About movies: Hudson Milbank suffers from acute depersonalization disorder. So
alienated from his own life that he makes the chronically depressed
look perky, Hudson lives alone, watches The Golf Channel all day, can't
hang on to a relationship, shoplifts in order to get his adrenalin up
off the floor, fears that thinking about his dad's death will bring it
to pass, loathes his mother, and in general, is as nutty as a crapshack
in a peanut farm. Obsessed with the underlying sadness that infuses his
wretched existence, Hudson is a man in hell, but he thinks that his
long catalog of dismally unsatisfying and mutually self-destructive
relationships is over when SARA stumbles into his life. He knows she
can save him. She knows he has to save himself. Together they save each
other.
I
think it's too easy to say NA is similar to "Highlander," simply
because its lead character is immortal. While McLeod cannot die unless
beheaded, he, and his fellow immortal Nick Knight, are immortal
primarily defined by their natures.
The great appeal of John Amsterdam (or York, or Dutch, or any of his
other aliases) is that he is a relatively ordinary man who, by virtue
of having lived since
the 17th century, has learned much and experienced more. None of us is
likely to picture ourselves as McLeod or Knight, but practically anyone
can imagine that given the right circumstances, we could be John
Amsterdam. He is extremely human, not at all superhuman....except for
that one thing. He cannot die, not until he finds and commits to The
One.
About movies: Another (obviously ‘great’) movie rolls out of the RGV factory. Loaded as it is with stardom of Bollywood’s one man army
there can hardly be any doubts about performance. But when this superb
performance is backed by some great direction to portray a bold script
and finally edited by a master’s scissor, what one has is a delicacy
that Bollywood rarely offers.
The plot is simple as the promos say, “he is 60, and she is 18… Some
are never meant to be understood”. The movie is totally focused to this
one single story and hence there is no time for non-sense - no songs or
extras for comedy.
The director has made the script sail very
smoothly and naturally. From the beginning to the end the movie sticks
to the reality criteria. Cinematography is simply superb. Camera
movements are at their best as it is generally with Gopal’s movies. The use of colors is excellent. Background music again
has played a very important role and it has been used very beautifully
enhancing the impact of the script. There are many long silent moments
in the movie, where music speaks everything.
This is the first
time I’ve seen Hindi words so beautifully used. Coming as it is from
AB’s mouth, it gets all the more impressive with his perfect
pronunciations and inimitable voice. Besides his voice, his facial
expressions are a treat and one realizes how much he can actually say
without speaking. The same though cannot be said about Jiah Khan who
debuts in this movie. Her role luckily is that of a girl who has had
very disturbed upbringing and so her behavior is supposed to be kind of
confusing and irritating, for which it seems she didn’t have to act
much. On the other hand Revathi has acted very well and has done full
justice to her role as a house-wife.
The movie concludes
amazingly. It is one of the most striking parts of the movie, and goes
well with the reality standards that film has adhered by throughout. It
is simple and pragmatic, that real life is never glamorous where “they
live happily thereafter”. A perfect Ram Gopal Verma stuff. Recommended
certainly!
About movies:
A
young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and
communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. It is
an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex
Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of
the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's
father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her
together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their
fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer
Nim's Island.