Perfect Sense

I want someone to see this film so we can discuss it. The plot is simple: A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. It’s not a zombie movie or anything like that. It’s not about the epidemic; it’s focused on the couple, but it’s not a love story. Since I’ve seen it, I can’t get it out of my head and I cannot explain why. It’s powerful in a non obvious way. I’m going to use a comment from someone on imdb“I still don’t know if it’s brilliant or pathetic. Photography is amazing. Some disgusting scenes that could have been cut, some great ones that will make you remember your own past. I enjoyed specially Eva's "Blade Runner style" narration, with all those thoughts about love and the meaning of life. Maybe that's what the movie is all about; love is the only thing that makes sense in our lives. Anyway, at the end I realized that a movie which brings us such controversial feelings, is a far from being pathetic.”

But I want your opinion, so watch it!

Here's the trailer, it's a little bit misleading, so you really have to see the whole thing :)

Taare Zameen Par (Like the Stars on Earth, 2007)

Plot, copied from Imdb: An eight year old boy is thought to be lazy and a troublemaker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.

A breathtaking Indian picture. It beautifully portrays everything that is wrong with our school system and learning process in most of our grammar schools. It shows what the wrong approach from teachers and parents can do to a helpless child, who doesn’t and cannot know how to deal with his problems. There are many youngsters like the main character, who could conquer the world with their intelligence, abilities and the world-is-a-magical-place attitude.

The main actor Darsheel Safary (11 years old at the time) is the most talented young actor I have seen. He makes you completely understand what the character thinks, feels, desires. He is so brilliant I cannot explain. The whole story is powerful, magical, compelling and mesmerizing and most of all as close to real life as you can get. Because Indians love colors, music and dancing there is a lot of that. But it makes it even more special and of course two and a half hours long :) I could not stop thinking about this movie for a whole week and I will never forget how it made me feel and that’s the real measure for a good film. It simply does not matter what kind of movie type person you are, this is a MUST see!

The Return

I have been away and lazy for way too long. I just reread my posts and discovered my writing is not so bad. Surprise, surprise. So now that I have some time on my hands I shall continue with my passion. Let’s review my list of movies to see.

J.Edgar

 As a DiCaprio fan I am not totally unbiased. The make-up is simply amazing. You can see Leonardo’s character in three different stages in his life. It's a political drama about the man who started the FBI. It’s interesting, well played and overall a good movie. I have seen it almost a year ago, that’s why I do not recall it well, but maybe that also says something about it.

The Ides of March and Drive

Both starring Ryan Gosling, who had a very successful year. The first one did not exceed my expectations. A political drama which shows us what you need to be like to get ahead in politics. I was looking for some sort of twist the whole time, but it did not grant my wish. On the other hand Drive showed a bit more promise from the second it started. The opening scene is brilliantly intense.  I must confess I was not entirely sure what the movie is about. And perhaps the story was not perfectly sought through. Gosling’s character is a wheelman, but his regular job is as a mechanic and also as a stuntman in Hollywood. He lives alone and is a bit of a lonely wolf, until he meets his neighbor Irene (Carrey Mulligan), who has a child and a husband who’s in jail. They both appear a little out of this world, vulnerable on the inside, but playing tough. That’s what connects them. There are a few awesome slow motion scenes accompanied by great emotion provoking music. If you are looking for fast moving, story bound movie I do not recommend it. But if you are more of an “artsy feely” type, you should definitely see it.

A Dangerous Method was a little bit disappointing. Did not feel the relationship between the main characters. I do not know their exact relationship and after watching it I still do not know. If they wanted to show it to a larger scale of audience, they should do a better job J . This is also the worst I have seen of Keira Knightly, she came across as over exaggerating and unbelievable.

The Iron Lady was really a masterpiece make-up wise, the storytelling is too fast and it leaves you shrugging your shoulders saying “ok”. Meryl Streep simply is a genius. 

Hurts

Went to their concert yesterday. It was held in a small (2000 people) hall. There were two supporting acts, which happens rarely, but Hurts  has only one album so they had to do something to make the whole thing last more than an hour.  Both supporting acts were ok, but nothing special.  

