FILM — MY RATING — IMDB RATING (alpha­be­ti­cal within ratings, i.e. I do not pre­fer Don­nie Darko over The Godfather) 

Don­nie Darko (2001) 10 8.3
Eter­nal Sunshine of the Spot­less Mind (2004) 10 8.6
Ghost World (2000) 10 7.8
God­father, The (1972) 10 9.0
00 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 10 9.0
00 Lost in Trans­la­tion (2003) 10 8.1
Matrix, The (1999) 10 8.5
Natu­ral Born Killers (1994) 10 6.6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 10 8.7
Ava­lon (2001) 9 6.9
Beau­ti­ful Mind, A (2001) 9 7.8
Being John Mal­ko­vich (1999) 9 7.9
Big Fish (2003) 9 8.0
00 Buono, il brutto, il cat­tivo, Il (1966) 9 8.7
C’era una volta il West (1968) 9 8.6
Cidade de Deus (2002) 9 8.7
Fight Club (1999) 9 8.5
Hable con ella (2002) 9 8.2
Jian gui (2002) 9 7.0
00 Kôkaku kidô­tai (1995) 9 7.6
Léon (1994) 9 8.4
Loss of Sexual Inno­cence, The (1999) 9 5.2
Mag­no­lia (1999) 9 8.0
00 Man Who Wasn’t There, The (2001) 9 7.8
Memento (2000) 9 8.7
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 9 7.6
Requiem for a Dream (2000) 9 8.4
Shin seiki Evan­ge­lion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni (1997) 9 7.9
Stand by Me (1986) 9 7.9
Usual Sus­pects, The (1995) 9 8.7
Vir­gin Sui­ci­des, The (1999) 9 7.1
2001: A Space Odys­sey (1968) 8 8.3
Adap­ta­tion. (2002) 8 7.9
Almost Famous (2000) 8 8.0
00 Ame­ri­can Beauty (1999) 8 8.5
Amo­res perros (2000) 8 8.2
Annie Hall (1977) 8 8.3
Bound (1996) 8 7.5
Bow­ling for Colum­bine (2002) 8 8.5
C’est arrivé près de chez vous (1992) 8 7.5
Casa­blanca (1942) 8 8.8
Clerks. (1994) 8 7.9
Cof­fee and Ciga­ret­tes (1986) 8 7.2
Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha (2000) 8 7.2
Dead or Alive: Han­zaisha (1999) 8 7.1
Drea­mers, The (2003) 8 7.1
Ed Wood (1994) 8 8.0
00 Fargo (1996) 8 8.2
Forrest Gump (1994) 8 8.1
Girl, Inte­rrup­ted (1999) 8 7.0
00 Good­fe­llas (1990) 8 8.6
Green Mile, The (1999) 8 8.1
Hap­pi­ness (1998) 8 7.7
Hours, The (2002) 8 7.7
Jacob’s Lad­der (1990) 8 7.2
K-PAX (2001) 8 7.1
Katakuri-ke no kôfuku (2001) 8 7.1
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8 8.3
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8 8.8
Mulho­lland Dr. (2001) 8 7.9
Panic Room (2002) 8 7.0
00 Pulp Fic­tion (1994) 8 8.7
Pump Up the Volume (1990) 8 6.8
Romeo + Juliet (1996) 8 6.7
Rules of Attrac­tion, The (2002) 8 6.7
Shawshank Redemp­tion, The (1994) 8 9.0
00 Signs (2002) 8 7.1
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) 8 8.5
Sirens (1994) 8 5.9
Straight Story, The (1999) 8 8.1
Taxi Dri­ver (1976) 8 8.4
Todo sobre mi madre (1999) 8 7.9
Trains­pot­ting (1996) 8 7.9
Vani­lla Sky (2001) 8 6.9
Vin­cent (1982) 8 8.1
Wo hu cang long (2000) 8 8.3
Ying xiong (2002) 8 8.2
Ôdishon (2000) 7 7.3
Ame­ri­can His­tory X (1998) 7 8.4
Ame­ri­can Psycho (2000) 7 6.7
Ani­ma­trix, The (2003) (V) 7 7.4
Ani­ma­trix: Final Flight of the Osi­ris, The (2003) 7 7.6
Arling­ton Road (1999) 7 7.1
Back to the Future (1985) 7 8.0
00 Beetle Juice (1988) 7 7.0
00 Big Lebowski, The (1998) 7 7.9
Blair Witch Pro­ject, The (1999) 7 6.0
00 Blue Vel­vet (1986) 7 7.7
Boon­dock Saints, The (1999) 7 7.7
Bra­zil (1985) 7 8.0
00 Cha­sing Amy (1997) 7 7.6
Cof­fee and Ciga­ret­tes II (1989) 7 7.0
00 Dark City (1998) 7 7.5
Die Hard: With a Ven­geance (1995) 7 7.0
00 Dr. Stran­ge­love or: How I Lear­ned to Stop Worr­ying and Love the Bomb (1964) 7 8.7
eXis­tenZ (1999) 7 6.7
