Am fost acum cateva zile in vizita la 2 prieteni care tocmai s-au mutat in noua lor locuinta, parte dintr-un complex rezidential nou, in Voluntari, la care inca se mai construieste. Blocul si garsoniera aratau foarte frumos, fiind departe de oras era liniste iar praful aproape inexistent desi inca se lucreaza. Privelistea lasa insa mult de dorit. De asemenea, fiind treaba romaneasca constructorii au terminat cu 6 luni intarziere. Cu toate astea ne-a placut tare mult.

Vreau si eu?

Acum cateva zile s-a intros un bun prieten din Finlanda unde si-a vizitat fratele stabilit acolo. Si fratele lui s-a mutat de curand insa intr-un complex rezidential de la marginea Helsinki-ului. Mi-a aratat poze si mi-a povestit cum e in Nord. Tare frumos, exact cum speram. Pana in centru face 40 min cu masina, complexul arata superb, inconjurat de padure si apartamentul a venit deja mobilat. Despre costuri nu o sa va spun decat ca rata este 1/3 din salariul lui, din pacate nu este cazul si prietenului la care eu am fost in vizita.

Vreau si eu!

I watched the Prestige recently for a second time. When I first saw it, it was in the cinema without the benefit of a pause/rewind button and also without subtitles, which I have a preference for. Now that I've seen it again, I've picked up on new subtlties and in fact changed my view of the protagonists totally.

Stop here if you don't want to ruin the film for yourself because half the fun is working the film out first time round.

At first glance, Angier is the most sympathetic of the two main characters. He lost his wife due to a collosal error of judgement by Borden. Initially I viewed both protagonists and the events that followed through that prism and in that light, Angier is definitely the more sympathetic character which makes the ending something of a bum note.

Before anything sours between the two leads, they study a Chinese magician, Ching Ling Foo, to work out how he does his trick of making a goldfish bowl disappear. Borden understands immediately how it was done while Angier tries to get his head around the level of sacrifice required to make the trick work. Interestingly, Ching Ling Foo is based upon a real character who had a very real rivalry with Chung Ling Soo (American of Scottish descent) and that rivalry inspired the novel by Priest. Chung Ling Soo later died when a bullet catch trick went badly wrong.

That tragic drowning of Angier's wife is followed up by a "catch the bullet" trick that goes badly wrong when Angier ends up pointing a loaded gun at Borden and demanding to know what knot was tied. Instead of losing his life, Borden loses only his fingers thanks to the intervention of Fallon, his engineer.

This feud escalates further when Angier resumes his career as "the Great Dante" and Borden sabotages a trick causing injury to a participant in the trick. At this point, the feud is about spite but things take a turn for the darker soon after when Borden launches an outstanding new trick called "the Transported Man".

Angier is obsessed with learning the secret of Borden's trick, which he describes as the best he has ever seen. While pickling himself green with envy, he has his own competing show where he comes up with his own version of "the Transported man". Angier then uses his superior showmanship to augment the trick but his obsession with the source of Borden's trick causes him to step up the feud and it's here that things really go off the rails. Up until then, Angier had been primarily motivated by bitterness at losing his wife but here it becomes clear that it's the source of Borden's trick that fuels his obsession. Sending his assistant to spy on Borden has disastrous repercussions as Borden leads him on a wild goose chase to Arizona as well as scuppering Angier's show (and laming him in the process).

The first time I watched the film, I knew there was something odd about Fallon but I couldn't put my finger on it. Eims was faster off the mark and realised that Fallon was wearing a disguise of some sort. It was my second time seeing the film but her first so I kept my mouth shut in case I ruined the twist for her.

