movies

I just had a wonderful day spending my night with a movie marathon which led to this day being undoubtedly one of the best days in my life. I was blessed to have the rare chance to watch two Oscar nominated movies back-to-back three days prior to the actual Oscar ceremony. Plus, I went out with a sister who's really such a gem. How I wish that all days could equate to something like today. Let me share about the movies that I watched which totally made my day-The curious case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire. Former is a movie about the beauty of something that is so out of ordinary and the latter is the beauty of something so simple yet, the way both stories were told was totally mind-blowing. The former tells of a story of a guy who aged backwards and how people perceived him as an old guy although he had only a child's soul. And how he missed all the normal joys of growing up as a kid but, as he actually grew younger (which was actually older), he found himself savouring every moment of his life, gaining memorable experiences along the way and how he had to accept the reality of life when he had to watch those he loved dying before him. Of particular significance was his love story when he fell in love with Daisy while they were both kids and how their love never faded through time although he was getting younger and she was growing older. Meanwhile, the latter tells of a story of a simple, honest guy who was forced to face the realm of poverty at every stage of his life since his childhood in slum, who found himself suddenly at the edge of becoming a millionaire when he enters a contest-"who wants to be a millionaire?" Yet the interesting part is that he did not reach there by luck or by his intelligence but pure coincidences which ended up relating the questions that he was being asked in the contest with real events in his life that had affected him deeply. The way the director started the movie with a question and ended it with an answer was extremely creative too. This movie also carried an important, underlying message that you should never underestimate those who are more unfortunate than you. Hope others can have the privilege of watching these superb movies like me too.

well,just to add on.. here is a better description of slumdog millionaire that I read in NST written by Mahendra Ved, definitely better than the one that I wrote.. He said that Slumdog is not an Indian film but it is definitely about India and its (I’d actually preferred ‘her’ instead of ‘it’) seamy underbelly. It is about irrepressible spunk, crushing poverty, loads of luck, nascent love and Bollywoodish masala, all packaged in that inimitable Indian idiom of song and dance, rendered in captivating rhythm and cinematic texture, which clearly had cross-cultural appeal.. wow, certainly a superb way to describe all the nuances in the movie..