Ingredients of happiness

Saw Belle De Jour directed by Luis Bunuel. The film stars Catherine Deneuve (I remember her terrific acting in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion) as a young, beautiful and impassive wife of a medical student. She finds out the address of a brothel in Paris from a middle age person, who seemed to have a lot of money and a lot of time. Every afternoon, she goes there between two to five, where a series of men with unconventional taste are comfortably looked after.

An old maxim – “to judge a human is not only foolishness, but also dangerous” snugly fits in this movie. It shows how unsoiled, educated, intelligent, well to do, gorgeous and well groomed people can indulge in appalling performances. It can be fact.…… It can be fantasy. Perhaps it is more of fact rather than fantasy, since a glimpse in the past revealed that the human mind wanders to territories unimaginable.

Being impressed by Luis Buneul’s work has compelled me to hunt down and collect the rest of his works.

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The ingredients of happiness are ignorance, stupidity and self-centeredness.

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I do not know why we place so much of significance to the views of critics. The inability to create, metamorphosis’s a creature to a critic. Critics are creatures who never created anything. When the creature couldn’t become an artist, he/she became a critic.

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Saw someone struggling to get out of this world. Death was near. God and Satan were fighting for his soul during the last hour. The soul was subjugated. The living assumed it was not Satan. The only qualm was - which of one the two was Satan?

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Some reservations exist whether we human beings are rational animals or just animals. Otherwise it becomes hard to explain why we human beings succumb to authorities, submit to laws, believe in obedience and do not believe in freedom.

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