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A Last note !
Two celebrated suicide ceremony ... A stone... And lust for life ...
There could be no better symbolism than this. The way master Japanese directors make movies ,everytime i watched those classic and feel deeply spritual and elevated. Long time ago i watched Kitano's "Hanna bi" mood of flower and evolution of characters ,they are so intrinsically linked ..they director uses nature and its representation in the story its amazing . For example tonight i watched "A last note" this is one of the loviliest post war Japanese movies,where an old actress visits her summer house and hears the narratives her old friend suicide .she revisits her friend's rituals of suicide ,something awakens in her heart and she gets so inspired by that celebrated ritual that she would a stone for her grave.just as her dead friend had kept one strong stone to nail his grave....
However Story has many unexpected turns ,its twist is not like Hitchcock's movie ,but its subtle struggle of life and death,its a continuous interplay between wish to die and zeal to love. But that zeal would only come after revisiting the path of death. Morimoto(lead character and director 'wife) revisits her youth's best friend yomie,replays chekhov seagulls and gives life to her senile yomie,say good bye and finally revisits their ways to suicide ...
today was last day of this festival de extraordinaire ....last movie was black rain...
The way Japanese directors present the story through symbolism its unbelievable .(oh this is just repetetion of previous thought. )
This festival gave me deeper glimpse of postwar Japanese life. movie based on Hiroshima was another good movie.i am sure there were many better movies than Black Rain made after the nuclear explosion however characters represented in this film are complex and reflect the power of director and narrator.its very subtle with usual dark scenes . Amidst of nuclear tragedy ,characters are presented with their trivial routines. One particular character influenced me was mentally disable neighbour of Tomiko (i guess thats the name of lead actress).noise of engine would make him crazy and he would literally go and stop the vehicle.people lock him in the closed door, in his closed world he would carve out beautifull sculpture of Buddha from the dead black stones ...what a life ..?and then he meets Tomiko and falls in love.....
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Manish Kumar
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America Works
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New York 10017
Phone 1 212 599 5627
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Mobile: 1 646 709 2201
Email: mkumar@americaworks.com
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Date: Aug 18, 2008 8:15 PM
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Its nice afternoon.sun wont get behind the cloudy sky before 8.30.i am sitting here at cemented street bench which is built as part of extentension of paramount plaza at broadway.
Summer has given life to everyone .grass which is near me ,the trees which gets effected by gases released by vehicles and building around still the power of fresh air gives new life to outdoor activities.
Its nice here ,i just finished an engaging and easy reading on Gandhi and Churchil by Arther Rehman.
what a great story teller he is.he should tried writing a fiction than pinning down the extraordinary lives gandhi and churchil. Both are my favorite characters in the history. I am inspired by the oratory power of churchi and shrewd and moral tactics of Gandhi. While reading my old regret of not studying history kept coming back to mind.
when i was in high school history was the details and dates of wars and kingdoms.i decided to study literature because i thought its the literature which would prove window to the world of that particular time ,i still think the same way though with lots living examples and the way literatures were written. Later it was mitul who would ignite my "sushupt" love for history. He put lots of air and water into the seed which was lying in my mind .this seed was love for history.i always questioned the word itself,why we call history why we dont call herstory....
Anyways it was easy and delighted reading. I could not have read faster if i was not aware of my daily public libarary fines of 25 cents. Right now buying books are out of my priority though i am getting better in buying designer ties. Fortunately desire to read and imagine have only increased in last few months. Weekends are mostly spent in working or reading ......
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Manish Kumar
Coordinator
America Works
228E 16th Floor,45 th street
New York 10017
Phone 1 212 599 5627
Ext. 162
Mobile: 1 646 709 2201
Email: mkumar@americaworks.com
Monday, August 18, 2008
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This is
Manish Kumar
Coordinator
America Works
228E 16th Floor,45 th street
New York 10017
Phone 1 212 599 5627
Ext. 162
Mobile: 1 646 709 2201
Email: mkumar@americaworks.com
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Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Subject: Multimedia message
To: manishkumarm@gmail.com
A Last note !
