When I watched the trailer for dune, my memories of Arrival started coming back to me. I had watched it multiple times, before I started with college. Sometimes there are films that you would thank the director for making. You will have no words to thank them and no way to convey how someone, a million miles away, a billion people away was able to touch you and move you without knowing you. How grand must that be, to be a person that can move a billion people, put them on a path of thinking, introspection and evolution without ever making them realise that you are doing it to them?
Perhaps it was this that attracted me to the idea of making a film. Of writing something so profound that it moves people, making them evolve. Change. Melt. And not through cheesy or sad stories but with something beyond. I think this is the purpose of cinema as an art. The rest are still cinematic pieces, the ones that entertain me. I love them too, like I love random flicks like the man from uncle and batman v superman just how much I love transcendental cinema like tree of life. But I can't be judged by my taste in films which people generally do. But if I have to make one, I think it will be a blend. The purpose and intent would be to give an experience that you cannot move on from unless you evolve and move. How wonderfully amazing it would be? It would be life's greatest achievement.
Back to topic on hand, I think 'Arrival' did it for me. I was moved, inch by inch. I was moved by the love, by the acceptance, by the resignation of the mind to what has to happen, to destiny no matter the pain. I was moved by on the nature of daylight. Very few films have this huge effect on me, almost catharsis. The last film that did this to me, where I was on my kitchen floor crying my eyes out at midnight as I boiled tea was 'Upstream Color'. That was phenomenal, what it did to me. I could say that even tree of life didn't have that effect on me. Knight of cups did. There is this unnamed forgotten Iran film that did it to me. That film has a final shot of a kid running behind a bus where his mother/ someone he thinks as a mother leaves. I'm still trying to find its name.
But personally, a part of all movies move me. But that's just me. I cry at most movies even the ones nobody would have reason to cry for. But cathartic is not crying. It's this feeling of being shifted, moved. Ugh, I don't know how to explain this. It has to only be felt.
But I have to say, the gratitude I feel for making cinema that moves me, there are no words. Beyond entertainment and just tales and spinning stories, when this happens to me us when I truly respect a director. And if this isn't the purpose and intent, everyone who wants to make films should reconsider. There are already too many trashes floating around in space. Yup I'm a total bitch when it comes to this.
Okay dune. The trailer was fire. I think I like trailers more than the movies most of the time. But this wont be cathartic but still be one good fucking movie. I wish for Imax and Chennai before that.
Now that I need a series to occupy my time and distract me because I'm not okay all of a sudden and need a distraction from my thoughts, a friend vehemently suggested to watch how I met your mother. Though I need to fill time I don't think I have that much time to spend. Unfortunately the last time I saw Mr. Robot ,I suddenly hate it. Actually I hate him and almost exhausted of that person though he is interesting. So I guess I'd settle for Lois and Clark: new adventures of Superman. Because it looked awesome on YouTube clips (not the superhero part but the Clark Kent Romance part). My god, it has the best Lois. Also can't find it anywhere to torrent so perpetually distraught. It's fucking 10,000 rupees on Amazon. Ugh.
Now that this topic bring me back to filmmaking, I want to write something based on coding. Since I'm not really well versed with coding and stuff but am incredibly attracted to the idea of it and the terms used, I think I'll have to collaborate with someone who is good with coding.
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