Last night I tossed and turned in my bed. No i wasnt sleeping in the wrong direction and neither did the bed seem all that undulated like I usually feel. The dogs outside were barking furiously. They seemed to add an insane quality to the voices in my half asleep brain. I heard chanting and I saw bloodless faces looming large above me and I couldnt take it anymore. I had to get up and get myself a glass of water. Let me reassure that im not getting started on some kind of crazy horror story!But I did feel wierd enough to think whateever I was feeling was probably worth a blog. Hell! Anythings worth a blog. People even blog about their shitting habbits dont they? Not that I have come accross one, but I can safely assume they do.
Got a mail from my friend asking us to watch a few movies. One of them being Eyes wide shut. Thats what started it. I went and got Roman Holiday and Eyes Wide shut. Its been a while since I watched Tom Cruise smile. I was in for a surprise though.He didnt smile.I didnt have a clue as to what the movie was about except that there are some explicit scenes in the movie. It turned out that the hot scenes werent the kind I had expected.Nakedness seemed to be a critical part of the movie but there wasnt any tender love making or similar pleasantries.It was layered with the complications of a mans psyche when he finds out that his wife is not who he thought she was after nine years of marriage. One night under the influence of marijuana she destroys his notions about his wifes sexuality and the extent she is willing to go to satisfy her deep desires.Whether this is done to incite his jealousy or to just let him take a peep into her mind is left to you.He cannot comprehend the lack of logic behind it and how her desires are separated from the love she has for him. From then in a span of two days his life tumbles down around him, the rock solid ground that he walks on seems to quake at every step he takes. He enters into territories he never knew existed and is shocked to discover that life can take extremely sinister turns and it seems so unreal that when you come back home, you dont know where you have been and if it was just a bad nightmare.
Tom Cruise has done a great job as usual and as for her- She seems to present a very vague picture, under the influence of dope and booze whenever she was present in the movie or in a world of her own.
The whole movie has got dark undercurrents with dialogues that are made slow and repititive to keep you waiting. I appreciated it while I was watching and I was quite matter of fact when explaining to my rommies that these sort of things happen and even in india you have cult practices where sex is the mode of worshipping.Like I know anything!! We all concluded that it was different and worth a watch inspite of the fact that all the women seem to be clones of each other with the same kind of uhm.... bodies... shall we say... to put it decently! (Im not sure if my bloggers license allows me the use of quite specific terms such as asses and boobs!). We washed off our face packs (We did make some good use of the time we were were watching the movie) and went to bed.It was only then that my mind started whirling with wierd, almost violent thoughts and I had earlier felt so unaffected by the movie that I didnt relate them at all! Here are some of the wierdest of them: (Please note that I was half asleep too)
*I imagined myself being harrased by a guy in a mask. It didnt register at the time that he was wearing one.It was as if he wasnt and I knew who he was.. in real life I mean. I got wild and went to his house and threatened to kill him and I tore his sofa with the butcher knife I had in my hand!
*I imagined a little girl playing with a turtle that had the nazi symbol over it. HUH???
*I imagined that I was imagining all these things and that I was trying to construct a plan to not imagine them!
*I was swearing in my head
*I imagined an IAS officer taking room in a village tea shop and complaining that the tv had too many channels. Well that came from the book i was reading earlier.
*I imagined the house maid coming in the nite and robbing all the photos in the house!
Maybe the word imagine should be replaced by the word "dreamt". Whatever, in between all this, I heard a door banging and dogs barking like there was a dog riot and the trickling sound of water. And I just couldnt catch a wink of sleep for almost an hour.Looks like the movie did affect me after all. :-) No kidding!
Ah well! Il just go home and watch Roman Holiday - Audrey Hepburn with her fresh looks and saucy dialogues. Nothing like a princess in love to bring back the sunshine into ur day!!