This blog is about a bunch of movies, which I watched in the recent past. Movies are the best anti-dote for loneliness (I am so blessed that my better half endorses the same view) this statement has been proved true many times in my own life. Now, seated in this classroom at Vocational Training College, Shinas which is 140 km away from Dubai, I am ready to write my first blog for the last month of this year. (Pretty long sentence eh! Strunk and E.B White will reprimand me for this gross of violation of style)
I don’t want to write an ordinary review of the movies. It is not the way. It is a big mistake and will go against my philosophy of writing – i.e. Writing is Creating. So through this blog I am trying to inject some new life and freshness into the whole process of writing and by extension to my life also. Before I attempt to write I would also like to document the different stages in creation of a blog.
The first thing that is necessary is a fine and active mood. Greek literaryscape contains the muse which I think is nothing but the inspiration to write. This inspiration doesn’t come everyday. It is rare and when it comes, I should be able to tap it and use it. This morning it came when I needed it the most. I was waiting in my classroom for my students (which is against the Koan saying – if the student is ready the teacher will appear) I appeared but no students. The reason is as clear as the morning sunrays that are peeping into this classroom – Bakrid celebrations. So the time was perfect and the mood was very much in me.
The next step is finding an answer to the big question – what to write about? This is indeed a difficult phase because most of the time there is never a straight answer to this. I have to look around and inside me to find the solution. Most of the time the answer comes from my heart and today was no different. Movies and their magical worked once again beckoned me and I readily took the plunge. Again there was a problem which I have mentioned earlier in this blog. The yearning to be different came like gushing waters and I meekly succumbed to it. Again the mind started working and finally decided that instead of writing a clichéd review let me find something common in all the movies and luckily I did find something common which I am very good in finding. It all started when I got introduced to the world of African American literature and along with it I got the word – Dichotomy. The word, at first appealed to my research topic i.e. Roots by Alex Haley. It means the differences between something or in other words – opposing things. Since my M.phil research was a continuation of my MA dissertation I was deeply influenced and I started discovering the significance of this in different contexts. I even wrote an article titled – The Beauty and the Beast keeping this idea in mind. So I connected this word with the movies that I have watched recently and thus I got the topic.
One the idea is formed then it is a matter of putting the initial thoughts into a piece of paper and the next step follows soon – use the MS word to type it and after adding the necessary images and put it here….
(To be continued)
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