First day of (dis)orientation week at ISB
Welcome dinner
The crazy rush for free advise
Team building exercises (yeah...right!)
Too many late-night parties can do this to people
Student Village (hostel sounds so banal!)
5 years ago
Monday, April 23, 2007
Movies, movies and more movies!
During the couple of months before shifting to Hyderabad, I became so lazy that I drove only about a 1000 km. That’s something, taking into account the fact that I drove 50000 km over the past 22 months. I’ve noticed that the more time I have to kill, the less I get accomplished. I did watch quite a few movies – the best form of escapism!
Match Point – This Woody Allen movie left a lasting impression. It's a gripping tale of a tennis
coach, who hits it off with a wealthy female student and marries her. Just when he's beginning to enjoy the trappings of high society, he gets romantically involved with his bro-in-law's girlfriend. The affair threatens to ruin his new life he has now come to enjoy, and leaves him with some hard choices to make. The movie is all about how a single incident can change a person’s fortune – for good or bad. The master director is at his manipulative best - well, towards the end, I found myself rooting for the bad guy.
Good night and good luck – It’s a b/w movie, which depicts a TV journalist’s crusade against McCarthyism. The highlight of the movie is the usage of actual historical footage of McCarthy. Some critics, who were unaware of this complained that the “actor” playing McCarthy had gone overboard with his histrionics.
Memoirs of a geisha – I loved this movie for its cinematography. The story was very interesting but the movie was not powerful enough. The novel probably is. I’m yet to read it though.
Cars – A really good animated movie after quite sometime. One thing which really struck me about the animation was that the cars’ windshields (instead of the usual headlights) were replaced with eyes. This made all the vehicles quite endearing. Ka-chow!!
Happy feet – I still cannot figure out if I actually liked the movie or if I was won over by the experience of watching it on big screen, in a really good cinema hall.
Veyil – Not the usual Tamil movie. The screenplay could’ve been tighter but otherwise it was good, especially the parts which resembled “Cinema Paradiso”. I loved the song “Veyilodu Vilayaadi”. The lyrics were spot on!
Pan’s
Labyrinth – I picked it up because somebody told me it was a fantasy. I was in the mood for something like LOTR, but it turned out to be something else altogether. The movie is a fairytale meant strictly for adults. It’s about a little girl who tries to escape the war torn world she lives in, to a kingdom where she would be princess. Her wish is granted finally, but in a tragic sort of way.
Amores peros – I watched this because I heard this is the movie that inspired Mani to make Aaytha Ezhuthu (Yuva). I personally consider Aaytha Ezhuthu to be one of his better movies. There was nothing similar between the two, except for the fact that three parallel tracks are connected together by one common scene. The Mexican movie is way darker and more powerful than the Tamil one.
Match Point – This Woody Allen movie left a lasting impression. It's a gripping tale of a tennis
coach, who hits it off with a wealthy female student and marries her. Just when he's beginning to enjoy the trappings of high society, he gets romantically involved with his bro-in-law's girlfriend. The affair threatens to ruin his new life he has now come to enjoy, and leaves him with some hard choices to make. The movie is all about how a single incident can change a person’s fortune – for good or bad. The master director is at his manipulative best - well, towards the end, I found myself rooting for the bad guy.
Good night and good luck – It’s a b/w movie, which depicts a TV journalist’s crusade against McCarthyism. The highlight of the movie is the usage of actual historical footage of McCarthy. Some critics, who were unaware of this complained that the “actor” playing McCarthy had gone overboard with his histrionics.
Memoirs of a geisha – I loved this movie for its cinematography. The story was very interesting but the movie was not powerful enough. The novel probably is. I’m yet to read it though.Snatch – A movie set in London, about a bunch of thugs, a boxer, a dog and a diamond. Hilarious!
Cars – A really good animated movie after quite sometime. One thing which really struck me about the animation was that the cars’ windshields (instead of the usual headlights) were replaced with eyes. This made all the vehicles quite endearing. Ka-chow!!
Happy feet – I still cannot figure out if I actually liked the movie or if I was won over by the experience of watching it on big screen, in a really good cinema hall.
Veyil – Not the usual Tamil movie. The screenplay could’ve been tighter but otherwise it was good, especially the parts which resembled “Cinema Paradiso”. I loved the song “Veyilodu Vilayaadi”. The lyrics were spot on!
Pan’s
Labyrinth – I picked it up because somebody told me it was a fantasy. I was in the mood for something like LOTR, but it turned out to be something else altogether. The movie is a fairytale meant strictly for adults. It’s about a little girl who tries to escape the war torn world she lives in, to a kingdom where she would be princess. Her wish is granted finally, but in a tragic sort of way.
Amores peros – I watched this because I heard this is the movie that inspired Mani to make Aaytha Ezhuthu (Yuva). I personally consider Aaytha Ezhuthu to be one of his better movies. There was nothing similar between the two, except for the fact that three parallel tracks are connected together by one common scene. The Mexican movie is way darker and more powerful than the Tamil one.
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