Once you've seen the big reveal, you realise the level of sacrifice required to pull off the "transported man" trick and it does change your perceptions of the two key characters. Angier is strictly speaking the most sympathetic character but his obsession with bettering Borden's trick and trapping him with a murder charge bring him to a very dark place. What of Borden? In the process of maintaining the necessary illusion, he risks the sanity of those nearest him. The film doesn't give us any clue as to how Borden/Fallon dealt with Sarah's death and in this, it manipulates our perceptions just as much as the magicians do with their audiences. On the other hand, Angier's tragedies are there for us to see & gloss over. You are effectively hoodwinked into sympathising with one character over the other through selective telling of the story. It's only at the end with Borden collecting his daughter from Cutter that you realise that Nolan has been just as poker-faced with reality as his two leads. How are we supposed to sympathise with a character who sacrificed his wife in order to preserve the "trick"? How can we be satisfied with a film that ends with the death of the guy we had been rooting for and the "bad guy" stomping all over him?
I can't and I suspect that's the point of the film. We're meant to be uneasy with the resolution and consider it. It's in the consideration that we pick up the finer details but still reach the same conclusion.

The Prestige is a superb film to watch once and digest but later you should watch it again and see do you reach the same conclusions as you did first time and question where the moral weight lies. You probably will stick with your original conclusions but how many films make you think like that nowadays. Enjoy & treasure this gem!

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#1 an expiry-date tag stapled to our fore head, that we can easily see,so we can know how much time left for us, or…

#2 getting a blank tag, that we so easily forget what it is and what the hell that is

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Anyway life is a game anyway : Ada aturan, ada trik, ada jalan pintas, ada pilihan –yang terbatas- lengkap dengan segala resikonya, ada tujuan, ada punishment ada award, ada bonus, dan yang utama adalah ada menang dan kalah. You already be one of the player, so let’s rock!

]]> http://cashierobs.wordpress.com/?p=80 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:00:26 +0000 cashierobs http://cashierobs.wordpress.com/?p=80 Does anyone work with or know someone who thinks the public they work with is generally stupid? I do. Actually, I used to be one of them.

I call it the Ant Complex; where someone inherently believes that the people around them are not worthy, stupid, or just don't get it. Indeed, ants.

The Ant Complex usually occurs when a particular person deals with other people who have trouble with ordinary tasks.  I had the Ant Complex during my time as a gas station attendant. Nothing was more frustrating to me than the people who couldn't operate a simple gas pump correctly. Just follow the directions on the screen, I would say.

In my associates case, who has the Ant Complex, he's an ordinary cashier, but deals with people who sometimes don't know the difference between credit and debit, how to swipe their card on the payment keypad, simple store policies, or other every day activities.

My associate is always talking to me about how stupid a customer was. He asks why they can't just understand these simple things. He's quite a critical guy. It sometimes comes to the point where he's so critical that he's complaining about things that only he, as a cashier, should know fully well and not the customer.

Now I see how much of an ass I used to be. Does anyone else have experiences with this attitude?

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Over these days, this is how my beloved Non Desi (Not just American) counter parts have misspelled my name.

Dennis - I understand my name rhymes close to the Character Dennis from Dennis the menace and I agree I can be a Menace most of the times but my name is DINESH. One desi guy in the office simply nick named me Dennis, just to tease me.

Denise - I am a man, see I have a thick mustache like Rajinikanth. Need any more proof? I would like to keep this blog rating at G, so please I am not a Woman and I am not Denise as in Denise Richards, the hot blonde bond girl Nuclear Scientist from The World is not enough. See now you made my blog PG.

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Binesh - It is D as in Daniel, D as in Dave, D as in Dog and I say all these to the other person. The person nods or says yes and does whatever he/she can to positively affirm that the starting letter of my name is D, yet when the Bill or document comes back to me, It would have a B instead of D. No I am not Binesh.

Binehbab - How on earth did this happen? I remember spelling my name letter by letter to the customer service rep and yet you spell it incorrectly with 2 letters missing? You can't even get the count of the letters in my name correct? Atleast Couldn't you have mispelled it as BINEHH BABB, that would have been a little more graceful. Now Binehbab makes it rhyme like Spongebob and I don't wear Square pants. Now my blog is back to G.

Dinnesh - When Shahrukh popularized kkkkkkkiran, little did he know that an insignificant male in the corner of the IT world will have his name misspelled by his collegue while emailing him, as Dinnesh. Why did we stop with 2 n's. Let's make it Dinnnnnnesh.

Dineesh - Sheesh Dineesh! What else can I say.

and worst of all How is it even possible to misspell B.A.B.U. It is Babu, B A B U, again B A B U and not B A B Y. I am not a baby. I have a baby, but I am not one. Dinesh Babu it is and not Dinesh Baby!

