a  mechanical  and a different way of life.

     Reghu  is an intelligent  and clever man.  He lived  in his own world and loved himself very much. Though  he is  a  public figure, he has not a single soul  to wish him  a good night and sweet dreams.  It is understood from the life  of Reghu  that the masterpiece of an  artist  is his life story itself which becomes completed only with the death of the artist. This is true even in the case of Sameer, a poet and  a thinker. He is forced to sell poetry  to make a living.His life tells that  poetry and  life are not  two different  concepts but are  one.  The poet sheds  his  blood to nurture the poetry and to  bring out his best.

This movie also criticizes  some of  the attitudinal changes in people of these days.

    Mobile phone and the shift happened in us  from person to person relationship  to a  virtual world. The device we have made controls us that we forget the people who are close to us and eats away our loving fellowship.

   The growing tendency  among Malayalees  to celebrate  anything and everything with liquor

    Our failure to trace  the root  cause of the problems  in the society.

   Mony (Nandhu) is not   merely a drunkard who represents  the contemporary  men who are  in the magical world of addiction. The addiction discussed in this movie may be towards wealth, power , wine and the other worldly attractions.

     A lot of attempts are there in this movie  to remove the barriers  built by the society and to establish a right  person-to-person relationship. Here  a bar  attender  is more than a  bar attender, a neighbor is more than a person staying in the next door but are people  who listen  to our mourns and wipe away our tears.

Joseph Shibin

Diamond Necklace- Movie review

Diamond Necklace - Review

‘Diamond Necklace’ is a Malayalam movie by Lal Jose.

It has something different to tell us.

This movie criticizes the state of ignorance in which the present young generation lives. It was done near the tallest building in the world Burg Khalifa, Dubai , the symbol of luxury life.It tells about the illusory nature of the world around us and also about the state of ignorance in which we are unable to move and to decide for ourselves.  What is real becomes unreal and what is unreal becomes real for us in this world.

According to the Hero, Dubai city is an illusion created by a magician and nothing is real in it except money. Then what about love and relationships and commitments. People become very much mechanical like the characters in the movie.

Dr.Arun represents the youth of today they face the hard reality of life and pretending to be happy. But the circumstances control his life and he is unable to move forward. Dr. Arun has multiple faces in this movie.

Dr. Savithri, a companion of Dr.Arun a symbol of the few people present in the world who are caring and loving and have a concern for others.

Maya is a character who is happy before the deadly cancer and she tells that

”I am not detached from life, but l live my life.”

Venuvettan is a person who is very much committed to the relationships. He is a man of self sacrifice. He is not shaken before the temptations of the dream city of Dubai.

Lakshmi is a character who is all the time in trouble as Dr.Arun. She loved Arun very much. Finally she knew that Arun left her. Still she is not going to curse his understanding his situation. She tells that she only knows to love not to hate anyone.

Boredom

Boredom

He told “the session was a boring one”

I asked him, “what do you mean by boring and how do you look at it?”

“Why are you asking such a boring question?”

Can there be a creative element in boredom?

Something becomes a boring one when it is less interesting and making us feel tired and impatient.

Kierkegaard discovered three stages in life

1.    Aesthetic

2.    Ethical

3.    Religious

These are the ways we make our choices. Choices are taken lightly in the aesthetic stage. The aesthetic stage seeks selfish pleasure by refusing commitments. Aesthetic seeks only the immediate moment. The person in this world is wholly in the world of senses and is a slave to personal desires and moods.

Aesthetic stage is the stage of change, in this stage everything we experience must change constantly. I remember the words of my friend during my university studies. “Chicken biriyani is good, but I don’t want it every day”. We will even dislike the repletion and sustaining of the sweetest thing we  have in our life. No teacher on earth can continue to be a good teacher all the time for the students. Mind is  like  a monkey which constantly moves from one branch to another. Monkey is not satisfied with the bunch of fruit it has in the branch and it is all the time aspiring for the possible fruits in the neighboring branch. It all depends on   our desires.

Boredom is the experience the aesthetic wants to avoid. Everything that is boring becomes bad, boredom is a part of human life. Even Gods too felt boredom. The Gods were bored therefore they created human beings. Adam was bored because he  was alone. Therefore Eve was created. Since that moment  boredom  entered the world  and grew in quantity  in exact proportion  to the growth of population. Adam was bored alone . Then Adam and Eve bored together. Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel were bored (en masse). To amuse themselves, they hit upon  the notion of  building  a tower so high that it would reach  the sky. Because of boredom, the aesthetic human being goes on exploring  new possibilities . Necessity and boredom may be the driving force behind all the scientific inventions and discoveries. Necessity just initiated a movement  or an idea  but boredom , being not satisfied with the present moment  searching for greater heights and something different all the time.     

Is boredom all the root of all evils? Sensual pleasure is for only a moment,  and the same thing  repeats  itself over and over  endlessly. There is no lasting joy and satisfaction. Human beings always need to be the victor. He wants to make life better and comfortable. But the best life is always a possibility. In this case there are no principles. Man does not see woman as an individual, does not see the creation as the teleological centers of life. Boredom can either be creative or destructive. It depends on how we look at the boredom and exploring the ways out.

The Gods were bored, therefore they created human beings. Human beings are bored all the time and so they go on exploring new possibilities and reaching horizons new.

