Masala Movie, Profound Dialogues
Late one night, when I couldn’t fall asleep, I decided to watch some TV. And as luck would have it, I ended up watching a very thought provoking exchange of dialogues in the movie, The International . The movie’s a regular Hollywood masala flick about a very powerful, evil bank versus an Interpol agent, Louis Salinger . The part I saw has Salinger trying to get a very old ex-communist from East Germany, Wilhelm Wexler (who is now a senior guy at the bank) to spill the beans on the bank. Salinger tries to use ideology to persuade Wexler to defect and asks him how a man who supported communism and hated capitalism all his life could now be working for such a big, capitalistic institution? I loved Wexler’s answer: “Well, this is the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” That is so true. Our lives don’t necessarily have a “purpose”, it often just seems to meander on; and I don’t mean that in a “I am so depressed; let me kill myself” kind of way.