Childeren of Men(2006)

This a Sci-fi Movie from Alfonso Cuarón. The Idea like all other Sci-Fi Stories is reversing one of obvious facts of life. Here, Humane race looses his ability of fertilization. the next generation is going to see his extinction amongst whole the other problems we see today like global warming, pollution, terrorism and illegal migration.I like the idea very much (apart from that part showing only Moslem's demonstrating).

I also liked the role of Clive Owen, it was very different. I may suggest him for the next 007. Michael Caine acted very justly. He managed to show an old man in new time still attached to his first years of youth. some one else could play the role of Julianne Moore but Claire-Hope Ashitey as Kee Played very well. There is a sequence of good scenes from the city war section.

I recommend it to all my friends who like to Watch Sci-Fi movies without any glory or space shuttles.

Before Sunrise (1995) ---> Before Sunset (2004)

It is an odd coincidence that I saw "Before Sunrise" on one of satellite channels then I found the "Before Sunset" in my shelf, not yet seen. I am very glad that I had not seen the later because when I saw it the other day it pleased me very much.

"Before Sunrise" at the beginning seemed to me a normal and popular movie. I was sitting at my chair and think of it as an American boy, Jesse (Ethan Hawke), say hello to a European girl, Celine (Julie Delpy), then Bang and Bye. But the movie really shocked me as movie continued. They began to talk and talk about everything they like and enjoyed to be with each other and all the things they do is freely and respectfully chosen. They were so attached to each other in that night that they don’t even exchange address or phone numbers to each other but promised to see each other six month later.

Although the base of the story seems so fictions and fantasy to me, the conversations worth a lot because they talk about everything two couple often talk about. And the subjects and the words are cleverly chosen and sequenced that I shall recommend it to all of my friends.

One of the scenes reminded me of the classic movie "The Third Man (1949)" when Jess and Celine ride on The Ferris wheel in Vienna.

In "Before Sunset", the page turns. Jesse is back again in Europe, not in Vienna but Paris to talk about his book. Celine goes to the book shop and they meet each other after 9 years. Now they -having an unbelievable intimacy- begin to talk. This time, the subjects and words are completely approached different. They talk about life, love, marriage, religion and world's problem. The whole idea of each person is the same as 9 years ago but broader and experienced.

Those long takes are astonishing. Delpy and Hawke start from the first turning into a French alley and with no interruption or changing they walk along to the next turning. Another Interesting thing about the movie is that it is real time. The time elapsed in the story is also the run time of the film.

The last common interesting thing about these two love story movies is that you can not put an end to the movie.

May be we can see another sequel after 9 years when they are in their middle-ages.

Calendar

I really like astronomy. The Stars and planets above our head in night sky are astonishing. One of the related topics in astronomy is calendar, the system which people in countries use to calculate the days and month and other events in a year.
We just passed the first day of new Gregorian year. Today is the first day of Islamic calendar. We will reach to Chinese New Year's Day in a month. And in March there will be Persian New Year's Day (نوروز).
Mostly the old calendars are lunar type. A lunar calendar is a calendar oriented at the moon phase. The only widely used purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar, whose year always consists of 12 lunations.
A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicate the position of the earth on its revolution around the sun. Gregorian and Persian calendars are examples of solar calendars.
Chinese calendar is lunisolar, The reason for this is that a year is not evenly divisible by an exact number of lunations, so without any correction the calendar year will drift with respect to the seasons.
The interesting question is always popped: Why this day is New Year's Day?
Gregorian calendar decided the birth of Christ (actually a day between two most saying) and Islamic calendar decided the first day of great journey of Prophet Mohammad.
Chinese calendar uses a bit complex mathematical and astronomical calculations to determine the first day. In one sentence, the Chinese New Year is the second New Moon after the winter solstice.
The Persian year starts at vernal equinox. (The time when the sun crosses the celestial equator and day and night are of equal length, marking the beginning of spring.)
The Persian mathematicians used a simple and universal method for the calendar which impress me too much.

Blackfield II

After five years, Wilson and Geffen managed to record another studio album. The first Blackfield album consisted of 10 tracks. On year 2004, they published their first album again with three bonus tracks, one of them "Where is my love?" is now reappeared in the new album, Blackfield II. This new album is also consisted of 10 tracks.

• Track listing:
1. Once
2. 1,000 People
3. Miss U
4. Christenings
5. This Killer
6. Epidemic
7. My Gift of Silence
8. Some Day
9. Where is My Love?
10. End of the World

From the music aspect, it's the same kind of sound and quality as the first album and more piano than usual. I really like a lot of this album (mostly Epidemic, My Gift of Silence and End of the World).

From the lyrics aspect, it reminds me of the No-Man's 'Together We're Stranger' album. All the lyrics Core is love and its consequences (happiness, joy, sad, jealousy, anger and void).

Minimalism

Minimalism is simply defined as:

"A style of art in which the least possible amount of form shapes, colors, or lines are used to reduce the concept or idea to its simplest form"

This style influenced music by the slowing down of musical processes through the repetition-with-variation of short fragments.
In literature that aims at reducing the elements in a text to a bare minimum.
there is a track by "Porcupine tree" in the album "In Absentia (2002)" that bares this kind of minimalism in its lyrics.

Lips Of Ashes

Paralysed
Lips of Ashes
Synchronised
Blue vein crashes

Touching you inside

Idolised
Black Eyes fading
You and I
Connection failing

I drill down inside