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Ezekiel-Cheever
Reviews
The Departed (2006)
Prefer the original
Departed is a cover of the Chinese film Infernal Affairs so I wasn't able to see it with fresh eyes so much and you end up comparing. Ask me to pick one of them to watch again and it will be Infernal Affairs. It has more psychological depth and less swearwords.
Fire (1996)
One of the best movies ever!!
I admire Deepa Mehta and this movie is a masterpiece. I'd recommend to buy this movie on DVD because it's a movie you might want to watch more often than just once. And trust me, you'd still find little meaningful details after watching it several times.
The characters - except for the grandmother perhaps - are all very balanced, no black and white. Even though you follow the story from the perspective of the two protagonists, there is also empathy for the other characters.
I think the IMDb rating for the movie is far too low - probably due to its politically controversial content.
Lucky: No Time for Love (2005)
Lucky: a waste of time
God... to finish this movie to the end was a real struggle...
One issue that strikes me as odd in quite a few Bollywood movie is racism...which is the case in this one too...
I don't know but in India so many people are always complaining about racism in other countries but when watching the movies I feel they are more racist as movies from other countries:
In Lucky, it's the mean Russian rapist In Dil Chahta Hai, it's the thief in disguise of a beautiful Western woman In Salaam Namaste, it's the available two-bit floozie In Dil Jo Bhi Kahey, it's the staunch racist...
Anyway...it just strikes me as odd.
Guru (2007)
The end justifies the means??
Awful movie, one of the worst Hindi movies I have seen to date...
Don't understand the logic of this movie: You can bribe and break the law but as long as you are successful and a big entrepreneur in the eye of the world it's all fine? A dubious patriotic movie without depth and intellectual stimulation and with an ill-construed storyline and irritating male-female role portrayal. Purely appealing to a currently prevalent "We are/can become the greatest" instinct. Nothing else. What good is the main character doing? Except for egotistical capitalism.
And doesn't it become boring to always have those flat stereotypical hero male roles and those flat stereotypical supportive, homely female roles? If you liked Rang de Basanti, you may like this one too. It has a similar strange "the end justifies the means" morale, although Rang de Basanti is still better.