Life, Dreams and Reality -- Sohel's Blog

Matt Richtel is a terrific writer. His book on immune system is titled: An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives.  In my childhood, my parents taught me the very basics of our immune system, like I have a large number of tiny soldiers inside my body that fight with many viruses, bacteria and other pathogens to protect me. They told me that when I get injured, like a small cut on finger, it is these tiny soldiers come and repair the wounded area. I passed the similar knowledge to my son when he was younger.  That's about it. That's what I knew as I played soccer in the mushy mud, cricket under the scorching sun, kabadi in monsoon rain, while hopping from tree to rooftop back to another tree with hand made slingshot, jumping on reddish brick or slippery grass.  In subsequent years, schooling taught me a bit more, like the B and T Cells, antigens, antibody, how vaccine works, etc. Also, I learnt how having good eating habit...

This evening I've seen Pan's Labyrinth, a Spanish language film with English subtitle. From the very moment of its beginning, Pan's Labyrinth takes the viewer into its fantastical maze of dark reality and enchanting magical world, moving in and out of them with effortless ease while depicting a violent world of Franco's fascist Spain in 1944. The writer-director Del- Toro has woven this beautifully crafted movie, frame by frame, minute by minute, where the senseless war, its brutality, the very real victims, their pains and agonies, are so stunningly detail and artistically presented that for many viewer Pan's Labyrinth will surely remain to be an affecting force. This is indeed one of the best movies I've seen in many years! Read Roger Ebert's equally exquisite review of this movie from the following link: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061228/REVIEWS/61228001/1023 Regards, Sohel