The anomalies and the analogies of this world that becomes a driving force to keep us entangled without any definite answers.
The world of cinema. The world where whimsical fantasies see the light of the day, where ideas do not stay within the vicinity of our brain, where the thin line between subjectivity and objectivity is blurred to whelp out a product that not only is infinite but also infinitesimal.
The world of Art has a stark contrast when juxtaposed with other worlds of Science, Business or Managment. This world does not have answers. Or if I were to be more accurate, not one definite answer. We live in a world that is driven by overlapping realities. The real-life world has answers to every question or there is an attempt to come up with a unified answer. Filmmaking is a bit different. It hardly works on the concept of converging. Actually, it acts like a singularity that let the realities diverge to a distance incomprehensible to other parallel realities. There are multiple interpretations of a single product. Taking an example of October. There was a spectrum of thoughts at the display; each true in its own sense because each was perceived by a different reality. There was a concept of nothingness, someone talking about OCD or another one mentioning about Shiuli being a metaphor. The product was limited, the experience not so much.
The point I am trying to establish is how then with a world that has no set pattern, no definite answer, no way of understanding the concept as a whole and dimensions at a number that exceeds those of Science (M-Theory and String theory works with 11) get ahold of such different people to continue to be a part of it knowing they wouldn't end on anything because there is no end but a horizon?
The answer probably lies in our human psyche. The problem of curiosity. The sins of not being satisfied. The problem has a solution which transposes into another problem. The answer comes with an uncertainty and a possibility. The uncertainty because of our insecurity. The possibility that drives us to explore further. Further exploration takes us back to Step 1 with a different perspective, probably a different reality.
A film like October or a Dear Zindagi or A Grand Budapest Hotel is a world governed by individualistic laws. Laws that can not be deciphered by an external universe because of our lack of understanding. That being said, there is always an effort to understand the world or give it a meaning from our own little understanding simultaneously merging with our ability of ignorance. I do that a lot. The most recent example being 'The Post' by Steven Spielberg. I noticed the technique of blocking a scene and the very thought of revealing the bias of an actor through their positioning in the frame was an idea that fascinated me to the core. Another film would come from an industry that has been churning out some deeply insightful films of late. The Iranian film - Bodyguard. It's nowhere a perfect film but the sheer exchange of dialogues that create conflicts within a viewer because of the maker's understanding of multiple realities is a concept that I got attracted to. Or the ever dependant Kalki playing an outsider in 'The Job' whose production design takes the lead in a band of storytelling. This is a world with infinite possibilities. A world where changing the dynamics drastically or slightly would give birth to another world instead of destroying the original. The 'External Reality' becomes a foundation of our own realities. Yet, there is no final answer; for the answer to take a form, the observer and the observee need to interact which paves the way to multiple paths owing to the clashing of different worlds and each worldly law overlapping. Just like Young's double slit experiment. Not much different then, Science and Art, aye?
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