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.

Shutter Island (2010)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Emily Mortimer


Well, I am not a sucker for the thriller/horror genre. When I saw the poster for Shutter Island, I thought ‘Lost’. I had no intention to watch it, till it dawned that it was being directed by Martin Scorsese himself. But then, it lacks the charm of Martin Scorsese movie, is what I felt. May be the bias against the horror genre works against the film.

Anyways, that’s not the only bias, I still haven’t got around to believe that Leonardo can be a tough guy :)

In the Cut - “I want to do to you what the spring does to the cherry tree”

An unkempt and disorganized apartment but amidst this chaos, you see order, and then you know for sure that this is not the Meg Ryan you have seen before. Long time back when I had seen Meg Ryan for the first time in ‘French Kiss’ like any other boy, I was like wow she is a beauty. But then with time you realize, yes she is pretty but there are others too. A lot of them in fact!!! She is plays a professor with a passion for words, and lives quite a dangerous life though she does not intend to.
Mark Ruffalo, well I didn’t know a single thing about him until I saw ‘I can count on you’. I picked that move for Laura Linney, but Mark was a bonus. Both of them together give an absolutely incredible performance. Well, in ‘In The Cut’, Mark - believe me, somewhere resembles, Abhay Deol. I think its the mush. He plays a cop, a cop not everyone would like.
Overall though the plot may be summarized as a thriller, the movie operates at many levels. There is a dark element, there is mystery, there is chaos, there is danger, there is risk and a good amount of melodrama. Its based on a novel by Susanna Moore. Jane Campion who made the masterpiece ‘The Piano’; directed this movie. Nicole Kidman it is said was supposed to play the role which was played by Meg Ryan. Nicole I guess wound up as being one of the producers for the movie.