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Idea of long lost History

The perception of time is a very deceitful thing, and it sometimes makes even very sane minds underestimate the idea of gaps between events, therefore the gap between two or more historical events or the gaps among anthropological or natural events can be misinterpreted. Now assume an individual who claims to know something because he believes in a very provocative idea of asserting that since two different events show similar traits of behavior or pattern, then simply a vague hypothesis can be claimed as an absolute truth or an absolute statement. Humans are biologically inferior and very linear creatures when it comes to understanding the flow of time. why I said this because imagine asking a two-dimensional being about the 3D universe! it's a near impossibility for them and so for us humans too. some of the rare and great minds of mathematicians and physicists of modern human history focusing to understand higher dimensional geometry and to comprehend its complexity and to admir...

50s-60s Japanese Cinema (Opinion )

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I have observed after watching most of the mainstream Japanese action movies of the 50s that they have a very subtle idea of heroism of the individual for the greater good of society. Movies like Seven Samurai, Three Outlaw Samurai, Yojimbo, The Tale of Zatoichi (1962), specifically the work of Akira Kurosawa. I have noticed that Japanese proposed the idea of a lone warrior or a group of warriors keen to deliver justice and help people or individuals in distress. Protagonists are always carefree and homeless, have no family or background whatsoever, and even if they have a past, it was mostly long forgotten even by the individual himself. This is a very different perspective that always helps the plot progress in a certain direction without making unnecessary switches to random conversations about the heroic past of the protagonist or any flashback. It's all about the present and not about what happened in the recent but forgotten past. There is always a love interest, a woman, a d...