If somebody uninitiated to Indian cinema asks me to show him a recent Indian movie, I would probably choose this movie.....A class in its own...So many techniques have been so brilliantly executed that the director deserves kudos for it....If I talk only about the techniques after watching this movie, I would have been an unfeeling idiot.....For above everything, this movie delivers a strong message....its made out of bits and pieces of commonplace middle-class life-a pie of our frustrations, our joys our tensions, anxieties....
Why such violence????? The world is such a small place to live in...we are but tiny specs in the fathomless universe..yet, we cant live in harmony...we fight among ourselves about petty things...We dont know what or who God is....yet we fight because someone else does not follow our method of reverence for the superpower guiding us....we build walls in the name of religion, castes, sects....we love to loathe at others..overseeing what we are...petty lives....if there are criminals, thats only because the society has made them so....instead of reforming and obliterating crimes, we vent our anger on "criminals"....the very acts creating more "criminals" and terrorists...everyone in us has a Satan inside...its the job of everybody else to contain others.....positive feedback :) ...despite all our follies, still there is something about humans thats worth praising..with time, we forget everything and life moves on, the spirit lives on...
The above paragraph may have been a string of rambling thoughts...but I am helpless..the film makes you think...The film might have been better without the lengthy dialogues in the 2nd half..yet...if I could have directed a film like this, I would have called it a day :) Superb camera angles, multiples plots brilliantly knitted together, excellent editing, background scores intelligently adjusted from sitar to rock, satirical rib-tickling comedy interspersed between grim scenes, a strong message..what more do you want in a movie!!!!!
Overall 8/10
Direction 9/10
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Sunrise(1927)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018455/
Dont confuse this movie with Before Sunrise. It is an old black and white movie with no dialogues... only background score. But then this movie doesnt need any dialogue. It is a depiction of the song of love.. which can be expressed only by the language of the eyes or maybe a gentle caress of the hair...Words would certainly have diluted he beauty of this movie....I am not a big romantic movie fan, this movie stands as one of the best romantic movies I have ever seen....
The cinematography is awesome, leaves you gaping at the mesmerizing effects that motion camera in 1927 could have achieved....Watch this movie in any state of mind, I am sure you will be sucked into the movie....The story with obvious twists and turns will take you through a journey via a barrage of emotions......
Overall 9/10
Cinematography 9.5/10
Acting 8.5/10
Dont confuse this movie with Before Sunrise. It is an old black and white movie with no dialogues... only background score. But then this movie doesnt need any dialogue. It is a depiction of the song of love.. which can be expressed only by the language of the eyes or maybe a gentle caress of the hair...Words would certainly have diluted he beauty of this movie....I am not a big romantic movie fan, this movie stands as one of the best romantic movies I have ever seen....
The cinematography is awesome, leaves you gaping at the mesmerizing effects that motion camera in 1927 could have achieved....Watch this movie in any state of mind, I am sure you will be sucked into the movie....The story with obvious twists and turns will take you through a journey via a barrage of emotions......
Overall 9/10
Cinematography 9.5/10
Acting 8.5/10
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Days of Heaven(1978)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/
What set me looking for this film was this comment by an IMDB user
"Then Malick, in a moment of genius, allied the four main characters to the four elements; Earth, Air, Fire & Water. Bill is Fire - he is seen at first in front of the furnaces of a foundry where he works. We can see his temper is volatile. Abby is water - in the very first shot she is scavenging(?) by a stream and she is seen against the backdrop of the river. Linda is Earth - In her narration she says that she is close to the "Oith". The Farmer is Air - constantly tinkering with his weather vane, and his fields of wheat are often seen waving in the wind."
This film is a masterpiece. It shows the life of migrant workers in the cowboy American days through the eyes of a 13 yr old. The plot is a simple love triangle....but perhaps the best ever on celluloid...The cinematography and the wonderful score by Ennio Morricone make the dialogues redundant....you simply get mesmerized by this film...It like gazing over a landscape while a genius plays scores for you....With touching characters and realistic acting...you oughtta love this film...but let me remind you that this film is slow so you might not enjoy it unless u hv patience....
Overall 9/10
Acting 8/10
Cinematography 9.5/10
music 9.5/10
What set me looking for this film was this comment by an IMDB user
"Then Malick, in a moment of genius, allied the four main characters to the four elements; Earth, Air, Fire & Water. Bill is Fire - he is seen at first in front of the furnaces of a foundry where he works. We can see his temper is volatile. Abby is water - in the very first shot she is scavenging(?) by a stream and she is seen against the backdrop of the river. Linda is Earth - In her narration she says that she is close to the "Oith". The Farmer is Air - constantly tinkering with his weather vane, and his fields of wheat are often seen waving in the wind."
This film is a masterpiece. It shows the life of migrant workers in the cowboy American days through the eyes of a 13 yr old. The plot is a simple love triangle....but perhaps the best ever on celluloid...The cinematography and the wonderful score by Ennio Morricone make the dialogues redundant....you simply get mesmerized by this film...It like gazing over a landscape while a genius plays scores for you....With touching characters and realistic acting...you oughtta love this film...but let me remind you that this film is slow so you might not enjoy it unless u hv patience....
Overall 9/10
Acting 8/10
Cinematography 9.5/10
music 9.5/10
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Apocalypse Now(1979) [English]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/
This is one of those movies which blew me away from my feet. The deadly combination of Brando and Coppola did it again and Sheen perhaps put in the best performance of his life.
The film describes the philosophy of violence. In essence it turns out to be a satire shown in the backdrop of the Vietnam war.
A serious analyzer would see different angles to the movie like Sheen fell in to the trap of POWER even if for a split minute...
However even a casual moviegoer wouldbe overwhelmed by the movie..
Rating 9/10
This is one of those movies which blew me away from my feet. The deadly combination of Brando and Coppola did it again and Sheen perhaps put in the best performance of his life.
The film describes the philosophy of violence. In essence it turns out to be a satire shown in the backdrop of the Vietnam war.
A serious analyzer would see different angles to the movie like Sheen fell in to the trap of POWER even if for a split minute...
However even a casual moviegoer wouldbe overwhelmed by the movie..
Rating 9/10
Dreams( 1990) (Japanese)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100998/
This I presume is Kurosawa's best work after Rashomon. The film like Rashomon is a deep satire on human nature.
Dreams is a totally different approach to film making. Its like painting 7 different abstractions on the same canvas, each totallly different from the other but in essence delivering a message that requires profound understanding.
This is surely not a movie for everybody.
Rating: 9/10
This I presume is Kurosawa's best work after Rashomon. The film like Rashomon is a deep satire on human nature.
Dreams is a totally different approach to film making. Its like painting 7 different abstractions on the same canvas, each totallly different from the other but in essence delivering a message that requires profound understanding.
This is surely not a movie for everybody.
Rating: 9/10
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