Full Metal Jac­ket (1987) 7 8.2
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) 7 7.4
Groundhog Day (1993) 7 7.9
High Fide­lity (2000) 7 7.6
Igby Goes Down (2002) 7 7.2
Inter­view with the Vam­pire: The Vam­pire Chro­nic­les (1994) 7 7.1
Ita­lian Job, The (1969) 7 7.2
Juyuso seubg­yuk­sa­geun (1999) 7 6.9
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 7 8.2
L.A. Con­fi­den­tial (1997) 7 8.4
Lady­ki­llers, The (2004) 7 6.6
Lola rennt (1998) 7 8.2
Lost High­way (1997) 7 7.2
Mall­rats (1995) 7 7.1
Man on the Moon (1999) 7 7.2
Manhat­tan (1979) 7 8.2
Moth­man Prophe­cies, The (2002) 7 6.5
Night­mare Before Christ­mas, The (1993) 7 7.8
North by North­west (1959) 7 8.6
Ocean’s Ele­ven (2001) 7 7.5
One Hour Photo (2002) 7 7.1
Others, The (2001) 7 7.8
Pi (1998) 7 7.5
Pira­tes of the Carib­bean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7 8.1
Plea­sant­vi­lle (1998) 7 7.4
Rashô­mon (1950) 7 8.5
Reser­voir Dogs (1992) 7 8.3
Ringu (1998) 7 7.4
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 7 7.8
Royal Tenen­baums, The (2001) 7 7.6
Saving Pri­vate Ryan (1998) 7 8.3
Shaun of the Dead (2004) 7 7.9
Shi­ning, The (1980) 7 8.2
Shura Yukihime (2001) 7 5.9
Simon Magus (1999/I) 7 5.8
Sixth Sense, The (1999) 7 8.2
Snatch. (2000) 7 7.9
Speed (1994) 7 7.1
Ter­mi­na­tor 2: Judg­ment Day (1991) 7 8.1
Thelma & Louise (1991) 7 7.3
Toy Story 2 (1999) 7 8.1
Traf­fic (2000) 7 7.8
Twelve Mon­keys (1995) 7 7.9
Uzu­maki (2000/I) 7 6.6
Video­drome (1983) 7 6.9
What Dreams May Come (1998) 7 6.2
When Harry Met Sally… (1989) 7 7.7
28 Days Later… (2002) 6 7.3
Arti­fi­cial Inte­lli­gence: AI (2001) 6 6.9
Bang­kok Dan­ge­rous (1999) 6 6.4
Batoru rowaiaru (2000) 6 7.8
Birth­day Girl (2001) 6 6.1
Candy­man (1992) 6 6.2
Catch Me If You Can (2002) 6 7.7
Clock­work Orange, A (1971) 6 8.3
Cof­fee and Ciga­ret­tes III (1993) 6 7.8
Count of Monte Cristo, The (2002) 6 7.4
Cruel Inten­tions (1999) 6 6.5
Cube (1997) 6 7.3
Des­pe­rado (1995) 6 6.8
Dogma (1999) 6 7.3
Dra­cula (1992) 6 7.1
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 6 7.0
00 Ghost Bus­ters (1984) 6 7.4
Ghost­bus­ters II (1989) 6 5.6
Girl Next Door, The (2004) 6 6.9
Go (1999) 6 7.4
Good Mor­ning, Viet­nam (1987) 6 7.1
Gummo (1997) 6 5.6
Heathers (1989) 6 7.4
Hole, The (2001) 6 6.5
Hyôryuu-gai (2000) 6 6.4
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) 6 6.9
Juras­sic Park (1993) 6 7.3
Kids (1995) 6 6.6
Koroshiya 1 (2001) 6 7.2
Matrix Reloa­ded, The (2003) 6 7.2
One Night at McCool’s (2001) 6 6.2
Per­fect Blue (1997/I) 6 7.4
Phone Booth (2002) 6 7.3
Pie­ces of April (2003) 6 7.3
Prin­cess Bride, The (1987) 6 8.2
Red Dra­gon (2002) 6 7.4
Ringu 0: Bâsu­dei (2000) 6 6.0
00 Ringu 2 (1999) 6 6.3
Sha­llow Grave (1994) 6 7.4
Shrek 2 (2004) 6 7.7
Spider-Man 2 (2004) 6 7.9
Three Kings (1999) 6 7.4
Total Recall (1990) 6 7.2
Wayne’s World (1992) 6 6.7
X2 (2003) 6 7.9
Akira (1988) 5 7.7
Arach­nopho­bia (1990) 5 6.1
Assas­sins (1995) 5 5.7
Azumi (2003) 5 7.3
Bizita Q (2001) 5 7.1
Blade (1998) 5 6.7
Break­fast Club, The (1985) 5 7.6
But­terfly Effect, The (2004) 5 7.4
Con­tact (1997) 5 7.3
Crash (1996/I) 5 5.7
Dawn of the Dead (2004) 5 7.3
Enemy of the State (1998) 5 7.0
00 Falling Down (1993) 5 7.2
Fifth Ele­ment, The (1997) 5 7.1
Final Des­ti­na­tion (2000) 5 6.6
Final Des­ti­na­tion 2 (2003) 5 6.3
Flight of the Navi­ga­tor (1986) 5 6.4
