1230 hrs/Sunday 05 May 2013
Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see the last few scenes of a movie titled A Shortcut to Happiness on a TV channel. And why do I think my surprise was pleasant? Because the movie was addressing a highly philosophical theme (of the role -or its absence- of God in the scheme of things that relate to happiness, satisfaction, contentment, greed, avarice, needs, wants) in an innovative way that has a writer and a lawyer-agent-manager (who also plays Satan’s handyperson) who enters into a devilish contract with him that leaves him between (sic) “the devil and the deep sea”!
What caught my attention is the fact that the filmmaker has sought to be innovative in the use of everyday characters and their strengths and weaknesses, ambitions and desires as well as their fears and hopes and suggests to viewers to sum up for themselves on where they stand on these philosophical demigods and “equilibberate” (liberate their own concepts of equilibrium from those of societies!) on value-systems.
Now this movie has set me thinking – has there been any treatise on what innovative approaches have filmmakers used to convey their stories and thoughts to the viewers of their films?
Do you know of any interesting anecdotes in this area?
Signing off here.....
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