oberoi mall . speed racer . more summer reading

new mall !new mall!… and this one with a sense of scale like inorbit and (unfortunately?) missing the razzmatazz of raghuleela. granted it is a little subdued for a northern suburb mall (i mean, v mall is just down the road offering red yellow geometric free play as façade) being all frosted glass façade and arcing canopy, but the internal ‘street’ with its criss crossing reflective escalators and frosted glass bridges are so fritz lang ‘metropolis’. bodies moving and floating at different levels as far as the eye can see refracted and reflected in the glass railings and as shadows behind the frosted bridges. the elevator shaft glows in changing light patterns through the atrium.

‘speed racer’ was the color of peppermint and toys designed for little girls by conglomerates. fuscia, vermillion, cerulean blue backgrounds obviously and shamelessly blue screened behind a silly plot about ‘passion’ for racing’s battle against big business. a little ironic this, considering that this is the wachowski brothers retreat into commercial fare after being roundly thrashed for the pseudo philosophical crap of ‘the matrix’ films and ‘v for vendetta’ (which i have not seen). but who am i to be so prudish. perhaps there is some deep meaning hidden in the adrenalin rushes and big car chases perpetually interrupted by some kind of family value storyline. silly mindless fun complete with a chimp that fights.

and for the new summer reads..

'the curious incident of the dog in the night time' was gifted to me by apu, arijit and rishi where a 'special' kid investigated the murder of a neihghbourhood dog and discovers a secret kept from him by his father.

and in 'tess of the d'ubervilles' thomas hardy's heroine is a tragic beautiful maiden caught between two men who use her and reject her.