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Samsara (2006)

Samsara is a movie that's all about beauty, in all aspects, deep and wide, so watch it to mainly with your spirit, as the eye is surely going to be satisfied.

This is the first Tibetan movie I've ever seen. And it blew me away. Samsara is pure art, there is not much point in discussing the cast or the story. It is a deep movie, rest assured. What may be overlooked by the western eye is actually of paramount importance in this film. Meaning a westerner could easily overlook the main character's (the monk Tashi) starting point in the story and get tangled in the love and life story that follows.

movies • recommendations • religion

Web 2.0 doesn't exist

Well, the expression exists. There it is: "Web 2.0". But as a concept, it's almost like talking about "Onion 2.0" just because you now do pickles differently.

I remember Andrew Keen and his position regarding this phenomena. His criticism is totally valid as long as you start with assuming that "Web 2.0" actually exists. The name itself invokes criticism. Put aside this assumption and you'll find yourself actually talking about criticizing large scale mediocrity and large scale deification of mediocrity,  which is historically unprecedented.

web

I freakin' hate Javascript!

Wait, I actually freakin' loathe it! And since I'm currently and unintentionally involved in a big project demanding JS, all my old hatred shall spill in this post. That or I'll just go out in the streets screaming like a lunatic.

I've worked with most of the great languages, loved some, liked some, disliked some, but Javascript - now there's an absolutely horrific story of hate at first sight. Never in my entire programming career have I come so close to smashing the computer and/or my own head than when I had to deal with prodigious complexity in Javascript.

web design • programming

The Wrestler (2008) review

Ragged glory - words that best describe The Wrestler. Its magnificent showcase by Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) makes this film special, within the realm of all things so ugly they turn into beautiful.

From the sub-hollywoodian America, the real America, the one that stirs mixed feelings of nausea and fascination in those strangers who saw it, magisterially exposed, to the actual projection of what is, for this America, nothing less than sport: wrestling, grotesque monkey-like behaviour on which the filmmaker demands attention: even such activity requires effort and sacrifice, so to speak. The genius of the film resides exactly in the subliminal, continuous suggestion of this "so to speak".

movies • recommendations

The ultimate weight loss plan

Lose weight? Nothing simpler!

So, you finally admitted to yourself that you might have a slight weight problem. Meaning you're just a tad overweight. No too much, obviously. OK, maybe too much. Anyway, you've become aware that it's no longer cool to just ignore the fact that the clothes no longer fit you and others call you names. Like "fatty".

modern living • degeneration • self development

Religulous (2008) review

Religulous is directed by the same fellow that did "Borat" and it's co-authored and presented by Bill Maher, a Catholic Jew crossbreed. What's to be expected from such a mixture?

Yet another bitter "comedy" about this very world, regarded as a final product of religions for the masses. The true genius of the movie resides in the critique of the religion of man, the metaphysics left aside, with divine (!) modesty, where it belongs: the ineffable realm of the "I don't know". If it would have given to the usual atheistic crap, "Religulous" would have been crap itself. In turn, it achieves bitter magnificence.

movies • religion • degeneration • New World Order • recommendations

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