Endings
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This isn’t a review. I am not going to provide a critical analysis of the buried subtext and reflexive postmodernism inherent in the film. (No, I don’t know what reflexive postmodernism is, and quite honestly, I don’t even know if the term makes sense. Why the eff are you even asking?) I am simply going
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How did I not get to this film earlier? As rom-coms go, this is among the best in recent memory. A near-flawless script that concentrates on dialogue rather than copping out with a montage, a lead couple who click together perfectly, an utter paucity of over-the-top scenes… But what really makes this film work, I
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I seem to have fallen into the curious pattern of doing freeze frame posts on The Godfather trilogy in reverse. I started off with a moving little scene in Part III (pretty much the only scene in that movie that grabbed me, come to think of it). And now, a moment in Part II. There’s
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Satya and Vaastav would always be two of my favorite gangster movies. Raw, hard hitting, intensely violent. Vaastav for me contained one of Sanjay Dutt’s best performances. Sanju was touted as the succesor to Amitabh Bachan, but his wild ways, his rank bad choice of movies, his trysts with the law would prove to be
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I am starting a series of posts here on movie climaxes. Considering that climax is an important aspect of the movie, many movies keep chugging along well, but falter at the last. This is common to both Indian and English movies. So this is on some climaxes which have had a deep impact on me.
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