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Unique Crime - Thriller of 1994: Pulp Fiction
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Movie: Pulp Fiction
Genre: Crime Thriller
Year: 1994
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson
Snapshot of Story:
The movie is another prime work by director Quentin Tarantino who makes no pretense to how far humans can go in terms of violence, self-righteousness, greed and self-regard. The movie portrays two criminals in their working lives with large doses of humour, violence and uncircumstantial events.
Moments in the Story:
The two main characters are played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson and both give superb performances in their roles as totally heartless and often comical criminals.
Tarantino’s stylish way of directing somehow makes these two characters likeable and applies wonderful use of dialogue that brings the characters alive. In one scene they randomly talk about hamburgers and how each country has a definition of their own for the McDonalds Big Mac. In a split moment they accidently shoot the passenger and of course their immediate reaction was the mess they made but not the fact that they had blown someone’s head off.
In other parts of the movie, John Travolta who plays Vincent Vega has to look after his boss’s wife and come to a restaurant where he feels uncomfortable in the situation. Despite the ruthless nature of his job, we see a tender side of him that is in stark contrast to his daily working life.
The movie weaves it’s way between different events and scenes with different characters and all of it is very entertaining with much emphasis on shock and violence.
Final Thoughts:
In Tarantino’s world, we see the dark side of the human personality, the area that we all feel uncomfortable to cross but he brings this about with clever manipulation of dialogues and uncircumstantial events which makes the movie very entertaining to watch.
Rating:
8.5/10
Tags: Review of Crime - Thriller of 1994: Pulp Fiction, Review of Pulp Fiction
SRK’s Biggest Hit of 2007: Chak De India
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Movie: Chak De India
Director: Shimit Amin
Time: 2007
Stars: Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) and Vidya Malvade
Snapshot of the story
This patriotic story revolves around the Ex Hockey player Kabir Khan (Played by SRK) who was thrown out of the Indian national hockey team on false ground of helping Pakistani hockey team in a crucial world cup match. He comes back to help the women’s hockey team as a coach because he is desperate to prove that he is a true Indian and all the allegations were wrong.
Chak De India Movie Review
Theme of Story
Chak De India shows the dying condition of other sports in India, especially hockey in comparison to cricket which continues to grow and attract more and more people along with money and power; on the other side women hockey has been completely neglected. The story stars when Kabir Khan wants to join the Indian national hockey team as a coach for the world championship. His problem does not end here but gets worse as the team (from different states of India) he got can be overwhelmingly defeated by European and Australian school teams. Kabir Khan started coaching these untrained players and successfully deals with attitudes of few senior players. Under his coaching these players from different states of India who speak different language starts to put a good show. They start performing well in the world championship but in spite of all this the team is let down badly by a couple of senior player who plays dirty politics within the team and try to gain individual mileage.
On Screen Chemistry
Shah Rukh Khan is the soul of the movie and plays Kabir Khan with perfection, that is why he has been called the king of Bollywood. Director did a great job in casting all the team members and made us feel that every character is necessary to the whole storyline. Movie has the theme songs “Chak De India” which sets the audience alive.
The Happy Ending
Last 30 minutes of the movie holds much drama, thrill and emotions as the women’s hockey team enters in to finals and beating major teams and passing the true test of their skills. However, the real test of nerves is still needed to be tested as there is hardly any difference in their skillsets. The final match between India and Australia was a cracker of a game and has some of the best moments in the movie as both teams go to sudden death where India bags the world championship with some last minute tips from the coach Kabir Khan. After this win Kabir Khan gets appreciation from the entire nation and proves that he is a true Indian.
Conclusion
The story is about an ambitious man who never lost his faith in his own ability and his bold approach to other fellow colleagues to provide them with equal inspiration and hope to do well in their own lives.
Rating
8/10
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