2020 is a very strange time, probably, in this passing century, people from all over the world have been in a long solitude with anxiety from the beginning. On the event of the announcement of Booker prize long list on 28 th July, at midnight in London but in the very early morning in Dhaka, readers from around the world have got startled either before going to sleep or after getting up from the dreams when they have seen “The Booker Dozen” or the list of 13 finest fictions in English from October, 2019 to September, 2020 published in the UK/Ireland. Though it has already made a buzz that US eligibility has pushed the prize from English atmosphere to American milieu, this is the most surprising and versatile long list in the Booker history that more than half (8/13) of them are first appearance in the world of long-fiction, pages started from 192 ( Redhead by the Side of the Road ) to 912 ( The Mirror & the Light ), two of them are completing their decades-long trilogy, two of...
" This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself " When I heard Kambei Shimada ’ s dialogue , a ronin , the leader of samurais starred by Takashi Shimura ; I just press the pause button instantly to hear it repeatedly and felt a great pleasure and thought that is the essence of human artistic prestige that drive us to surrender to art both spiritually and philosophically. If Rashomon [1950] was about technically triangular compositions then Seven Samurai [1954] is about cinematically crowd compositions. I am amazed w...
I was expecting a different story in The Grand Budapest Hotel but what I have to accept is a grand human bonding in the end. It’s about how far a person can go forward to risk one’s life to respect the essence of human bonding. It’s also the opposite of how cunning, greedy and violent a person can be. That is enough to make a family broken and insult the value of human shared lives. Wes Anderson is a unique motion painter not a film maker who can make a film only using camera angles and movements, and can create a parallel world which we are searching into outer space. The Grand Budapest Hotel [2015] Wes Anderson English, USA. PS: I watched " The Grand Budapest Hotel " to have a taste of the representative film from each nominated director of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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