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Tess - 1979 Directed By : Roman Polanski Tess is a very frustrating character. You start to question her many times in the film. Whether she is pure, angelic, enduring or just plain stupid. She surely not an idiot though, and there is a real frustration. The pain and misery she goes through seems at times to be self induced. But it is way more complicated than that to understand the origin of her misery. And though her own naivety or her ignorance about the evils of society, and, people in general cause her much of that misery, they aren't certainly the only reasons or even the chief reasons.  Hardy's masterful prose definitely raises questions on the plight of people like Tess. One must acknowledge that Tess do exist in real world. And that makes the character so frustrating. Countless number of Tess are bearing the pains others have inflicted without raising a word, silently. And Hardy so sensitively put forward one such story of misery and tragedy. The characters...

Locke - 2013 Directed By : Steven Knight I like to think that Locke is perhaps about stoicism. Its a lesson about stoicism. Perhaps about how to handle situations which are out of control. And in the end stoicism prevails. Perhaps its not hardcore or perfect form of stoicism which is described in the books. Ivan Locke has his faults. He shouldn't have been in that position in the first place. It isn't his dead father's fault that he has impregnated a women who is not his wife. Or he should have been more sensitive to the woman who carries his child. He is sensible man though, his soul is being tortured, his mind is not at rest and his whole world is falling apart in front of him. Yet he bears it all. He is determined to his thing, right thing. And probably thats the basic idea of stoicism, isn't it? Sometimes it is confusing to define stoicism. It has its shades, its variants. Ivan Locke has his variants. He has a deep urge to save the ruins of his already d...