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Osias wrote:I saw the movie about Ramanujamn on Netflix. I wish it had more math, but that's me. Recommend it.
It was the same for me. The overall story was so interesting that I was fine with accepting the movie's more outlandish bits.Luís wrote:I finally watched Arrival yesterday.
I have to say it's quite refreshing to see a movie where the hero is a linguist...
Sure, not all of it is accurate and many parts aren't even remotely realistic, but still, I quite liked it.
vijayjohn wrote:One of my co-workers saw that movie, too, so a few days ago, he asked me how familiar I was with Hinduism. I didn't really know how to answer that question, but I got him to tell me what he was wondering about anyway: whether it was for some sort of religious reason that his parents(?) objecting to him leaving India.
Osias wrote:vijayjohn wrote:One of my co-workers saw that movie, too, so a few days ago, he asked me how familiar I was with Hinduism. I didn't really know how to answer that question, but I got him to tell me what he was wondering about anyway: whether it was for some sort of religious reason that his parents(?) objecting to him leaving India.
He didn't pay attention,; the very movie answered that.
Granted, it doesn't say the name of the rule/taboo, but it also says Calcutta and Mumbay were cities where it was losing force, while in Madras¹ people would still "stop talking to us" and "we'll will? never marry our children".
¹ It was still called 'Madras'.
vijayjohn wrote:the very movie answered that.
Osias wrote:I meant to say "the movie answers that". Is it acceptable?
Sort of, but then remember that math is generally boring, esoteric and hard to portray onscreen. For example, A Beautiful Mind very briefly explained game theory, but without any actual math shown, and spent the rest of the movie (somewhat inaccurately but at least sympathetically) portraying mental illness. A movie like Jurassic Park would also bore audiences if it spent too long discussing genetics so instead it focused on bioethics as its theme. Highly technical subjects don't make for good storytelling. There are of course exceptions to this rule.vijayjohn wrote:That's always the thing with movies about mathematicians, isn't it?
mōdgethanc wrote:Sort of, but then remember that math is generally boring, esoteric and hard to portray onscreen. For example, A Beautiful Mind very briefly explained game theory, but without any actual math shown, and spent the rest of the movie (somewhat inaccurately but at least sympathetically) portraying mental illness. A movie like Jurassic Park would also bore audiences if it spent too long discussing genetics so instead it focused on bioethics as its theme. Highly technical subjects don't make for good storytelling. There are of course exceptions to this rule.vijayjohn wrote:That's always the thing with movies about mathematicians, isn't it?
(Having said that, I wish Contact had a little more about space travel in it.)
mōdgethanc wrote:The worst part about them was that they left out huge great swathes of the books which annoyed fans and left casual audiences confused as hell. But this movie also doesn't have that problem, as I understand.
I'm with you on that too. I think I just kind of groaned when I first saw Rowling use that term in print.linguoboy wrote:I'm with Osias, but then as you know I've got very limited sympathy for the Chosen One trope in fantasy at this point.
Lucky!I actually went to see a movie in the theatre(!) last week because they re-released Tampopo. It wasn't quite as brilliant or as polished as I'd remembered it being, but it was a wonderful experience all the same.
Do you still have access to your university library? They often have a good store of classic and arthouse films.vijayjohn wrote:I've heard of Tampopo several times by now but have never actually seen it. I wonder whether there's a version available for free on YouTube or something (although maybe I'm just saying that because I'm too used to this with Indian movies by now ).
mōdgethanc wrote:Do you still have access to your university library? They often have a good store of classic and arthouse films.vijayjohn wrote:I've heard of Tampopo several times by now but have never actually seen it. I wonder whether there's a version available for free on YouTube or something (although maybe I'm just saying that because I'm too used to this with Indian movies by now ).
sandrodream wrote:Yesterday I watched Titanic movie with Kate Winslet. This scene made me cry a lot is the final scene of the film and is a masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFehvmVSmlY
Sarabi wrote:Crazy to me they were only 21 when this was filmed
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