Shaurya

Rahul Bose & Kay Kay Menon together and I was easily convinced
that Shaurya deserves a watch in theaters despite being told that
its Copied(or nicely put Inspired) from "A Few Good Men".

Ten Minutes or at max 15 minutes into the film I began feeling
out of place and started looking everywhere but the screen. Then
I was reminded of what I had read on Twitter "2nd half is good",
this gave me the patience and strength to wait for the second
half without thinking/caring too much about the first which took
its own sweet time, shabby acting and some supposedly heavy
dialogues.

Minissha Lambha whom from the begining of film I found cute alas
couldn't garner another compliment. Jaaved Jaaferi too didn't
strike any chord with his performance. Some nice landscape shots,
a couple totally uncalled for songs and some weak drama later the
film begins. Film that I wish had started some 100 mins or so back.

Filled with loopholes, weak script and screenplay Shaurya reduced
some great actors and a great film to nothingness(add almost as a
consolation). Wondering why weren't KK's dialogues for most of his
role even half as good as those towards the end.Wondering was
Rahul in the film just to fulfill his childhood dream to don the
uniform and walk the corridors in it ? What made the director
think that Mini can deliver serious dialogues n look worthy of
some seriousness?

Though I feel a situation like this is a rare possibility in the
forces I'll still give some marks to the story and some marks to
the closing scene as well, without which it would have been
impossible for Shaurya to score a 2.5/5.

Khoya Khoya Chand

Director: Sudhir Mishra
Cast: Shiney Ahuja
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
My Rating: 3.5/5

First things first It's good to see a Sudhir Mishra(SM) film
after about two years, his last film I saw was
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi(HKA).Was looking forward to KKC
for quite a while and finally got the chance to watch it in
its second(and probably last or second last) week in cinemas.
I am not too sure if HKA lasted any longer.

The movie is a tribute to the Hindi Cinema of 1950's and portrays
the Film Industry that existed then under various lights.The Good,
The Bad and the Ugly. We all as avid movie buffs to certain
extent know what goes inside the tinsel town so lets not delve
in to details of how this industry works or rather revolves around
the precious few and how favours are given and paid back.

I particularly loved the cinematography of the film, liked the music
and the old cinemaish feel of the film. The first half of the film
was good to the extent that you start wondering why did the movie
get such a thrashing at box office but this sense of wonder doesn't
last by the time u finish half of the regular popcorn you took
during the intermission.I can sympathize with the regular cinema
goers for running out of patience during the second half as I
myself felt a couple of times that movie is kinda dragging.

Needless to say I liked Saurabh, Shiney and Vinay's performances
but the find of the movie was Soha..Impressive bit of acting
there, totally justifying her place in a SM movie. The chemistry
between Shiney and Soha was beautifully and poetically captured
as everything from camera movement and angles to lighting worked
great. You cannot but notice the pretty Soniya Jehan for all her
beauty which shadows almost everything that's going on the
screen(her acting included).

While for HKA it was man yeh banwara for KKC it's
the title song Khoya Khoya Chand sung mellifluously by little known Swanand and Ajay which hums almost
through out the film. The writer/director's take on the
passionate love affair between Nikhat and Zafar was quite
commendable and a few dialogues carefully distributed amongst
Shiney, Soha and Rajat stand out and almost haunt you like this one

"Koi kissi ko dhokha nahi deta, sab halaat hote hain"
and that witty one by Shiney "ya toh apne aap ko dhoka deta
ya aapko toh aap hi sahi".

The Switching between present and past lives of various characters
in the film is also handled nicely. While the movie scores in all
these departments I feel it somehow lost track towards the end and
went kinda wayward. But in more ways than one its still a classic
tribute to the classics.

