Cinema
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Silence: (2017)
Richard Feynman, a renowned physicist, describes the idea of perceiving history or origin as one of many possibilities. This very fact forms the basis of quantum physics. In our everyday experience, we understand reality with different levels of perception. In modern physics, it is necessary to understand reality through model-dependent realism. The same idea can
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Lion: (2017)
I have this habit of concealing and holding my emotions well. From the last few movies, I’m observing a slight change in myself. I have started feeling scared, grieved, and agonized. I just couldn’t control my emotions anymore. Or, is it just the case of watching a few very good and exceptional movies? A young
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Arrival : (2016)
Ever heard of Sapir–Whorf hypothesis? The hypothesis that is still debatable among researchers and has no conclusive evidence for its support. This very hypothesis has been the base for a short story, Story of Your Life, written by Ted Chiang and was published in 1998. The hypothesis suggests that the linguistic aspects have influence over
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Deepwater Horizon: (2016)
Deepwater Horizon was the free floating 5,200 feet tall, semi-submersible offshore oil drilling rig. The facility was commissioned at a distance of 49 miles from the southeast direction of the Louisiana coast and had the capacity to produce 4,426 cubic metres of fuel oil. The roadmap was to produce 3-4 billion barrels of oil from
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Citizenfour & Snowden: (2016)
The 2016 US elections has made us realize that even the whistleblowers have some role to play in mobilizing the public opinion. The last email-trail release by Wikileaks about Mrs. Clinton’s involvement in various unjust events and funding just blew everything up for the Democrats. Now, it is up to Donald Trump to go ahead
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The Accountant: (2016)
There are only handful of action movies that are properly edited and directed. The list is narrow and I can only name a few, such as Training Day, Shooter, Pride and Glory, and The Equalizer. Denzel Washington, Tom Hardy, Mark Wahlberg, and Edward Norton are known to be specialists in their domain but when it
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M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story: (2016)
India is a nation of over 1.2 billion people. This emperical size has a lot of dreams and aspirations. Only handful of them succeed and make it to Bollywood and Cricket. Of course, these two are the most popular career choices of the people when academia gives them the nightmares. M. S. Dhoni is one
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Pink: (2016)
Who draws the line? Who defines the morality? These questions are easily avoided in any public forum when it comes to gender prejudices. Even some women are so feudal minded that they tend to pass their firm judgement that it is always up to the women to avoid any mishap. It is a situation where
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Sully: (2016)
How do you feel when you board an aircraft? That sudden shake in the middle of nowhere and at such an altitude might not frighten everyone but it certainly does to me. I also know the fact that air turbulence doesn’t cause any harm but who could tell for sure if the flight attendants are
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The Night of: Season 1 (TV series 2016)
What best could be done for a Pakistani-American in an era where every muslim is linked and treated to be a suicide bomber? Nothing much really. The only way that could possibly pamper both the sides, one being American and the other a Pakistani, is a condition of a perfect deadlock. A situation that we