I've been in a thoughtful mood today. Thinking of nothing in particular except about my foolishness while reacting to things and circumstances and my decisions at times. I wish I wasn't such an emotional person.
As it is, yesterday hadn't been a very good day - not very productive, you see. Today has been pretty much the same actually. *AND I STILL DON'T HAVE MY 'PICK-ME-UP' POT OF NUTELLA!* ![]()
I was in no mood to study today but did so for a couple of hours in the morning.
After that, I left my books aside. I just couldn't decide what I wanted to do! I could have sat down with a book but was in no mood to read; no mood to listen to music either. So what then?
It's been raining on and off today the whole day. Earlier I thought, I'd not go outside. It is dirty out there on the roads and the pot holes on the roads are filled with rainy, muddy water. *Heaven forbid if you're walking and a vehicle passes by. You'll be drenched in mud.* 
And yet, I just had to get out of the house. So I decided to go to the cinema. It'd been a long time since I went to the cinema anyway.
I was quite surprised to see that there weren't too many people around today despite it being a Sunday. Seems like the inflated cinema ticket prices are keeping the normal cine-goers away.
I went for the film "The Happening", written and directed by M Night Shyamlam.
Yet again, Night Shyamalam (I'm going to call him MNS from now) manages to create a thought-provoking, thriller film. Full marks to him for creating decent seat-gripping suspense. (It has been termed as Horror Sci-fi film.)
I even heard some girls gasp and scream.(certainly the ones sitting next to me did!)
I mean who's ever heard of the trees and the air conspiring and attacking the human kind? (I mean, why should nature bother when we ourselves do it so well with pollution and creating chemical weapons and what not
) The thought that nature decides to take things in its own hands is indeed, terrifying.
I enjoyed the film on the whole but there were some things which struck me during the movie. Thought I'd share it with you guys.
As I mentioned earlier, it packs a decent amount of suspense in the first half where you're trying to understand things. It is a different matter of course, that this suspense crumbles down to nothing and throws one in the deep end, leaving one wondering if he wanted to say something more.
However, we must applaud his thinking. He is trying to bring awareness among people by implying something like - "Be scared of nature's wrath. You never know what it may do with innumerous weapons at its disposal." R-E-S-P-E-C-T for that thought.
I'd have expected MNS to give it a twist in the end. Remember "The Sixth Sense" or "Unbreakable"? Those were films that you took with yourself outside the cinema hall. 
There's no logical or illogical explanation given in the end, for the event shown in this movie. Sure it starts by saying there are some things which can't be explained but then again, we're still exploring and discovering new things and all we need to do is be careful with what we're doing. Which is a perfectly fine thing to say.
However if he meant to show nature's power of destruction and our response to it, at least he could have shown Greenpeace protesting against the governments in the end, forcing them to act before it is too late or something.
And it was definitely a disappointment to see Mark Wahlberg forcing himself to express emotions. Normally he does a good job. I liked him much better in his previous films; be it "The Departed", "We own the night", "Boogie Nights" or even the unforgettable "Planet of the Apes".
But of course, I'm no critic and I'm certainly no expert. I found the movie worth watching once despite its faults. I leave you with the trailer of the film. ![]()
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Thank you for your very interesting post and we hope that you will be feeling your normal self very soon.
Actually nature's wrath does not have to be imagined and filmed for us to come to our senses. It seems that disasterous earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and landslides are killing unbelievable numbers of our kind each and every day somewhere in our wicked world.
However, with the stupidity of the human race frequent reminders such as films and songs are certainly necessary as a last hope.