Actor Vijay's dialogue of "வாழ்கை ஒரு வட்டம் டா" in Thirumalai conjured up when writing about this Sujatha novel. The story is about the consequences of a false witness. The case fails. And slowly he finds himself in the same situation.
Not so pacing when compared to other Sujatha novels. I cant avoid laughing in Landmark after seeing the title and I cant avoid buying it. But the touches are there but not enough to make it interesting and pacing.
"என்ன விடுதல பண்ணிட்டாங்க. இதுனால நீதி ஜெய்சுதுனு சொல்ல வரல"
Well the relationship between brothers, psychic love are well handled. Narrative is in the first person point of view. Just a past-time.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Ttyl
Warning: May contain spoilers
How I came to know about this book ? Once I was chatting with a HR, and when she was intending to sign off she typed ttyl. I did a google definitions search and the first result was this book. This is the first novel to be written wholly in instant-messaging format.
The story revolves around three girls in tenth grade - zoegirl, madmaddie and SnowAngel.
zoegirl is caught up with a flirty teacher Mr.H. She likes him in the beginning. As the novel winds up to an end, she hates him for some reason. She is fine with Mr.H flirting with her but doesn't want to date at the end. Well there is something wrong with the characterization there.
madmaddie is the character I like the most. She befriends jana but jana calls her to a party and illtreats her in front of everyone. And she sends her nude pics to everyone in the school. She hates her friends zoegirl and SnowAngel for backbiting about her.
The autoresponse from madmaddie after a quarrel with zoegirl and SnowAngel is hilarious:
"Everybody were kung fu fighting
But those jerks were fast as lightning"
And SnowAngel leaves her a message to change her autoresponse. And the next time she pings,
"Shove it up your ass"
SnowAngel is a bit romantic, sometimes jealous and sometimes selfish character. She loses her boy friends as fast as she befriends them. And all she does is cry over the spilt milk.
Thats it. These winsome threesome talk about these issues daily over IM. End of story.
Having said all these one token of appreciation to lauren myracle - the IM lingo is precisely adapted in the novel. That made me order the sequel - ttfn.
How I came to know about this book ? Once I was chatting with a HR, and when she was intending to sign off she typed ttyl. I did a google definitions search and the first result was this book. This is the first novel to be written wholly in instant-messaging format.
The story revolves around three girls in tenth grade - zoegirl, madmaddie and SnowAngel.
zoegirl is caught up with a flirty teacher Mr.H. She likes him in the beginning. As the novel winds up to an end, she hates him for some reason. She is fine with Mr.H flirting with her but doesn't want to date at the end. Well there is something wrong with the characterization there.
madmaddie is the character I like the most. She befriends jana but jana calls her to a party and illtreats her in front of everyone. And she sends her nude pics to everyone in the school. She hates her friends zoegirl and SnowAngel for backbiting about her.
The autoresponse from madmaddie after a quarrel with zoegirl and SnowAngel is hilarious:
"Everybody were kung fu fighting
But those jerks were fast as lightning"
And SnowAngel leaves her a message to change her autoresponse. And the next time she pings,
"Shove it up your ass"
SnowAngel is a bit romantic, sometimes jealous and sometimes selfish character. She loses her boy friends as fast as she befriends them. And all she does is cry over the spilt milk.
Thats it. These winsome threesome talk about these issues daily over IM. End of story.
Having said all these one token of appreciation to lauren myracle - the IM lingo is precisely adapted in the novel. That made me order the sequel - ttfn.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Purloined Letter
Undeniably it is the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes - first person narration by close friend (an anonymous person), intelligent detective who is constantly smoking using pipe (meerschaum) - Augustine Dupin.
This novel has three steps:
The reasoning is awesome just as a mathematician would do. The analogies are brilliant - "Even and Odd", "Game of puzzles in a map".
But the astuteness of the detective is unacceptable sometimes. For instance Dupin's reasoning about the minister is as follows:
"As a poet and a mathematician he would reason well. But as a mere mathematician he could not have reasoned at all"
And there is again a reasoning for this statement too.
"The odds are that every popular idea, every accepted convention is a nonsense because it has suited the majority" - Chamfort
And from the novel, I feel that Edgar Allen Poe seems to have grudge on the Parisian Police. The statement "Even a school boy is a better reasoner than he" proves it. The story is about Dupin's knowledge of the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber.
This novel has three steps:
- problem,
- solution,
- reason
The reasoning is awesome just as a mathematician would do. The analogies are brilliant - "Even and Odd", "Game of puzzles in a map".
But the astuteness of the detective is unacceptable sometimes. For instance Dupin's reasoning about the minister is as follows:
"As a poet and a mathematician he would reason well. But as a mere mathematician he could not have reasoned at all"
And there is again a reasoning for this statement too.
