haven’t watched any good movies lately. maybe i ran out of people to tell me the good stuff, such that i’d resort to farty movies on the tele. or maybe i have lost the propensity to fathom really good films. or maybe videos don’t excite me as much anymore. or maybe i no longer find it worthwhile to dig over new films, go to cinemas and all that. maybe i spent a large part of being 17, 18,19 just watching movies finding nothing worthwhile to do. it’s all just ignorance back then, eh?
but if i were to list down the movies i really liked, not just good ones, film-wise (whatever that means), executed towards perfection, and cut it down to five; (because it’s a convenient number), they would be;
The Fall (2006)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Lost in Translation (2003)
The Color of Paradise (1999)
of course there are others tapi aaah, semua di atas adalah top notch.
but now i’m just barren. jadi sekarang tengah download Baran. would also like to watch Calcutta by Louis Malle, just because it’s India, but needs concentration. also Valley of Saints, but it’s nowhere to be found unless you go to film festivals.
the only sort of weird music maisarah likes; Ustaz Shujaat Khan.
music+poetry+visuals = perfect?
O friend, the homecoming of my Beloved
has made this courtyard so perfectly blessed
To my Beloved, I bow a thousand times for accepting at His feet,
this unworthy self of mine
In deep longing I waited and waited,
with henna and flowers arranged
Glancing upon the Face of my Beloved,
lost I – my heart and my mind
Being in the Presence of the Beloved
makes the spring so much more beautiful
And the spring that is spent without the Beloved,
may it turn to ashes,
may it turn to ashes!
also, if anyone can capture Tanah Melayu in the 18th century complete with istanas, gold, mystics, pendekars, tigers, some western infusion, gunungs, hutans, and all.
then again i’m probably just eager to travel to different places. to see things and people and places and landscapes.
arabic words always comes in pairs, such that a switch in one alphabet can mean something else, but always related. like kufar (deny/to cover) and fikir(to meditate, ponder deeply). or al-ahwa (dark)
and al-wahyu (revelation/inspiration). or aalim ( learn) and aamal (practice).
eh, where am i headed?
an interesting thing about the word s-f-r (safra) in arabic which means journey, (musafir, if that rings a bell to anyone), also means discovery, to unveil, to reveal. tafsir (f-s-r) means to remove a veil from something, or to make clear of, to explain, expound etc. so we travel in order to interpret and make sense of the world.
oh there, something finally beneficial on this blog.
perkaraperkara 