The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) by Mira Nair. She is an Indian filmmaker and actress based in New York.She made films based on novels.
She also made one movie named The Namesake. This movie The Namesake is based on one novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri under the same title The Namesake (2004). This film is released in 2006. This film is also very good and she given appropriate justice to this film also.
If we talk about The Reluctant Fundamentalist this film is similar to the movie called New York (film) released in 2009. In New York movie hero's motif is to take revenge and here in this movie we can say that hero's motif is good to forgive everyone.
Movie Review - "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
The Fundamental Reluctant” is movie released in 2014, directed by Mira Nair, it is not less than any Hollywood movie, its script is written by Mohsin Hamid, Mohsin is well known English writer in Pakistan who’s achieved readers of the world. This movie is all about political controversy and 9/11 attack, idea of East and West, American dream of Changez. Professor of Pakistan University Changez and Bobby Lincoln played a vital role in the movie.
Changez Khan, the hero of the novel, in frame narration story move forward, as Changez who at present live in Pakistan, tells his life story to an American journalist who is also secret agent of CIA.
When Changez lives in America, he has to suffer a lot. he is very happy to get a job in an American company but then he realizes that whatever order is given by his boss is to be completed by him. He feels that Erica is also not faithful with him. She publishes some of his photos stating that “I had one Pakistani”. American police caught Changez doubting upon him as there were controversies regarding Muslims and Al Qaeda.
Three people, Changez, his boss and a African man are going somewhere and police asks to show them their passports and prove their identity. When they come to know that Changez is Pakistani, they take him and check his body. This shows that how a Pakistani man has to suffer in other country.Changez feels that hypocrisy, ignorance is there in America and so his dream breaks. He has to prove his identity everywhere in America.
While concluding this we can say that the movie gives message to remove the colonialism between different nation and “to live and let the live”. This movie is related with the reality of the colonial nations and their capitalism and effect of “ Third world “ country people that how to live life by becoming equal but truth is always bitter and it harmful for Ego and Super Ego which leads us towards the difficulties of two different countries.
The narrator of Midnight's Children is born at midnight on the day of India's independence from Britain. Bidisha investigates how Salman Rushdie uses the life of one man to explore Indian postcolonial experience.
You wait a year for a film version of a Booker prize-winning magical realist novel largely concerned with people from the Indian subcontinent and widely considered to be unfilmable. Then suddenly two come along: Life of Pi and Midnight's Children. The lesser of the two, though a movie of ambition and distinction, Midnight's Children was published in 1981 and is adapted for the screen by its author Salman Rushdie, who also delivers the eloquent narration, a reworking of the book's framing device. As a film and novel, Midnight's Children is a great baggy work covering over 60 years in the turbulent history of India and Pakistan from the end of the second world war up to Indira Gandhi's repressive "Emergency" of the late 1970s,
Rushdie's brilliant insight was to bring together the private and public lives of those involved by inventing a mystical bond between the children born around the midnight hour of 17 August 1947. The narrator and central character famously remarks: "I had been mysteriously handcuffed to history, my destinies indissolubly chained to those of my country."
And he and his peers are given special powers( Prophecy, Magic, Metamorphosis).And they become the embodiment of the best hope of the two nations during a period of bad faith, violence and the betrayal of democracy. At the centre is a variation of Mark Twain's tale The Prince and the Pauper: a rich boy and the son of a street musician are swapped at birth in the early seconds of 18.
In the first post partition episode of Midnight's Children, we're briefly shown a poster of the 1957 Film Mother India. Midnight's children a sophisticated urban riposte of mother India's sentimental rural story.
They are united by this film in both sorrow and anger for what their homeland is , and drawn together in hopeful anticipation of what it still might be.
The Birthday Party is about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player who lives in a rundown boarding house, run by Meg and Petey Boles, in an English seaside town, "probably on the south coast, not too far from London".Two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann, who arrive supposedly on his birthday and who appear to have come looking for him, turn Stanley's apparently innocuous birthday party organised by Meg into a nightmare.
1. Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?
Ans:The reason of omitting two scenes of Lulu can be focusing upon the confusing situation of Stanley rather than Lulu. If those scenes were there in last act, the audience would focus on the character of a woman who was abused by men and she would have been judged as victim rather than the protagonist.
2. Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?
