The prestige

Yet another non linear and not so cryptic flick(consider Memento) by chris nolan. This movie shows the darker side of friendship where two magicians fall into rivalry. As any other film based on magic and illusions, this flick has got a lot of twists till the last minute which makes it highly gripping.Its more of a fine trick performed by Nolan..

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Saw this in an Imax, was a great experience for me. Specially because I get really nervous even for kid's thrillers... Ring was the last thriller I saw, didn't leave a good feeling at all and since then, I maintained some distance from thrillers. My mind goes on to create and see those visuals in and around everything for quite some time. Its haunting. And all the ill-logic of these movies wants you to think and obsess and solve them...

Anyways I braved to go and see Spiderwick and it is good. It's good for the mix of good and bad portrayed in a balance, fairies and the goblins, both look really striking and good in contrast. Makes me want to come back home and visualize these out-of-the-natural beings and forms. What kind of an imagination do each of us have to draw to life creatures we not seen? We humans are pretty smart to give form to God close to our own image... proclaiming our superiority. I would add for caution in lot of cases though not all.

Like someone long time back asked me, how would Martians(if they existed) look? Will we even recognize them as living? would we classify them as plants or animals? I think building the nomenclature and classification so that it scales to the unknown is a great problem... ohhhh wait... where am I going? to information architecture? Back to Spiderwick, its always amazing to imagine and give form to the unknown.