Friday 4 January 2008

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

Bought a novel the other day - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I've never heard of the author of the book, just picked it up along with some other ones.
So I'm at home, I've opened the book to read it, and I'm on the first page... and I'm flipping channels on the Television at the same time, and i reach HBO - where they're beginning to show - Everything is Illuminated, the movie.
these kind of weird coincidences don't happen to me at all - so you can imagine why I'm quite excited about it.
Neways, the movie is awesome. I've fallen in love with Alex the 'premium' Ukrainian wannabe American.
I absolutely loved this movie, a great one after a long long time...
Its been a while since I've seen an awesome movie that was based on a book, tis' usually the other way around
Now really looking forward to reading the book.

This from Wikipedia on the book, awesome lines :
The novel takes its title from a quote in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: "In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine." The passage refers to the philosophical idea that the greatest tragedies in life can only be experienced to their fullest if we are able to relive them.

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