The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart-Helen Keller
Need for time management kept on
pounding on my doors during last two years. During that time I realized that time is
more precious and dearer than money. During those times I had seldom got any time
to watch a movie or to even appreciate a simple creative act. And then when i
got some of it, I happily obliged that time by doing what best i do and that is harboring myself on some of the
gem of the movies. Some of the previous blogposts highlight my journey into the world of movies which i had enjoyed thoroughly
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Human emotions in true essence prevail
through the time and can be experienced by people over and over again
irrespective of time and space.
Das Boot was on my watching list
for a long time. I did manage to put that movie in my laptop’s dvd player once,
but absence of subtitles halted my efforts. Das Boot to me is not essentially a
war film; it is an opera which captures human emotions in different situations.
It’s a movie which exemplifies bonding and team building. Yes, this movie can
be shown in a team building exercise to its participants.
It teaches of how to be an
efficient team. A team is only successful if all the members of the team
perform their own work efficiently and then complement each other. If one
person is being called to perform all the duties, then it’s not an efficient team.
In Das boot when the submarine was sinking after being hit by the enemy ship,
the crew members performed their own duty so well that they came out of the
bottom and hurled back to the surface.
Is it an anti-war movie? Yes, it
can be, here the crew members who toil under the water tirelessly for days sometimes
question back the decisions taken by their superiors.Superiors who are sitting in their
posh offices and having a scrumptious meal. But isn't the same happens when
superiors sometimes don’t understand the pain suffered by team members now a
days also .Master director Stanley Kubrick harbored on the same topic in his
1957 epic ‘Paths of Glory’. Paths of Glory went one step ahead when Kirk
Douglas refused to participate in the war. Das Boot holds itself back and
forces us to remain within the world of submarine and experience the emotions.
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Same human emotions but in a
different way were captured in another interesting Hinglish movie called
Lunchbox. Here human emotions surfaced at loneliness. It’s how loneliness
bridges the gap between the two main protagonists of this movie. Superbly
played by awesome Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur. Ever versatile Nawazurddin
Siddiui aptly performed the supporting role of Sheikh.
Here Irrfan Khan “Saajan Fernandes”
again exemplifies and showcases the human emotions at different juncture of the
movie. Adjusting the spectacles to stare sneeringly whenever he reads the
letters from the lunch box, looking himself at the mirror which reflects back
his age and questions his forthcoming deeds are examples of masterful
depiction of human emotions.
