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Se7en (1995)
Thrilling / Great Performances
A serial killer, out on the loose, murdering people following the seven deadly sins with two detectives investigating the cases.
A movie so gripping it makes you wonder that if you see a murderer one day, he won't be the devil with red horns as you want him to be. He'll just another man whom you greet on the road every day.
It takes you inside the mind of a serial killer and proves that we are the real evil that we look for in the criminals and murderers. The brilliant performances by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman makes the narrative so gripping and eye opening that it moves you and makes you rethink about your actions.
Krrish 3 (2013)
An extraordinary story with an ordinary execution
Laugh all you want, but it makes one of the most brilliant plots for a superhero movie.
1. Life giving device
2. Mutants (Maanvars)
3. Krrish saving Mumbai City from an epidemic.
4. Half brother (Kaal), a villain 10 times more powerful than Krrish himself.
5. Villain taking over Mumbai.
6. A great gladiator match between good and evil.
And the list goes on, it's a great example of brilliant writing but poor execution. Too much to show in a single movie, but I still love it because of not trying to copy Hollywood and maintaining it's very own original Indian feel.
But many still troll it because we're just used to mock any effort Bollywood makes to make to make a great movie as "It's not as good enough as Hollywood", guess our minds are yet to have independence from white supremacy.
Awe! (2018)
A complex sci-fi narrative, tackling the strong cultural stereotypes
A crazy story of a drug addict, a lesbian couple, a talking fish, a watchman, a silly magician, and an aspiring time traveler.
Initially, the Telugu movie seemed to be a smooth compilation of random rom-com scenes, but it starts playing with your mind and makes you wonder whether they're all connected? Or is it all just a paradox?
Throughout the movie, the director drops strong hints to make you believe that whatever happening can't be real, but you anyway keep on believing as it's a smooth narrative and characters are so lovable. Up until the very end when you discover the truth of how they all are connected together and no one can be trusted.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Classic Tarantino with his style of altering historical events
A gang of undercover agents, who only aim to kill as many Nazis as possible to end the world war have an opportunity to kill Hitler, but little do they know, their plans are overlapping with an innocent Jew girl at a grand premiere night in a German theatre in France.
This movie is a classical Tarantino way of rewriting history and presenting a tragic event in the most satirical way possible. Makes one laugh well with the brilliant performances. Loved it.
Those outstanding performances are the cherry that you didn't order with the cake but surely is the thing you crave more than the cake itself. Brad Pitt nailed that accent and is the key humorous character in the movie. All others' performances are what makes the narrative so gripping and enjoyable.
Dunkirk (2017)
A storytelling through music, not dialogues
The story of heroic evacuation of 400,000 english soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk during the war. It shows the horrors of war from all three perspectives of land, air and water.
With very few dialogues, the movie tells it's story through the brilliant music and captures the basic emotion of the will to come back home. The ending makes you realise that home is not just the four walls of bricks and cement built around you, it is the unknowing love and care that you get from your own people.
Hans Zimmer's music with Christopher Nolan's direction takes you inside the mind of a soldier and makes you feel the mental trauma that a soldier goes through during a war, knowing that he may die anytime and never be able to come back home.