Get busy livin',or get busy dyin'

'What're ya watching,dude?'

'Ahem!The Shawshank Redemption'

'Fir se?launda pagla gaya hai'
Translation: 'Again?he has lost his marbles'


Gotta get over it.But I can't,really can't.Why do I love the movie?Oh there must be plenty of reasons.Everybody loves it,after all.It's a nine-fuckin-pointer on IMDb,so I guess it would have been more of a worry if I didn't like it.But no,it's not just that.There must be something special about it.But I can't figure it out,even after watching it for,what,the 23rd time?I donno,stopped counting long back.
The triumph of human spirit?Yeah thats a good one.That's the message right?

Get busy livin,or get busy dyin.
Goddamn right!Can that be the reason?Maybe a depressed soul like me enjoys uplifting experiences.No,it doesnt uplift me.It reaches inside me and gets hold of my guts and shakes me so bad it takes me forever and more to get over the experience.I'm no Andy Dufresne,nor can ever be.He is meticulous to a fault,calm,composed,at complete ease with his surroundings.But not institutionalized.

These walls are kind of funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. They send you here for life, that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyways.

I've come across fellas who found movie far too slow till the escape part.This was what I was told before I watched it for the first time.A good movie that gets amazingly exciting towards the latter part.Hell,I don't need exciting! Not if the non-exciting part is even remotely close to this.
I'm getting tired of exciting stuff.It's too early,I know.It might also be valid to say that I really haven't done much exciting stuff.I don't know.And I don't care.To me,Zihuatanejo appears a nice place to be,as compared to say,Las Vegas.

Zihuatanejo.
say what?
Zihuatanejo.It's in Mexico,a little place on the Pacific Ocean.You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
No.What?
They say it's got no memory.Thats where I want to spend the rest of my life.A warm place with no memory.
Zihuantanejo.

And the music.The movie has a fantabulously haunting background score.Especially during the escape sequence.That in fact,may be one of the reasons why I've watched the movie so many times.Well at least the last two times can be accounted for.Everytime I need to listen to the score,I have to watch the movie again.To begin with,its only that part.But then I start with selecting particular scenes,which isn't an intelligent thing to do when you love every single scene in the movie.And that's how it has come to be....
That's the beauty of music.They can't get that from you.Haven't you ever felt that way about music?
You bet I have.

It's a romance,really.I'm sure Dr.Neelakanthan would agree.Being in touch with the actual and the imagined,inner self and outer self.That's what I was told most recently about romance.
Isn't that what the movie is about?or at least Andy's character.I'm sure it is.He lives in the prison like a free man.
Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget. Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone. That there's a - there's a - there's something inside that's yours, that they can't touch.

They can't touch.....no they can't.