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Listening to Jarvis Cocker’s 6music show, from last weekend. A pleasing fellow, he.
The laconic one says he saw ‘The Road’ a couple of hours before he saw Shirley Bassey live, and found it exactly what he needed thereafter, recommending folk see the fillum but also that they then find their own Bassey equivalent to reset them.
This week, it seems I inadvertently used a Bollywood geek extravaganza as my own Shirley Bassey. With a central message of "all is well", and unremitting uplift despite the occasional grimness, 'The Three Idiots' cannot help but make you happy.
N.B. It's not all like that. Some of it's like 'Dead Poet's Society', then a really unlikely soap opera which flips into a road trip farce, then a dream sequence from 'Buffy'. It's a movie where the hero avoids bullying through his applied knowledge of the conductivity of salt water, and teaches another a lesson on the perils of learning by rote, by using formal Hindi and repeated use of keyword 'fart'. It's a movie in love with science and the absolute power of friendship, as well as the foxy girl on the scooter. It makes you think well of people, in general.
And absolutely no-one gets eaten.
As, I'm presuming, was also true of the Bassey gig.
The laconic one says he saw ‘The Road’ a couple of hours before he saw Shirley Bassey live, and found it exactly what he needed thereafter, recommending folk see the fillum but also that they then find their own Bassey equivalent to reset them.
This week, it seems I inadvertently used a Bollywood geek extravaganza as my own Shirley Bassey. With a central message of "all is well", and unremitting uplift despite the occasional grimness, 'The Three Idiots' cannot help but make you happy.
Click to viewN.B. It's not all like that. Some of it's like 'Dead Poet's Society', then a really unlikely soap opera which flips into a road trip farce, then a dream sequence from 'Buffy'. It's a movie where the hero avoids bullying through his applied knowledge of the conductivity of salt water, and teaches another a lesson on the perils of learning by rote, by using formal Hindi and repeated use of keyword 'fart'. It's a movie in love with science and the absolute power of friendship, as well as the foxy girl on the scooter. It makes you think well of people, in general.
And absolutely no-one gets eaten.
As, I'm presuming, was also true of the Bassey gig.