Sunday, September 14, 2008

A Few Good Men & A Mockingbird

Ever wondered what is it that makes a man fight? Fighting, not for desires selfish, but altruistic. Fighting for causes that he believes to be just, fighting for that lost order of humanity, fighting for everything else except himself!! A man, I suppose fights when he hopes, when he believes that he has a vision; a vision of order; a vision of harmony. When he feels strongly that he’s not on this earth by coincidence, and there is some connexion between himself and the earth that he treads upon.





It is a weighty matter for discussion, and one that can never end, and most will believe that it all turns upon an individual whim. Freud would’ve been able to throw some light on it but he’s dead and gone, so just settle with my interpretation. And why am I breathing this fudge of mine into your minds? I think things tend to get a bit idealistic after seeing A Few Good Men save a Mocking-bird.






Vatic in themes and men donning the black raiment to portray the loss of individual voices in the sea of human avarice and folly in its violence confused, do leave enough food for thought for both the viewers and readers respectively.



Now both the pieces are exceptionally well knitted courtroom dramas but “ To kill a Mockingbird ” does not abound with high sounding ciceronian phrases as A Few Good Men does, but both of them equally manage to strike the chord. Atticus Finch and Danielle Kaffee ( Tom Cruise ) become heroes of the legal profession; the former fighting for a colored man and the latter trying to live up to the expectations of a dead father.


Here’s a piece which was nominated by UN as the best Poem of 2006 - Written by an African Kid

When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black

And you white fellow
When you born, you pink
When you grow up, you white
When you go in sun, you red
When you cold, you blue
When you scared, you yellow
When you sick, you green
And when you die, you grey
And you calling me colored??







And do watch this.















And all the time I wanted to be among people with greater fears, but how could I negotiate about something whose value I didn’t know, and until then…



Now Playing:: Ek ajnabi haseena……………..Kishore Kumar

4 comments:

Abhishek said...

ya sumthins do try 2 idealise but it also is ephemeral i guess n where did u get hold of dat poem?

u must be raedin internationl stuff a lot

Debasish Patra said...

Yea, i had read d poem lil pehle.

it still touches me .

The video was interesting too.I'll try to catch hold of atleast the movie.

and bout Altruism, its all fraud.
totally.

thot-provoking post Deepika!

Anupam said...

hey hv u seen cruise's Firm its a nice one but nt like a few gud men, he plays an attorney in dat one as well.

Deepika said...

@ abhishek

may be it is ephemeral but d fact dat it touches us even 4 a fraction of a sec ic wat matters.
one of my fren had frwrded dat one n i really hv 2 thank him 4 dat.

@ debasish

ya do watch it.
i dnt think altruism is always fraud. probably our vanity is such dat we hold our own characters immutable, n we r slow 2 acknowledge dat we hv changed even 4 d better. wat say?

@ anupam

ya ya i've seen the firm. cruise luks like a blue baby there!!