Wednesday 26 September 2012

Movie Review: A Seperation (2011) - 6/7




IMDB Rating: 8.6/10

Description: A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.





This one was on my watchlist for a long time now, partly due to my reluctance to watch a movie in another language and partly because I thought the pace of the movie will be too damn slow. 

But I finally manned up and decided to see for myself why this movie was rated so highly on my beloved IMDB.

The Story

Anything I say about the story will not exactly be a spoiler alert, but the strictly-spoiler-fearing people can skip a paragraph here because here is what the story is about. A married couple splits up because the hero wants to take care of his dad instead of leaving the country. As his wife leaves him, he hires a lady to take care of the dad and the lady screws up by almost killing his dad due to some negligence on her part. So, the hero gets pissed off and in an attempt to get the lady out of his house, he pushes her out the door. No big deal, only the lady is pregnant and consequently, suffers a miscarriage. The rest of the story is about how the lady's quest for justice affects the hero's family, all this attributed to the separation in the first place.


The Autopsy

Well, initially, as expected the movie starts off at maybe not a snail's pace but you feel that you have to wait for some time to know why the film was so well-appreciated. But it slowly revs up its engine and then starts to cruise along while managing to hold your attention with some subtle suspense and not-so-subtle emotions.

The movie also manages to give you a peek into the general lifestyle in Iran and as I had not watched many non-English movies, I was also mildly surprised at the strong religious beliefs expressed in it. Although it is an emotional drama, it never quite manages to take you to the realms of developing a lump in your throat right up until the climax.

What really impressed me the most about this movie is the wonderful way it was ended. All this time you are thinking whether the hero will be acquitted or not, but you realize that the movie is about something entirely different, something that you do not notice and the fact that you did not notice it makes it all the more touching.

Watch the movie, you will know what I mean. :)


The Verdict

I recommend that you watch it. With a little bit of patience. Just a little bit.

Monday 24 September 2012

Super Sunday!!

Yesterday was one of those days when you wish you had a Video Recorder on your TV. Two big clashes in football, one F1 Grand Prix and a T20 match of India, all jam-packed into one evening!!

Most of them yielded results to my liking, with only Liverpool coming out as the major casualty. Mark Halsey, upon seeing the huge word of justice being held up in the stands at the start of the game, decided to whip out some of his own brand of justice and we all know what happend from there on.

Even with 10 men, Liverpool dominated the match for large periods, until Gerrard scored. Then they decided to soak up the pressure and defend their lead and that is when United's extra man advantage started showing.

Liverpool now find themselves in the relegation zone, with just 2 points from 5 games, somewhat similar to the position Arsenal was in the last season. But their next big fixture doesn't come until mid-November when they face Chelsea. So they will be hoping to start picking points from now on.

Moving on to Man City vs Arsenal, Arsenal took home a well-deserved draw. But it was slightly disappointing to see Gervinho back to his non-lethal best. He can take on any defender in the world, but it looks like he has no clue what to do after that. Otherwise, the game was a good one, with Mertasacker the standout player for me as he stretched his lanky frame and made several key interceptions to keep the odd City counter-attack at bay.

In other events, India crushed England comprehensively with Harbhajan Singh making an impressive comback (on a spinner-friendly pitch, mind you) and Rohith Sharma too grabbing the opportunity at last. As soon as Gautam Gambhir started to mount a decent score, my friend pointed out to me that someone else will also score well today so that the Man of the Match award can be given to not-Gautam-Gambhir!! :P

But it turned out someone else bowled well instead!



Sunday 23 September 2012

Money vs Arsene Wenger

First things first, we are going to witness a shifting trend in this blog from now on towards football, football, football, movies, movies, series and some random thoughts in that order. Because I don't think the other contributors of this blog can take me on when it comes to the amount of leisure time that I have now. So now I suddenly have so much time when the total no. of my posts in this blog is two?!! Long story short, I am out of college (read a year long project making a formula-style car, don't get me started on this, we will come to it in the future sometime).

So football eh? What do I know about it? I am no pundit, but I am one of those guys from the facebook memes who will marry a girl if she can name the starting XI of Barcelona! :P

So moving on, today is a big day, huh? Liverpool vs Man Utd. and Man City vs Arsenal. The former  will be a sensitive one due to the Hillsborough issue and Fergie has gone to some length to ensure it will be played out respectfully. #RESPECT

So we shall also refrain from talking too much about that match.

Therefore, we will move on to the title of this post. This is not just another match for Arsene Wenger. He is essentially pitting his philosophies against his criticisms and if he wins this one, that will keep the mouths shut for some time to come. Although those mouths  will be sewed shut only if Arsenal wins some trophies this season. So don't get carried away Arsene! :P

For Mancini though, it will be the usual pressure of a big game against a big club. If anything goes seriously wrong, he should just hire Yaya Toure as his body guard. Seriously though, how can somebody stop Yaya without getting road roller-ed?!!

If Diaby starts for Arsenal, for me, this is the single most important match-up today. Diaby vs Toure!! :D

In other news, Barcelona scraped through 2-0 against Granada after taking out the magnet from inside the ball that was causing it to repel from the goal posts. Messi had a torre(ndou)s match. But all is well as they got the 3 points, so over to you Madrid!!

I see this post is getting too long, there are hundreds of other sites to satisfy your hunger, this one is only to satisfy mine!! :P

My Prediction: Man City 1 -2 Arsenal

Yeah, I support Arsenal.

See you after the match.
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