So finally after an hour and a half, Hurts steps into the spot light. For those who don’t know, they are a duo from Manchester and they play synth pop music. They created a band in 2005 with some friends; they got quite recognizable and released a few singles. But after a certain disastrous showcase in London, Theo and Adam went back to Manchester and recorded “Unspoken” and realized that this is the sound they want to develop. So in 2009 the band split up and Hurts was born.

Their album Happiness is full of not so happy love songs. But the thing I love most about them is that they sound young, fresh and full of energy. And that’s the exact impression I got on the concert. I have to admit though that I was a little disappointed with Theo’s singing. He did fell a bit short in some parts and the backup singers helped him a lot. It got better when he sang “Affair” with Adam on the guitar. They finished with energized “Stay” and left us with a smile on our faces.

Overall it was a great show. I loved the atmosphere they created in which I was able to lose myself for an hour and a half.

Here's a good enough video from yesterday:

Looking forward to…

…a lot of good movies in the next three months. Of course only if we pretend that we’re in America and don’t have to wait for the movies to come to us.

In October we have:

In Time with Justin Timberlake and the beautiful Olivia Wilde (who I got to know in House M.D.). The trailer convinced me, although the plot is that people stop aging at 25 and must work to buy themselves more time. So we’re gonna see A LOT of beautiful young people. But I was so impressed with Timberlake in The Social Network that I’m definitely gonna watch this. (I may not be the best critic ‘cause I often watch movies just because I l o v e the leading actor/actress J ).

The Rum Diary includes one of my favorite actors and one of my favorite drinks. Johnny Depp and Rum of course. It’s been a while since I’ve seen him in a strangely normal role (did not watch the Tourist ‘cause it seemed to regular). This one looks a bit more promising with a pinch of humor. He plays an American journalist in Pueto Rico during the 1950s.

November brings us:

Al Pacino, who I haven’t seen for awhile, Channing Tatum, Ray Liotta, Juliette Binoche and unfortunately Katie Holmes, who should stay in Dawson’s Creek in my opinion in a decent enough thriller The Son of No One. Here’s the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuVwb9nLZ20

Now, get ready! This is a big one! The combination of these two artistes just gives me goose bumps. Director Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio in the leading role as J.Edgar Hoover, with the simple title J. Edgar. Enough said!

Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst, who I am really fond of and the director Lars von Tier. To be honest I’m not sure I’m gonna see this. The Tier’s Antichrist was a bit too much for me, although I could not stop talking about that movie for weeks. The Melancholia trailer is a bit too theatrical for me in sense of a lot of very slow motion scenes and slow flow of the movie. Ok, the plot: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide into the Earth. Yeah, I’m not so sure about this whole planet thing. This one boggles me.

A Dangerous Method shows us how the intense relationship between Carl Yung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. The story alone is just to interesting not to see this one. Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen just make everything even simpler.

In December

Meryl Streep will once again grace us with her performance in The Iron Lady, a movie about Margaret Thatcher with a focus on the price she paid for power.

I know that’s only six movies in three months, but it seems like they are THE movies. It’s been a long dry season in our theatres (the last thing I saw was Harry Potter, which is brilliant by the way!) but hopefully it will end with strong good-movie showers!

Till next time, movie lovers!

Imdb.com

Everyone has his/hers happy place. When something goes wrong or your mind is controlled by dark thoughts, many of us go to our happy place. I am introducing you to my happy place. It’s called Internet Movie Data Base a.k.a. imdb.com. It’s everything I could possibly dream of. Loads and loads of movie info, news, trailers, biographies, trivia, personal quotes, pictures and more importantly endless list of movies which are just waiting to be seen.
You might think I’m a bit coo coo and you are probably right, but I found the thing that I was lacking. And that is… wait for it… passion!

So this is it! My new blog. A little less whining and a little more movies, TV shows, music, concerts, video clips, books and maybe something in between.
You are most welcome to comment, agree, disagree, whatever gets your tits in a twist.

Über excited!