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) 5 6.7
Fugi­tive, The (1993) 5 7.7
Gla­dia­tor (2000) 5 8.0
00 Gokudô sen­go­kushi: Fudô (1996) 5 7.3
Gra­duate, The (1967) 5 8.1
Grem­lins (1984) 5 6.8
Grem­lins 2: The New Batch (1990) 5 5.8
Hac­kers (1995) 5 5.7
Harry Pot­ter and the Pri­so­ner of Azka­ban (2004) 5 7.7
Hook (1991) 5 5.7
Human Traf­fic (1999) 5 6.6
Inde­pen­dence Day (1996) 5 6.0
00 Jûbei ninpûchô (1995) 5 7.6
Jac­kal, The (1997) 5 5.7
Kali­for­nia (1993) 5 6.5
L.A. Story (1991) 5 6.8
Last Action Hero (1993) 5 5.4
Lauf der Dinge, Der (1987) 5 7.0
00 Matrix Revo­lu­tions, The (2003) 5 6.3
Mino­rity Report (2002) 5 7.8
Mys­tery Men (1999) 5 5.8
Office Space (1999) 5 7.6
Pitch Black (2000) 5 6.6
Pre­da­tor (1987) 5 7.3
Prin­cess Dia­ries, The (2001) 5 6.0
00 Punisher, The (2004) 5 6.2
Scream (1996) 5 7.0
00 Short Cir­cuit 2 (1988) 5 4.4
Star Wars: Epi­sode II — Attack of the Clo­nes (2002) 5 7.1
Starship Troo­pers (1997) 5 6.6
Starsky & Hutch (2004) 5 6.3
Super Troo­pers (2001) 5 6.2
Sword­fish (2001) 5 6.2
Tee­nage Mutant Ninja Turt­les (1990) 5 5.5
Tenkû no shiro Rap­yuta (1986) 5 8.2
Ter­mi­na­tor, The (1984) 5 7.9
Toy Story (1995) 5 7.9
Tru­man Show, The (1998) 5 7.7
Under­world (2003/I) 5 6.4
Wayne’s World 2 (1993) 5 5.6
Addams Family Values (1993) 4 6.0
00 Ame­ri­can Wed­ding (2003) 4 6.4
Bro­ken Arrow (1996) 4 5.7
Can­non­ball Run II (1984) 4 3.8
Charlie’s Angels (2000) 4 5.8
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) 4 4.8
Dog Sol­diers (2002) 4 6.8
Down to Earth (2001) 4 5.1
Euro­trip (2004) 4 5.9
Fast and the Furious, The (2001) 4 5.8
First Blood (1982) 4 6.8
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003) 4 6.2
Freeze Me (2000) 4 6.2
Galaxy Quest (1999) 4 7.2
Laby­rinth (1986) 4 6.9
Liar Liar (1997) 4 6.5
Lost Boys, The (1987) 4 6.7
New Night­mare (1994) 4 6.1
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) 4 6.0
00 Prince Char­ming (2001) (TV) 4 6.0
00 Ring, The (2002) 4 7.4
Romeo Must Die (2000) 4 5.8
Scooby-Doo (2002) 4 4.9
Simply Irre­sis­ti­ble (1999) 4 4.7
Small Sol­diers (1998) 4 5.8
Ter­mi­na­tor 3: Rise of the Machi­nes (2003) 4 7.0
00 This Is Spi­nal Tap (1984) 4 7.9
Tre­mors (1990) 4 6.9
Unbrea­ka­ble (2000) 4 7.1
Unend­liche Geschichte, Die (1984) 4 7.2
X-Men (2000) 4 7.3
21 Grams (2003) 3 8.0
00 Beco­ming Dick (2000) (TV) 3 4.8
Eight Leg­ged Freaks (2002) 3 5.6
Elephant (2003) 3 7.4
Evo­lu­tion (2001) 3 5.8
Girl­fight (2000) 3 7.0
00 Hell­boy (2004) 3 6.7
Home Alone (1990) 3 6.3
Lara Croft: Tomb Rai­der (2001) 3 5.2
Lost in Space (1998) 3 4.7
Men in Black II (2002) 3 5.6
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 3 5.7
Resi­dent Evil (2002) 3 6.2
Spider-Man (2002) 3 7.4
Star Wars: Epi­sode I — The Phan­tom Menace (1999) 3 6.5
Tank Girl (1995) 3 4.5
Tee­nage Mutant Ninja Turt­les III (1993) 3 4.1
Tron (1982) 3 6.4
Wind­tal­kers (2002) 3 5.9
Ame­ri­can Psycho 2: All Ame­ri­can Girl (2002) (V) 2 3.9
Bio-Dome (1996) 2 3.6
Buffy the Vam­pire Sla­yer (1992) 2 5.4
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) 2 5.1
Fin­ding Nemo (2003) 2 8.3
Good Girl, The (2002) 2 6.9
Not Another Teen Movie (2001) 2 5.2
School of Rock, The (2003) 2 7.5
Sub­mer­ged (2001) (TV) 2 5.6
Bat­man & Robin (1997) 1 3.6
Elite (2000) 1 3.7
Ken Park (2002) 1 6.0
00 Mer­lin: The Return (1999) 1 4.2
Roller­ball (2002) 1 2.8
Santa Claus Con­quers the Mar­tians (1964) 1 2.3

