Musings of an Idiot

Where the truth lies

I am sitting in excruciating pain with a heat pack across my shoulder, neck and back. I somehow managed to hurt myself without knowing it and woke up at 3.00 this morning with unbearable pain and couldn't go back to sleep. I rang up a physiotherapist first thing in the morning and arranged for an appointment - which was not till later in the morning. Normal routine things were painful to do - even putting on a T-shirt was a mission. Anyway the physiotherapy session itself went well and I am feeling a lot better than I was in the morning. I have 2 more appointments - one tomorrow and the other on Friday to try and sort out the neck and back. I had to cancel my last swimming lesson for this year as there was no way I could even get to the swimming pool leave alone getting into it. And I won't be attending this year's graduation ceremony either since pain is not good in a social event and I can barely keep a straight face with the discomfort I am in.

The gone weekend was busy in a different way - I have been doing frame grabs from the movie, so that I can put them up on the wall - that way I can visually see the overall structure of the movie and identify key emotional and story points which have to come through. It is important because when you are working on a big project it is easy to get lost and loose track of what you set out to achieve. I was taking the frame grabs to different photo places to get them printed and see which one got good results - out of the 5 print places there was only 1 which kind of printed decent pics and if I go with them it will cost a small chunk. To me it seems like an unwise business decision that I should give someone else that much money when I can buy a printer, which will become a future asset. So I am seriously thinking of buying a multi-function printer which can print photos, normal paper and DVD/CD's - that way I can maximize the cost-benefit of the purchase. I ended up doing lots of research and I am veering more towards buying a Canon iP5300 printer - haven't made up my mind yet but getting pretty close.

I rented out 'Where the Truth Lies' - a movie by Atom Egoyan because it was a movie mired in rating controversy last year and I did want to see what the fuss was about. The movie turned out to be a really well made movie and doesn't fake its punches. It is an artistic achievement and features brilliant performances by Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth and Alison Lohman. The camera work is exquisite and so is the editing. I definitely think the rating board killed the movie's reach. It is a different kind of film-noir and it would have been great seeing it on the big screen. I also got out a movie called 'The Squid and the Whale' but didn't get a chance to watch it - I might do it this weekend.

More things simmering quietly underneath (well not so quietly since i just wrote it on the blog) and will update things as they happen.

Till later,
Amit

Labels: Movies, Physio, Post Production

posted by Amit @ 10:32 PM