Summerblockbusterization

I met an old friend who shares my wonderment of human behaviour. We wondered out loud on how people define entertainment as another blockbuster summer movie, of talking lion or another superhero movie.

I would like to shout out loud the sentiment and my wonderment but I guess it would offend so many people who have asked me in the past ‘Have you watched Iron Man?’ or some people that were so impressed when I actually confused Mary Jane as a character in Superman. I am not a bimbo mind you, but these cookie cutter approach to superhero movie-making really confuses the heck out of me.

Don’t say I never tried you know, I used to try to be apart of these crowd. The supposedly in crowd by pretending to like these summer movies but I guess I got C+ for that. I ended up reading imbd.com for some general overview of the summer movies and present them as my thought.

I guess age gives us more perspectives and age defies the need to be in the in crowd. I simply don’t care anymore. I know I have to respect people's choice. I know I have to respect people who watch the blockbusters if they like it but I still want and ache for my little dose of small and honest movies no matter how much you praise your Iron Man. I just want Once with Glen Hansaard’s powerful lyrics. I watched Waking Life (by recommendation from the most unlikely person (yes I’m a bigot)) and I guess it’s an otherworldly experience. I wonder how on earth people have never heard of Before Sunset and Before Sunrise?

And I said I don’t care anymore.

The Lightness is Unbearable

The absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant - Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

I fell in love again with Milan Kundera and his writings in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. As the ideas grow, I find the writings are more bearable than they were three years back when I first read the book. But now, I am less interested to discuss Kundera as a person and the book as a book. Only the ideas contained in the book get me to the heightened state of interest.

May be the ideas of burden or responsibility has been in many literatures and probably in all the scriptures but these fanciful ideas of weight and technically flying because of the lightness are new to me

To compare weightlessness and the being is technically extreme. People talk about emptiness and soullessness when describing the inner being but to say that without the burden, we are physically weightless is strong and strikes ten point.

I believe what Kundera said, he is talking sense and what he said is making more sense as I grow. We all need the burden to at least put some weight to our being and thus help us to remain standing on our two feet.

I am not going to be too obvious here but I guess if you are the stubborn kids who want to defy the conventional wisdom and toy with many ideas of life will somehow came to the state where you believe that freedom to live and to believe sounds worth fighting for. And I guess, some have indefinitely subscribed the notions of total freedom already.

Freedom that frees us from the burden that we thought as ‘burden’ per say but in actuality is another weight to put structure into our lives. I think I’d like to believe that. I think I ought to believe that the structure, the burden, is necessary.

I might sound like a losing fighter of freedom but I guess the process of discovering and the process of handpicking ideas and ideologies is freedom.