My small review of Repulsion (1965) movie

It is Polonski’s first English film. I started with his Rosemary baby & Chinatown. Both are Masterpieces. Afterwards, I watched many Roman Polanski's movies. Repulsion is one of them. Coming to Repulsion, May this movie is his most scariest & disturbing film in his carrier. Coming to plot it is story of a young woman, living with her elder sister, disturbed & terrified of men. Basically when her sister & his boy friend make love, next to her bedroom, it further disturbs & moves further in to isolation. When her elder sister goes on vacation, her isolation further drives in to crazy and sequence of bizarre events leads to murders. Polaink reused the same isolation in his later movies too but this one is the first. Extensive wide angle lens with deep focus in black & white images coupled with good music hunts you couple of days. A good movie for Polonski’s & old movie fans.
My rating 8/10
Not for kids:

My small review of Pulp Fiction (1994)movie

I watched Pulp fiction (PF), first time, nearly a decade back.
Confused a lot & fact is may be PF is my first nonlinear movie.
From Friday night onward, whole weekend, I watched it over & Over to get it right,

Pulp Fiction tells three mini stories on following characters:
Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson);
Vincent and Mia (Uma Thurman);
Butch (Bruce Willis) and Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames).

Plot:
Jules and Vincent are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen
from their employer Wallace. Also Wallace asks Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days. Butch is an old boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. But Butch has his own plans. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are clubbed together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled for incidents. Dialogs drives the whole plot. Most of characters end with redemption at the end.

Pulp Fiction was huge hit with its unique circular timeline screenplay at that time.
{Narration that stops and starts, shifts and rewinds, forcing the viewer to
construct the story - the trajectory of each character, their interrelation with
other characters and fictions, the "how", "what", "when" and "why" of the narrative.}

PT is the most influential movie of the decade. Lot of movies came with similar concept. (The usual suspects, Memento etc.)

After this movie, I never missed any QT movie.


My rating 10/10

Note: Not for kids

My small review of Pan's Labyrinth (2006) movie. A masterpiece

Watched because it was nominated for Oscars & won couple of awards + playing in the discount theater. Whole movie was subtitled right from the opening credit s to ending credits.
It is in dark & unique picture; part war-time drama and part fantasy (fairy tale story), set during a Civil War in Northern Spain, it tells a story about a 12-year-old girl, Ofelia (played wonderfully), who moves with her pregnant mother and new stepfather into a new home in the countryside. Her stepfather is Captain, truly evil in nature, has been sent to this remote area to rid it of a small Republican militia. Disliked by the sadistic Vidal, Ofelia buries herself in fairy tales, and discovers an immense and ancient labyrinth guarded by a faun named Pan. He tells her that she is the long-lost daughter of the king of a magical underworld, and to regain entry to her kingdom she must carry out three tasks. Rest of the movie on Ofelia carrying the tasks & her stepfather ruthless oppression of radicals. Movie ending was realistic {blends both elements of reality and fantasy together perfectly} & music was haunting.
I never thought a Mexican movie maker's can produce such a high quality movie with such perfection. Very soon, I will buy this DVD. Cast did very good job in particular, girl did magnificent job. Fact is she carried the whole movie. A true masterpiece & left stunned after end of the movie. Puzzled how come this not an Oscar winner in best foreign film category. I need to watch few other nominations.
My rating 10/10.

Note: Not for Kids

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Insightful, intelligent, deep, touching & fun movie.

“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is my “Ang Lee“ first movie. From that movie onwards, I am watching his movies regularly. "Eat Drink Man Woman" is one of them.

It is story of an old chef who lives with his three teenage daughters, three different personalities, where slowly all of them want to have their own life instead living with the old man. Movie begins with scenes set up a magnificent feast that Chu is preparing for the usual Sunday dinner he has with his three daughters. (They call it Sunday torture.) Food is the metaphor. He has been widowed early and now his daughters are fully grown. The elder has discovered Christianity and hasn't put much effort in trying to find a husband. She always think about his father. The middle daughter is a business executive in airlines whose real passion is in cooking, which she has to do outside her house. And the youngest is an employee of the local fast food restaurant. When they sit, they barely eat, preferring to throw jabs at each other over the meal. One of the daughters say"Our family communicates with food" but which isn't too far from the truth. Basically they use it to pass a surprise to others. Father doesn't know much more than cooking, which he a master of, the Sunday meal is his way of saying "I love you", which his daughters aren't really understanding. Rest of the movie revolves around as fathers health is starting to slip, who will stay with to take care of him? The screenplay is smart and insightful. Perfect balance between emotion & humor. The cinematography is simply great. A must DVD in personal DVD collection.