This has been nag­ging in my head for a while now and I feel it is at some sort of stage to put to elec­tro­nic paper and dis­cuss with other peo­ple. This theory all lies behind a sim­ple sta­te­ment that I thought up while being my ever ego­tis­ti­cal self;

“I am per­fect yet everything else is imperfect”

In exa­mi­ning this, I was won­de­ring how in fact anyone could prove this per­son wrong. It would seem impos­si­ble for imper­fec­tion to argue with said per­son. As they may in fact be imper­fect, all of their rea­so­ning and thought pro­ces­ses may be fla­wed, and hence can­not be trus­ted. Thus nothing they say can be com­ple­tely relied upon. Secon­ding this, ‘everything else,’ with the excep­tion of this “self being” is imper­fect; sug­ges­ting that secon­dary things may dis­tort per­cep­tions, hence per­cep­tions can­not be fully relied on either. This makes the sta­te­ment nigh infallible. 

A ques­tion was then brought to my atten­tion, what hap­pens if someone else also says “I am per­fect, yadda yadda… “. This pre­sents a sort of para­llax. It means the sta­te­ment is either right or it is wrong, and there is no way to prove either way. If it were wrong, no one would be per­fect, end of dis­cus­sion. Howe­ver, if it is correct, for which there is a fifty-fifty chance, it would have some impli­ca­tions. For it to be correct there can be no dif­fe­ren­ces bet­ween the “self being” of the two peo­ple. As if there is a dif­fe­rence, one will obviously have an advan­tage over the other, hence ren­de­ring one of them imper­fect.
In dra­wing conc­lu­sions from this and the fact that any per­son could say this (or at least think it), ever­yone would in fact be equal and per­fect in every­way. Dra­wing this further and con­si­de­ring a hypothe­ti­cal posi­tion in time and space, so as not to hold advan­ta­ges or disad­van­ta­ges, ever­yone must be part of ONE thing and not just repli­cas of a per­fect thing.