Links:
1) Wiki
2) Sudhir's blog
3) IMDB

Trivia:
1) All the actors had to learn Urdu for their roles
2) The film was originally titled as Bahut Nikle Mere Armaan
aka Many Of My Wishes Were Fulfilled.
3) Soha's role was initially offered to "Vidya Balan"

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American Pie 4: Band Camp

Director: Steve Rash
Cast: Eugene levy, Tad Hilgenbrinck, Arielle Kebbel
IMDB Rating: 5/10
My Rating: 3/5

American Pie, for the uninitiated these words might lead to
thoughts about an eatable or something but for anyone whose watched
even a couple of minutes of action from the American Pie Pentalogy
these words would conjure images of Wild Campus Life, Wannabe Teens,
Bikini Clad Babes and Couples in Love or rather Couples Making Love
n that to scores of them.
That's Pie for you......

It was refreshing to watch another Pie after a long while and good
to know that they still make Pie's the way they used to a while back.
I still can't forget the opening scene from the last Pie(3) ;)

The backbone of all films in Pie Pentalogy is the experiences
of a bunch of really wild and whacky guys from a high school who are
ultra high on testosterones. Pie has all sorts of situations
and can easily make you fall on the floor laughing unless you find them
disgusting rather than amusing( which I think can be the case with
some girls).

Pie 4 sees a new bunch of people lead by Matt Stifler younger
brother of the infamous Steve Stifler who tries to fill into
shoes of his elder bro and gets it all wrong.The new cast is what
gives the film a refreshing look but you can see a few commonalities,
spy cams to capture chicks for one.Also there was Jim's Dad(Mr. Levenstein)
who never fails to amuse and there was that Sherman-ator
which I didn't particularly like ..

Other then all the Super Wild stuff, the film has a tinge of
cute romance and also a happy ending.

Go watch it if you wanna have your dose of laughter ...

Trivia:
1) Tad Hilgenbrink really bared it all in the scene where he undresses in front of the girls while playing the trivia game. He didn't inform the girls in advance, who were expecting him to keep his privates covered somehow, so their reaction is quite genuine


Links:
1) IMDB
2) Quotes
3) Wiki


I love the way they kiss :D

Mumbai Salsa

Director: Manoj Tyagi
Cast: Virdas,Indraneil SenGupta,
Dilip Thadeshwar, Raymond Irani, Manjari Fadnis, Amruta Khanvilkar,
Linda Arsenio, Neelam Chauhan
Rating: 2.5/5

As TOI put it aptly it easy to label this one as Metro part two.
After reading just this line and seeing a rating of 3.5
I decided to watch this film instead of another new release
(Jab We Met)and as it turned out, it was a case of choices gone
wrong.

After almost a month of not being able to watch a movie at
theater I went for an morning(early) show of Salsa at a
neighborhood multiplex and here's what I got....

The film starts with a peppy song by Adnan Sami which starts
getting you into that frame of mind where you forget everything,
including the fact that it's just 9:30 in the morning on a Sunday,
but by the time the theme song fades away you inevitably start
falling back to the point from where you started.
Maybe it was just with me and my friend but quite a few people
from the cast looked lookalikes of some bollywood stars.

Vir Das looked like a pre-release version of Imran Hashmi,
Manjari reminded me of Shilpa Shetty while Indraneil from certain
angles looked like Priyanshu..

The feeling of deja-vu doesn't just stop there because
quite some scenes/situations seem to be picked from other
contemporary bollywood films,Metro, Jhankar Beats and Pyar ke
side effects to name a few.Maybe it's just a coincidence
or maybe not....

Most of the themes picked in the film are banal while situations
and their outcomes easily predictable.Over acting by few in quite
a lot sequences and vanilla dialogues take the film farther away
from being an entertainer. It's hard (atleast for me) to find out
how Salsa is different from Metro. Metro had better music for sure.
A couple of monologues and few fairly innovative scenes, dialogues
and songs save Salsa from being an outright flop show.

I particularly liked the scene where Maya gets dumped for the first
time,the one where Shahji compares how the drink a women orders in
a bar tells what's her state of mind, the one where Raj's boss tells
him the time one's personal life gets screwed his/her career begins
to peak up and the closing scene in which the narrator talks about
how some people need someone to find happiness while some find
that happiness in themselves.

