Is it a charm against evil eye?
My sister commented that ‘Kingdom of Heaven is a bad, boring film - even the battle scenes suck.’ But then so many people love it - another proof that the ‘message’ can cover the holes in the artistic quality of an artwork (although it’s no justification to make a bad work of art).
Last Saturday I read an essay by Robert Frisk about the time when he watched the film in Beirut, along with the Lebanese audience, many of them were in their 20s. They stood up and clapped hands at the scene of Saladin entering a church, finding a crucifix lying in the floor, and returning it to its original position. That’s the face of Islam probably so many Muslims desire - strong, but compassionate and tolerant, for so many centuries represented by the great hero Saladin.
(BTW, Frisk also challenged Steven Spielberg: he made Schlinder’s List and Munich, good, but how about making a film about the years that happened between the two films? Why wouldn’t he make a film about the building of Israel and the occupation of Palestinian lands, the result of the holocaust and the cause of the Munich event?)
And look what a coincidence this is.
four-alarm sent me a wall decoration as my birthday gift. Imagine how surprised I was when I unwrapped it, because look at how the gift resembled the painting on the cover of Ayu Utami’s latest book, Bilangan Fu -- which was just released a couple of weeks ago.
I wanted to buy the new albums by The Long Blondes, We Are Scientists and British Sea Power, but ak.’sa.ra sells them at a killing price >___<
Talking about BSP, they’re the ones who came in my mind when I read The Cuckoo Tree (another one by Joan Aiken, I’m trying to read four books in the James III saga in succession). Yan (my favourite one in the book), Tan, Tethera, Methera, Pimp… the Wineberry men took their names from a ship-counting lingo (not that ‘pimp’). Somehow that reminds me so much of BSP :D
Last Saturday I read an essay by Robert Frisk about the time when he watched the film in Beirut, along with the Lebanese audience, many of them were in their 20s. They stood up and clapped hands at the scene of Saladin entering a church, finding a crucifix lying in the floor, and returning it to its original position. That’s the face of Islam probably so many Muslims desire - strong, but compassionate and tolerant, for so many centuries represented by the great hero Saladin.
(BTW, Frisk also challenged Steven Spielberg: he made Schlinder’s List and Munich, good, but how about making a film about the years that happened between the two films? Why wouldn’t he make a film about the building of Israel and the occupation of Palestinian lands, the result of the holocaust and the cause of the Munich event?)
And look what a coincidence this is.
four-alarm sent me a wall decoration as my birthday gift. Imagine how surprised I was when I unwrapped it, because look at how the gift resembled the painting on the cover of Ayu Utami’s latest book, Bilangan Fu -- which was just released a couple of weeks ago.
I wanted to buy the new albums by The Long Blondes, We Are Scientists and British Sea Power, but ak.’sa.ra sells them at a killing price >___<
Talking about BSP, they’re the ones who came in my mind when I read The Cuckoo Tree (another one by Joan Aiken, I’m trying to read four books in the James III saga in succession). Yan (my favourite one in the book), Tan, Tethera, Methera, Pimp… the Wineberry men took their names from a ship-counting lingo (not that ‘pimp’). Somehow that reminds me so much of BSP :D