I recently watched the 1993 movie – “Six Degrees of Separation”. This is my New Year’s resolution; I want to learn new things. Watching movies will be a good starting point.
This story is based around the idea that everyone is connected to everyone else by a maximum of six other people; it's just finding those six that make the link. This is an extremely interesting story, told in a series of anecdotal discussions between the main characters and their friends and business partners at various different social occasions.
In New York, the art dealers John Flanders ('Flan') Kittredge and Louisa ('Ouisa') Kittredge are ready to have a business dinner with their South African friend and client Geoffrey Miller, when a wounded young black man comes to their fancy apartment asking for help, telling them that he had just been robbed in Central Park. He introduces himself as Paul (Will Smith), a friend of their son and daughter in Harvard and son of Sidney Poitier. The couple invites him to stay with them. During they night, they discover that Paul is not who he claims to be. When they investigate the life of Paul, they find the hidden truth, and their investigations are intriguing and lead them to re-evaluate their own lives.
This movie refreshed my memory; I almost forgot who Sydney Poitier was. He was the handsome actor in the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and the first African-American to win the Academy Award for best actor.
In the movie, the art dealer mentioned that he owns the double-sided Kandinsky painting. Kandinsky was a famous Russian abstract painter, usually regarded as the originator of abstract art. His artwork is well represented in the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Next time I am in New York, I will go to museum to see his artwork.
Did you know that wines from even numbered years are superior to odd numbered ones? Yes, that‘s what I learned from the movie.
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