127 hours

I saw '127 hours' for the first time, last evening. I recommend it for its moving representation of a one paragraph story, context-relevant music, including silence at times and distant sounds at other times, and camera work, how many angles can you come up with in a crevice of a place, though there are lots of errors pointed out in popular blogs. The belief and spirit of Aron Ralston comes through very well. James Franco's effort is praiseworthy. And the screenplay tells the story in an engaging fashion. 


Apparently the helicopter pilot who rescues Aron in the movie, is the pilot who rescued Aron in reality. And Aron himself appears toward the end of the movie, much like 'Pursuit Of Happyness', where the real Chris Gartner walks across the road in the last scene. 



Aron's forms a relationship with the rock, which comes out in the following quote:  

'This rock has been waiting for me my entire life, 

since its been a meteorite, 

millions of years ago. 

I've been moving toward it my entire life, 

the minute I was born, 

every breath I've taken, 

every action 

has been leading me to this crack.' 

Alibaug

I'd been to Alibaug over the weekend with our office group. We stayed at a farmhouse owned by one Mr. Sane. It was a good in terms of space - he had a large enough estate - but was wanting in terms of facilities. 

And the beach was very dirty, probably because it was a rocky beach and not many frequented it. I wonder if places less frequented should be cleaner because they are less frequented or should be dirty because they are less frequented! 

We took the Saturday afternoon launch from Gateway of India. We got delayed because of the Presidential Fleet Review and cancellation of scheduled launches. But we had a glimpse of the many naval ships and submarines anchored there, among them the INS Shivalik and INS Viraat. 

We also saw some seagulls that followed us on the way to and from Mandwa. We also enjoyed a trip on the tum-tum from Mandwa to where we stayed. Some pictures of the sea, sunset, gulls and the ships....