IT IS ALL MIMESIS!
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Real lessons in reel life
About FAROUK GULSARA
Entering a new phase of his life, FG found himself in the company of solitary confinement dearth of intelligent life form. Solitude trickled his grey cells to trigger some questions about life and its intricacies. Hence began the outpouring of his thoughts into cyberspace for nobody to hear.
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This compilation of his thoughts about movies from his blog, Rifle Range Boy (www.riflerangeboy.com) is by no account an attempt to critically analyse the art of movie-making or storytelling. What he tries to lay out here is an endeavour to share his experience of learning a thing or two from hours of self-indulgence in the reel of imagination.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Plato said that 'All art is mimetic by nature; for art is an imitation of life.' Some things in life are best not spoken but seen. What cannot be expressed in the real world is nuanced subtly in innuendos under the cloak of artistic licence. The eyes are the window to the soul. Visual representations leave a longer lasting impression on the mind. Gazing into the abyss through the pupil, it is anybody's guess what actually goes on there. Cinema, the seventh form of art, may have the potential to awaken the sleeping giant within us to yonder beyond the outer and inner limits of our imaginations.
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Understanding its attraction, people have been using it as a magnet to serve their own needs. It had been used for propaganda as to spur nationalistic spirit in a nation under the yoke of colonialism. Rather than looking at these celluloid presentations as a form of escapism, one could acquire many a valuable lesson in these imaginary worlds of reel life. It may help us to cope with a reality too overwhelming to encounter.
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This is Real Lessons From Reel Life.