Ans.The sound plays a vital role in the film. It gives us the surreal effect. The sound always helps in giving the menacing effect to the audience. Even the sights captured by Camera plays a vital role. It is interesting to see that Closeup is used as tool which magnifies trivia. For example:- Meg pouring corn flakes in a bowl. While in the important conversation characters are shown in one frame and camera doesn’t move. For example:- When Stanley is asking Meg about two strangers.
3. Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text.
Ans.Lurking danger lies in the whole play, text and movie. But in movie the lurking danger clearly shows in the scene of ‘Birthday Party’. Whereas in the text we fully depends upon the language especially on dialogue and each and every steps we felt dangers.
4. What do you read in 'newspaper' in the movie? Petey is reading newspaper to Meg, it torn into pieces by McCain, pieces are hidden by Petey in last scene.
Ans.We know that Newspaper gives us information what happens in society, we can says that in play also connects us or shows us reality of society. We found that McCann cut newspaper. In movie Cutting of newspaper is symbol of killing. At the last seen those pieces are hidden by Petty.
5. Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and is positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage (trap) when Stanley is playing it. What interpretations can you give to these positioning of camera?
Ans. In blind man's bluff, the camera is positioned on the head of the McCann, which can seen as artist-Webber imagination is restricted by society.
6. "Pinter restored theatre to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretence crumbles." (Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics: Excerpts from the 2005 Nobel Lecture). Does this happen in the movie?
Ans.Yes, it is happen in the movie. Unpredictable dialogue find out at the beginning to the end. Kitchen and the room of birth day party show an enclosed space. And kitchen and room of birthday party which is full of objects and no space for human beings. Readers cannot reach at conclusion that who is better than whom. Because if we as a reader take side of Stanley as a artist, he seemed like innocent. On the other hand both of that characters who does their job only. Petey and Meg are totally unaware about the things. But on the other side it seems like that they all are pretending to each other. So, one side we mercy on the characters but on the other side as a reader we are in darkness. Pinter used reverse dramatic irony. So, we cannot reached at ultimate truth instead of that all the things remain political.
7. How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristic (like painteresque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?
Ans. While watching a movie is more effective than reading text because during movies we find that giggling sounds, fear, and mystique, tolerant of dialogues in the movie.
8.With which of the following observations you agree:
o“It probably wasn't possible to make a satisfactory film of "The Birthday Party."
o“It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version directed by William Friedkin”[1][3]. (Ebert)
Ans. "It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version directed by William Friedkin."
As the present film has possible & required elements to reflect the techniques that may Pinter wanted to convey thorough his play. Lack of understanding if happen then it may depends on personal or individual perspective than general that can give the scope to make it better than this too.
10. Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?
Ans.I would like to choose characters like this,
Stanley- kay kay menon Goldberg- Anupam kher McCann- Nawazuddin Siddiki Lulu- tabu
1) What connection do you see in the setting (“A country road. A tree.Evening.”) of the play and these paintings?
In the play first scene is 'a country road, a tree, and evening' it is very symbolical. Barren tree symbolizes negative things and it shows the idea of near to death. These paintings symbolizes Longing. Longing means desire or hope. In our life one by one, we hope many things and then we tries to fulfill it. In these paintings, first is very dark and second is yellowish shade. 'Morning' symbolizes birth or 'Evening' symbolizes death. So, when evening over new hope will come at morning. But these paintings shows our harsh reality of life.
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2) The tree is the only important ‘thing’ in the setting. What is the importance of tree in both acts? Why does Beckett grow a few leaves in Act II on the barren tree -The tree has four or five leaves - ?
Writer Samuel Beckett uses "Tree" in setting of the play and also as the symbol. In first Tree is a barren tree . And in second play tree is grown up with four or five leaves. The barren tree shows the 'Hopelessness' of Valdimir and Estragon. In Act-1 nothing happens and the same things are repeated in Act-2. But the minor change is that now Tree has four or five leaves on it which suggest the 'Hope of Tomorrow'. Valdimir looks at the tree and notice that and says that...."Yesterday evening all bare and black . Now it has leaves on it." Symbols represents that the things are constantly changed in life also. All things are going to change through time and all days are not same .It constantly changed into gloomy or happiness . So, Tree represents both the sides of life - and have hope for tomorrow. Hope is endless and hope is the only thing through which human being is alive today. Hope never going to die. Hope supports us to avoid the meaninglessness of life .
5))The play begins with the dialogue “Nothing to be done”. How does the theme of ‘nothingness’ recurs in the play?
