I just was thinking to write a post about my "Nightmare at Christmas". Then came Sharon, who had a much more exciting nightmare, so I decided not to compete with her.
After a hard autumn season and holidays, the new year has come with a middle-sized weave of movies to watch.
First we saw the "City of Ember" (Gil Kenan). The trailer was persuasive, nice shots, colours, exciting lines. The story was quite interesting: a combination of fantasy, science-fiction and fairy tale. Actually, there were few things, which were missing some logic and only younger children could believe it (the huge animals seen in the city but none, when they get outside; size of the population?; how could they survive with all the rusty pipes, generator, how could they survive on can-food, how could they store food for more than 200 years for that kind of population).
What about those bugs and mole, who are bigger than our heroes? And how does it come, they did not destroy the whole city? How does it come, that at the end, the message was found so quickly and of course by the "Good" ones? Well, that's where happy ending and attraction of heroism comes in picture. That is, what supposed to make this movie exciting and alluring near the story. I would give it 5-6 stars out of 10.
Yesterday came along "Slumdog Millionaire" (Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan) from India (the film itself is a UK/Us production). Well-well... Not bad. :-) A very nice constellation of story-telling by connecting minutes in the present with painful memory threads from the miserable, troubled and orphan past. A very exciting way of presenting a story of a little boy, who struggles through his young life with his brother in poverty and being orphans, trying to survive while not loosing the belief in the existence of goodness, destiny and everlasting love and becoming a hero of millions in India. I'll give this movie 8 stars out of 10 and recommend to watch it!
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