Stupefied …

… that’s how I felt today … as if someone had cast a spell on me, I was amazed, dazed, astounded, bewildered … basically, I was at a loss …  just like I am at a loss of words to express the degree by which my mind was blown away …

and you would know that this is no exaggeration when I tell you the occasion … I watched Inception and Memento …

See, I knew you would understand when I told you the cause …

What movies … both of them … amazing … brilliant … masterpieces …

I have to be frank here and admit the not-so-blissful ignorance I was under up till now … I mean, seriously … to be in this world and be ignorant about Inception and Memento … its an insult to Christopher Nolan’s Genius … trust me …

Yes, I know I am putting in a tad bit too many “…” in the post, but that’s just another way to indicate the level of my stupefiedness … words are not coming as fluently as they otherwise do. Thinking of something and executing it are different and difficult tasks and executing it in such a gripping, mind-boggling, i would dare say sinisterly and unnervingly perfect manner … it neither leaves you wanting for more, nor leaves you overly satisfied … its like that perfect state of satisfaction … The ULTIMATE sense of being (un)knowingly blown away !!!

I would love to go on and on and on and on with my broken thoughts … but here’s something for starters from one of my friends who is a fanatical admirer of Christopher Nolan … he types and I quote …

“An artist is the person who – given a budget of only $5m, no superstars, no background score, a good story – can create a master piece like Memento … and as fascinating as it may sound, an artist is also the person who – given everything from budget to great actors to great composers – can give you movies that gross $830m ( Inception ) and $1b ( Dark Knight ) … Calling them just movies itself sounds like an insult to what looks like art making process by the likes of Da Vinci … and of course the artist behind the camera is none other than Christopher Nolan.”

Anyone who has seen and understood the depth of Memento and Inception and Dark Knight will agree … these are really works of art … masterpieces miles ahead of their times … no, actually they are eternal masterpieces … timeless and ageless classics appealing to people regardless of their age, gender, political views, anything for that matter because I feel they appeal to your Intellect. They provoke your grey cells, make you shake your brain’s thinking part and go with the flow all guards down … they compel you to see the beautiful strokes through the Artist’s eyes … they take control of your senses and leave you in a free-fall to enjoy and be one with the awesomeness that is being unfolded.

This is probably the first post that I will HAVE to revisit and complete … I am completely baffled and will really really have to get back to this one … to make notes about the two Genius artworks which put me in a dreamy state and I would have to rattle out the sense for being able to do justice to write some details about these two …

Until then … I salute the genius that is Christopher Nolan.