"The odds are that every popular idea, every accepted convention is a nonsense because it has suited the majority" - Chamfort
And from the novel, I feel that Edgar Allen Poe seems to have grudge on the Parisian Police. The statement "Even a school boy is a better reasoner than he" proves it. The story is about Dupin's knowledge of the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber.
Through the looking glass
I read this book because it is one of the best example of literary nonsense. The book has scope for many interpretations. It is a children's classic yet an intellectual one. Honestly the interpretations seems to be a good read. To a child it will seem like Alice has fallen into a glass and meets various creatures in wonderland. But to an intellect it is rather different. It is evident in dialogues.
The prose is filled with poems / rhymes. Lewis Carroll mocks the english literature more often.
When told Alice that she should speak only when spoken too, she replies:
"But if everybody obeyed the rule and if you only speak only if spoken too and if the other person waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything"
Lewis Carroll is a logician. That is also evident in such dialogues.
Alice is true about Jabberwocky poem. It is really hard to understand. I have to google it to understand it. But later Humpty Dumpty seems to explain it.
The book is anthropomorphic except Alice, red queen and white queen. There is also a suspense in the story as to why all the poems, one way or the other are related to fishes.
Having said all this it was rather boring to me. Maybe because I didn't read too much between the lines. Maybe because I didn't read Alice in Wonderland to start with. Maybe because I am not an intelluctual.
The prose is filled with poems / rhymes. Lewis Carroll mocks the english literature more often.
When told Alice that she should speak only when spoken too, she replies:
"But if everybody obeyed the rule and if you only speak only if spoken too and if the other person waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything"
Lewis Carroll is a logician. That is also evident in such dialogues.
Alice is true about Jabberwocky poem. It is really hard to understand. I have to google it to understand it. But later Humpty Dumpty seems to explain it.
The book is anthropomorphic except Alice, red queen and white queen. There is also a suspense in the story as to why all the poems, one way or the other are related to fishes.
Having said all this it was rather boring to me. Maybe because I didn't read too much between the lines. Maybe because I didn't read Alice in Wonderland to start with. Maybe because I am not an intelluctual.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Yudham Sei
Warning: May contain spoilers.
Mysskin, Cheran. These are the names that I knew before going to this movie. Some where in a one-way road in Villivaakam is a theatre called AGS cinemas. This was the first time I went there and I was already 10 minutes late to the movie.
The story is bit complicated. A CID officer when in solving a case comes to know another case (to which he is personally attached) is related to it. And in the midst of solving a case, opens up many number of cases. And everything seems to be related to one huge scandal.
Narrative is linear. Often filled with witness perception which are shown in flash-backs.
Cinematography is awesome particularly the night scenes. About 80% of the scenes happen at night. But it is really irritating when the camera angles become redundant (one example is often showing legs and bottom angle shots. I wanted to shout "Legs don't show emotion").
BGM is great and music director has used silence to his advantage.
Another thing I noticed is dialogues. Often it seems like only one character is talking to me. The dialogues are monotonous(not in dialogue delivery but in the quotient) and doesn't show any difference.
Editing is great. It is quintessential in the movie because scenes switch between current and flashback version often that too in the same location. An example is when the inspector narrates about the case that happened in the station. Camera moves forward and the scenes are in flashback mode.
This movie is very well thought but according to me, not executed to its 100%.
"Observer is observed" by Jiddu Krishnamurthy.
Hmm. How about "Every object is staring at you" by James Elkins. Potentially everyone are observers and everyone are observed.
Mysskin, Cheran. These are the names that I knew before going to this movie. Some where in a one-way road in Villivaakam is a theatre called AGS cinemas. This was the first time I went there and I was already 10 minutes late to the movie.
The story is bit complicated. A CID officer when in solving a case comes to know another case (to which he is personally attached) is related to it. And in the midst of solving a case, opens up many number of cases. And everything seems to be related to one huge scandal.
Narrative is linear. Often filled with witness perception which are shown in flash-backs.
Cinematography is awesome particularly the night scenes. About 80% of the scenes happen at night. But it is really irritating when the camera angles become redundant (one example is often showing legs and bottom angle shots. I wanted to shout "Legs don't show emotion").
BGM is great and music director has used silence to his advantage.
Another thing I noticed is dialogues. Often it seems like only one character is talking to me. The dialogues are monotonous(not in dialogue delivery but in the quotient) and doesn't show any difference.
Editing is great. It is quintessential in the movie because scenes switch between current and flashback version often that too in the same location. An example is when the inspector narrates about the case that happened in the station. Camera moves forward and the scenes are in flashback mode.
This movie is very well thought but according to me, not executed to its 100%.
"Observer is observed" by Jiddu Krishnamurthy.
Hmm. How about "Every object is staring at you" by James Elkins. Potentially everyone are observers and everyone are observed.
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