Keeping in mind the khufiapanti(Salsa lingo) involved I think

Mumbai Salsa = 0.7*(Metro) + 0.1*(Jhankar beats n PKSE) + 0.2*(Tap Water)

Trivia:
1) In all there were 6 people in that audi, 2 of us, a middle
aged man (who seemed to be there to avoid her wife's Sunday
Morning nagging), a teenager and a couple who were more
interested in doing Seat Salsa.
2) One thing that stuck me was the
Sad but True "Code of Honour" that guys
(not sure about girls) have.
3) As both of us noticed that the background score
was quite mismatched atleast once(when Xen breaks down in front
of Neha).Funny thing is that rather it sounded a tune straight
from a horror flick
4) It's nice to watch a film early in the morning as it leaves you
with most of the day to spare plus the tickets also cost less.

Links:
1)India FM
2) Bollywood Archive
3) On Youtube

When Harry Met Sally

A week doesn't seem complete until I watch a movie or two(at least).
This feeling that somethings missing got the better of me and
I decided to watch "When Harry Met Sally" (Yes this is the film that
inspired "HUM TUM") on an ideal Saturday.Had heard about this a long
time back but somehow couldn't watch it earlier.



Talking about WHMS

Director:Rob Reiner
Cast: Billy Crystal,Meg Ryan,
Carrie Fisher,Bruno Kirby and Lisa Jane Persky

It's a Romantic Comedy that
revolves around the lives(and relationship) of Harry Burns and
Sally Albright played beautifully by Billy and Meg.The movie opens up
slightly unusually with an elderly couple(not part of the movie)
sitting on a sofa set, sort of being interviewed with the Man going like

"I was sitting with my friend Arthur, in a restaurant and this girl
walked in ----
--- and I turned to Arthur and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl ?
I'm going to marry her." And two weeks later we were married. And
it's 50 years later and we're still married."

Similar scenes with old couples of different cultural backgrounds
summarizing how the they met their partners, got married and are still
together, occur intermittently throughout the film and give a subtle
feel to the story.

For the uninitiated its d movie that gave world one of the all time famous
lines "Ek ladka aur ek ladki kabhi dost nahi ho sakte" OR in Harry Speak
"men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way"
Yes, that's how those lines came into existence(1989)and are still
being used and reused by people(basically guys I believe) all around.

Harry is a forthright, pragmatic and maverick glib talker whose in touch
with himself while Sally is a pretty looking, picky women with cerebral
approach whose kinda out of touch with herself(away from her reality).
Harry and Sally start off being acquaintances and eventually end up
falling for each other.The movie focuses on their relationship
as acquaintances, friends and more then just friends. I think any/everyone
who is or was in such a relationship can correlate a lot(I do for sure).

Beneath the layer of consciousness where the people
involved care n feel for each other(in we are just friends way) is another
layer(unconscious) where they secretly and unknowingly like/desire that
chemistry and want it to never end.

I strongly feel(it happens in the film also) that a guy and a girl cannot
be just very good friends, no it's not really that the sex part that gets in
the way but its the emotions part that does. There's a very high chance
that one of the two persons involved would be knowingly/unknowingly
feeling much more about the other person. But then not every pair of
very good friends end up the way Harry n Sally do. Maybe cause there
is not a Harry(Guy or Gal) in every such case.Think about it..

The movie has its share of some really funny and some really
touching moments.Even while writing this I cant stop thinking about some
scenes and laughing out loud.

A must watch

My Rating: 4/5
Imdb Rating: 7.6/10

Scenes that I loved:
1) On way to New York when they enter a restaurant and Sally loudly says
"It just so happened that I had plenty of good sex".
2) The one in which they meet on a plane
3) Harry n Jess raise n do Mexican waves while discussing Harry's wife.
4) When they talk on phone before going to sleep.
5) The one in museum where they speak in a different/funny way.
6) Harry n Jess while practicing baseball
7) The one with "I'll have what she is having"(Orgasm Scene)
8) When Sally breaks down n Harry goes to her place
9) Harry n Sally calling Jess n his wife
10) Harry proposing Sally on new year's eve

Dialogues that I loved:
Well there were lots of them so I put them in a separate post here

Trivia:
1)In the famous faked orgasm scene, the woman who says, "I'll have what she's having. . ." is Rob Reiner's mother.

