Saturday, May 30, 2009

Letters....India elections - 2009

Good Morning, Ladies and Gentlemen, I watched this one movie yesterday called In Bruges.It's about two hitmen who are sent on a vacation to Bruges(Belgium). The kingpin wants one of them (Colin Farrell) dead (Farrell had accidently shot a young boy earlier and the boss wanted Farrell dead 'on principle'.
Anyway, as the other hitman Brendon Gleeson (the guy who played Menelaus in Troy - Helen's husband) is unable to kill his own friend Farrell, the Gangster boss comes to Bruges to do the job himself.Of course, he shoots both of them - Farrell and Gleeson. However, in the process, he also accidently shoots a dwarf - Jimmy, whois an actor wearing a boy's school uniform.The gangster boss sees the headless body of the dwarf and thinks it's achild he killed, shoots himself - on principle.
Now what this movie has done is made me think about two things:
1) How many ideologies/principles in the world exist for which we would kill?
2) Or die?
Of course Datta would give up his life for meat, but then that's adifferent subject altogether.
~Jay

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