Quite a lot of months have passed by. I've had enough inertia to keep me away from blogging. But not enough to keep me away from watching movies. That seems to be the only thing that I continue to do well as I've watched a lot of movies in this period.
Lay like a dead man, and stare into the idiot box with some rental DVD playing some junk movie on the box. In this vegetative state of mind, there have been a few movies the names of which I can still recall - which means that they were not so bad. Most of them were just so-so, some crap, but some were good. Not all the good movies were good in the same sense, or were equally good. Here are a few movies, and what I liked about them:
1. Heartbreak Kid - A comic and light-hearted movie where a man meets the right girl and marries too quickly. While on his honeymoon and in the process of discovering that his new bride is a nightmare, he meets the girl of his dreams. Ben Stiller is cut out for such roles.
2. Conversations with Other Women - A totally different treatment to depict the 2 sides of a love story. The movie has 2 windows running in parallel - one for each side of a story. Two persons meet up and start talking about certain memories as if they were common to the two of them. The past gets slowly revealed as the viewer connects the dots during the movie. Excellent treatment!
3. Amores Perros - It still makes the cut despite a vague ending. The end is vague probably because I could not understand it, or I could not place it with the remainder of the movie that was extremely charged up and gripping throughout. Non-linear story-telling that connects 3 stories through 1 accident. It reminded me of 'Crash' a bit. This Spanish movie is from the same director who later went on to direct 21 grams and Babel among other movies.
4. Zero Effect - Nice and intelligent movie that connects the entire case of private investigation in beautiful manner. Each and every word was well-weighed before putting it in the script. I had somehow low expectations from this movie, which somehow helped me in rating it highly.
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