I was watching Monsoon Wedding for the second time the other day, and during one scene, there's a huge panoramic shot of Delhi, with the Red Mosque seeming to watch over it. The mosque has two towers, or minars, the left one being accessible by tourists (if you are accompanied by a man, of course). Almost exactly two years ago (it seems longer), I climbed up that tower with Betsy and I remember both of us looking across the horizon on the expanses of Delhi. In the movie, the tower seemed so tiny, almost like a speck, that I would've been simply microscopic. It was just so...unnerving? surreal? gratifying? breathtaking? to be physically and temporally dispossessed of that place and moment, but to have recollections of having once been there, of all places, once upon a time. Almost seems unbelievable.
