To
me a creative work was a creative work - darker the better till a few years back.
As
our mind is not as simple as discussed in a linear book .While a dark
literature tends to explore more inner self of a human mind, the most complex
thing to understand of the entire study subjects.
I
too explored the darker side of the mind which tends to affect me the person.
Accidental
reading of a book called “Confessions of a pilgrim” –in conversation with Paulo
Coelho had jolted me to some extent. Mr.
Coelho had too many real life experience of such darker side of life (Some of
them are too ironic to be true…but I believe his extraordinary dramatic life events
are natural to his ups and down).In the book he told the writer that once he
completed one novel on his experience with darker self. But once he finished
the book he destroyed the whole project as it appeared to him that its darker
side might affect the mindset of billions of reader he is having as to many he
is a spiritual guru also.
It
was an amazing thing to me-how can a writer, destroy his own work after going
through all the pain and suffering.
But
he did just exactly that.
Off
late there is an upcoming discussion about the darker side of dark art work say
it 7 Khoon Maf, Black swan.
In
Black Swan we can feel how an innocent, pretty girl gradually metamorphosed to
a dark, murderous, ugly swine just for the sack of creativity .And those
disturbing images were created so brilliantly that the viewers could also felt
the agony of that sweet girl throughout the movie.
No
doubt everything were perfect .But was it necessary to subject the viewer to go
through all those masochistic creative exercise the writer/director/creator
undertook?
The
argument continues. To take Coelho’s path and destroy your creation for positivity
O the Black Swan path and create a work that might affect others negatively.
