'a certain liberation . 'capote'

two very rainy days when i went to college only to find a deserted building and a few enthusiastic students. instead came back home to mukuls to watch ‘a certain liberation’ a brilliant documentary that follows a woman who lost her entire family in the bangladeshi freedom struggle. as a result of the trauma she goes mad and roams free on the streets of the village living on charity and by demanding food and money from whomever she meets. the village loves her, pities her and envies her her freedom. it is a certain kind of freedom – the freedom of being outside established norms and defining your own- and demanding that they be respected. is she too like a ghatak heroine a symbol for the country?

‘capote’ is a good film. philip seymour hoffman is very good in it. it is all very tasteful and well told. the background music is also very ‘serious hollywood’. in spite of all this against it, it still is very watchable and does not grate with the fake gravitas that makes so many oscar winning films unbearable. to make a biopic about a man through one incident in his life definitely makes it more coherent a tale rather than the ‘ray’ like mega scale. i want to read ‘in cold blood’ now.