Movie Review

Ship of Theseus      

     A story of three unique distinct characters with no connection except their meeting point is that each of them receive each organ from the same donor.  A blind Egyptian photographer, a Jain monk who is an animal activist , and a successful Stockbroker. All based in Mumbai city. It’s all about conflict between personal values and mental control over physical world and physical experiences. Her (Blind photographer) intuition and sound direction from her camera works so perfect that she has to struggle the professional touch and enjoyment when she got sight from some unknown donor.  A monk who believes in the equality of all existences, consequences of any action, ready to die for his idea, fights for animal rights torture in experimental laboratory finally succumb to the infliction from his lever diseases and undergoes medical treatment and transplantation. In quest of success a broker never dare what is values except economic values but made a drastic change and gave a good fight to bring justice for a poor slum dweller whose kidney was stolen.

My take away from the movie:

   Any creative ways of learning have a personal touch on the learner, it is difficult to replace the joy of learning in a particular way once she enjoy the originality or the aesthetic of it. It also project the difficulty of de-learning and adult learning. The movie emphasis on how intuition can be effectively used for artistic purpose when dwelt in-deep.

    In current society where survival and Human values and believes are at stake there is a paradigm shift of defining ideas which guide our life and action. We are in age where our action may have no direct implication of exploiting others existences but indirectly effect so much on the survival of other species. There is hardly any choice we could make. It is either we exist by disposing something else or we cease to prevail. All we could choose is make a cruel disposition or slow dead which only appear more logical.

    We are in the age of “commoditized”. Our services , our capacities, our potential and our organ has a market value attach to it. It could not be wrong to say that our intrinsic values, believes and ideas have a saleable value attach to it. Pessimistic voice inside me says that the term “Invaluable” is likely to be wipe of sooner or later from the phase of this generation.

   The optimistic child in me says that no matter what, no matter the adversities, no matter consequences, no matter the illusion and confusion we are expose to there is a strong inner voice in every one of us defining what is Right and Good.