Nations, Religions and people are never defined without war. War is a depressing cliché of human lives. People kill, people die. And a lot of monstrousness and heroism prelude, intervene and epilogue the killing and the dying, alike. But that is an incomplete perspective - a part-illusive, second hand viewpoint suited to oblivious audiences watching war on their television sets.
For those who fight in a war, war is a nihilistic expression of a self-destructive species of well, assholes. And the only emotion that is ever associated with war is one of the most primal ones - guilt.
Relief, Pain, Patriotic goose pimples, rejuvenation, excitement and such Californian sentiments can only qualify life outside of war; inside of war they're as impotent as your grandfather.
And how the fuck do I know all that? Well, I saw Waltz with Bashir. I could write a pointless review to tell you how great the movie is, but you'd just end up superficially appreciating the review, Facebook-ing and moving on to your clichéd lives, probably in that order. Stop wondering why the writer is being holier-than-thou, and if you can, PLEASE go watch the fucking movie.
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Thanks.
That's a pretty slick display pic, btw.
Movie dekhne padege is provocative review ke baad
And dude, you should totally post back that poem of yours; I loved it
I would post the poem, but it kinda brings back a lot of pain.
And thanks!
do not fear i shall def put up a mix in the next few days; your post was super sweet
Thanks!
ha ha very nice :)!!!now where in the world do i get the movie form??
(remember my awesome college has blocked all options of downloading)
anara sounds, well, fruity
Review with a difference :). Got to see the movie NOW.
After reading a couple of traditional reviews, hearing about the book, and a lot of enthusiastic hearsay).
Good one!
Antara:
Your college has blocked even direct download links?
uh, Anonymous:
Thanks for the appreciation!
I was gonna watch the movie long time back but i somehow forgot....
will have to watch it.... its not that i havt seen any movie which primarily deals with the the associated 'GUILT' (coz all of my fav war movies deal with the same emotion), but ya i'll watch it coz it has been appreciated at places like cannes and other places whic i hold in very high reguard.....
i watched the movie, only because of your review, and i am glad i did. Thanks for making me watch it!
That's good Wamiq. You *will* NOT be disappointed.
Anonymous:
Thanks.I'm glad the review worked. And that's quite a feat for a harmless blog article.
I'll be back with more fucked up reviews. :)
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We find ourselves today, at three vastly different cities and institutions of higher learning. What still sustains our friendship though; beyond and despite the lack of geographical proximity, is what I shall simplistically attempt to explain with the aid of a statistical math tool (refer:common ground).
With these pleasantries out of the way; let me further convolute this introduction.
There are nerds, and there are jocks. There are the deeply pious, and the self-righteous atheists. The lost poets in apathetic tees and the narcissistic yuppies in classy 3-piece GQs. The thums up lovers and the connoisseurs of fine wine.
Or as I would like to think of us; both and neither.
There is an oxymoron in there somewhere
For at some point in our lives; we've each played a video game for 9 hours straight, spent a session from midnight to dawn of uninterrupted street football, quoted Nietzshe and then laughed on last nights How I Met ..
you get the idea.
