This and That

" Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine." I distinctly remember when I first saw the movie Call Me By Your Name, I was unable to comprehend what all that fuss was about. Hell I couldn't comprehend my own emotion. Was it anger? Disappointment? Or something else? Why were people in love with that movie? Apart from the adultery I cannot seem to find anything in it. Given that acting was the most brilliant part especially Timothée Chalamet, totally charismatic in the role of Elio but apart from that nothing from the movie pulled me towards itself. As books tends to take people in their own world and make everything look like fantasy land which they do so by inculcating minor details which a movie can never do, so I decided to go through the original source of the adaptation- the novel to decide for myself whether the world has gone crazy or it was just me that couldn't pin point the sheer beauty of the movie. I came to the conclusion. It was I who w...

Dan Brown has always been a master of details. He has a style of narrating monuments with its history. Yes he narrates monuments! His details are so detailed that you can practically feel those intricate patterns on the tip of your finger. He propels you to feel the art around you while driving you through the vast expanse of his fast paced thrillers. One such book of his that comes to my mind is Origin. I know many of you find his book anti religion or hostile to other religions but in my perspective Bruh! It’s just fiction, take it like that. Period. Coming back to the book, It is another one of the Robert Langdon series, where he just glides in and saves the day in more of a naïve-but-the-action-hero kind of attitude in a totally intellectual way. I know! Hard to get those characteristics in a man. Right? Jokes apart, this book begins at Langdon travelling to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, where his former student and billionaire futurist Edmond Kirsch is set to reveal a g...