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Film Stuff: Mr. Holmes

I don't know what is it with our society but often we perceive "getting old" as a taboo topic to address. Sure, getting old ain't pretty. Sure getting old reminds us of dying but then where else is our lives is going to go if not towards death? If you have another end result of life that equates to eternity, holla at me.

I think the film Mr. Holmes addresses this stigma quite well and very much endearing as well. Sherlock Holmes has always been known at his prime age. He is a genius, a sociopath, witty, awkward and all of the adjectives that we love to love in a character. But when you fast forward him to when he is 90++ years old, he is still all of that, but not the whole of all of that. 

It was painful for me to watch my beloved fictional figure to deteriorate with age.

What really killed me was when Mr. Holmes, one who has never been able to grasp the concept of loneliness, understood it when he is at the brink of his life. He had to accept the fact that his entire existence was quintessentially lonely.

The characters involved were not a lot, just 4 or 5 in total. And there were no explosions or car chases or gunshots. There was just a man at the edge of his life with nothing. Ian McKellen did well. I can't imagine anyone else better to play a retired Mr. Holmes.

All in all, that is the hard fact that we need to stop avoiding and just deal with. You never know if you are going to live to be a senile, fragile and a lonely hundred year old man.

Go and watch it if you ever have the time.

l8r,
Jaz.

Film Stuff: Like Crazy (fav)

Release Date: 28 October 2011 
Genre: Drama | Romance
Cast: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence
Directors: Drake Doremus
Writer: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones 
MPAA: PG-13
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Let's begin this "Film Stuff" thingy with my all time favorite movie. One that I have watched for literally more than 50 times and cried all the same and I am sure that if I watch it again anytime soon, the tears will still be pouring down like crazy.
This is one of the movie that I'd like to encourage all of you film fanatics to watch because this movie shows what real love is. The actuality of love and how fucking hard it is to stay in love. No, it is nothing like The Notebook. That was fucking artificial. The actors captured the moments of falling in and out of love so eloquently that you can't help but be immersed into their happiness and messiness. And most of all, you'll understand the reason why they fell in and out of love and accept it.
The director captured the moments in snapshots which portrays exactly what moments are. A snap in a lifetime. I did a little digging and Doremus (dir.) encouraged improvisation during filming which I think contributed a lot to the film. You can see the genuine process communication and fluidity of the dialogue. Nothing felt like as if it was written. The script does not contain any metaphorical, surrealistic factor, just what two people in a romantic relationship would say to one another. In good days and in bad days.
But I guess what I liked most about this movie is the end. *Spoiler alert*. It shows that two people can end up together if they really want to, but here's the thing, do they really want to? They are just surviving the relationship for the sake of their effort for preserving it. Yeah, in the end, they were together but it was just useless.
l8r, Jaz.

Film Stuff: Chapter One

Here's the thing. There are very few things that I am passionate in. However, I am still passionate for more than one thing hence I would like to share with you about those things other than fashion. It is films. Oh, how I love films. I could watch films for days and cry about it for nights. Films are the one ladder that I have to climb out of off reality and be in an alternate one where everything is wrong which makes it so fucking right. Same goes to books but books do not have the visual capabilities that could touch your soul. It does not convey the actual feelings on actual people. It does not come along with tracks and tracks of beautiful soundtracks. It does not speak. 

Films do. And I'd like to share these experiences with you.