A Qoute

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
David Hume

SE7EN

I saw se7ev for the third time translated in Persian and transmitted by the Iranian TV. I expected to see a full cut version of it and fully changed dialogues in some scenes. However, I enjoyed the move for the third time and saved the remaining four time slots for the future.

Seeing this mo I for the first time was very shocking. As story goes on, you cannot guess what will be happen. Although after a couple of killing it reveals the most important motive of the killer but the story and also the movie do not want the audience to guess in advance what is going on.

When I saw it shortly afterward for the second time I considered the dialogues more carefully to get the idea better. It worked out some story puzzle made in my mind. Clearly, the joy was not the same as the first but it was different.

If a movie left you thinking after the The-End sign, I consider it a good movie. I can say after a decade and for the third time that it is still a good movie.

This time a frame of the most important scene, the killer pointing gun to the young detective’s head in the rain, caught my eye. This part satisfies all the things the director was after: No clue to recognize the face of the killer, showing the power of killer, and in my point of view, the influence of the killer to choose the story line.

There was also another point regarding to the titling of the movie. At the end you saw Kevin Spacy’s name not in the beginning. This is another director trick to hide the killer.

Anyway, there is always some stories and believes about the numbers. The number Seven is believed to be a holly number. As it is sporadically used in almost all cultures such as Seven Sins, Seven days of a week, seven trays (haft sin in Nowrooz ceremonies in Iran and Persian-oriented region), seven seas, and so forth, the movie showed seven killing in seven days according to seven sins. [And this is my seven paragraph too ;)]

Constantinople

The Basilica Cistern, also called the Yerebatan Sarayı or Yerebatan Sarnıcı, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that still lie beneath the city of Istanbul, former Constantinople. This is the only place that let me feel that era in istanbul. It was built in the 6th century, the age of glory of Eastern Rome, also called the Byzantine Empire.

Istanbul

My getting to here has a long story. Anyway I just post this letter from a guest house in Istanbul near Hagia sofya to remember this moment.

Cuttlas

I read a column about this remembering animation in one of our city dailies and translated some parts as below.

This animation which is made based on comic strips with the same name is an art phenomena; it uses primitive lined characters of our childhood and by all means is a magic of line.

Story of each episode is Cuttlas fighting with bad men, especially his main foe, Bad Jack. Jack is known by his cylinder hat and pistol. Cuttlas was slim with a cowboy hat. Their fight concluded with a thousand dead lined men spreading their blood all over the frame.

This 1992 animation is made by a Spanish animator named Calpurnio (b. 1959, Spain). There is a saying: "there is always a big name behind a simple but effective art work.

A quote of Albert Einstein

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”

The hidden memory

The Hidden(1987) is a story of an alien who can use human body on earth to live and satisfy his needs but he is not alone. Another alien is after him for revenge and terminating him.

The first time I saw this movie was a couple of years after the release. I was young and passionate about movies and Sci-Fi stories. The mixture of three elements of Sci-Fi, Police story and action made me a good feeling about this film and it remained in my memory.

Anyway I saw this movie last night. I have to admit that it is a regular movie. In spite of wining some unknown awards, I now rate it 2.5 from 5.

Time is a complicated matter to me. Sometimes, time is good when is past and Sometimes it makes things worst.