Shreya's Treasures

KIMI NO NA WA (YOUR NAME) DIRECTOR: MAKATO SHINKAI GENRE: FANTASY, ROMANCE               “I feel like I’m always searching for something, someone.” Haven’t we all felt the same at some point or other in our lives? A sense of displacement from our daily lives, and a search for something that would anchor us to a more commonly perceived sense of normalcy? Every now and then, there comes a transcendent piece of cinema, a film that not only surpasses expectations, but also makes the entire idea of having expectations appear as ludicrous as one attempting to understand the secrets of galaxies located millions of light-years away; that not only captures the zeitgeist but coats it in a benevolent luster that is enough to exorcise the demons of the age and enhance the legacy of the era; that unites audiences and critics alike into a cacophony of rapture. Kimi no Na Wa, translated in English as Your Name, is one such film. "Dusk:  the time of the day ...

"I looked up at the mass of signs  and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign difference of the world." THE OUTSIDER ( THE STRANGER ) ALBERT CAMUS FIRST PUBLISHED : 1942 GENRE : Novel, Crime Fiction, Philosophical Fiction, Absurdist Fiction, Existential Fiction The Outsider (previously translated from the French, L’Étranger, as The Stranger) is Albert Camus’ most widely known work, and shows his understanding of Absurdism. Camus utilized The Stranger as a platform for this concept and his questions about the meaning of life. There are a number of elements that are of interest in The Outsider, but most significant is the issue of the protagonist, Meursault, and how he, and his story, represent the philosophies that are portrayed in the novel.  Meursault, the major protagonist of The Outsider is shown as a self-absorbed man in the beginning but ultimately emerges to be a man of truth.  Meursault lives a quiet life of rou...