Saturday 19 January 2013


Take a leaf from Technology's book.


Have you been a victim of STALENESS? 

The central thread of Omega.exe movie originates from a software engineer's staleness. In other words, the movie's "inciting incident" is one of its IT professional's staleness and how he chooses to fight it!

During the discussion phase of the story/script, I have been checking with folks from various walks of life whether they were aware of this state of staleness. Many were not, to the desired degree that would help them fight it.

Omega is the result of a strong will and desire to fight staleness - that of the victim himself, and his two buddies in the movie. Now, the way they choose to fight it has cinematic elements of exaggerated risk and courage, but the underlying message is very clear - DO SOMETHING THAT REALLY EXCITES YOU! The protagonist says (in Malayalam), "ninne thrasippikkunna enthengilum nee cheyyuka!"

Software programmers write efficient code to fight staleness of network connections, saving critical System resources. It's a little strange that many of them are not even aware of the staleness of their own lives, and that they live with extremely low levels of SPIRIT (the most critical system resource of humans!). Now, it's time to take a leaf from Technology's book!

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