tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87962524169611161262024-03-13T10:07:11.867-07:00passions of a pilgrim...Susmitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08011594144238940993noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796252416961116126.post-73894825471681075152010-11-26T13:00:00.000-08:002010-11-26T13:00:10.996-08:00from probability to actuality : afterthoughts on Fellini's Juliet of the SpiritsWhen you take away all the embellishments from something, what remains is the essential thing. Stripped off all the filmy candour of photography and editing and narrative, Fellini's Giulietta/Juliet degli spiriti (Juliet of the spirits) is about a woman who desires to be loved and appreciated. Juliet's story, is the story of any woman who seeks love. But, like Fellini's Juliet, such a woman may Susmitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08011594144238940993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796252416961116126.post-85018903623124320172010-11-17T06:35:00.000-08:002010-11-17T06:35:19.699-08:00thoughts about thoughts ... with probability of afterthoughts
a still from Juliet of the Spirits
The experience of watching a film is so overwhelming that i postpone writing about it, until i really have to. Fellini's Giulietta/Juliet degli spiriti (Juliet of the spirits) is one such film. Being Fellini's first feature length film in colour, it inspires a dizziness by the excess of exuberant colours. It has dazed me for so long, that until the Susmitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08011594144238940993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796252416961116126.post-57474601681865876922010-04-13T14:27:00.000-07:002010-05-04T06:05:56.645-07:00How absurd can life get! Surprise! Surprise!In Sreeman Prithviraj, a Bengali movie set in the British-ruled India, the protagonist decides to go to the Himalayas and become a great sanyasi (but fails to even get past the boundaries of Bengal, but that is another story altogether). That was a path to attain self-realisation. In contemporary times, the onslaught of several life management gurus and their schools give us aSusmitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08011594144238940993noreply@blogger.com8