Last night I watched another Iranian Film, Mama’s Guests. A comedy, quite simply made but with a message so deep I almost teared. Almost, as I was also tearing from laughing so hard.
Pictures taken from here.
I remember this quote from the film.
” Be careful with the rice. Take care of the rice. When you take [...]
The first Iranian film I watched was Children of Heaven, back in the year 2000. It was about two siblings, who shared a pair of shoes. The brother would wear the shoes to school in the morning as he’s in the morning session, ran back home immediately after class so that his sister can wear [...]
…. has everything in it, all ingredients nicely consolidated into a rich and yummy energy fix. A bar of it always satiate my appetite for chocolate as it is, to put it simply– just nice.
That was how I felt just now after watching Dr Seuss’ HORTON HEARS A WHO.
I did Dr Seuss for my [...]
There are things that baffle me to this very day.
1. If one stands by the rights of freedom of speech, and the speech happens to negatively affect another person or a group of people and they retaliate, why does one get angry at their retaliation? Isn’t retaliation a form of speech too? Hence they [...]
It’s Wednesday night and once again it’s time for German Film Festival at University Malaya.
This time it’s a comedy : Kebab Connection, about a young Turkish boy in Hamburg who idolises Bruce Lee and wants to be the first Kung-Fu Film maker in Germany. He did come to a certain success, making Kebab King commercial [...]
I was at the University Malaya. Every Wednesday in Febuary there will be the German Film Festival at the Asia-European Institute of UM. Together with Goethe Institute, it is a yearly event where the students and faculty members of both AEI and Goethe Institute combine efforts in bringing German films to the public.
So as a [...]
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