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My thoughts after watching The Conjuring

Honestly, I'm no horror movie fan as they give me creeps and I just don't enjoy that kind of cinema. Drama is more like my genre as I find it engaging. Anyways, I had to watch The Conjuring thanks to my fiancée (I'm going to ensure that he returns the favor :P). It was a good horror movie (not sure if I can really judge - I don't have any benchmark to compare and besides, I closed my eyes during half the movie!) and you can gather the rest from reviews. This is one review which struck me though and I'm in agreement with it: Andrew O'Hehir of Salon said the film provided "all the scream-inducing shocks you could want, right on schedule", but thought the central conceit -- that the innocent women accused and executed in the Salem witch trials "actually were witches, who slaughtered children and pledged their love to Satan and everything!" -- was "reprehensible and inexcusable bullshit". I'm glad somebody mentioned it! Y

Something naïve

Try this - watch an old Amitabh movie from the bell-bottom era and see how it feels like. I was discussing movies with my fiancée and I remembered how I felt like when I watched Andaaz Apna Apna and Amar, Akbar and Anthony last year. There's something charmingly amusing about the simplicity and innocence of the life in that era. It's the same naiveté which I adored about the first part of Om Shanti Om. It's touching and somehow makes me smile for Ohmy even when he considers changing his surname to become successful in bollywood, even when he talks to Shanti's poster coyly declaring his love and when he does so many other things which we obviously find stupid today. Life back then was different and when we see it from present day, you can't help but wonder - how naïve could those people be! And it also makes us realize how we might be perceived by our future generations... But given that, do I say that old is always gold? Not necessarily. We are evolving constantl