Monday, April 23, 2018

[US trip April 2018]: Movies I watched on flights+


  1. Human Flow - Ai WeiWei's documentary on the refugee crisis and migration...I felt a lot.
  2. Wakefield - A wicked drama when a guy doesn't return home...but ends up staying across in the out-house. Life moves on without him. He becomes a homeless guy. And then in the end returns just like that. We overestimate our importance.
  3. Loveless - Russian movie about a couple going through a bitter divorce. In the midst their 12 year old son runs away from home. He's never found.
  4. Shape of Water - I got bored with this. Mute woman love with merman with fish eyes.
  5. Ready Player One - Wanted to see it for what effect VR will have. I slept twice during it. Went with Pradeep.
  6. Gabriel and the mountain - Portuguese movie...Brazilian guy travels in Africa like a local. Climbs Kili too (recognized so much of it). His gf also visits him in between. Ends up on a mountain in Malawi...without proper gear or food...leaves his guide...ends up dying on the mountain. This mountain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulanje_Massif. True story.
  7. Cloud Atlas - I was watching it for a second time. Couldn't complete it, plus slept here and there. But the whole essence of the movie...I wanted to experience again. That our actions both good and bad...cut across generations, across lifetimes. In the movie a girl (in the future) fights the wrong that's done to her species I can say (because they are produced genetically for the sole purpose of being hotel waitresses and then after a period their bodies are recycled!)...and in the way distant future when humankind is split between planets, lives in the jungles, she the same girl...is a deity...her statue up in the mountains...worshipped by all. A legend. 

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