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Gran Torino, LA Confidential, Pushing Tin, Law Abiding Citizen and Aarya.

 Gran Torino, LA Confidential, Pushing Tin, Law Abiding Citizen and Aarya.

This is grouped review, coz its been a crazy few days and I just don't have the bandwidth to do individual reviews.

So here goes:

1- Gran Torino

This one helped me come out of the doldrums that The Line of Fire sent me into. The movie is directed by Clint Eastwood and stars him too. The sub-text of the entire movie is oppression and slowly but surely it starts to overwhelm you, until one isn't quite sure whether or not you are liking the movie.

It was at the very end that I realized I did like it.

In this one Walt's kids feel oppressed by him, Walt feels oppressed by the world and a baby faced priest who keeps popping up all the time.The truly oppressed au contraire do not feel oppressed at all! These are the Hmong community who have fled to the United States of America to escape oppression.

(Are you keeping count of how many times I have used that word? 🙂  Are you feeling oppressed as yet? There! I snuck in yet another one!)😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Well the long and the short of it is that I did like the movie and the brutal way in which Eastwood handles the subject makes it hard-hitting and a good watch. It is easy to understand when one sees this, how the MIllion Dollar Baby and the Mystic River happened to be so flawless.

There are a few lighthearted moments like when Walt is teaching his young friend how to talk "Like a Man"  and personally I found Walt's growls very comical.

For me the one thing that stuck in my craw was the rapid thawing of Walt. 

But all in all do watch it.

P.S: Lemme know if you could spot the Asian lady in a saree.

2- LA Confidential:

This one has loads of reasons to be recommended. And watch it you must! I mean you will come for the star power and stay for the unexpected performances. Guy Pearce quite unabashedly steals the show from the others. Kevin Spacey and Russel Crowe are very good too, and the best thing that seeps in is that inspite of all that is going southside for the good guys, you always know that the good guy will pip the post!

P.S: Its on Amazon Prime and you be sure to read through the entire list of trivia. Its very interesting.

3- Pushing Tin:

This is the kind of movie where I say " I watched this so that you need not suffer!"

P.S: It is the movie where Billy Bob Thornton met and then married Jolie. But not even he won't deny that this is one of those projects that one does to keep the cash registers ringing.

4- Law Abiding Citizen:

Its an ok watch! Its a bit unsure as to the pace it wants to adopt and so it is not thrilling at all. It just seems that the wronged man is ticking things off his list one by one.

It stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, and is on AP.

5- Aarya:

This one you could just skip, unless you are a hard-core Sush fan like me and just needed a dose of her beyond Instagram.

It is purportedly a drug mafia story but it plods along at the pace of a Deepti Naval - Farooque Shaikh movie. And they have tried to create a romance just so, between Sush and Chandrachud Singh, but that just falls flat on it's face.

That has been my viewing experience for the past 10 days in a nutshell.

Let me know yours.

See you on the other side of Breathe. 

Love and Peace!

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