The play begins with the dialogue “Nothing to be done”. The whole play is begins with nothingness because we would not found any beginning or end into the play but we can find great meaning threw this play which shows great way of living life. We can see also see that in life many people things that all problems were come in my life because of my bad fortune but human being himself is the reason of their problems. But many people will do suicide to end their life because they would not found any hope of living life. So the word nothing ness is also something into the play.
6)Do you agree: “The play (Waiting for Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As I saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: 'No matter what— atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, anything—life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can't kill life." (E.G. Marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s)?
Yes, I think that the character of lucky is irritating because his duty only to obey his master’s order. Even he has not at least a single freedom that he can move his body. Through this character I think that such slavery of man is unbelievable.
7) How are the props like hat and boots used in the play? What is the symbolical significance of these props?
yes, I’m agree with this point “Waiting for godot” is positive play not negative because Vladimir and Estragon Waiting for godot but “godot” is not come but they are waiting there , so “hope” are there. We can say that the Play is meaningless, rubbish kind of thing there.
8) Do you think that the obedience of Lucky is extremely irritating and nauseatic? Even when the master Pozzo is blind, he obediently hands the whip in his hand. Do you think that such a capacity of slavishness is unbelievable?
Pozzo - Lucky: Master-Slave
Yes, I think that the character of lucky is irritating because his duty only to obey his master’s order. Even he has not at least a single freedom that he can move his body. Through this character I think that such slavery of man is unbelievable.
12) This type of slavishness is possible, if we take the example of elephant so elephant has capacity to break that row but yet he never do it. Because his mind constructed like that and he never escape from this. As same it also happens in human beings also.
Which of the following sequence you liked the most:
oVladimir – Estragon killing time in questions and conversations while waiting
Vladimir and Estragon: The Had and the Boot
)I like the Act of Vladimir and Estragon killing the time in question and conversation while waiting.
15) Can we do any political reading of the play if we see European nations represented by the 'names' of the characters (Vladimir - Russia; Estragon - France; Pozzo - Italy and Lucky - England)? What interpretation can be inferred from the play written just after World War II?
Pozzo and Lucky, these character forces us to political reading of the play. As the relationship between them was slave and master relationship which we see in European nation most.
Existentialism : 'Waiting for Godot' Here are my Flip Learning task given by Dr.Dilip Barad. Click here for the blog link of given task.
Video 1: What is Existentialism? The first person who referred to himself as an existentialism and founded the whole movement was John Paul Sartre an extension is in fact highly associated with him he not considered.
First Existentialism it's common to believe existentialist start with Kierkegaard despite the fact that we can apply the term existentialism to many a great thinker and writer such as ..........
Kierkegaard Nietzsche, Dashefsky, Kafka Heidegger, Should stop, Hermann, Hesse sword etc......
Important parts which village constitute existialism passion are freedom so instead of looking at existentialism with the emphasis on the individual at it's core and other subjects covering and coating the core I suggest that you think of it as a triangle with individuality, freedom, and passions as its three sides that might be one reason why believing or not believing in God would ingredients ones holding a title as an existentialist.
Existentialism is mainly popular among young people mostly because it touches on subjects which a person in his or her youth might be strugging with let's face it whose attention will be attracted to a subject like suicide, anguish, thanks, absurdity, passion, emotions, their, freedom, or even despair etc........
In this video we'II be talking about an absurd reasoning Camus starts this essay by bringing our attention to an intriguing and some what unention start he writes there is but one truly serious probiem and that is suicide.....
Example: Movie ' Stay' where you run across sentences like these how did he kill himself he shot himself on the Brooklyn bridge he said it was the best art work of the 19 the century.
Video 3: The Myth of Sisyphus: the notion of philosophical suicide.
philosophical suicide was what made me fall in love with Camus when I was 16 becausr it's one thing to recognize the absurd and it's quite another to embrace it and accept these, consequences most people don't even hesitate to reflect upon life to see it's absurdity.
Philosophy called suicide there can be no absurd outside the human mind thus like every thing else the absurd ends with death that's why you could either negate yourself to get away from the absurd and commit physical suicide or you could also dent the absurd and live I'm perpetual denial and commit Philadelphia suicide in which case you would kill yourself as a philosopher to avoid the absurd once you've recognized.
A total absence of hope : Despair
A continual rejection : Renunciation
A conscious dissatisfaction : Immature unrest
Two forms of suicide and these " I am taking the liberty at this point of calling the exlstential attitude philosophical suicide "
Philosophical suicide " like suicide, Gods change with men. There are many ways of leaping, the essential, being to leap"
Video 4: Dadaism, Nihilism and Existentialism.
