A lot to write about...
Here's me again, after quite some time. I've been quite busy lately, not with anything serious, but with living life in general. And after a big lull in going out and enjoying myself, I was back at it this week. Incidentally, I happened to watch three movies, My Name is Khan, Invictus, and Up in the Air, in the course of this week, and went to places like Garuda and Forum in Koramangala, after a long long time.
Let me have a jab at writing movie reviews today, and here goes nothing.
1. My Name is Khan- Is a film that I went to watch with no expectations from it. That's because its a Karan Johar film. It turns out, Johar has masterd the art of copying themes from famous English movies, and the plot and settings, are directly taken from them. The parts where he fills in himself, are drab and lackluster, with stupid sentiments and cheesy lines, that can only be from bollywood. In this movie, SRK made an attempt to copy Dustin Hoffman's character from Rain Man, that of the Senior Babbot. Although the name of the condition that SRK portrayed was quite different from that of Hoffman's, there was no such change in the acting part of it. The plot however, was truthful, and uncanny of the present situation of muslims in the west, but the settings of certain key parts of the movie, were badly done. Really badly done. The ending wasn't that good either, and it happened quite suddenly.
My metrosexual friend, gave the plot and timing of the incidents a "comprehensive" look, and after quite some time, did not find any pitfalls in the movie, and found it very original. I had to ad this part.
2. Invictus- I completely adore this film, and I never knew how great Nelson Mandela was, until I saw the film. The movie starred Morgan Freeman(GOD), and Matt Daemon in leading roles. The spotlight is on the early 1980's and the end of apartheid. It shows the prodigal change of not only the government, but the great social change it brought about in the whole spectrum of society. I adore the film, as it potrays the changing values, and opinions, of common people, and the final acceptance of the consensus. Clint Eastwood, the theatrical genius, vividly portrays the changing sentiments and the change in the direction of thought amongst the black people and the whites, in contemporary South Africa. What makes the move special, is that the generation in question still exists and that makes it a very contemporary film. I was so impressed with the poem Invictus, that I looked it up and read it through a couple of times. I even had Mandela's Picture as my wallpaper for a few days.
3. Up in the Air- I found this very entertaining, even when I left the movie with a big headache( I sat 3 seats away from the screen, and didn't eat at all throughout the day) I'd never seen a George Clooney movie apart from the ocean's movies. I did not take away anything from the moie, but enjoyed it thoroughly.
Apart from the movies, I had a quiet and surprising revelation about myself yesterday. I went out for dinner after quite sometime, and I happened to dislike Chicken! I could not eat it, and ate very less. Am I turning vegetarian? That's a good thing, but why ME? Apart from that, I happened to fall of(slide off) a few marbled stairs yesterday, and it did hurt. It still hurts. Me and my friend had to walk back two kilometres, as the Autowallah feigned that he had some problems with the gears. Fucking places have fucked up people living in them, and you just can't help it, apart from going with the flow.
Let me have a jab at writing movie reviews today, and here goes nothing.
1. My Name is Khan- Is a film that I went to watch with no expectations from it. That's because its a Karan Johar film. It turns out, Johar has masterd the art of copying themes from famous English movies, and the plot and settings, are directly taken from them. The parts where he fills in himself, are drab and lackluster, with stupid sentiments and cheesy lines, that can only be from bollywood. In this movie, SRK made an attempt to copy Dustin Hoffman's character from Rain Man, that of the Senior Babbot. Although the name of the condition that SRK portrayed was quite different from that of Hoffman's, there was no such change in the acting part of it. The plot however, was truthful, and uncanny of the present situation of muslims in the west, but the settings of certain key parts of the movie, were badly done. Really badly done. The ending wasn't that good either, and it happened quite suddenly.
My metrosexual friend, gave the plot and timing of the incidents a "comprehensive" look, and after quite some time, did not find any pitfalls in the movie, and found it very original. I had to ad this part.
2. Invictus- I completely adore this film, and I never knew how great Nelson Mandela was, until I saw the film. The movie starred Morgan Freeman(GOD), and Matt Daemon in leading roles. The spotlight is on the early 1980's and the end of apartheid. It shows the prodigal change of not only the government, but the great social change it brought about in the whole spectrum of society. I adore the film, as it potrays the changing values, and opinions, of common people, and the final acceptance of the consensus. Clint Eastwood, the theatrical genius, vividly portrays the changing sentiments and the change in the direction of thought amongst the black people and the whites, in contemporary South Africa. What makes the move special, is that the generation in question still exists and that makes it a very contemporary film. I was so impressed with the poem Invictus, that I looked it up and read it through a couple of times. I even had Mandela's Picture as my wallpaper for a few days.
3. Up in the Air- I found this very entertaining, even when I left the movie with a big headache( I sat 3 seats away from the screen, and didn't eat at all throughout the day) I'd never seen a George Clooney movie apart from the ocean's movies. I did not take away anything from the moie, but enjoyed it thoroughly.
Apart from the movies, I had a quiet and surprising revelation about myself yesterday. I went out for dinner after quite sometime, and I happened to dislike Chicken! I could not eat it, and ate very less. Am I turning vegetarian? That's a good thing, but why ME? Apart from that, I happened to fall of(slide off) a few marbled stairs yesterday, and it did hurt. It still hurts. Me and my friend had to walk back two kilometres, as the Autowallah feigned that he had some problems with the gears. Fucking places have fucked up people living in them, and you just can't help it, apart from going with the flow.
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