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![[47] Eraserhead Movie Review | David Lynch](https://i1.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/eraserhead.jpg?fit=720%2C949&ssl=1)
The dark world of "Eraserhead" is morbid, depressing and lonely. Even the lights in the room don't have the power to illuminate the whole room, they are directed upwards. The usage of light is to focus, to focus only on the depressive world the characters live in because the characters don't deserve light. The black [...]
![[25] Inside a Creator’s Mind](https://i1.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/christoph-niemann.jpg?fit=720%2C720&ssl=1)
I just finished watching the first episode of a Netflix documentary called "Abstract: The Art of Design" which profiles the illustrator, Christoph Niemann. The way his mind work is scarily similar to how your or mine might work but the art he produces is spellbinding. So what is the difference between him and us? What [...]
![[23] Moonlight](https://i0.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/moonlight-poster-lg.jpg?fit=720%2C1043&ssl=1)
A picture described by naysayers as a slow and a critically hyped movie. Yes, it features scenes with silence and a character that speaks rarely but what is the criticism more pointed at? The movie creates an atmosphere with its slow burning poison of storytelling with time-jumps that leave an audience to imagine the characters [...]
![[22] In The Mood For Love](https://i1.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/5636debcc17920dfbf548f8bb5012b14.jpg?fit=500%2C692&ssl=1)
As the musical piece titled "Yumeji's theme" invades the sound space of the visuals of Wong Kar Wai's "In The Mood For Love" everything slows down as if we are watching a music video inside a movie. The re-appearance of this musical piece (a striking eight times) is a leitmotif to describe the relationship between Chow [...]
![[19] Legion And Surrealism.](https://i1.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-17-at-9-23-53-pm.png?fit=720%2C450&ssl=1)
In an age of information overload, the technological advances of our generation have given us many perks too. One of them being the option of pausing the video you are watching on your laptop. Rarely has it ever crossed my mind, to pause a TV show or a movie and appreciate what just happened. The [...]
![[17] Thoughts on “Arrival”](https://i0.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/4d4c4a45604387-58419ba2c149b.jpg?fit=720%2C960&ssl=1)
A spoiler-free general review of Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival" A slow start marked a heart-wrenching ride of the year. I checked the time elapsed and it was 25 minutes, feeling that the director could have cut the scenes faster or remove certain parts. Boy, I was wrong. What he was doing was giving us viewers a slow poison [...]