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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The God of Small Things & Blood Diamond

Now, its about a novel "The God of Small things".. by Arundhati Roy.. suggested by Ritu.
The first thing that struck my mind when I was reading this novel was the movie "Pulp Fiction".. The novel was written in such a way that you got to be attentive while reading it.. If a general novel goes 1-2-3-4-5 way.. This novel goes in a random sequence 3-1-5-4-2...[Pulp Fiction also goes this way... :) :)] Hats off to the author for composing novel in such a fashion.. and ya this novel deserves the Booker Prize it got... A wonderful and novice way of depicting a complete plot without leaving any voids in the story. This novel explains abt each and every character at the rite time and its abt the life of two twins.. Rahel and Estha... Try reading this..Its funn..

One movie about which I would like to write is "The Blood Diamond".. suggested by Chowdary. A terrific movie which depicts the way how the conflict diamonds are procured, how they pass the borders of different countries and how they are stored underground for the diamond price to rise and be at the peak.. One thing was sure about the movie.. After watching the movie any one the two things will happen (may be both.. ;) ;)).. "We will either hate Africa or stop buying diamonds"..[Not my quote.. Some reviewer's which I felt was apt..].. DiCaprio's acting was gud... {Lets see if he can get the oscars this time..}

1 Comments:

Blogger Yayaver said...

I differ you in perception of Africa from blood diamond.
I refer you to watch "Hotel Rwanda"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/
and read a book "Out of Africa" by Isek Dinesen.Th ebook may be at lighter part but movie is a good one.

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