It’s been a while since I posted any movie reviews, I stopped because I didn’t see a point. However, I realized there may be some of you who get a chance to watch a movie this weekend and decide on whether to go or not, or maybe watch it on DVD (or watch instantly online on Netflix).
Pan’s Labyrinth.
Source: http://www.panslabyrinth.com
AMAZING!! Magical realism is my favourite genre of literature or movies. It’s a pity so few exist and fewer make sense to me (Salman Rushdie is err… a bit overboard). This is a movie worth watching a thousand times, no overdose of fantasy, a piece of art from a master story teller. It’s so hard to make a movie which just tells a very good story. Pan’s Labyrinth is one, though the movie is in Spanish, it’s not too hard to follow the subtitles, Ofelia makes an impression for sure, one of the best movies I’ve seen in recent times. Much better than a Harry Porter movie or any movie currently in theatres. The graphics are superb, so is the background score and locations. This movie has won major awards at film festivals and is set against the back drop of the Spanish civil war in late 1930’s. Ofelia’s fantasy world and the fascist real world at that time collide with each other and Ofelia has to decide what she wants. Going through a string of emotions with lot of love for her pregnant mother, her new Nanny Mercedes, belief in fairies and hatred for her cruel step father, who in turn has his own convictions about children and is obsessed with fathering a son. This is one GREAT movie.
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Shoot em’up.
I might as well ask the director to shut’em up. Too violent a movie, photography was a little different, the movie wasn’t too boring either. Just an overdose of action. With stunts that would put Chiranjeevi, Bala Krishna and Rajnikanth to shame…..the hero can shoot and shoot well enough whether he is in bed with Monica Belluci, or sky diving from an aircraft or driving a stolen BMW. He won’t miss and has an uncanny ability to set up weapons in firing range with string and ropes and pulleys within a matter of minutes if not seconds. If you think bolly/tolly directors take it overboard in films where the hero can kill 20-30 people without getting shot even once, Clive Owen shoots’em up in hundreds. And he is obsessed with carrots, I remember seeing a Telugu movie where Prabhas munches carrot with an irritating background noise, in this movie the noise is absent, it is still irritating though to watch carrots being poked into the eye and taking the brain out (never knew carrot was a weapon of mass destruction, Saddam surely had some in his freezer or backyard). The final punch comes to gun laws in US and blah blah blah blah. If you have watched every other movie released in summer and must go to a movie then go, else let it not be said that I didn’t warn you. And yes, the way the villain gets killed, Telugu movies are not funny anymore…..
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