The Beach (2000)

The Beach (2000)
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen

Tilda Swinton, I have seen her movies earlier, but not able to associate her with those movies now.

Travel. Explore. Lots do.

But when you travel and explore, with “what do I have to lose” attitude. Then it’s different. When three such guys get together, you reach/find ‘The Beach’. That’s just for starters.

It’s interesting to think how would you want to live your lives, if you could get to lay down the rules. Right from scratch. Only you need to keep the place, secret from everyone else. Scary a little, and idyllic and ideal to a larger extent. Welcome aboard, take a swim with the crew…

Blue Valentine (2010)

Blue Valentine (2010)
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling

Blue Valentine. Ryan Gosling – Cool. Parenting, romancing, proposing, hitting on Michelle, he was absolutely cool…
Michelle – mysterious, can’t really get to know what’s going on in her head. In fact even till the end of it, not very clear idea of what went wrong…

Good script, good plot, you can pulse the tension, and forget all that there is in the media about its certification (it’s all hype). Ryan deserved better, any day. This is the second film (Kids are all right) where the cool dude was just spit out of the family. Felt bad both for Ryan and Mark Ruffalo. Are cool dudes out of luck these days. Well, these dudes def had a heart of gold as well.. No way were they a mess, a crack-pot. They had their addictions and weakness, who doesn’t….

Winter’s Bone (2010)

Depression, cold, pain, loss, meth, drug, poverty, illiterate, different sort of dialect of English, survival, gangs….

After certain point of time, all I wanted was to see was some sunlight, hear laughter and have a hearty meal!!

The Kids are all right (2010)

The Kids are all right (2010)
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast : Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson

Well, this is definitely when you would say, ‘wow what a family’. I am not going to discuss the plot, which is pretty much all known. So, let me tell you something about the characters I liked.

Mark Ruffalo as Paul the sperm donor. Absolutely carefree and so cool still…Not bound by conventions, and very very spontaneous. Awesome outfits and an awesome bike. I can use his bike, it won’t hurt one wee bit..,

Julianne Moore. Indecisive, sensitive, humorous, easy going…Julianne was so fun to watch. Esp. when she is during the escapades during the landscaping 

Mia and Josh – adorable kids, have their own ways of handling stuff, still there is a connect. And they need it.

I didn’t quite like how things turned out for Mark. He loved his kids. And he was no stranger in the family. Why couldn’t the family take him in. They were anyways an odd family, and this would have not turned the odds against them. On a more serious note, it would have been a quite a jumbled up state of affair. Who would be who in the family?

Chuck all that, and I say enjoy the movie. You’ll love it.