Babe - First you called me Denise and now Babe? May be if you misspelled this way together it would atleast match - Denise Babe. 

Babi - Ok, now we are trying all the vowels. This one must be an effect of repeated watching of Disney's Bambi with the kid.

Baba - Every fan of Superstar Rajinikanth and the Superstar himself knows who is the Baba. So Please don't call me a Baba!

It is interesting to note that many times people end up complicating simple things because of prejudice and fear. It is so inherent in every one's mind that certain things that they cannot understand has to be very complicated according to them. But complications and complexities are in the way we see it. It is merely a door that blocks the view of a simple concept behind it. If you unlock this door with your mind, everything will be simple. If we start seeing things in a simple way, I am very sure everything will be simple to us.

There, I am DINESH BABU. Simple isn't it?

P.S: Picture of Denise Richards is added purely for marketing value. Let's see how many suckers search for Denise Richards hot and end up here. Blog back to PG!

- Просто продължи напред.

- Продължила съм.

- Щом още мислиш за това, значи не си.

He doesn't want her but he just won't let her go.

She started breaking but she still won't let it show.

Обратното. Тъжно е. We both let go.

- Мисля си, че още си влюбена в него.

- Хм.

The pages keep turning, I'll mark off each day with a cross and I'll laugh about all that we've lost.

Смешно. You let go.

- Не мисля, че ще му разбиеш сърцето. В смисъл, вижда се, че го обичаш.

- Аз и -- обичах.

- Минало време.

- Направих го, докато го обичах.

- Защото той не беше човекът за теб.

- Няма човек за мен.

- За всеки има човек. Може за теб да не е --, да не е --, дори да не е --.

- Не вярвам в soulmate-ите.

- Когато повярваш ще дойде твоят човек.

All right, I can say what you want me to

All right, I can do all the things you do

All right, I'll make it all up for you

I'm still in love with you.

Просто do not let go. I won't.

Човек не обича само веднъж, не се влюбва само веднъж и не остава с разбито сърце завинаги. Случва се толкова много пъти, толкова често и толкова предвидимо, че чак изглежда скучно. Но как да не изглежда скучно, след като е .. химия ? Всъщност дори да е само химия (а в повечето случаи е), пак е нещо, за което мога да копнея постоянно и което ще ме засища дори когато почти нищо в живота ми не е наред. И пак ще ми е празно, ако го няма, дори да имам най-невероятния късмет със семейството, приятелите, ученето, работата, всичко. То крепи, по дяволите, то дава смисъл, то прави нещата красиви, то ми дава смисъл да се променям, а аз обичам да се променям. Обичам да се движа, да се извивам според чувството, да придавам съвсем различен облик на едно обикновено човешко същество. Искам да обичам, винаги, искам да се влюбвам, всеки един ден от живота ми да е изпълнен с тези пеперудки в стомаха (които НЕ СА хоризонталните ни желания, в крайна сметка), да треперя от страх, дори. И това е най-доброто доказателство, че не съм нито боклук, нито кучка, нито каквото и да било, защото аз все още искам да обичам и все още го правя и няма да спра.

Without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust.

Разбираш ли сега ? Няма как да не е истинско, всеки път е истинско, защото всеки път има човек срещу мен, а хората са всичко. Затова толкова ме е страх да оставам сама, толкова ме е страх да замина, защото те остават тук. Просто е най-важно да не си тръгваш, никога да не си тръгваш, защото свободата, която даваш на един човек не е това, което си мислиш, превъплъщението на свобода, която даваш е да му позволиш да обича както си знае, защото чак тогава ще го разбереш. И затова не съжалявам за нищо, защото си позволих да дам каквото имам, всичко, колкото и пошло да ти е изглеждало и колкото и  грозно да ти се е струвало. А всичко за мен е именно тази глупава, скучна, лесно обяснима, простичка.. искрена, блъскаща те в сърцето, не оставящата те да спиш, играеща си с психиката ти.. химия. Ако някога прочетеш това, разбери ме. Не ми прощавай, защото никога няма да поискам прошка за това, че съм обичала. И че обичам. Дори теб, както ще бъде винаги.

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