Sunday, July 24, 2005

Each man fending for himself rather than for the society at large sounds like a sensible foundation for a successful society or whatever you want to call it.

I watched Yuva yesterday, again. Michael mukherjee's wish to transform politics/society is his own self. His supporters' wish to transform society is not. Rather they are wanna be good samaritans. This is evident when after the life attempt on Michael and his recovery, they all gather and say they would not contest the elections, fearing for life. Because, their thoughts earlier on the same topic was not 1 of conviction but of feeling good by doing something for society. Although I am not making any revelations here, Maniratnam's potrayal of this was just remarkable. It is clear that trying to do social good for the sake of feeling good will lead nowhere.

Capitalist socialism might be a really cool idea.

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