Finally, the end. Something I had dreaded when the books came out and dreaded once again when the movies came. And all because I’m a Harry Potter fan – big time! The last two parts of the Harry Potter movie saga and the last book were the most bleak and dark and weighed heavily through the screening and the read. Perhaps that’s the reason the after death experience with Harry seemed so out of place – it was so white! But director David Yates has handled the imaginary world so beautifully that it was easy to have my imagination fusing with that of the director’s. Sadly, one has to take the restrictions of a movie into account and that is where movies have always fallen short of the books.
Now the question is, do we live on without another session at Hogwarts or is JK Rowling already yielding the quill and filling up reams with another magical journey? I so hope it’s the latter!
Sunday 24 July 2011
Goodbye Forever
An English play by Feisal Alkazi. It has two acts and is 105 mins long. I went to see because it was directed by Alkazi. Now this play had members of the Alkazi family involved in prominent roles. And yes, all are capable actors.
So your loved one dies suddenly. You are yet to come to grips with this loss when suddenly she returns!! How do you deal with it? The husband is the happiest person, greeting his wife with love and prohibiting her to leave again. The son, on the other hand, reacts differently. He knows she is a ghost and cannot stay. The mother- in- law played ably by Sohaila Kapur hits the nail on the head when she tells the family that this situation was not right. Anyway, she was not very fond of Estelle either as her husband was quite smitten by his daughter in law.
Estelle was in the middle of rearranging her house furniture when she died. So she comes back to complete the task and while she is at it, she manages to reconcile the family to her death. In fact, the play ends with the husband offering to drive her back to the graveyard and the young son breaks down for the first time since her death.
Alkazi describes the play beautifully - About loving and leaving... of laughter and forgetting.
Letting go is what the play is all about.
So your loved one dies suddenly. You are yet to come to grips with this loss when suddenly she returns!! How do you deal with it? The husband is the happiest person, greeting his wife with love and prohibiting her to leave again. The son, on the other hand, reacts differently. He knows she is a ghost and cannot stay. The mother- in- law played ably by Sohaila Kapur hits the nail on the head when she tells the family that this situation was not right. Anyway, she was not very fond of Estelle either as her husband was quite smitten by his daughter in law.
Estelle was in the middle of rearranging her house furniture when she died. So she comes back to complete the task and while she is at it, she manages to reconcile the family to her death. In fact, the play ends with the husband offering to drive her back to the graveyard and the young son breaks down for the first time since her death.
Alkazi describes the play beautifully - About loving and leaving... of laughter and forgetting.
Letting go is what the play is all about.
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