Film: North and South (2004)
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417349/
length: 4 hours

Ok so just watched this…. it was amazing…….one of those period pieces where you are just swept away by the drama. It’s the story of Margaret Hale a young woman who is forced to move to a northern industrial town around the time of the industrial revolution. There she meets factory owner John Thornton and befriends the workers. It’s really a very dark sort of story that gets into the lives of all the people of the town and all their problems.

I really never thought there would be a hero as great as Mr. Darcy but Thornton as the dark and brooding hero is like amazing. Oh and you’ll cry a lot I certainly did! I have to get the book!! Guys won’t like it I think unless they’re like really British Anyways if you liked pride & prejudice this doesn’t have that sparkling light quality of jane austen, and the heroine is not as likeable as lizzie, but it’s definitely great to watch!

Cheers  

How often have I stood here,
dreaming that you were with me.

Your hands were the wind caressing my hair.
Your eyes were the stars in the sky looking down on me.

And I kept asking the river…

…where you were.

—— What did it answer?

Nothing.

It just flowed on by, silently,
like my life.

It passes and you hardly notice.

–Scene from ‘Shadows of Time’
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Salaam,

Ok I love independent films. The kind that have real meaning and at the end you’re just stunned and left wondering… what the??@!! and then you keep thinking about the people and story. Films like books can change everything. They can change the world and how you see things. I wish more Muslims were into film making but I think that’s going to change over time, inshaAllah.

So anyway I watched this German film called “Shadows of Time” (which was really quite beautiful link/ ) recently where it shows the 60+ years of the life of these two children (girl & boy) who grow up as child labourers in a carpet factory in Kolkata. At a few points in their life they miss meeting each other and certain opportunities and things by just a few moments. (twists of fate you could say).

To the point where the main protagonist one day stands staring out into the rain and says to the effect of “I’m thinking about what it feels like when when you know if you could change one moment from the past, 10 seconds, not more, then your entire life would be different.”

So I’ve been thinking about this.. is there a 10 seconds in your life where if fate had just changed that moment, moved things ever so slightly if u had moved ur head, turned around, saw someone, said something, received something would ur whole life follow a different path and be completely different?

Remember Romeo & Juliet when he just missed receiving the letter thus causing the whole story to end in tragedy.

We know these things are fated (by Allah) just wondering if anyone had them? I think the closest I came was almost getting stampeded during tawaf during Hajj. If I had been just to the right, just to the left, front, back anywhere except where I was I dont know what would have happenned that day.