Links:
1) Answers.com
2) WikiQuote

Dead Poet's Society

Dir: Peter Weir
Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles

At some community on Orkut a random poll question read

"When u r not happy with ur surroundings wat would u do???".

I nonchalantly voted for "Watch Movies".

After two days I found myself in that very situation and I did
Watch Movie the movie being "Dead Poet's Society". I had
heard of this movie before but it was when i read
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.
We read and write poetry because we are members
of the human race. And the human race is filled
with passion. And medicine,law, business,
engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary
to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance,love,
these are what we stay alive for." that i decided DPS
would be the next movie I'd watch(at home).

Carpe Diem is the phrase that comes to mind every time I
think of DPS, as it's the essence of the movie. The movie is
beautifully written and has much more to it than the life at
a boys school, it hints rather it hits at some of the all time
deep philosophical ideas like freethinking aka freethought
and Carpe Diem. The movie is to each according to his/her
perception.

Robin Williams does his role as Keating quite naturally and is
needless to say quite good at it. Robert and Josh also do
justice to their roles and as far as other's are concerned their
wasn't much of acting needed in their roles..With some
visually appealing scenes and a nice background score DPS
is a heady mix. The movie also has it's share of some really
funny moments like this one

Keating: Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is,
Mr. Anderson. Come on, are you a man or an amoeba? Mr. Perry.
Neil: Uh, to communicate?
Keating: Nooo!! To woo women

Parent's enforcing their ambitions on their children, corporal
punishment, Institutions thriving on tradition are some of the
more explicit themes in the film. It is one of those films
that can and should be watched multiple times to bring
the prescribed thoughts home.

My Rating: 4.25/5 (after flip flopping between 4 and 4.25)

Imdb Rating: 7.7/10

Dialogues I Liked:

1) No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas
can change the world.
2) There is a time for daring and a time for caution,
and a wise man knows which is called for.
3) We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.
4) I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to
die, discover that I had not lived.

5) McAllister: "Show me the heart unfettered by foolish
dreams and I'll show you a happy man."
John Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly
free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

6) Boys, you must strive to find your own voice.
Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you
are to find it at all. Thoreau said,
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

7) John Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance,
but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own,
even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even
though the herd may go, [imitating a goat]
John Keating: "that's baaaaad." Robert Frost said,
"Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

8) Just when you think you know something,you have to
look at it in another way. Even though it may seem silly
or wrong, you must try! Now, when you read, don't just
consider what the author thinks. Consider what you think.

“Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.”

Scenes that clicked:

1) All of Keating's classes.
2) The one on soccer field.
3) The first DPS meeting.
4) Tow Knox meets Chris for the first time.
5) Tow "The world's first unmanned flying desk set".
6) Tow "Phone call from GOD".
7) Tow "Knox asking Chris for a play".
8) The last scene with boys standing up on their desks.

Trivia:
1) DPS partly inspired a Bollywood hit called "Mohabbatein"
starring "Shah Rukh Khan" and veteran actor "Amitabh Bachchan".
2) DPS is Loosely based on the experiences of private school
students with Samuel Pickering, who is currently a Professor
of English at the University of Connecticut.
3) The movie's line
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
was voted as the #95 movie quote by the American
FilmInstitute (out of 100)
4) Originally, Professor Keating was supposed to die of leukemia.
But the director decided to have the story focus on the boys instead.
5) The film was also inspired by the book Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by James Hilton, which has been adapted for television or film
at least four times.
6) The quotation from Henry David Thoreau read at the
beginning of each meeting is incorrect. It actually reads
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived. …
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;
nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite
necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow
of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all
that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to
drive life into a corner…"

Links:
1) Script
2) Wiki
3) Peter Weir
4) Misc Link
5) List of Poems in DPS

Are You The Favourite Person of Anybody ?

Got to know of Miranda July after watching 
Me and You and Everyone We Know  reviewed here. Obvious
that it is, she's got loads of Talent that too not just for a
particular thing or two.

"Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist,
musician, writer, actress and film director" --Wikipedia

Anyone whose wathced MAYAEWK can vouch for the fact that MJ
can write, act and direct beautifully and it can prove difficult to say
which one's better, MJ the actor or MJ the director.

