Upon my first viewing of 2018’s German masterpiece Never Look Away, I found something that this movie does so well and most movies miss or perhaps do not pay much attention to. I’ve always been enthusiastic about watching movies which show artist at work. Yet all those movies missed the most important thing. The Artist’s Voice.

The current generation is obsessed with perfection. How many times have we heard people say “Oh, I’m a perfectionist.” Next time someone says that to you, ask them, “You are a perfectionist to what extent?” Theodore Sturgeon said 90% of Everything is Crap!

When I started watching movies, it was not because I wanted to make them. Such is the case everything that you want to do in life, you don’t start doing it because you want to earn a living through it, you do it because doing it movies something inside you. Personally, watching 1 movie a day would give me too less learning, and watching 3 movies a day would hinder my learning.

Any piece of Art that will blow your hair away will always warrant multiple outings. Art of course is subjective. To make movies, you have to watch movies, there is no question in that. But how should you watch a movie? You see, any movie that takes your attention away from its flaws or short-comings is actually a great movie with a lot of lessons in effective storytelling. As a student of the Art, it is important to look for those flaws that the movie is trying to hide from you.

There are lot of quotes by a lot of people that come to my mind when I think about the WHY of this blog. But something that a mentor of mine once mentioned is what I would like to believe is truer than most of the things about the WHY of this Blog. Why Desi Auteur?