Must watch
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Micmacs à tire-larigot
Beautifully made.
Funny and entertaining.
Inspirational too, I guess.
Worthy watch, a great find!
Funny and entertaining.
Inspirational too, I guess.
Worthy watch, a great find!
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Finding Forrester
What a find!
Just lazying on a Sunday afternoon, after having cancelled plans for shopping with friends( due to toothache), I was just searching for a witty, feel- good movie on the ranks of "Good Will Hunting".
I wasn't expecting "Finding Forrester" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/ would enthrall me such.
IMDB does help. I mean the suggestions. I had once started to watch FF but couldn't go further than 20 minutes. But today I was just amazed, to say the least.
So, what's the movie like?
It starts off in the Bronx, giving a panorama of Jamal Wallace's life there. He is a typical black kid of 16, trying to fit in--and hence pursuing basketball. The racial prejudices are aptly portrayed. Yet he has an uncanny inclination towards writing.
A chance "dare' with his friends lands him in a spooky apartment, wherein resides a reclusive man. Jamal is frightened at first and leaves his backpack there while running back. As the story goes, the man is a one-book wonder, still popular author after half a century, one William Forrester. Forrester goes through some of Jamal's rough work in his notebooks and corrects it, like that by a teacher. This is reason enough for Jamal to visit back. Forrester and Jamal bond and gel well together and with a prior conditional agreement start a teacher-student relationship.
With Forrester's help Jamal improves in his writing and causes his Professor at school, who happens to be bitter,failed author, a lot of heart-burn. Jamal's writing, his basketball, the Professor's accusations over his integrity form the backdrop through which Forrester himself gets out of his recluse. The pace is good, the dialogue witty, the flow superfluous. The director manages to provide a real gem of a sort. Inspiration and feel good is what you experience.
I am just awe-struck!
Just lazying on a Sunday afternoon, after having cancelled plans for shopping with friends( due to toothache), I was just searching for a witty, feel- good movie on the ranks of "Good Will Hunting".
I wasn't expecting "Finding Forrester" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/ would enthrall me such.
IMDB does help. I mean the suggestions. I had once started to watch FF but couldn't go further than 20 minutes. But today I was just amazed, to say the least.
So, what's the movie like?
It starts off in the Bronx, giving a panorama of Jamal Wallace's life there. He is a typical black kid of 16, trying to fit in--and hence pursuing basketball. The racial prejudices are aptly portrayed. Yet he has an uncanny inclination towards writing.
A chance "dare' with his friends lands him in a spooky apartment, wherein resides a reclusive man. Jamal is frightened at first and leaves his backpack there while running back. As the story goes, the man is a one-book wonder, still popular author after half a century, one William Forrester. Forrester goes through some of Jamal's rough work in his notebooks and corrects it, like that by a teacher. This is reason enough for Jamal to visit back. Forrester and Jamal bond and gel well together and with a prior conditional agreement start a teacher-student relationship.
With Forrester's help Jamal improves in his writing and causes his Professor at school, who happens to be bitter,failed author, a lot of heart-burn. Jamal's writing, his basketball, the Professor's accusations over his integrity form the backdrop through which Forrester himself gets out of his recluse. The pace is good, the dialogue witty, the flow superfluous. The director manages to provide a real gem of a sort. Inspiration and feel good is what you experience.
I am just awe-struck!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Welcome to the Blogeidon
Hi, firstly thanks for visiting here!
I hope to keep u interested enough to come again.
melancholic is how i feel-at the moment-but i don't intend to bore u with the details.
just started writing-- as u see-- earlier, i used to keep a diary
--the old fashioned way--writing it--until one day--one of my friends read it
i couldn't tolerate The "breach of privacy" so burned it all
n here i am writing with an yearn that some 1 will read it! ironies of life!
I hope to keep u interested enough to come again.
melancholic is how i feel-at the moment-but i don't intend to bore u with the details.
just started writing-- as u see-- earlier, i used to keep a diary
--the old fashioned way--writing it--until one day--one of my friends read it
i couldn't tolerate The "breach of privacy" so burned it all
n here i am writing with an yearn that some 1 will read it! ironies of life!
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