Last life in the Universe(2003)

One amongst the best foreign movies i have ever seen.What was the best of the film 'Last life in the universe'? I dont know. But i know some things for sure in the movie that are outstanding. The director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, the actor Tatanobu Asano and the cinematographer Doyle( I already seen some films where Doyle had his contributions. 2046 was one such film where i saw one of his great work). They work together to produce a masterpiece out of a good story. The film is a bit slow in pace which i thought was perfect for this surrealistic movie. The story length is very small.Obviously the film is a about grief(or more appropriately its melancholic).

Tatanobu's character is kenji who doesn't found anything interesting in the world and fantasize to have suicide.However he is interrupted on his every attempt. He has got some peculiar characters, a bit different on perspective from others and mostly he seem to be silent. At a time in his present life a turn of tragic events occur where he loss his brother on a fight with gangsters and a girl who seem to have developed an interest(not anything big though)in him also dies. The events make his life's path cross over with a girl named Noi.From then on the film takes a surrealistic path, where the cinematographer does the fine work in creating a lot of images that is so beautiful. The meeting slowly changes the life of Kenji and he soon recognize that he want to leave his current life. He starts to live with her and they develop a romantic relationship and the events change again to give a dramatic approach to the climax of the film.You may be guessing that the story isn't giving anything new or say big as it supposed to be, but not, the difference is made by the 3 factors as i said above. Its one of my favorite movies and if you are not a causal viewer of cinema its for you. You wont be disappointed.

10/10

3Idiots(2009)

The best movie released in the year 2009. Also could be put among the best films ever released in hindi. The film is bollywood-ish at times and when the story moved to the climax, it become a bit over melodramic. But still the film sustained its charm throughout the movie. It was a fantastic experience to watch a movie like this. The direction was creative. The script was too good and the acting was too good as well. It could be put as Hirani's best film as it deviates from the treatment he given to his other films, however some common elements are still there. They may be above 30 and 40 years old, but their chemistry was too good that you would feel they are real youngsters. Amir Khan gave one of his best performace in this movie, where he gives the character a special energy. The film is humorous throughout. From the first scene onwards you start laughing and the laugh sustains and ends in a laughter too. One thing which should be appreciated is that those so many emotional sequence where given the deserved importance and at the same time the jokes were put side by side to the scene so that no emotional scenes would ever result in tears. Ultimately even though its complete humorous package, it is almost fresh in the story(thanks to chetan bhagat and the script writers), and fresh in the treatment as well.

9/10