Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
Recommended Movie. English. What Maise Knew.
I am not in favor of children being made to "act" and their minds messed up. I was therefore glad to read that for this movie, "What Maise Knew" the directors David Siegel, Scott McGehee
actually spent time with the child artiste Onata Aprile and got her to develop a rapport with the other cast before they shot the movie. The results are there to see. It is a gut wrenching, heartbreaking story of the trials and insecurities that a child has to go through as her parents break up. Based on a novel by Henry James, this movie adapts itself to the modern day context and leaves most people uneasy about themselves and how they treat their children as we run around managing our careers, spouses and everything else that life throws at us. Yes, it is not entertainment, but education that happens here. Hopefully it will make us pause and ponder. Once we wipe our eyes, swallow the lump in our throats and take a deep breath to ease that choked tight feeling in our chest.
What Maise Knew
actually spent time with the child artiste Onata Aprile and got her to develop a rapport with the other cast before they shot the movie. The results are there to see. It is a gut wrenching, heartbreaking story of the trials and insecurities that a child has to go through as her parents break up. Based on a novel by Henry James, this movie adapts itself to the modern day context and leaves most people uneasy about themselves and how they treat their children as we run around managing our careers, spouses and everything else that life throws at us. Yes, it is not entertainment, but education that happens here. Hopefully it will make us pause and ponder. Once we wipe our eyes, swallow the lump in our throats and take a deep breath to ease that choked tight feeling in our chest.
What Maise Knew
Malayalam Movies. Annayum Rasoolum.
Saw "Annayum Rasoolum" on TV. Good to know there is talent in the Malayalam film industry which looks to portray realism in their work.
I think as far as romantic films go, it is essential for the viewer to empathize with the protagonists. For skeptic men like me, it happens if we can go back in time and fall in love with the girl on screen. To an extent it happened I must confess :).Andrea Jeremiah was a stunner. She came across as the melancholic frail young girl who finds a reason to live and love and yet loses it to a turn of circumstances.Andrea Jeremiah
Fahad Fazil is as usual at the top of his game. I think a stint in the U.S. and he has mastered the craft of method acting.
Music was memorable and blended in well with the script actually giving the whole movie a unique feel and personality.
Wooing a girl in Kerala, is tantamount to stalking and it comes through here. To that extent it is inevitable that it finds a place in the storyline. Yes, given that the epidemic of sexual harassment that prevails in the country, it does disturb a lot of us that youngsters do not have more civilized means of expressing their affection or interest in the opposite sex. Anyhow it does not take away anything from the aesthetic pleasure that the movie provides.Definitely recommended.Annayum Rasoolum
I think as far as romantic films go, it is essential for the viewer to empathize with the protagonists. For skeptic men like me, it happens if we can go back in time and fall in love with the girl on screen. To an extent it happened I must confess :).Andrea Jeremiah was a stunner. She came across as the melancholic frail young girl who finds a reason to live and love and yet loses it to a turn of circumstances.Andrea Jeremiah
Fahad Fazil is as usual at the top of his game. I think a stint in the U.S. and he has mastered the craft of method acting.
Music was memorable and blended in well with the script actually giving the whole movie a unique feel and personality.
Wooing a girl in Kerala, is tantamount to stalking and it comes through here. To that extent it is inevitable that it finds a place in the storyline. Yes, given that the epidemic of sexual harassment that prevails in the country, it does disturb a lot of us that youngsters do not have more civilized means of expressing their affection or interest in the opposite sex. Anyhow it does not take away anything from the aesthetic pleasure that the movie provides.Definitely recommended.Annayum Rasoolum
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