This Oscar nominated Greek film has such offensive and perverse content that it would take some courage to see the whole of it without flinching in your seats. There are quite a few scenes that will shock you with their simple action, violence or weird erotica. But the place where it scores over the average shock value horror-erotic films is that the whole film also leaves you with some serious food for thought which makes all the harder for the disturbing images to entirely go from your mind. If you love your sleep and the sweet dreams that come with it, please don't watch it. I did and I'm suffering.
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Man of Steel
(2013)
Too much action and what's up with that heavy sound?
15 October 2019
Man of Steel had not one but many villains. The majority consisted of the frenzied mob which had flogged the theatres to catch the fourth film of the Dark Knight trilogy. But even after getting to know that the trilogy can mean only three films, they failed to move on and like spurned lovers went mad and threw venom on the film itself.
Not that the film was entirely flawless. Some more character development and less action would have done it a world of good but the sad part is that most of the criticisms are arising from totally irrational grounds which is unfair to the makers of the film who just cannot make Superman to fear the bats.
Just thought to make grounds even.
Not that the film was entirely flawless. Some more character development and less action would have done it a world of good but the sad part is that most of the criticisms are arising from totally irrational grounds which is unfair to the makers of the film who just cannot make Superman to fear the bats.
Just thought to make grounds even.
Monsters University
(2013)
Most enjoyable movie experience of the summers
15 October 2019
It's the most enjoyable movie experience this summers, believe me. More than the story, it's the so well developed characters that blow away your mind. Laughs, fun and emotions are all there in lots to make you a kid again. When the audience lets you know through loud sighs that the interval was a big interruption, you know the movie has already woven its magic. Pixar seldom lets you down. And there is a sweet Pixar short called 'The Blue Umbrella' at the beginning. It would be sad if you miss it.
And yes, get admitted to Monsters University asap. 150 bucks is nothing for an admission fee.
And yes, get admitted to Monsters University asap. 150 bucks is nothing for an admission fee.
Joker
(I) (2019)
Joker is what happens when one reads Taxi Driver wrong.
3 October 2019
Travis Bickle is also an anti-hero like Arthur Fleck, so many bad things at once, a product of the times, but his actions are never justified or rendered aspirational either through plot or aesthetics of the film. The same goes for Rupert Pupkin in Scorsese's another masterpiece 'The King of Comedy' from which Todd Philips, the director, heavily borrows but without any proper insight or thought. Class divide, neurological issues, childhood trauma and all that glitter is thrown in the movie to disguise the shallow depth of ideas and adds to the confusion. The film tries to be so many things and ends up being none. 'Poser' would be a better title.
Joaquin Phoenix's acting is everything though. Very familiar but still feels fresh and knocks your socks off (and oh that laugh is haunting) and he was the singular reason I didn't walk out of the film after the first 15 minutes because the moment Arthur Fleck commits the third murder (and which obviously was not a self-defense tactic), I thought, "lo beta, ghus gaye na ghhade me! Yahan se impossible hai nikalna." And making my worst fears come true, this humorless film just kept on digging that first act grave.
So, in short: Loved Joker. Just hated the film he was in.
PS: Watch HBO's 'Succession' if you want to take notes on how to have a people as your protagonists, humanize them and still maintain that much-necessary ironic distance from them.
Joaquin Phoenix's acting is everything though. Very familiar but still feels fresh and knocks your socks off (and oh that laugh is haunting) and he was the singular reason I didn't walk out of the film after the first 15 minutes because the moment Arthur Fleck commits the third murder (and which obviously was not a self-defense tactic), I thought, "lo beta, ghus gaye na ghhade me! Yahan se impossible hai nikalna." And making my worst fears come true, this humorless film just kept on digging that first act grave.
So, in short: Loved Joker. Just hated the film he was in.
PS: Watch HBO's 'Succession' if you want to take notes on how to have a people as your protagonists, humanize them and still maintain that much-necessary ironic distance from them.
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