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Redressing Arrival - The universal language

What language do you think in? Will you be able to change the language of your thought when you learn a new one? Or that inevitably happens? The question isn't groundbreaking. It must have been asked by many thinkers born after the advent of language. Can thought exist without language? How has it been existing in ancient human? Will it be a picture? What have we lost, if so, in the transition from visual to verbal thoughts? The ancient of paintings of the world in the Chauvet Cave of France puts enigmatic images of animals on display in a tunnel melting through time.           This could be the most ancient example of psychedelic trance since the information about animal is not supposed to be represented here, rather, a unique disassociation of a one line image in a multitude of others is presented. Imagine this in a cave in a faraway mountain, surrounded only by the wildest of nature, seized by darkness all around, the fire inside the cave lights these images, flickeri

The whimsical phrases of 'Capital I'

10 years from now, this film would be remade and probably then the original would be looked upon. There hasn't been a cinematic piece in a long time which was driven solely by such individualistic expression. Be it the philosophical discussion or contemplative imagery, everything screams of the psyche of one individual - 'Capital I'. **Read this after watching the film once** Visually profound and intelligently crafted, at the core of this film you can find an identity and a story embedded in each other. The story of a girl struggling to identify herself with a strict sexual orientation and resorts to 'something' to escape her reality, while a physics professor helps her resolve the conflict in her mind. The identity of a mysterious character named Capital I is presented through its work - visuals and poetry, driven by curiosity among various characters in the film about it. The film portrays the two themes uniquely, bravely. However a harmonic fusion betw