What defines us

From one of my favourite movies, Batman Begins:

"Its not who we are, but what we do that defines us".

Its time to start defining myself again.

The Fountain

(I wrote this blog entry in Dec 2006, but forgot to post it until now)

I just finished reading a very interesting article about this movie, "The Fountain". There were two things that caught my attention: Firstly, in the movie all the special effects are not really done with CGI (Computer effects etc). Instead, its done using, microzoom-photography. For instance, they took a picture of a drop of water with curry powder and magnified it thousands of times and used that to depict traveling thru space. Very interesting. The 2nd reason, is that this is really a movie about a man dealing with idea of mortality. Someone very close to me, was struggling with something related to this, so I've suggested they watch the movie, even thought I haven't seen it myself. So, I look forward to seeing this sometimes this week.

Here's a link to the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain/trailer1/large.html
Here's a link to the article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/outsider.html

(An update) I watched the movie about 2 weeks after making this posting. I have to say I wasn't too impressed with it. I guess sometimes the idea/concept just seems more attractive than the implementation.