This pre­sents an image of one ove­rall cons­cious­ness that is per­fect. You could call this God.

Loo­king at scrip­tu­res and what Chris­tia­nity has to say about God it sta­tes;
- God made us in his own image
- God is everywhere and ‘within us all’
This rein­for­ces the conc­lu­sions made so far. If we are all part of a grea­ter per­fec­tion, that per­fec­tion being God, then he is within us all and our image per­tains to God as we are actually part of God.

The Soul
The soul is seen as the life source for humans, when we die our soul lea­ves our body. Or so is said by reli­gious folk. This is the image of a soul, it is a life force, it is what we are. 

The idea of having a soul can be bac­ked up by the ini­tial argu­ment, “I am per­fect yet everything else is imper­fect”. Our soul is the per­fect entity, the “self being” and our bodies (or uni­verse even) being the imper­fect ves­sels. This also pro­vi­des ans­wers as to why we do not view per­fec­tion and assume imper­fec­tion; we see imper­fec­tion because imper­fec­tion is dis­tor­ting everything we per­cept.
Jesus
Chris­tia­nity, which belie­ves Jesus is the true Son of God, also belie­ves that Jesus was PERFECT IN EVERY WAY. Jesus being, of course, God. In sug­ges­ting that one per­son is per­fect it sug­gests that this logi­cal pro­cess is also per­fect and that the ini­tial sta­te­ment holds true.

Ove­rall, this is one big vicious cycle that never actually pro­ves anything (conc­lu­ding that it is 50:50 whether God exists or not, yes or no). But it does hold fairly strong simi­la­ri­ties with Chris­tian beliefs which can in turn pro­vide con­fi­dence in some sort of higher, all Seeing Eye.

Feel free to email and dis­cuss this with me.

Yes­ter­day I retur­ned from a week long outing to Por­tu­gal. I had the plea­sure of sta­ying in a luxu­rious five star, two floo­red villa in Quinta da Lago in the Algarve. The majo­rity of Europe was and still is suf­fe­ring from pro­ble­ma­tic thun­ders­torms and torren­tial rains, yet Por­tu­gal and Spain have esca­ped. So much so that the weather was per­fect; clear skies and tem­pe­ra­tu­res in the thir­ties cons­tantly, a slight breeze enough to keep it plea­sant and not too humid. 

I’m not par­ti­cu­larly in the mood for pro­vi­ding a full diary like entry for every sin­gle event that hap­pe­ned over the course of the seven days. It would exhaust me and undoub­tedly be boring for all invol­ved. No one wants to look at anyone’s holi­day pic­tu­res do they? Thus I shall sum­ma­rize into a few sentences.

I rela­xed by the pool, I rela­xed on the beach and I slept with my tem­pe­ra­ture con­tro­lled air con­di­tio­ning on. I suc­cess­fully mas­te­red table ten­nis and pool, polished up by front crawl and breast stroke tech­ni­ques and became a lus­cious gol­den brown in the pro­cess. I saw wood­pec­kers, spa­rrows, lizards and toads, fishes and crabs and mos­qui­toes too. I dined at Bobby’s and ate fried egg on bacon and on steak, lis­te­ned to chi­lled music and applied copious after sun as the sky tur­ned red. I tra­ve­led to and fro and now it is time to pre­pare another five star outing, come spring.

“Whe­ne­ver top chick is around, she brigh­tens up the place, with her cheery, sunny, happy, funny, big old smi­ley face.” – The Dementor

I’d like to improve my lite­rary skills. I’d like to reach a stage where I can at least write a fairly com­pe­lling short story. I have the ideas but lack the lan­guage and gram­ma­ti­cal skills requi­red to bring them to life. Prac­tice makes per­fect so I shall be using this site as a fore­ground for my minia­ture works. I want to be a good wri­ter and I am currently a shit bab­bler that can rarely string along a few cohe­rent sen­ten­ces without drifting. 

A pas­sage a day helps me work rest and play.
A chap­ter a day extends my voca­bu­lary list further.

It’s time to get cracking.