Spoorloos means 'Traceless' in English. It was a Dutch-French production and released in 1988. It's a bilingual film and falls under the horror subgenre, Psychological Horror. If you have seen Nolan's Memento where Ghajini drew the inspiration from, you will know what a non-linear structure of storytelling means. You would get to know the climax first in such films and then the film would explain to you how that climax was reached. Spoorloos follows a young couple who decides to roam the countryside. Somewhere down the line, the girl gets secluded from the boy and is kidnapped by a self-confessed Good man and 'sociopath'. Simple, isn't it? Well, not so simple. The boy goes on an endless and painful search of the girl. For 3 years, he doesn't find a clue. He gets the nationwide coverage from print and electronic media both in Holland and France and urge the kidnapper to meet him. He decides to forgive the kidnapper only if he lets him know what he did to his girlfriend. What follows next is unbearable to watch. For that matter, the whole film is an exercise in 'futility' you would assume. It's setting is unsettling, pace just good enough to have you on roll and acting top class. Stanley Kubrick, the maker of my and millions of others' favorite horror film of all time, The Shining, called it's director for discussing the editing on his next project and called Spoorloos the 'scariest' film he had ever seen. Now if you have watched and known Kubrick, you would know what a great honour it was Spoorloos. It's riveting and a must-watch experience.
'Unanswered' is a book penned by Mr. Kunal Uniyal and it's his third book. I am calling it a book, using a common noun to describe it and I have a good enough reason for doing so. It's a book that consists off both poems and prose and I was in real dilemma picturing its prognosis in my mind. It started with a poem named 'You and I' and beautiful it was, all poised and lyrical. And then came a snippet of a prose by the name 'Life of a Yogi'. They were really not connected and I was perplexed. Then I allowed myself some comfort and decided to dig up some more. Some more beautiful poems and accompanying yet again not quite related passages of prose followed but now they looked more in shape and very much in order. Now I was beginning to realize that there was more to this book than met my eyes earlier and it's scope is much wider that what I originally thought. You are required to engage yourself with this book and once you do that, you will know you ar...
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