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Being Cyrus (2005)
Cyrus, is, me, from Jamshedpur!
I should say, I had to connect to this movie, as my story in bits and parts, because I was born in, Jamshedpur, have two elder sisters, and both married, while one sister lives with her husband, my dad lives alone. Fardoonji, resembles my dad, in, Mumbai, as a widower. The main resemblance of the story is, I frequented between, Chennai and Jamshedpur, during my vacations!
For a second, when I watched this film, I felt, they mentioned the name, Shyam, somewhere in the movie! It was so strongly related to my own story, "Had to obey my sister all the time, and didn't have a life of my own!".
While, the story has been relevant, the twists and unexpected suspense is where, they added their own fiction. It's not completely original, because, every story has some real incidents! But, a wonderful movie overall!
And, we did have many parsis in, school, and the Tatas. I started my schooling with, Hill Top School, and the Sethnas, live on a hill top, in the movie, which resembles the location of the cliff, at Hudco Dam, Jamshedpur!
Melancholia (2011)
A movie too slow, and requires a lot of patience to sit through the climax and watch one hour of a wedding ceremony, too clichéd.
As far as direction is concerned, I would rate it not more than 3 on a scale of 10, as most of the brilliance goes to cinematography. Kirsten Dunst is no doubt a great actress but there is a lot in her to mature, even though she gave what was demanded for the role. No matter how well she acted and even moments where the body language had to be melancholic, weak and confused, as an actor myself, I would say it is a tough job to maintain the graph even throughout those moments in different shots.
I certainly wouldn't rate this movie eligible enough for a nomination, and even if Kirsten deserved it at the Cannes, this character wasn't challenging enough compared with the roles played by Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain, Meryll Streep in 'Bridges of Madison County'. Kirsten Dunst is the showstopper, but a great actress ran out of choice as the script was weak.
There is no point sitting through the entire film as the story lacks emotion, depth, feeling and fails to captivate the senses as that is what the audience waits for - to forget the world around them for a while and take a ride into fantasy! The movie lacks all of it.
Kirsten seemed to be facing a complex with her own style of acting and somewhere the lenses captured the feeling or aim of wanting to level with the likes of Kate Winslet, and Meryll Streep as she tried to draw inspirations. She needn't have.
As the beginning reveals the ending, do you really need to see the complete movie? It's an utter waste of time!