ANALOGIES ОR INCONSEQUENTIAL MEANDERINGS OF A BORED MIND

Ephemere means lasting for a short time, transient or mono no aware, a Japanese concept that refers to the impermanence of all things. He is not underrated, just concealed very well... by useless algorithms.

GET TO KNOW YOURSELF II

Getting to know yourself is a life-long process if you ask me. I have always been the type to poke, dig and root inside myself and have been forever asking the question "why" everything happens, and why I or others are like this or that. The funny thing, though, is - the more you dig the more you seem to be your own mystery. What a paradox! The more I dig the less I know about myself, but it seems, the more I get to know the other person! The more I get to know myself the more I understand other humans and their motivation. Or maybe that is an illusion? The illusion that I will ever be able to get to know myself or others fully. If that be the case, there would be no mystery left. And the mystery is needed. Not a mystification, mind you but a good old-fashioned mystery of the other and of the self. You can get to know others also by reading books, newspapers, watching Youtube, etc, but there is nothing like introspection. Introspection requires time spent on your...

WATCHTOWER

WATCHTOWER Watchtower is an unpretentious film by a Turkish author Pelin Esmer. She wrote, filmed and edited this film, which is for me, an admirable endeavor in itself. And a very successful one at that. If I may say so, this is a type of a film that I would call “welcome to reality”. Anthropologically interesting with a moral and ethical dilemma at the core. The main question is what happens with a baby from an incestual relationship. Another question is will the mother find the strength to accept and eventually love the baby. Anyway, whatever the answers it is as if the author is telling us, “Such is life and let’s not be living in a bubble, these are the hardships for some people, that you don’t even think they exist “. Or at least that’s how it seems to me. The way the story is laid out is so organic and easy to follow, backed up with beautiful imagery, so I recommend you should watch this film. The nature plays important part in this film as a backdrop against which the story unf...

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