The Namesake

On Tuesday, April 3, 2007, I went to see the movie The Namesake.

This movie was about an Indian man who pursued his Ph.D in the United States, and his story that he develops with his family, his son Gogul, his wife, daughter and extended family. The story outlines Gogul's struggle with his Indian heritage, and his American upbringing.

This movie focused on Gogul's life journey when he was small, and was proud of his name, to when he was a teenager and in his adult life, when he was not proud at all of his life. And then his father suffers a heart attack, which brings the family together, and they bond.

This movie was not terrible, but it was not the best movie ever created. It was too long, in my opinion. Twenty minutes could have easily been shaved off of it...

And now, two little rants... When I was coming home on the metro, there was a woman who was on my wagon, and asked everyone on the metro for spare change... We got to the change of line station, and we rushed over to the other train... This lady who was asking for spare change did also, and when she got into the other train, she asked again (and most of these people were the same ones from the previous wagon, who all rushed over to the other train) for spare change again... And then when the metro stops, each time, she would transfer to the next wagon and beg for money. My question is how the hell did she get into the metro without spare change? Either she must have had to have had it, or she went in when the worker at a particular station went on a bathroom break, where she can just walk in without paying...

As well, when I got to my metro station, the worker there didn't even bother walking down to check whether everyone got off the last metro. My friend and I were taking the escalator up, and all of a sudden, it stopped, because the worker there decided to stop it... It was as if he was going to win a prize for being the first person to lock up his metro station... He was so lazy in doing his job... He should be fired.