The great barack obama

The great barack obama.

Barack obama is a the great leader of our time. What has he had to face. Can you imagine what it was like for him when boston got attack by 2 troubled teenagers. We all witnessed a terrible tragedy. 

Terrorism is a great threat to world solidarity. There have been many terrorist attacks since the beginning of the wars. 

We have been treated to the worst crimes of humanity that i have ever witnessed in my lifetime. 

But there is hope. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Barack obama is going to finish his presidency. And the results of the greatest american hope story will be known. 

Oh you take my breathe away

A poem

When you post a message on my facebook wall
The whole world lights up and i take the fall

Then you go away
Then I go astray
and I am left with no one to play
Oh you take my breathe away

I am just a kid at heart
but I only know what came before
before I knew of Adam and Eve
before I knew of the garden of eden
and the apple and the tree

Strawberry fields forever – The Beatles

Song review

The song starts of with an easy melody, followed by the verse and into the chorus. There is an array of beats and sounds and tunes that if you listen carefully you can hear in the background. The lyrics display a psychedelica alones that if one has ever taken the drug perhaps is understandable, and aims to transmit that quality to the listener. As for the music itself, there is a psychedelic symphony that blends in nicely with psychedelic lyrics and background tunes. The instruments being used include Drums and Trumpets and a Sitar, which is used as an Indian psychedelic instrument that naturally produces the effects that is trying to be made by the rest of the instruments as well as the singing. There is subtle changes in tune that allow the listener to feel the music with the subtelties of ones listening abilities. The lyrics display a poetic theme  as in the words “that I think, I disagree”. And ofcourse the lyrics strawberry fields forever that is repeated throughout the song in the chorus, refers to the psychedelic high and the desire to have that go on forever. And at the end of the song there is a period of silence, and then the comeback and the let go.

Now you see me

Review

The movie starts of with some street magic and mentalism played on some unsuspecting victims. The four horsemen are gifted magicians and mentalists. They each discover that they have been chosen to join a secret organization, but first they need to pass a test. They need to have perfect faith that they will succeed at the test in order to join the Eye. Which is a magical organization much like fraternities and sororities in universities, but this organization is codified in true magical and mystical esoteric fashion. This organization is part of the western esoteric tradition of magic and occultism. The Knights Templar comes to mind. And in fact the four protagonists are known as the four horsemen.

The four horsemen possess certain magical powers, that consist of elaborately planned illusions as well as very real psychic mentalism and magic. The four members are chosen to be part of a magical esoteric organization known as the Eye. The members each have a capacity for knowing way beyond the capacity of most people. They have access to a field of psychic knowing especially one character in particular who is a mentalist, who relies mostly on the psychic dimension to divine facts about his environment and the people within his environment. He also has the capacity to hypnotize individuals as well as mass numbers of individuals.

The magicians use misdirection to deceive their audiences that the trick is happening in one location when they are actually happening somewhere else. They understand the power of illusion and how it is virtually impossible for anyone to find out how they do their tricks. This is where morgan freeman steps in and assumes the role of trying to debunk the magic of the four horsemen.

The magicians are so advanced intellectually and technologically that they are able to use the inter-connectivity of the world wide web and its application to cellular technology in the most creative ways. They must perform their miraculous feats in blind obedience to the eye, in order to succeed in their mission. They are being protected by an unknown force that is watching their every move, this unknown force we later find out to be the Eye itself. But they don’t know where the Eye is or how to contact it, they must trust that they are being looked after and that no matter what they will be okay.

 Rohan Ravi

The Great Great Gatsby

Movie Critic.

 

The Great Gatsby.

There seems to be a consensus within the movie of the suspension of the understanding of who Gatsby is. The first few minutes has you wondering if you will  see Gatsby at all until perhaps the very end where he will appear and disappoint us all. But Gatsby appears when you least expect him, right after the first few minutes. This suspension leads to a kind of melancholia as one is waiting and wishing for the protagonist to show himself, not know whether he will or he won’t. When the protagonist finally does show up on the screen one is left with awe and wonder at the fact that he appeared at all, and one is relieved that the story can go on.

There is a sense of the party ethic in the 20^th century ballroom dancehall format. There is concert pianist playing Bethovhen symphonies shadowed by the sense of the 21^st century disc jockey. Gatsby is young and fit, quite contrary to the opinion of some within the movie and without the movie that he is Old and fat. He lives in a palace and he is oxford educated, and has an acute sense of hearing, perhaps psychic even, but undeveloped, merely superficial.

The movie has an interesting mix of musical styles in the form of modern operatic theatre in such varieties in the manner of Florence and the Machine. To the downright early 2000s contemporary in the form of Jay Z, shouting his mantra H to the Izzo. Ofcourse this all blends nicely to the form of the movie which takes on a Moulin rougeske style longing for the future in a world that exists in the past, and rooted in the present.

Perhaps the most telling scene of the state of the protagonist and his sidekick come at a gather of prominent figures in city of which they live. Here we see the commissioner and a senator as well as the most gripping performance by an Indian movie icon in Amitabh Bachan. For all of bollywoods terrible acting jobs, here Amitabh, the godfather of Indian cinema holds his own in a world he cannot possible understand due to its complexity. But his performance holds gravitas and takes the viewer on a journey of what its like to outperform seasoned veteran actors in your first real test as an actor.

In darkness I have wept for the bond of life I accept this lonely paradise.

Rohan Ravi.

Musical Score 3.5/5

Acting 4/5

 
Entertainment Value 5/5

Screenplay 3.5/5

Overall 4.5/5