1816 data movement grows up against worid war one for most people Dadaism is associated with Nihilism.
Existentialism emerged after worid war 2 as a movement another series of doctrines as an answer to the absurdity of life this is comparable to the Dada movement a few artists such as Hugo ball, yonko, jean, arp, Cesaro and many others were disgusted by the war moved to Zurich and founded the movement.
Dadaism the reason wasn't about our time being all artistic it's merely an art movementis not really art pain free of any rules is what made it vulnerable to become accused of Nihilism but it was devoid of rules for good reasons it'svery nature was questioning and objecting the already existing values in order to overcome them you could even say that item was the Socrates of the war years it is ad if though Nietzsche odd reason these words to describe the movement.
" Whom do they hate most?
Him who breaks up their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker. He , however, it the creator."
" How can one get rid of every thing that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, Europeanised, enervated ?"
by Saying dada
Nihilism have nothing to do with each other both are fed up with everyday life and it's arbitrary values and that's where the similarity stops the reason wasn't an extension or a Nihilistic movement it was only a response to world war one just as the extensionism was a response to war two dresses an absurdist would recognize the absurdity of life and embrace if bizarro writes the absurd " The absurd doesn't frighten me, because from a more elevated point of view, I consider everything in life to be absurd"
Video 5: Existentialism - a gloomy philosophy.
Exustentialusm is often accused of being a gloomy Philosophy while there is the truth ti this claim we must look at the whole picture.
Why existentialism thought of as a gloomy philosophy because notions such as anxicty, despair and absurdity.
Existentialism is a narcissistic philosophy being an Nietzsche puts it become.e who you are I've also heard of people saying how exist on shells that will inevitably lead to Nihilism right just as a beer or a
Existentialism........Nihilism
Cigarette............. Heroin
So does exist Angelle them to Nihilism not that I have anything to say against Nihilism but nothing ean be further from the truth,
Existentialism was a response to this emptiness after worid war II people's lives seemed to have became meaningless and filled with despair it was in such an atmosphere the exists an shells them came to people's rescue and offered a cure.
Video 6 : Existentialism and Nihilism : It is one and the same?
In the sixth video, Existentialism is opposed to Nihilism because Nietzsche believes that Nihilism comes after existentialist thinking. As per my understanding Nihilism ‘s shows us that everything is meaningless in the world and we are tempted by an objective scheme of things. And on the other hand existentialist thinker believes that there is no single meaning but we create our personal meaning for life. So in that point Nietzsche disagree with Nihilism because it ties our thinking ability and existentialism gives us more to look insight and judge it critically.
Video 7: Let us introduce Existentialism again
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Existentialism greatest works of philosophy and literature western civilization has ever seen however putting one's finger on what existentialism is proves quite difficult the goal of this lecture is to help people better understand existentialism more specifically we wibriefly go over the history of existentialism.
Existentialism become especially prominent in the mid 20- the century.....
Franz Kafka, Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau Ponty...........
Video 8 : Explain like i am five: Existentialism and Nietzsche
Existentialism can be summed of these points:
1)We live in a chaotic and meaningless universe.
2)We made meaning and structures in our lives.
3)So we create this meaning and structure ourselves.
Video 9 : Why I like existentialism? Eric Dodson.
Existentialism & Friedrich Nietzsche:-We can make our own rules.making of rules is basically highlighted here.Ubermenschen Superhero of Nietzsche serves our wills & desires.individual is remains in the center.
After watching all videos i would like to give my preference to two videos out of them.
Very first video gives brief but yet helpful ideas of Existentialism.as it has no value except our wills.life has no meaning until it can't lived. Feedbacks of lived once signifies here.
Choice-Freedim-Respinsibilty: Individual
Existentialism comes as optimistic.
video 10 : Let us sum up: from Essentialism to Existentialism.
Philosophy is about the dialectic: someone puts forth an idea and then someone else responds to it. Sometimes, the response comes an right away, in other cases, it takes thousands of years. In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle took is as given that everything has an essence - a certain set of core properties that are necessary, or essential - a certain set for a thing to be what it is. The things which gives defining function , is the essential property. Plato and Aristotle thought that everything has an essence - including us. "Essence precedes our Existence".
Answer 1)
.My favorite video is Video no
2) Because this video all about our absurdity. when we feel absurd and hopeless our life so we kill ourself.
