A Personal Revelation and Some Thoughts

It's 2 AM on a Saturday morning, and I just finished reading the 4th book in the Harry Potter series. When I started reading, it was about 11:30 PM, and I didn't quite think that I'd be finishing the book tonight. However, the last 150 or so pages were so enchanting, that I had to read through. I feel really bad for Cedric Digorry, the captain for Hufflepuff house's quidditch team, who had to die in the hands of Lord Voldemort, briefly after winning the tri-wizard tournament with Harry.

Anyways, a few days ago, I told a friend that I always try to follow a theory in life. These are like personal revelations; I handle, and think about these things with utmost caution. It did happened a couple of times, when I confessed that I have a liking for a particular thing, or I possess a particular skill, only to see my likings changing their paths or the skills fading away. So I am not very sure how long I will be staying with this particular theory. But until it lasts, I think it is a good thing.

It comes in these versions:

1. Never attack a wounded person
2. Never attack a wound
3. Never aggravate the pain of a wounded person by attacking the same wound

As an example; I wouldn't like to talk about my pay raise, bonus, present salary etc. with my friends whom are working twice harder than me, but are not getting as much as I do. And to be honest, things like these are always happening. Not everyone is as lucky as I am, nor does everyone have a BBA degree, and above all, everyone is not in the telecommunications industry of Bangladesh.

Similarly, I wouldn't want to talk about love with someone who has recently suffered a terrible breakup or a heartbreaking incident.

I won't tell a friend that I've seen 3 movies today, when I know that his DVD Rom drive stopped working last week.

I don't know whether this strategy of mine helps anyone or not, but I just find it too cruel to do these things. To some, hurting an already hurt person might sound funny, or least, a cool thing to do. It's pretty easy, you know? When you're really vulnerable and stuff. In these cases, one is prone to let their guards down, and it is very easy to hurt or upset someone in a quite civilized manner. Of course, calling names and physical violence would always work as "up setters", but using the "hurting the wound" theory would be easier.

But I don't even want to do that with people whom I don't really like. There aren't many, though. I just can't hold a negative feeling against someone for too long; a weakness, perhaps. I swore to myself at different occasions, that I won't speak to that particular person, or I wouldn't concern myself to any of his or her actions. But these didn't last long. I forgot, and apparently, I forgave, too.

I saw two movies today. Original Sin and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I wanted to see both these movies for a long time, and I am glad that a quiet weekend made it possible for me to watch them. I would remember both movies for a long, long time, and for different reasons.

Original Sin is a movie filled with lies, sex, crime and deception, featuring two renowned actors and actresses, Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. I actually saw brief 5 minutes of the movie on cable TV last year, but I didn't know the name of the movie. Later on, I got to know the name of the movie by mere chance. I was searching for the plot of the second part of Mask of Zorro (The Legend of Zorro) in www.imdb.com. I bumped across Antonio Banderas's filmography, and saw the name Original Sin in it. I don't know what prompted me to do so, but I accessed the link, and after seeing a few images, I knew this was the movie I've sneak peeked last year.

Last month, I bought a DVD of this movie, only to find out that it doesn't run on any of the 2 DVD Roms I have instant access to. I was too lazy to return to DVD (as I bought it from Boshundhora), and I kind of put the plan of watching the movie in a sleeping state. But a dear friend rescued me by gifting the DVD to me, a week ago.

I first saw the words "Original" and "Sin" placed side by side in 2001. Now that I'm seeing the Amazon.com info on the movie, I can see that the movie was released that year. Back then, retrieving the name from a net friend's msn nick, I thought it was the name of some song. In fact, Elton John does have a song with the same title, which I downloaded via Kazaa/Audiogalaxy (don't recall exactly which one), but it has nothing to do with the movie. It is mysterious, that time solves many apparently unsolved and not bothered upon mysteries of life. What an irony, now there's no msn contact. The contact has been blocked & deleted for good, but the memories still remain vivid as ever.

I liked the movie for the story. The other things that I have mentioned were really good, and nicely shown, but the story was a unique and intriguing one, which should get credit.

Charlie and the chocolate factory is a remake of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, which used to be a very favorite movie of mine when I was a child. I loved the movie so much that my dad got it recorded in a VHS tape. I used to see it every now and then, using our the then state of the art National G15 VCR. I am afraid at least one or two of my readers would pause and ponder their minds to remember what a VCR is. Ahhh, how fast things get obsolete!

I loved the remake. I didn't really know about the remake, but since I found out that some of the older movies could be found as DVDs, I had this insatiable craving for this movie. The remaked version has quenched that hunger to a great extent, I must say. I discovered it by luck, while browsing through a huge pile of DVDs in Easter Plaza. I must be damn lucky.

So it's 2:30 now, and I believe I should take some rest, so that I don't ruin the morning through sleeping late. If I can get up early in the morning, I might as well watch a few other movies and get going with the remaining Harry Potter book.

Life is beautiful as long as it lasts.