Viraj's Weblog

If there was ever a director that made me feel like I was at the location where the film took place, it is Fernando Meirelles. I was blown away by City of God, and when I saw the previews for The Constant Gardener mentioning it was directed by the same person, I had to see it as soon as it came out.

Well I saw it tonight and am amazed. The amount of energy the film conveys is just mesmerizing. You feel like you are in the heart of Africa. This director makes alot of use of contrast, and there are some great scenes of beautiful dinner parties or golf resorts, and then the slum and chaos just a few inches away. The use of color in this film is really well done and enforces this contrast.

It's a very dark, romantic, and suspenseful film about a not-so-nice pharmaceutical industry. It's rare a film could make me cry, but this one definitely gave me some tears. It was just beautifully done and is everything a movie should be. The story is not difficult to believe, and makes you really wonder. Go see it!

One thing that you invariably see in university life is the latest fashions. It's sort of an experimental petrie dish for the wierdest and sometimes sexiest stuff. As far as the girls, I don't think I've seen one girl without a tatoo on the small of her back, and bare midriffs are the norm. Also t-shirts with quotes such as "All guys want a blonde" written on them in big letters seems to be 'in'. I must say I am having trouble keeping my concentration.

I remember seeing one guy in the library wearing about 10 watches on his arm and some wierd red and black clothing with Slipknot written all over. I thought it would be kinda funny to ask him for the time, but held back. Anyway I wondered what this band Slipknot was about. Then I heard Duality on the radio, and man this group kicks ass. How can I not love a song with a chorus of "All I've got...all I've got is insane..."?. I had to buy some tunes on Itunes. It's very hard metal, and listening to that song in the morning at 6:30am is like a shot of adrenaline for me. I blast it in my car and most people are like WTF is that noise.

I have pretty strange tastes in music. I go from really lame teenage love songs to hiphop to mind numbing metal depending on my mood. Actually, it's usually the music that determines my mood so I have to be careful what I listen to!