Sample this No One Belongs Here More Than You . I haven't come
across something with creativity quotient(Aah another term gets 
coined) this high for a long time. I mean who scribbles on a stove,
takes its pics and make a tiny website of it ? Getting back to
AYTFPOF. It's a very small short film lasting 3Minutes and
57 Seconds. But this doesn't mean that it's trivial  in anysense..
There's nothing more to the movie then its title but that  itself is
quite thought rich content.

What would you say if someone out of no where asks you 
Are you the Favourite Person of Anybody ?

Lemme think it for myself...hmmmmm....The answer that comes 
Naturally is  "NO"..
How sure am i about this ? 1) Very Certain 2) Confident 
3) I think so 4) Not so sure 5) Could be..
Confident is my answer

I know it doesn't sound good but then that's the way it is, unless
there is some small kid somewhere who doesn't know much
about the world and myself and therefore has me as his/her
favourite person...Not quite practical though..

Ok now how about taking a 180 degree turn ?
Whose my Favourite Person ?

That's kinda interesting as well...Eureka...With very li'l thinking 
i found the answer and the answer is "My Mother"....
Yep, she's my favourite person..For all she's done for me and
the way she makes me feel....Love you Mom...



Things that clicked

1) The concept of the film.
2) Some many prominent people are not anyone's favourite. 
3) The 2nd responded being very certain about not being anyone's
    favourite (despite havin a g/f)..i know but still...
4) (A) I am not interested in these kind of things
     (B) what sort of things?
     (A) These things Free Love and all that..

So Are you the Favourite Person of Anybody ?

The Pursuit of Happyness

Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith & Thandie Newton

This part of my life, this tiny part of my life is called "writing movie reviews"

Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist.
--Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The movie is inspired by a book with the same name authored by Chris himself and is about
his life and his struggle(in early 1980's) with marital life, career and homelessness while raising
his toddler son. As it happenes most of the times,the movie adaptation of a book
tends to miss out on some vital aspects of the story on various pretexts, here also the movie
doesn't refer at all (sparring a dialogue when he refer's about not knowing his father)
to Chris's life before his marriage.

First close up shot of Chris Gardner(Will Smith) drops a hint about the tone of the
movie followed shortly by, a beautifully sequence( in which he feels quite left out on seeing a crowd of happy passerby's), that makes the tone more apparent. Of all the actors the one
that stood out for me was cute li'l Christopher, who apart from acting beautifully made audience
have their share of laughter. Will did his job good enough to be nomitated for the
Best Actor's Award at the Oscars. The movie picks up slowly and continues to do so till the very end with getting Painfully Slow for a good 10 minutes. The film has some intermittent
beautiful and touching scenes. Particulary touchy one's being "The one in which Chris and his son spend there night in a restroom","when there reach a Flophouse only to find a long queue"
and "being thrown out of the motel".

The soapy background score, witty yet meaningful dialogues and nice direction work together
to make the movie worth watching.

Memorable Dialogue's:

"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period"

Martin Frohm: What would you say if man walked in here with no shirt, and I hired him? What would you say?
Christopher Gardner: He must have had on some really nice pants.

"Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it no matter what."

Trivia:
The spelling of happiness came from the daycare center Gardner attended as a child, where the word was misspelled with a “y”.
The expression "pursuit of happiness" was coined by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his 1759 novel Rasselas.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence.

My Rating: 3.75
Imdb Rating:7.4

Waking Life

"The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving.
Saves on introductions and good-byes"

"It’s like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now, you may get the 8-pack, you may get the 16-pack. But it’s all in what you do with the crayons, the colors that you’re given. And don’t worry about drawing within the lines or coloring outside the lines. I say color outside the lines. You know what I mean? Color right off the page. Don’t box me in."

Above mentioned lines come straight from the script of "Waking Life", one of the movies that beckon you and without realising you are lost in 'em (or with 'em). Written and Directed by Richard Linklater, Waking Life is the kinda movie that makes me(atleast) say WOW out loud, partly maybe because its about the thing that i am quite passionate about, yes if you are observant enough its TALKING.

