MIDNIGHT IN PARIS:
This movie is a perfect blend of time travel with
romance. We can see a Gil (Owen Wilson) and Inez (Rachel McAdams) who hardly
understands each other are going to get
married in a few weeks, visits Paris. Gil, who is a very romantic man,
enjoys long night walks and is not much attracted to the materialistic world.
One such night, Gil travels back to era of Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Picasso,
Dali and many more stalwarts and falls in love with Picasso’s lover Adriana.
Paris, city of illusion, is being portrayed beautifully in this movie and you
are bound to fall in live with it even if you don’t like time travel movies.
THE PIANIST:
The film is based on the autobiography of
Wladyslaw Szpilman, who was playing Chopin on a Warsaw radio station when the
first German bombs fell. Szpilman's family was prosperous and seemingly secure,
and his immediate reaction was, "I'm not going anywhere." We watch as
the Nazi noose tightens. His family takes heart from reports that England and
France have declared war; surely the Nazis will soon be defeated and life will
return to normal. It does not. The city's Jews are forced to give up their
possessions and move to the Warsaw ghetto, and there is a somber shot of a
brick wall being built to enclose it. A Jewish police force is formed to
enforce Nazi regulations, and Szpilman is offered a place on it; he refuses,
but a good friend, who joins, later saves his life by taking him off a train
bound for the death camps. Then the movie tells the long and incredible story
of how Szpilman survived the war by hiding in Warsaw, with help from the Polish
resistance.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN:
A
remarkably powerful and moving love story of two cowboys, Ennis(Heath Ledger,
yes you read that right) and Jack Twist(Jake Gyllenhaal) may not have won the
Best Picture Oscar, but it surely did win hearts. Never bending down to cliches
of a homosexual love story, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ plays more like romance of two
humans. Its fable-like quality only adds to its charm so much so that it will
linger onto your minds long after the film is over.
LOST IN TRANSLATION:
Bob Harris (Bill
Murray) is a well-known American actor whose career has gone into a tailspin;
needing work, he takes a very large fee to appear in a commercial for Japanese
whiskey to be shot in Tokyo. Feeling no small degree of culture shock in Japan,
Bob spends most of his non-working hours at his hotel, where he meets Charlotte
(Scarlett Johansson) at the bar. Twentysomething Charlotte is married to John
(Giovanni Ribisi), a successful photographer who is in Tokyo on an assignment,
leaving her to while away her time while he works. Beyond their shared
bemusement and confusion with the sights and sounds of contemporary Tokyo, Bob
and Charlotte share a similar dissatisfaction with their lives; the spark has
gone out of Bob's marriage, and he's become disillusioned with his career. Meanwhile,
Charlotte is puzzled with how much John has changed in their two years of
marriage, while she's been unable to launch a creative career of her own. Bob
and Charlotte become fast friends, and as they explore Tokyo, they begin to
wonder if their sudden friendship might be growing into something more.
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION:
One of the best movies ever made.
Splendid acting and strong script make this movie a benchmark for others. The reason of ‘The Shawshank Redemption’s popularity lies
in how much and how well conveys about life in the most simple but
effective way. It is a film that you can learn so much from that if not a movie
it could easily have been a “guide to life” book. And the most important lesson
that you learn from the film is that in your darkest and most difficult
moments, it is important that you stay true to yourselves; because in the end,
even if everything is taken away from you, you still will have your “will” and
“courage” that you can hang on to and fight back. Therefore, never forget “you”
are your biggest strength.
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