M F Hussain ... The great artist

Beauty and ugliness

There is beauty even in the ugly thing.

There is ugliness even in the beautiful thing.

There is nothing called 'beautiful'

There is nothing called 'ugly'

There is something...

Josephs

being in the world...

 You and I exist in relationships.

Being has a concern for others.

You came my way

Just disappeared...

I said

You did not see me.

Why?

You told.

sorry, not aware of it.

You did not want ot see .

If you really wanted...

Umbrella is good during rain.

Don't use it to avoid others.

Josephs

മനുഷ്യജീവിതം കാവ്യത്മകമാണ് ...

 

മനുഷ്യ ജീവിതം   എത്രയോ ധന്യമാണ്.

അവന്‍ ഭൂമിയില്‍ പടുതുയര്തുകയും

അതിനെ പരിപാലിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു.

അവന്‍ സ്വര്‍ഗത്തിലേക്ക് കണ്ണുകള്‍ ഉയര്‍ത്തുകയും

ഭൂമിയില്‍ നോക്കി നെടുവീര്‍പ്പിടുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. .

മനുഷ്യ ജീവിതത്തിനു  ഒരു അളവുകോല്‍  ഭൂമിയില്‍ ഇല്ല 

ഭൂമി നിലനില്ല്ക്കുനത്  മനുഷ്യജീവിതത്തിന്റെ  നിലനില്പ്പിലാണ് 

അളവുകോല്‍ ദൈവമാണ്

അദൃശ്യനായ  ദൈവം അദൃശ്യനായി

മനുഷ്യന്  പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുന്നു .

പ്രകൃതിയിലും ആകാശ്ത്തിലും

ദൈവം  പ്രത്യക്ഷനാകുന്നു .

ദൈവത്തെ നോക്കി മനുഷ്യന്‍

തന്റെ  ജീവിതത്തെ  വിലമതിക്കുന്നു .

വിലമതിക്കല്‍ ഒരു  നിരന്തര പ്രക്രിയയാണ്

ഈ പ്രക്രിയയാണ്  കാവ്യാത്മക ജീവിതം .

കാവ്യാത്മക ജീവിതം ലോകത്തെ  മറക്കുന്നതല്ല  

ലോകവുമായവാന്‍ ബന്ധപ്പെടുന്നത് കവിതയിലൂടെയാണ്‌ .

കവിതയും   ജീവിതവും

പരസ്പര പൂരകങ്ങളാണ്.

ഒന്നില്ലാതെ മറ്റൊന്നില്ല .

മനുഷ്യന്റെ നിലനില്‍പ്പ്‌  പ്രകടമാകുന്നത്  കവിതയിലാണ് .

കവിതയുടെ  പ്രകൃതിയും  വിലമതിക്കലാണ്.

തന്നിലെ  കാവ്യം വെളിപ്പെടുമ്പോള്‍

മനുഷ്യന്‍ മനുഷ്യനായ്  ജീവിക്കുന്നു .

കവിയല്ല കവിത രചിക്കുന്നത്‌ .

അവനിലെ ഭാഷയാണ്‌ .

ഭാഷയാണ്‌ ഏറ്റവും പ്രകടമായ ഉള്‍വിളി .

അതിന്റെ പ്രകടനവും

അതിനോടുള്ള പ്രത്യുതരവുമാണ്  കവിത .

ഇരുളിലെ  വെളിച്ചം  കണ്ടെതുന്നവനാണ്  കവി .

അവന്‍  ബിംബങ്ങളിലുടെ സംസാരിക്കുന്നു .

ബിംബങ്ങള്‍ മിഥ്യയോ മായയോ അല്ല .

വെളിച്ചത്തില്ലേക്കുള്ള പടിവാതിലുകള്‍ ആണ്.

കാവ്യാത്മകത  മനുഷ്യന് ഒരു അലങ്കാരമല്ല .

നിലനില്‍പിന്റെ കാരണവും  അടിസ്ഥാനവുമാണ് .

അത്  ജീവിതം സാധ്യമാക്കുന്നു .

കവിതയെന്നത്‌ പടുതുയര്തലാണ് .

ഭാഷയും ചിന്തയും  കവിതയും സംഗമിക്കുന്നു.

സര്‍ഗാത്മകതയുടെ ഉറവിടമാണ് ഈ സംഗമം .

കാവ്യാത്മകതയും കവിയും കവിതയും

ജീവിതത്തിനു അര്‍ഥം നല്‍കുന്നു .

കാവ്യാത്മക ജീവിതം കവിക്കുള്ളതാണ്..

എന്റെ ജീവിതം ഇതാ 

സമരങ്ങളും വെടിപ്പുകയും  നിറഞ്ഞതാണ്‌ .

ജീവിതം കാവ്യാത്മകമല്ല  എന്ന് നീ പറയരുത് .

കണ്ണുകളിലെ  പ്രകാശം  നഷ്ട്ടപ്പെടുംബോഴാണ്

ഒരുവന്‍ അന്ധനാകുന്നത് .

ഒരു കരിക്കട്ട ഒരിക്കലും അന്ധനായിതീരുന്നില്ല .

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' മനുഷ്യ ജീവിതം കാവ്യാത്മകം' എന്ന ലേഖനം .