Confessions, confessions. A train of thought just got opened up in my mind now because of this song, and I couldn’t refrain from writing about it. I remembered old, musty days that were locked up in the cupboard upstairs between my ears, which seemed to have popped out now, because I raked up the old [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Fantasy’
April 29, 2008
Cheeni Kum
I don’t know if I have written about this movie before: I didn’t even bother to check. I have to admit that I am no huge fan of Hindi movies – I watch the occasional good Hindi movie, but I do enjoy good movies in whatever language. Having watched Japanese, Iranian (Arabic), Jewish and French [...]
January 7, 2008
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey [†] is one of the best films I have ever seen. I say this because of the impact it has on your mind – your whole way of looking at humans, the nature of intelligence and the human condition all change significantly with every frame, and the movie is so far [...]
January 7, 2008
Solaris
I saw Solaris: a 2002 movie about a psychiatrist who gets to visit a spacecraft stranded around a fictitious planet named Solaris, where the anomalous experiences of the crew on board have caused havoc. This is surely one of the science fiction movies that have been made in the footsteps of 2001: A Space Odyssey, [...]
October 23, 2006
Small Worlds and Social Models
Small world networks probably allow for an interesting applicability to social systems and I believe they have the capability to solve many of the problems of everyday life, including communication between people and increasing its effectiveness. It is perhaps possible to consider how different people will react to different situations by using small world networks [...]