Two celebrated suicide ceremony ... A stone... And lust for life ...
There could be no better symbolism than this. The way master Japanese directors make movies ,everytime i watched those classic and feel deeply spritual and elevated. Long time ago i watched Kitano's "Hanna bi" mood of flower and evolution of characters ,they are so intrinsically linked ..they director uses nature and its representation in the story its amazing . For example tonight i watched "A last note" this is one of the loviliest post war Japanese movies,where an old actress visits her summer house and hears the narratives her old friend suicide .she revisits her friend's rituals of suicide ,something awakens in her heart and she gets so inspired by that celebrated ritual that she would a stone for her grave.just as her dead friend had kept one strong stone to nail his grave....
However Story has many unexpected turns ,its twist is not like Hitchcock's movie ,but its subtle struggle of life and death,its a continuous interplay between wish to die and zeal to love. But that zeal would only come after revisiting the path of death. Morimoto(lead character and director 'wife) revisits her youth's best friend yomie,replays chekhov seagulls and gives life to her senile yomie,say good bye and finally revisits their ways to suicide ...
today was last day of this festival de extraordinaire ....last movie was black rain...
The way Japanese directors present the story through symbolism its unbelievable .(oh this is just repetetion of previous thought. )
This festival gave me deeper glimpse of postwar Japanese life. movie based on Hiroshima was another good movie.i am sure there were many better movies than Black Rain made after the nuclear explosion however characters represented in this film are complex and reflect the power of director and narrator.its very subtle with usual dark scenes . Amidst of nuclear tragedy ,characters are presented with their trivial routines. One particular character influenced me was mentally disable neighbour of Tomiko (i guess thats the name of lead actress).noise of engine would make him crazy and he would literally go and stop the vehicle.people lock him in the closed door, in his closed world he would carve out beautifull sculpture of Buddha from the dead black stones ...what a life ..?and then he meets Tomiko and falls in love.....
From: <6467092201@mms.att.net>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Subject: Multimedia message
To: manishkumarm@gmail.com
A Last note !
Two celebrated suicide ceremony ... A stone... And lust for life ...
There could be no better symbolism than this. The way master Japanese directors make movies ,everytime i watched those classic and feel deeply spritual and elevated. Long time ago i watched Kitano's "Hanna bi" mood of flower and evolution of characters ,they are so intrinsically linked ..they director uses nature and its representation in the story its amazing . For example tonight i watched "A last note" this is one of the loviliest post war Japanese movies,where an old actress visits her summer house and hears the narratives her old friend suicide .she revisits her friend's rituals of suicide ,something awakens in her heart and she gets so inspired by that celebrated ritual that she would a stone for her grave.just as her dead friend had kept one strong stone to nail his grave....
However Story has many unexpected turns ,its twist is not like Hitchcock's movie ,but its subtle struggle of life and death,its a continuous interplay between wish to die and zeal to love. But that zeal would only come after revisiting the path of death. Morimoto(lead character and director 'wife) revisits her youth's best friend yomie,replays chekhov seagulls and gives life to her senile yomie,say good bye and finally revisits their ways to suicide ...
today was last day of this festival de extraordinaire ....last movie was black rain...
The way Japanese directors present the story through symbolism its unbelievable .(oh this is just repetetion of previous thought. )
This festival gave me deeper glimpse of postwar Japanese life. movie based on Hiroshima was another good movie.i am sure there were many better movies than Black Rain made after the nuclear explosion however characters represented in this film are complex and reflect the power of director and narrator.its very subtle with usual dark scenes . Amidst of nuclear tragedy ,characters are presented with their trivial routines. One particular character influenced me was mentally disable neighbour of Tomiko (i guess thats the name of lead actress).noise of engine would make him crazy and he would literally go and stop the vehicle.people lock him in the closed door, in his closed world he would carve out beautifull sculpture of Buddha from the dead black stones ...what a life ..?and then he meets Tomiko and falls in love.....
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