It was a pleasure watching....




I started the week with the romance film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. My friends had been raving about itsince weeks. But I didn't find the movie that good as it was promised to be. It turned out that it is a 'moody-film'. So you should watch only if you are in a romantic mood. The whole concept of running after memories and hiding Clemency in obscure memories seemed too far-fetched to me. What I mean is that why run after a girl who has already got you erased from her memory? The whole exercise was futile in my opinion. Another point is that the director should have focused more on the psychological tangle Joel was in. This should have been dealt with more seriousness. Except during the background song by Beck, there was no instance when I felt sorry for the poor fellow.

I loved Cinema Paradiso. There is no other word I could have used instead of 'loved'. It is a beautiful tale of a child who grows up in a small town in Italy, appreciating cinema and learning how to show cinema to others. After he comes of age, his mentor convinces him to leave the small town in pursuit of a more fruitful career. Many years later,the young boy who has matured into a famous man returns back to his village. Some scenes were beautiful. When he come back and knocks at the door of his house the mother abruptly gets up holding the needles in her hand and walks toward the door crying, "It's Toto!". The camera focuses on the unweaving sweater. It showed how eager she was to meet her child whom she hadn't seen for the past 30 years.