The Times They Are a Changin’

Ah,

Back after a while – well, since no one other than me reads my blogs, i wonder why i bother..

Saw Da Vinci not so code on Friday last.. Was a funny film – what with Tom Hanks and his funny hairstyle, paul bettany and his funny looks.. and so on.. The movie made me realise what tripe the book was.. and also that the book was written as per the normal rules of a thriller movie – no time to develop characters, keep the action moving quickly from one location to other and people will not ask you too many things about the plot..

Anyways, the story itself is quite farfetched, made all the more that by the fact that movie religiously (pun unintended) follows the book pretty much word for word, right down I think to the tripy dialogues ..so no surprises, no edge of the seat thrilling action, just plain boring one move to the other.. The book in some respects seems to have been faster than the movie.. The movie could easily have been atleast 40 minutes lesser without seriously affecting the story..

Well, both the book and movie raise some nice questions though – especially given the misogynistic nature of most of the modern religions – be it judaism, christianity, islam or present day hinduism, the emphasis on subjugation of women is quite high.. and this given the background that most paganistic (as they would be called) religions worshipped the women more than the men.. and invariably if you notice in roman, greek and ancient indian mythology, the men are usually vain and dumb, usually end up depending on a woman to save their skin.. And given that our mythology as of date is dictated by people of rather dubious skills and learnings, one wonders if in the passage of history we have had something similar which changed the way our world looks at things these days.. and the only scene in the movie which sorta was moving was the final scene where hanks runs along the rose line and realises that the inverted pyramid of the louvre is indeed the final resting place of the sacrophagus.. if the tale is true (and that is a very very big if) then the world at general has been terribly unfair to mary magdalene in particular and women in general.

Anyways, swinging completely from Da vinci to mithunda.. am watching an old movie of his right now – called beshaque, a murder mystery starring mithunda, yogita bali and host of other shady characters.. So far there have been no trademark dialogues, though every character has atleast one sentence with beshaque occuring three times in it.. will elaborate on it once I finish the movie..

Hmm, my take on the reservations thinggy – if the education at the primary and secondary level are not improved to the lower classes, there is no way in hell that reserving more in higher education going to help them.. it only results in either the institutes having to dilute their academic standards or in not filling the seats which are there.. in either way it is not a good thing to happen.. the government and its irresponsible power seeking partner the Left, should be more worried about what would constitute a good way to implement this idea in a fair manner than reacting in an ad hoc manner.. And I thank our luck that we have both a slightly activist president and a very activist Supreme Court..

PS: for a very good fictional work on templars read “Focault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco..