The Pianist (2002)

Monday, May 17, 2010

Starring: Adrien Brody, Emilia fox, Michael Zebrowski
Director: Roman Polanski
Language:English
Genre: War, Drama
Year: 2002

Rating: * * * * *
Must watch

This is one movie that make you feel strongly against the Hitler's reign and his atrocities. A Jewish Pianist from Warsaw, Poland called Wladyslaw Szpillzman survives the Nazi invasion of Poland. In the process he looses his family, his friends, the people who helped him to hide from the Nazis and finally the German officer who provided him food and shelter after being enchanted by the way he plays the Piano.

           Szpillman's family is well educated but being a jew. Jews have to suffer lot of humiliation in the country and are forbidden from public walkways, parks, benches etc and aren't even allowed to keep money.They have to wear a wristband to distinguish them. Then they have to move to a special district just for jews according to a decree by Hitler. Life is hard  there and he has to sell his belongings to pay for food.

Paiya

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Title: Paiya
Language: Tamil
Year:2010
Genre: Romance
Starring: Karthi, Tamannah

Paiya is a romantic movie spinning around shiva (Karthi). He goes to bangalore for finding a job. There he acidentally  meets tamanna  but she fades away in the crowd. Then in a shopping mall, and finally she meets her at his interview place. But he could talk to her in all these places. He goes with the car his friend  borrowed from car rental for picking up its owner at the airport. There he sees the girl being led by a bearded man looking for  a taxi. He suddenly takes them leaving behind the person whom he was there to pick up. The man keeps scolding tamannah and she bears all silently. Then the car stops at the petrol pump and the man goes out for telephoning, charu(tamannah) asks him to drive the car leaving the man behind. They are on an escapade then.

Wall-E



Wall-E was the academy award winning movie in the animated picture category for the year 2009. It comes from the warehouse of the giants themselves-Disney and Pixar animation studios.
It takes us to earth in the year around 2800. The earth is littered with waste and has become uninhabitable for humans. All the humans have left earth on spaceships , the leading ship being the Axiom. Our hero WALL-E(Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth class) is deployed on earth in the mission clean-up which the humans started before they left. It just pulls in loads of waste, compresses it and turns it into cubic shape, and then stacks them into a pile.

The initial scenes of the movie show the earth as littered with waste, no vegetation, and just dust and mounts of waste for as far as the eyes can see. Wall-E just wanders around colleecting waste, piling it into mounts , retaining curios with it (he finds a diamond ring with case but likes only the case and throws away the ring!). His shelter is a truck and he has decorated it with lights, an old tv with a cassette player, and his own spare parts.
He finds a small plant inside an abandoned fridge and he keeps it for adding to his collection. This is in someways a key point in the story.

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