The Sane Lunatic

Many people would be aware of the connection between colors and the emotions they evoke. Sometimes the connections get established in traditions, while many are experienced throughout the different phases of our lives. In this post, I would like to share my thoughts and feelings about the color white. From the little bit of physics, I did understand and remember, all the other colors in our visual spectrum originate from white, making it the source of all colors, thus its relation to the concept of neutrality and fairness. If you were to Google about the color white, most results will speak of how it is a dominantly positive color, often associated with purity, rebirth, starting afresh, cleanliness, safety and so on. While I agree that I too often associate the color white with those emotions and concepts, I am somewhat surprised not to find a piece that covers all the generic bases of emotions that I associate with white. I find white to be a color, that while being positive, d...

They say that if you keep trying and keep thinking about it, you believe in it hard enough, and then it can become a reality. But what if what it was something that you never really wanted for yourself? What if someday you suddenly find yourself questioning when exactly was it that you decided to do what it is you're doing and you just can't remember when did you ever say "This is what I want to do"? Odds are you were trying to figure things out for yourself like everyone does, and you found something that seemed closest to your interests at that point in time and you thought "Yeah, okay. I'll do that." And that's the kicker, the gap between "I want to do that" and "I'll do that", and how so many people go through their entire lives in denial of the gap's existence. Others realise it but have found a way to be happy with it and enjoy the good things in life. But the moment of realisation, when the illusions shatter an...

This movie, for me, was a roller-coaster ride of endless moments of WTFs and WTHs and lots of cringing. Director Tate Taylor's movie adaptation of Paula Hawkin's bestseller may not be agreeable to the fans of the novel, but as someone who has not read it, Charlotte Bruus Christensen's intriguing style of cinematography has done a really good job of making it entertaining. Emily Blunt does a splendid job of being 'The Girl on the Train', Rachel Watson, with her hollow eyes and crusty lips, constantly inebriated but still maintaining an air of mystery and intrigue. Rachel rides the Hudson Line into New York City, averting her gaze as it passes the home that was once hers, where her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) lives with his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and their child. Instead, she becomes fixated with the exhibitive occupants of a house just a few doors down, who seem to be staging passionate acts of love for her viewing pleasure (scenes that you won...

If you have read the novel by Dan Brown, of which this film is an adaptation, do NOT watch this movie, it is not worth the ticket price. While the novel itself may not have been well-received amongst the readers, fans of Dan Brown included, Ron Howard has not been able to give this story any saving face with technical story-telling that lacked finesse. Tom Hanks once again bears the role of Professor Robert Langdon as he dashes around Europe, solving half-baked puzzles to try and stop a threat that is posed to cull humanity itself. A deranged biotech billionaire by the name of Bertrand Zorbist (Ben Foster) is obsessed with what is debated to be the end of humanity that will be brought upon by overpopulation. He plans to save humanity from that fate by thinning the herd with a new kind of plague to usher in a new era for humans like he claims The Black Death did. He believes he must exterminate half of humanity to save the rest of it, or let all of it die in the next 100...

The gift of being different seems to be the primary theme of the movies I've watched of late. 'The Accountant' touches on a similar origin story but in a very different way. Ben Affleck in his current hot-bod plays Christian Wolff, a socially awkward accountant who is a mathematical genius and an exceptionally talented man. His autism works for his benefit in developing his skills as a martial artist and a sharp-shooter. The character is well developed, with plenty of flashbacks to his father, played by Robert C. Treveiler, an army man whose work makes him shift from base-to-base around the world. After Chris' mother leaves them, he, his younger brother and their father truly assume the role of a bad-ass family. Their father believes that Chris' autism does not need a safe environment for him to learn how to deal with the outside world, as there are no safe environments in real life. Throughout, the younger brother plays the role of loyalist, being with famil...

Of the many things this story tries to be, the best is that it is another Tim Burton classic-to-be. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is based on the best-selling novel penned by Ransom Riggs, and is quite the gripping watch. While Miss Peregrine, brilliantly played by Eva Green, may be the title character, we follow the story of a young boy named Jake ( Asa Butterfield), living the life of an ordinary but out-of-place teenager in Florida with parents who are protective, but not ones to give time. In classic Burton fashion, the film starts on a dark note and continues that way with the occasional bit of humor. After a gruesome turn of events that leads to the death of his beloved Grandfather who's dying words were a cryptic message of clues, Jake heads to Wales to find the children's home that he heard the stories of while growing up. Stories of a place where the headmistress could transmogrify into a bird, a girl lighter than air who wore lead boots so t...