Mostly its about the young protagonist in a dreamy state conversing with people from different walks of life and some random people talking randomly about anything from Information Revolution to Collective Memory, Free will to Evolution and much much more..

This is just the kind of Cinema(I am in love with this word) that gets your brain cells working overtime, the way mine are right now...If you are in a habbit of thinking then chances are that you might find a discussion or two on some familiar topics. This being perhaps the only movie ever, that i watched in both directions, going back again and again to some mind-expanding dialogue or the other from the beginning right till the end.

"I’m afraid we’re losing the real virtues of living life passionately, sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life"

"In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It’s always our decision who we are."

So if you are one of those compulsive thinkers or one of those who are into experimental cinema or someone having a high curiosity index( a self coined term) or someone who found the above written prate intriguing, then you know where to go from here.

Thanks Linklater for this Intellectual Coming....

My Rating: 4.5 ++
Imdb Rating:7.4

Which is the most universal human characteristic - fear or laziness?

Black Friday

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

After years of making movies that heads on ran into controversies one after the other, Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday finally saw light of the day and also managed to run (successfully at that) for weeks at movie halls across the nation. Got to watch the flick today after weeks of wait and it was well worth the wait to say the least.

For the uninitiated the movie is aptly named(and colored) after the serial blasts that rocked Bombay on 12th March 1993 and takes a 360 degree view of the same. This ain't a movie for the week at heart and definitely not for those who want to take a tour of fairy tale cinema. It's a gory, hard-hitting, haunting and extremely veridical piece of cinema narrated chapter wise.

The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch and yes, they did push the envelope. Right down from mixing scenes across various time spans flawlessly, to using red filter for some hard interrogation scenes, to soul stirring background score by Indian Ocean the movie has it all. Ten minutes in the movie and you'll get why was the censor board had apprehensions about clearing the movie. Unlike Omkara, Black Friday isn't inundated with foul language but has ample usage of the C word and for a change people neither laugh nor whistle every time it is uttered.Apart from some rare exceptions nothing has been toned down to make things less unsettling.

The best part about the movie is that it not preachy or has a happy ending in which people of different religions live happily ever after. It enters the world as it was, peeks for an unbiased look and leaves it as it is. It just puts forwards the hard facts and lets the viewer do the thinking. I appreciate the director's courage for making a film like this which can easily tend to upset anyone (Hindus, Muslims, Govt & Police men alike) and admire his patience for not loosing hope and making it see a release.

Kudos to Black Friday, Tehelka et al

My Rating: 4.5/5
Imdb Rating:9.5/10(312 votes)

Aray rukh ja re bandeh, aray tham ja re bandeh ke kudrat has pare gi.
Aray nenndein hein zakhmi, aray sapne hein bhoke, ke karwat phat pare ge.

tr@inspotting

choose life.
choose a job.
choose a career.
choose a family.
choose a fucking BIG television..........


First saw these statements on a billboard a friend used for his debut directorial venture..and from there i got to know the term trainspotting or train spotting..

A movie in a narrative mode, based on a novel by irvine welsh about a group of heroine addicts and how they go about sustaining this habbit by doing all sorts of crazy stuff..Renton the protagonist is just another teen whose got himself into drugs and courtsey which his life is falling apart...He goes on from being hospitalised, sent to state sponsered de-addiction program, a gal (Dianne) falling for him, shifting base andworking for a hotel and eventually betraying his mates..

Various scenes captured my attention like Renton saying he's felling lonely despite being with his family n mates, Tommy videotaping his sexual experiences with his g/f, renton diving in the pot to search the pills( hideous), renton hallucinating after being brought back from the hospital.

Nice camerawork especially the scene when the guy is running and camera is kept sideways and then its turned the other side when its bypassed.

Fav Char: Renton
My Rating:7.5-7.75
Fav Dialogues: Lots

I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?
The streets are awash with drugs that you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all. Fuck it, we would have injected Vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal.
People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it.
The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them

IMDB Rating - 8.0

A different movie that needs to be seen multiple times to get to its subtleties...